Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Hurdle

He's swinging the bat very well. He's got some barrel down there to drive in some runs. There are some things we've talked to him about we want him to focus on and take into the season, but I'm just looking forward to watching him play in that role and getting more opportunities to help us be productive offensively as well as defensively.

He's such a great hitter. And now you consider him like Barry Bonds, when he was going good.

He set the bar and I'm just trying to beat it. Sometimes I do.

William Matthews

How are they going to expect the UAW to come to the bargaining table and make any concessions without management making some sacrifices and cutting the dividend?

Aunjanue Ellis

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.

I don't think I got a bargain. I think it is a bargain to have saved it. If it was gone, you wouldn't have anything.

Mal Peet

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

Frances McDormand

I don't know how you can clean someone else's toilet. I can barely touch my own.

Philip Levine

I don't know how much the music has influenced my writing; I know it's inspired me, and the young jazz musicians I went to school with in Detroit, Kenny Burrell, Pepper Adams, Bess Bonier, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, were the first people I knew who were living the creative lives of artists.

Jessica Pare

I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.

Mark Shapiro

I didn't feel like we were going to keep up our end of the bargain of playing time that we had communicated to him. I didn't feel like we could and still put the best team on the field.

I didn't tell them anything at half-time because those players have stared down the barrel of a gun before.

Barry Bonds

I didn't speak to the media (there) because I didn't want it to be a distraction. It upsets me that a private conversation would end up published, misinterpreted possibly because of a language barrier and be taken entirely out of context.

Jenny Lewis

I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.

I didn't know that. But we still have some work to do and we had to dig ourselves out of that hole so we had to bare down a little bit and we have done a pretty good job of that on the weekends.

It was something that made sense to me when I was thinking about whether or not Tommy should compete this week. He always jumps so well early in every competition, I was thinking, 'Gee, it would be nice to have a bar up there, because he's two feet over at 18 feet.' Coming off an indoor peak, I knew he was fresh and ready, so why not go for a big bar? There was nothing to lose.

John Milton

It was that fatal and perfidious bark / Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark.

It was refiners in the Midwest and on the East Coast that stepped up, while crude runs on the Gulf Coast continued to slide, losing another 52,000 barrels daily to stand 1.565 million barrels lower than before the storm.

It was really refreshing to sit down and bargain in good faith.

It was a much nicer work today. The light is starting to go on, and in his mannerisms around the barn he's perked up a little bit. Frisco Star is not as professional as a horse like Lost in the Fog. He takes a little more asking.

Tanith Belbin

It was a success for us today to go out and perform it as well as we did because the last time was several years ago when we had just moved up to seniors and we could barely handle ourselves on the ice with this dance.

It will be a limited debut of the line with a few select pieces. The heritage of the Barbie brand in the United States is very sensitive and whatever we do with it, we want to do it right. We want to reposition the Barbie brand as a fashion icon and not just as a kitsch concept.

It will be a limited debut of the line with a few select pieces, ... The heritage of the Barbie brand in the United States is very sensitive and whatever we do with it, we want to do it right. We want to reposition the Barbie brand as a fashion icon and not just as a kitsch concept.

William Gallas

It was important to win that game. At Barcelona we were very sad and now we think only about the Premiership.

Cameron Smith

It's a way for students and faculty to kind of break that barrier between them.

Frank Robinson

It's Barry Bonds. I don't see why not. The way he's hitting, he certainly has the capability of doing that.

Max Mayfield

It's barely a tropical storm and we will likely downgrade that -- in fact I'm sure we'll downgrade that -- to a tropical depression within a couple of hours.

It's a challenging environment, very competitive low barriers to entry. For them to get the first one successful or profitable in six months is certainly a commendable feat.

It's a bit like the Japanese in the early days - they want cheap, they always bargain you down, looking for the lowest level.

It is quite a lot to have to go through. We set the bar pretty high.

It is putting up some serious barriers to the poor.

Vaclav Havel

It is the beginning of the worst moment. All of the flood barriers are at their maximum level.

Geno Auriemma

It's a great barometer for not only what is happening with our team at the moment but what could happen, what might happen down the road. There are times we have played them at our place and played unbelievably well and beat them easily and I thought, 'You know what? I think this team can win the national championship.' There's times when we've played them at their place and got our heads handed to us and I left there thinking, 'You know what? I'm not sure we're a national championship-type team.