Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Delgado

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

Carlos Beltran

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

Carlos Beltran

I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.

Carlos Beltran

When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

Carl Everett

As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.

Carl Crawford

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

Harold Gehman

We have no savings and we're essentially moving the airplanes from one very very good base to another very very good base.

John Brain

We have named our team based on our pre-season friendlies and feel that it is a strong line up to take on Gloucester,

Charles Caleb Colton

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

Bryan Ferry

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

Kage Baker

We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

Bill Vaughan

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

William Shakespeare

Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

Benjamin Franklin

When 'tis fair be sure take your Great coat with you

Eddie Jordan

Gilbert had the fire in his eyes and he had it going. He just edged us on and we rode his coat tails.

Antonio Davis

I don't think it's fair for them to tell you exactly how to dress. You can't say no jeans. I've seen businessmen in jeans, a sports coat and nice shirt, and you say that's classy.

Jessica Raine

I have a gorgeous coat that I found at a vintage fair - it's just so elegant. Unfortunately, it has a massive hole underneath the arm, as I think I may have worn it to death!

Quincy Allen

We want our customers to be able to tell the difference.

Sandy Carter

We've seen a trend in the marketplace for customers who are really looking for a more lightweight ESB product.

Jeff Benjamin

We've seen a slight increase. Some of the customers that we've had who haven't been with us for a few years are starting to come back. I wouldn't say it's huge, but it's a noticeable increase. I just took a rough figure last week, and I think in one day we had 30 to 40 tons to be delivered.

Tom Henley

The fact that natural gas prices are going down now is obviously good for us and the customers and what we have been hoping for.

Susan Rosenberg

We have so many customers with merchandise sitting on loading docks. We think we've got a long way to restore trust in our customers.

Ed Fuller

We set out to find out what our customers wanted and that's what we have delivered.

Craig Beilinson

We know customers can't just flip a switch and move to a new OS. We want to make sure they simply deploy the pieces they're ready for, when they're ready for them.

Shane Evangelist

We know Blockbuster Online customers love the value and flexibility the free in-store movie rentals offer, so we decided to give them even more.

Peter Graf

Vendor consolidation is a major trend that forces customers to consolidate their IT (information technology) landscape, ... They're redrawing their landscape without those smaller vendors who they see as being most at risk.

Frank Kudlac

The potential is very good. I am impressed with the leadership on and off the floor. It is easy to let little mistakes domino but we didn't let it happen.

Ike Turner

Kids today will never hear the Fats Domino kind of music, the Muddy Waters kind of music, all they here is like B.B. King, they don't hear Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles.

Steve Winwood

I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'

Clyde Evans

We didn't want to look at a parcel in isolation because it has a domino effect.

Marc Pado

It is a domino effect of negative news.

Gerry Harvey

I'm hoping there'll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens, then it will employ a lot of people, and the domino effect will go through the community, and it will help everyone.

Susan Gibbs

We happened to have a number of senior priests who retired . . . and that essentially had a domino effect. It was the largest shift of priests we've had in recent years.

Kevin Healy

We ended up getting two fewer planes than planned in'05, and that has a domino effect all the way through'06.

John Collins

We just hope it will be the big domino effect.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

Manish Agarwal

We did not get enough time to negotiate or to make any efforts for his safe return. Everything happened very quickly, giving us very little time to react.

Angelo Reyes

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

John Walke

This really has very little to do with the hurricanes or relief efforts or even refiners. This is deregulation pure and simple,

Mike Browning

We're still in Florida doing long-term recovery efforts

Steve Denney

We're making Herculean efforts to get into some of these areas.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.

Rudi Giuliani

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

Jim Daly

We want to reach out to those kids who are having a hard time, ... We encourage them to talk to someone, a teacher, counselor, principal, anyone.

Jordan Metzl

We were always encouraged to do whatever it was we wanted to do. There was never a goal that was too high or too crazy.

Steve Riley

We were trying to do something to encourage recycling without taking over and making it a town trash department. It's just kind of been there. It's been one of those things that doesn't seem to get a whole lot of attention.

