Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

We want to see some more patience in the batting line-up,

Virender Sehwag

We are progressing well. By the time of the World Cup, we will be ready in all departments -- bowling, batting order etc.

Trevor Hohns

We are looking to include players who can bat, bowl and field and Hopes fits that bill perfectly. He gives us another all-round option, and can open the batting if required.

Michael Vaughan

We were below par here but there are still two big games to go. Our batting is a concern but we go to Johannesburg looking to win the series.

David Graveney

What he brings to the stage in terms of bowling, batting and fielding is exciting. He's a young guy, got plenty of talent and we're taking the opportunity of including a younger guy to learn as times goes on.

Jon Daniels

Three years with 200 hits and a batting title, and he's not satisfied.

Larry Brilliant

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

Joe Girardi

Let's let the pitchers concentrate on pitching for a while and then we'll get them their at-bats. Pitchers are getting plenty of batting practice, but we can't win if they don't get people out.

Paul Marick

She's more of a batting coach than most of the coaches are. She picks out every little thing. She's just so intelligent.

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

China Mieville

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

Dave Barry

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

Dave Barry

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

Buenaventura Durruti

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Guy Caruso

We're not predicting that we're just saying that's possible.

Richard Behnke

Predicting and understanding space weather will soon be even more vital than ever before.

Larry Niven

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Carl Hiaasen

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Noel Redding

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Bo Bice

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Blake Shelton

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

Bill Parcells

You are what your record says you are.

Beyonce Knowles

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Cary Fukunaga

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

David Icke

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Robbie Earl

Yes, I have that kind of title on my back. But I'll put up my numbers. It's just going to be a little harder.

Bong Joon-ho

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.

Blaise Pascal

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Adelaide Kane

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

Alison Krauss

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

Adam Lambert

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.

Tom Harkin

No one ever wore the title of 'senator' better and used it less.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.