Famous Quotes & Sayings

To base education on one standardized test on one day is an abomination to education. We've made a cookie-cutter type of education system for all children and that's not fair to the kids, the schools and the communities in which those schools are located.

The players need to know they've got an administration that's going to put a much stronger financial base behind the Reds, which means more money for them, more facilities. There will be no excuse that they didn't have enough money.

The physical condition of the base is the best I've seen,

Brian Leetch

The power play is based on results and not how many chances you get. We missed a chance to get points last night, so it magnified the importance of this game.

We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, execute, keep going after the loose basketballs, we can make our own luck.

LaTroy Hawkins

We've been playing good baseball, and today was just a small bump in the road. Forget about it, come back out tomorrow night and try to win the series. We can do it. We definitely can do it.

We've been on the road most of the year, so playing on the road we're used to. We've played in some difficult environments and it's made us a better baseball team.

Steven Gerrard

We're improving all the time, there's still improvement to show -- we want to win the league and we're not conceding goals which is a good base to start from.

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.

Clive Beddoe

We sell seats based on USD$50 oil and then fly people at USD$65 oil. Obviously, it's not going to be good for earnings,

George Lewis

We selected Autotote and Scientific Games based on their industry reputation, the success they have helped bring to the Mohegan Sun Casino racebook operation, and their demonstrated commitment to the Ho-Chunk Nation.

Ichiro Suzuki

We're the best team. Today is the biggest day in my baseball life.

We've been losing the foundation of our customer base because their eyesight is getting worse and the books are getting harder and harder to read.

We've been leaving runners on base a lot. I thought our at bats were a lot better overall.

We need to have a discussion based on data and the social significance of that data. Considering the time constraints, I think it was a good study.

We need to get together. We need to get something organized. It's the same thing we do in baseball: teamwork.

We need to get back to playing our kind of baseball. We need to get every kid confident.

We need to restrict it to the group most vulnerable, based on the most recent research. I can not predict where this will go in the future.

Anthony Michael Hall

We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.

Ann Macbeth

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

The government's prosecutions of corporate fraud will be judged based on the verdict in this case. If there is an acquittal, the government's corporate fraud prosecutions will be deemed at best a modest success. To the extent the government is being tested, this is the final exam.

Alan Furst

I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.

Albert Murray

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.

Adora Svitak

The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date.

Apolo Ohno

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

Adam McKay

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

Bert Blyleven

Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

John Hoeven

Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

Turkmenistan values its status of permanent neutrality, ... not to place on its territory the military bases of foreign states.

Douglas Alexander

Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers will decide objectively based on these conditions.