Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mac Gifford

We set many goals for ourselves this year, and one of those was to beat Yale. We just wanted it that badly and we fought.

Thom Gunn

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Todd McCullough

When I was a kid, you came to the Florida games and it wasn't a matter of if they were going to win. It was a matter of how badly they were going to win. The talent we have on this team and the coaches we have, there's no reason that shouldn't be the expectations here." ()

Lucy Powell

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.

Bill Schneider

Where is Gore with women? Just 50 percent, ... Given how badly he is doing with men, and it is very bad, he has got to boost his standing with women.

Nikki Grimes

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.

Raymond Seed

We're hearing from people who were involved and now feel very badly and want to make it right, ... What we have now is stories of malfeasance and some field evidence that would correlate with these stories.

Kevin Brownlow

Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.

Larry Brown

When you're a coach and you see guys trying and you don't get a win, you want badly for something good to happen, ... I sensed after the game they really felt good about it, they were excited about it. That was fun to see.

Billy Hatcher

When he gets a feel, that's when he's going to go. Stealing bases is all about rhythm. Once you get your rhythm, it's easier to steal a base.

Elliott Abrams

I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again, the thing to do is a one-time strike. Maybe a cruise missile strike at one or two of their air bases just so they know what they're going to gain from using chemical weapons on the battlefield.

Lou Brock

Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.

Jami Attenberg

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

Bob Grimes

We stranded a lot of runners. We had the bases loaded in the first and didn't do anything.

Brad Pocklington

We stole bases like there was no tomorrow and put guys in scoring position. We did a real good job of running the bases. They didn't hold us very tight.

Mike Scioscia

We're good at situational baseball. And running the bases well is more important offensively than anything we do.

Rick Jackson

We're still searching for our identity. We've got an entirely new team out there. We don't have a dominant pitcher. We don't have any home run hitters. We've got a little speed. But we've got to be able to run the bases and play a little small-ball to be successful.

Reggie Sanders

When I come back, I want to be able to help this ballclub, ... Not just be a body on the field. So I've still got to run the bases (in practice), and I've still got to do a couple more things.

Steve Davies

We want to raise the level of play in Broward County. We want to make it out of the region and to do so we have to beat a Dade County team.

Steve Davis

We want to raise the level of play in Broward County, ... We want to make it out of the region and to do so we have to beat a Dade County team.

Ilian Evtimov

We have to go in and beat Wake Forest, that's all we can control right now.

Cassie Campbell

We have to get her to move and that's the way we have to beat her.

Kim Martin

We have no pressure. Sweden wasn't supposed to be part of this game. They have all the pressure. If we can beat the U.S., we can beat Canada.

Brad Pearce

When facing a team that can beat you, getting that first point is always important.

Mike Meunier

When he goes out and wrestles like we know he can, he can beat a lot of people. He's been up and down so far this year and not real consistent. Obviously he came out today and wrestled like we know he can so hopefully that's the side of him that we see tomorrow.

Michael Egan

We want our customers to have fun. I tell everyone that any (customer) who beats me in a game of horseshoes gets 15 percent off.

Bill Callahan

We want him for the fall. Beating the White team or the Red team ain't the big thing right now. It's more important to get him ready for the fall.

Agnes Smedley

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Mark Shields

There is definitely a certain proportion of this population for whom the only way to deal with humiliation - the only way to regain respect - is through violence. This is a place where many people don't look for ways to resolve a dispute. They take all matters to the very bitter end.

Tim Minear

I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.

Vladimir Putin

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Charles Buxton

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

Britney Spears

I choose to be a happy person. I choose not to be a bitter person

Kristin Gore

I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.

Steve LeBlanc

We've got more bus space than people and I'm not going to send them off empty. We are going to hold empty buses until the bitter end.

Dean Koontz

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

Stephen Ryan

We have had 6,000 hits in the first 24 hours,

Sugar Ray Leonard

The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Joe Farmer

We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.

Greg Sims

We're hitting the ball. Just not at the right times. We haven't been able to put together a combination of hits in the same inning.

Donald Lowe

When the meteor hits the surface, it instantaneously melts and vaporizes rock, and that rock vapor is sucked right back up the hole into the atmosphere,

Joe Vitt

There is no question. It's a point of pride for the players, for the coaches, for our families. When a man's butt hits the ground, a man better get back up again. We were kicked down last week, and we've got to rise.

Becky Harrold

When we got the passes, we could not get our hits to fall. We were doing all the things we needed to do, but were not doing them well enough.

Barry Shelton

Maybe we used up all of our hits yesterday.

Curt Schilling

Seven of the 11 hits were on fastballs,

Carlos Mencia

In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.

Alan K. Simpson

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Charlie Cox

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

Charles de Lint

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Sue Monk Kidd

'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Chloe Grace Moretz

I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!

Mark Cuban

I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

Chrissey Cruz

When we were little we used to say we are going to kick some butt.

Amber Brkich

What they won't know is that I can be mean, and I can be conniving, the kind of person that's going to kick you off.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Dave Ramsey

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

Kathleen Clark

Let the voters know. If they don't like it, they can kick him out.

James Corden

Louis Tomlinson, who is a member of One Direction, his mum was a chaperone on 'Fat Friends.' So Louis used to come to the set with his mum, and since I was the only sort of young person around, we would kick a football around, things like that.

Burt Shavitz

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

Tom Tancredo

From my point of view, it was a poison pill in the bill.

Christopher Seeger

When you have the evidence, you have to test it, and you test it before you put a single pill into a human.

John Ortberg

Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.

Nicolle Wallace

The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems.

Spencer Smith

Jade, have you been taking the stupid pills again?

Jay Nixon

I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.

Eric Larson

This is not a pill you have to take. This is something you can do every day at virtually no cost.

Dr. Gallant

We should get that down to one pill by the end of the year. It's very impressive.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Patrik Elias

Would we rather play a team with Jagr or without Jagr? Yeah. We'd rather play without Jagr.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Carol Kane

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

Carol Vorderman

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

Carol Vorderman

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

Carlos Queiroz

Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

Carlos Mesa

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

Carlos Delgado

I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

Carlos Beltran

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Carl Crawford

Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.