Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did some good things. We had guys on base every inning.

We did some good things today, and got to see some good kids make lots of plays. It was a great crowd, good ballgame, and it was really a good weekend. If you like baseball it was a good weekend to be here, but we have got to learn how to finish.

We didn't play well enough to win. We had a 7-2 lead. We had the bases loaded. They did a better job and deserved to win.

Lynda Barry

'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories.

Leon Jouhaux

The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

Yves Klein

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

Bill James

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

Brandi Carlile

When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.

Brian Cox

The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an actor. In America, the heritage of an actor is based on cinema mainly.

Branford Marsalis

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.

Brian Baumgartner

It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.

Bob Filner

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

Bode Miller

I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.

Noam Chomsky

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Bonnie Bedelia

Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.

Alex Gibney

When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.

Ben Shapiro

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.

In the summer of 2004, Malem Jan was sitting with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the second son of Jalaluddin, in their Pakistani base in the North Waziristan town of Miram Shah when they heard their names on the BBC. The Americans were offering $250,000 and $200,000, respectively, as rewards for information leading to their capture.

A military base in a country like Afghanistan is also a web of relationships, a hub for the local economy, and a key player in the political ecosystem.

Akira Suzuki

The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between different types of organoboron compounds and various organic electrophiles including halides or triflates in the presence of a base provides a powerful and general methodology for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds.

Alan Ritchson

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.

We're not going to change anything now. We base everything we do around pitching and defense. We've just got to try to stay mentally tough.

There are outstanding issues that are being addressed. The separation of Indian nuclear facilities would be done voluntarily by us based on India's national interest.

We serve a broad customer base and therefore offer an expansive assortment of movie titles to meet the needs of the diverse consumers that shop our stores.

We still have some guys trying to get comfortable at the plate, so it was nice to go out and score some runs. Six extra base hits is one of our best efforts of the season.

Orlando Cepeda

This would mean a great deal to the Latin players, ... I think we'd all like to see baseball do this.

This won't be based on numbers like that. Ohio State is an outstanding team. We have to come out with a lot of intensity.

The prosecution's case was based on passion, prejudice and emotion for what happened 20 to 30 years ago.

The property has one of the few remaining baseball fields from that era in the whole country that has not been bulldozed. It is an important property for Durham and we want to be part of this project.

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