Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melissa Bean

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

Mack Brown

We discussed whether Roger or I should throw it in. The catcher voted for me.

We are not into hype, but not to categorize 2005 as our strongest performance year since our turnaround would be too much of an understatement.

Frank Robinson

We are not catching the ball; we are not throwing the ball. We don't seem to be focused on what is going on out there and what the situation is.

Kelli Giddish

I had never been to Texas. I'd been through Texas, but I'm so glad to be back in a place that's not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, it's rich and saturated in American-ness.

Johnny Bench

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

Larry Dixon

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

When we're not catching crabs we definitely depend on crabs from down there. This is going to be really detrimental to the whole seafood industry.

As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station.

Mike Hargrove

We don't have a No. 1 catcher here. We felt like we wanted to see what Ojeda could do. I think this makes sense. We feel we need to look at this kid.

We are having to scramble to catch up. This is a demand-driven scenario, and that's the first time in the last 100 years ultimately that we've had to face this type of situation.

We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.

Cardinal Richelieu

This Prince of the Church reserved one of his rooms for cats, where overseers fed them chicken pates twice a day. When he died the overseers and cats were provided for.Cardinal Richelieu, who had dozens of cats, built a cattery at Versailles in which to house them.

Larry Hagman

I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

Binyavanga Wainaina

In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'

Dax Shepard

So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.

We're keeping our fingers crossed that we'll continue to see signs of (economic) stabilization, ... The economy is key and will be the catalyst to get people off the sidelines.

We had some open looks, but we have to be ready to catch and shoot. We had some easy shots that we had the opportunity to make and we didn't make them.

Those are a bonus. I just want him to catch the plays right to him. Those diving plays are a bonus. Any time he does something well, it helps his confidence. Being here should help his confidence.

We're really pleased. He's been very vocal to our staff, that he's here to serve them. He puts the lion's share of his focus on defensive play. He's a real pro. Pitchers sometimes shake to the wrong pitch. The sign of a real good catcher is that he runs out there and doesn't let the pitcher make that mistake. He's shown a propensity to do that. I'm really impressed.

Megan Fox

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

We couldn't catch up with the high fastball. He's a good pitcher.

We couldn't catch the ball, and they could." ()

We just didn't seem to catch that break. But the girls have accomplished a lot more than winning games.

Glen Cook

We just didn't catch the football like we should have caught it. We've got to get better at that. We've got a guy who does a great job throwing the football.

The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.

Patty Loveless

A lot of people have a cough that doesn't go away, or go up and down stairs and get shortness of breath, and they don't think about COPD. They could have a problem, though, and catching it in the beginning stages is crucial.

We were given enough money for Category 3 prevention.

Today, the catalyst in technology was the report that PC sales in the second quarter slowed. The PC sector feeds into the semiconductor sector, which feeds into other parts of technology.

Trends come and go very rapidly. The problem is that they're not catching on for a longer period of time.

Yeah, we did. Our first initial reaction, I don't know, was yelling for Rodney to catch her, and then oh, that's not a good idea.