Famous Quotes & Sayings

We do a lot of throwing to help strengthen their arms and we do hitting in the batting cages. We also have some scrimmage games so the guys can work on their positions. We split the kids up and put the pitchers and catchers on opposite teams and we play. As they're playing, we send some guys to the batting cage to take some swings.

William T. Vollmann

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee.

Alva Myrdal

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

Andrew Young

Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.

Daniel H. Wilson

In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.

Daniel Goldstein

Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.

There are not a lot of events we, as locals, can get our arms around and say, 'This is ours.'

Jiang Zemin

upholding the international system of arms control and disarmament.

Oscar Arias

The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime.

Dian Fossey

Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.

Catherine Hardwicke

How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.

Chandler Parsons

I don't like baggy clothes and looking like anything sloppy. The arms have to fit. The collar has to look perfect.

Blake Lively

The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that's still there - it's preserved.

Traditionally, the ARMS program is another service that would require shops to update a separate system. We created an interface so that a shop's production status information can be sent electronically to ARMS without re-keying.

Lynn Coady

Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around one another.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I worked with Seann William Scott on 'Role Models,' and his arms are tatted up. He had to come to set an hour-and-a-half early to get them covered. It's not worth it. I want that extra hour of sleep.

Pete Townshend

English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.

Vladimir Putin

If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.

Trombone Shorty

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

I think that minority business owners should be up in arms over this. The government has never hit the 5% minority business contracting goal and now they're recommending eliminating the minimal opportunities that minorities have in doing business with the Federal government. It's unconscionable.

I think we've got a good club. I think we're going to have a good offensive club. Potentially, we've got some really good starting pitching and good arms in the bullpen. It's a good-looking club.

Alex Rodriguez

We had some good opportunities. They have some good arms coming out of the bullpen. Have to tip your cap to them.

We're excited about the prospects of having new neighbors move into Mayberry. We welcome everyone with open arms and we want to take this time out every year to celebrate.

Seth Shostak

Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging.

Julio Gonzalez

We've got the same kind of style, ... We're both tall with long arms and both like to go inside, so if it comes down to it this could be a bloody fight and we'll both be slugging it out. If it's not a battle, we'll see what each other brings to the table.

Flip Saunders

When we play zone and those guys put their arms out, you don't see anything,

When I wrapped my arms around him, I knew that I held a rare gift from God and that was the gift of a second chance.

Sy Montgomery

When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus.

We warn all those who try to touch the weapons of those who liberated Gaza. These arms must be used to free our occupied motherland.

Alberto Gonzales

the president's critical authority to detain enemy combatants who take up arms on behalf of al Qaeda.

George Meredith

Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, / Couched with her arms behind her golden head, / Knees and tresses folded to slip and ripple idly, / Lies my young love sleeping in the shade.