Charlotte Bronte

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

Charles Dickens

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

Charles Spurgeon

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Uzo Aduba

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Diane Warren

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

David Amram

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

Tito Mboweni

We want to see a competitive and stable exchange rate, nothing more, nothing less.

Fidel Castro

We have no objection at all that the three US officials visit us to give their assessments and hold an exchange on these matters,

Michael Widmer

The outlook for the exchange rate will not improve significantly going forward. If the Iran situation doesn't improve, then you should have further upward pressure on gold prices.

Jack Straw

We had a very thorough exchange of the different positions of the EU-3 and the new government of Iran,

Moshe Sharett

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.

Li Deshui

The reform of the exchange rate has been proved a successful one.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

Since there are issues that are oriented to the future, we welcome the opportunity for a frank exchange of opinions,

Richard Schickel

Leone provided that, primarily through stylistic devices. One of the things I like about Leone's Westerns is that he'll spend a very long time on the preliminaries to a gunfight. But then, once they exchange shots, it's very quick, much quicker than the typical walk-down in an American Western. All of that preparation is fabulous. It's kind of funny, and it's very suspenseful.

Richard Schickel

Leone provided that, primarily through stylistic devices, ... One of the things I like about Leone's Westerns is that he'll spend a very long time on the preliminaries to a gunfight. But then, once they exchange shots, it's very quick, much quicker than the typical walk-down in an American Western. All of that preparation is fabulous. It's kind of funny, and it's very suspenseful.

Terri Cash

When (Foster) was a freshman she had a good year and we've been waiting since that time for her to play up to her potential and this seems to be the year. She's taken on a leadership role with our team. It wasn't quite expected, but she's stepped into the role.

Jim Calhoun

When he got a rebound, nobody was going to take it away from him. For a freshman to go in and make that kind of a stand is very significant.

Butch Beard

We have played only one home game. When you do that with freshmen and sophomores, this is what happens.

Chris Carlisle

There are a lot of good sticks out here today. Our guys are swinging great, and most of them are fresh to the course.

Mike Wheeler

We're just trying new stuff. You've got to make some changes, give the young kids a chance. You saw three sophomores and a freshman out there tonight. Some of the younger kids put in a lot of time during the summer. We're shuffling people in. It's tough.

Bill Potoczny

This was a solid start for us. Our veterans played well and the freshmen did a great job in their first competition. They had high intensity and they did a great job of putting opponents away when they had the chance.

Katia Winter

If I had a choice, I love making smoothies, or having some fresh fruit and some good snacks. A smoothie with banana, kale, blueberries and almond milk is so good.

John Galliano

The perfume is sweet, like the girl, and is young and a fresh reinvention of Miss Dior.

Lance Gross

I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.

Dan Kaminsky

We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it.

Chris LeTocq

Where there's competition, Microsoft prices aggressively and competitively; where there isn't, Microsoft doesn't.

Bill Gates

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Bill Gates

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Bill Gates

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Bill Gates

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

Bill Gates

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Bill Gates

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Bill Gates

The Internet? We are not interested in it

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Deborah Marshall

We have no plans to move at this time.

Chris Bell

When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.

Hans Mosesmann

We've seen the same movement (as Philips). We think this quarter is the bottom.

Jonathan Pulik

The process at this point is being re-examined on how we will proceed, but it will move forward. The project is still in the planning stages.

Malik Peiris

The real culprits who are doing the movement you probably don't see. They're probably healthy. Obviously, if they're sick, they would not be able to migrate.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Thomas Bangalter

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

Thomas Dooley

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Bruno Tonioli

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

Bob Ross

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

George Robinson

Wow, isn't that convenient? ... It's going to be hot, and it doesn't seem that expensive.

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Pranab Mukherjee

Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Estella Olguin

We're going to try to get him some therapy services right away.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

Dominique Wilkins

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Brian Tracy

The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.

Brian Kernighan

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

Charles Edwards

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Bill Gates

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Bill Gates

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.