Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Geist

The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening.

Kevin McCloud

I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.

Jack Clarke

I think the seniors will play hard. This is a single elimination tournament and it's a really amplified view through the lens of someone who has at most four games left and as few as one. They'll bring a lot of urgency to the contest.

Laura Conigliaro

Over the last couple of quarters, very few companies have felt the combination of externally induced slowing amplified by some internal miscues the way Sun has.

Mary Pemberton

Going to meet with Billy really brings home the fact that Tae Bo and what it all means is taking control of your life. It's not about being size two or getting into a bikini. Seeing Billy amplified the fact that Tae Bo is a lifestyle more than just an exercise class.

Eleanor Catton

My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television, either - my parents were unapologetic about this and told me very cheerfully that I would thank them for it when I was older, which was quite true.

Tyler Oakley

I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn't perfectly portrayed.

Gregory Maguire

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.

O. J. Simpson

With the energy market so close to the surface in the markets here, the number just amplified the current thinking that the recent hurricane and the effects on the energy market may have a broader impact than people were thinking.

Dana Martell

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

Mike Shula

We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.

Mike Davis

We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.

Andrew Wallace

We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.

Richard Money

We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.

Ed Gillespie

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Tyler Cowen

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

Kendall Mills

We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.

Bill Johnson

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

JoAnn Carrin

We're confused. We don't understand the judge's reaction. We're perfectly prepared to prosecute this case.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

John Drinkwater

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Neil Ingle

I wish there was something we could do to stop it, but it is zoned GB (general business), and it is perfectly in their right to put it there.

Aldous Huxley

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

David Schwimmer

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Elsa Peretti

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.