Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Kaline

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

Al McGuire

Live in the moment that you are in.

Al McGuire

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Al McGuire

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

Al McGuire

Can't win without talent, you know.

Al McGuire

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

Al McGuire

You better have great practices.

Al McGuire

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Al McGuire

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

Jacque Jones

Where I came from, they were passionate about baseball. We probably didn't draw as many (fans), but through thick and thin it was like 'Let's go. We can do it. We can do it. We know you can do it.' This is something I have to get used to and I'm blocking it out as much as I can. It is what it is.

Shane Lechler

When you watched him on the extra points, they were low kicks. And with our success blocking kicks, I thought we would block it. But he hit it just high enough to get it over. That's just the way the season is going for us.

Walter Jones

We were blocking the right guys and Shaun was making the correct cuts,

Loren McDonald

While marketers have clearly recognized that they have delivery challenges, they also are not allocating the necessary resources or taking the longer-term steps needed to minimize blocking and filtering of their e-mails.

Jim Calhoun

We're going to have to take care of the basketball; we're not doing that. We have to start blocking shots around the rim to change games. We're not doing that in this tournament. And then, just defense.

Matt Ware

Usually, it takes a funky bounce after a block, but this one came right up and it was, 'Whoa! Look at this! I said, 'This is it,' and started running. You know, high knees and pumping arms, and the guys were blocking for me. It's been since high school that I scored a TD.

Rocky Bernard

Usually, guards are either really good run blocking or pass blocking. He does both so well. It's kind of hard to get after him because he's such a tremendous athlete.

James Stokes

With Tyree's speed and my inability to block, it kind of limits the interior blocking to some degree, ... From the shotgun, all he has to do is read the defensive end on running plays and the free safety on passing plays.

Larry Peacock

We're going to build great quarterbacks and great linemen, that's what we're going to build. The rest will fall in place -- it really will. I need two tackles, two guards and a center who can learn a fairly easy blocking field and a quarterback who can see the field. And I've got that and we're going to have that the next couple of years.

David Hockney

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

James Blumenthal

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

Bob Ross

If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

Nicholas Jarecki

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

Larry Lucchino

Tom Werner said this is a happy day for the Red Sox, and I agree. We?re a stronger, more effective and bolder front office.

Stuart Roy

What's so effective is the messengers. The returning veterans are talking about what they saw in Iraq. The family members are talking about their loved ones.

Chuck Keller

We feel that subscriptions will be a very effective marketing tool for the lottery.

John Treanor

We're hoping that this sort of local immune response is going to be more effective at preventing infection with the flu virus than the kind of immune response you get with a flu shot.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Gunter Grass

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Zach Errett

We wrestled fairly well today. We wrestled at the Bo Henry Tournament last week; we wrestled really well there. Today, we didn't wrestle as good as we could've and I think the guys realize that; I think they kind of figured out that there may have been a few matches we lost that we should've won.

Casey Pace

We're hoping, of course, it's going to be fairly minimal since a lot of that fruit had already been picked.

Larry Walker

We knew this was going to happen, ... We knew probably a week before the playoffs we'd get it done. We did it. Everything has been right on time. I just hope we get the same results as the other shots. I think I played fairly well after the shots, so hopefully that will continue.

Christine Bachrach

When they were young teenagers, most of the participants had fairly healthy behaviors.

Lee Westwood

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Goran Persson

We stand for improved unemployment benefit, they stand for worse. So people can choose.

Natalie Taylor

We're getting to know one another. We've really improved from last week to this week. We worked as a team and communicated a lot more.

Terry Hoeppner

We're a work in progress right now, but we've improved from week to week,

Joseph Nye

She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back.

Simon van der Meer

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Jay Freese

She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being out on the wing.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

James Allen

We want to see what's out there and is it worthwhile to take anything to the next level of funding.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Caitlin Moran

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

Michael Moriarty

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

Jim Boeheim

We struggled at times, but most of it was because of our schedule. It was more the product of our schedule than how we were playing. We really didn't play at the level we could until New York.

Suki Waterhouse

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

Jim Boeheim

He shoots that shot every day. I tell him every day not to take it in a game, but I told him after this one, he can take one more.

Chauncey Billups

When he shoots it like that, we're pretty impossible.

Keith Miller

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

Lucy Johnson

I think they're doing as much as they can b/c they're not just going to just stand there while someone shoots somebody or stabs somebody and do nothing about it. They can't be at the same place at one time.

Margot Robbie

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.

John Sellers

They don't want stuff that shoots up into the air.

Ian Poulter

If he shoots 5 over, you've got to make sure you shoot 4 over. If he shoots 7 under, you shoot 8 under par.

Jenn Lyon

It's kind of weird because 'Saint George' shoots on the exact same lot that 'Justified' did and, actually, the exact same soundstage, too.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Carl Icahn

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

Billy Joe Saunders

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

Edward Gibbon

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

David Hockney

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.