Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we're in Sun, we run on the solar cells and charge the batteries. In eclipse, just the batteries power the spacecraft.

Casey Blake

When you're on a good offensive team, someone has to bat ninth,

Mike Scioscia

When you're not swinging the bats well you look flat. Our club was ready to go. We had a lot of energy.

Mike Scioscia

When you're not swinging the bats well, you look flat.

When you're not even around the zone and they don't have to swing, there's no reason to take the bat off their shoulders.

When half of the team is the pitching staff, there are some intangible things that are important. We can sit here and talk about hitting all we want. But that won't help the other part that is vitally necessary to the success of the Major League team, and that's the interaction that takes place between two guys 60 feet, six inches away from one another. That's just as important as anybody's batting average.

Nancy Farmer

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

We're not going to get caught up in a battle with a particular vendor. We'll fight it at the customer level.

When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

Lynn Coady

Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet.

Eugene Kennedy

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.

Evan Spiegel

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

Rachel Nichols

When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.

Candice Olson

When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?

We beat them handily at the C.B. Invite with four champions and five seconds to North's two champions and one second. However, they had good wrestlers out of the line-up at 119 and 145 so I expect a battle in their gym.

We battled the entire game. Even when we got behind, we didn't quit. We kept battling back and eventually wore them out.

Rick Crawford

We battled the best out there today with Setzer, Musgrave, (Ron) Hornaday, (Todd) Bodine, (Jimmy) Spencer for a while, ... Those were the veterans of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series battling out there at the end and I'm proud to be in that elite group.

Those are guys we count on. But that's part of the game and you have to battle through that.

Geoffrey Boycott

To me, this batting line-up is not what it was two years ago in Australia, though the names may be the same.

We are kind of an explosive team with the bats. That's pretty much the way it's been with our bats all season.

We are keeping games under control now. And we have the hitters to win close games. The girls feel they have the bats to win a game in the bottom of the seventh.

We are just getting better and better. Now is the time to peak, and I'm glad our bats finally woke up tonight.

Steve Finley

We're a team that's going to battle you for nine innings.

Jill Taylor

We're coming into the reception to the 'Buckeye Battle Cry,'

We're coming around, if we can just get the bats going. This was a good game for us to play. Once we got through the first, we settled down. We played some good small-ball, and great defensively.

We reenact battles in our area, but we also do living history, enacting daily life at schools and community centers.

There is a timing mechanism involved. The key is, you can't have the runner break too quick, or a batter square too soon. Get those things going, and the runner has momentum to home, it'll take a perfect play to get him out.

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.

Owen Arthur

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

Walter Jon Williams

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.