Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Harvey

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

Charles Olson

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

Carl Yastrzemski

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Dizzy Dean

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

E. M. Forster

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Drew Curtis

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

Anne Rice

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

Bill Janklow

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Edwin Louis Cole

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

Barbra Streisand

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Anton Chekhov

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Brendan Behan

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Al Barlick

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Al Barlick

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Calamity Jane

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Chris Christie

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

I never thought I would say this, but I can't wait until we get the (regular) umpires back. We still have to play ball.

Jennifer Capriati

I didn't even, like, look at it. It was close. I was just going to do what the umpire said,

Jack Kevorkian

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Glenn Miller

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

Nick Nolte

I had to get some real ballplayers and real umpires to give instructions,

Nana Mouskouri

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

Michael Oxley

The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.

Johnny Evers

My favorite umpire is a dead one.

The umpire must have thought I said something to him when I didn't. But we got the win, and that's all that matters.

Max Baucus

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

Matthew Henry

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Larry David

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

Marcus Aurelius

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Tony La Russa

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

Tommy Lasorda

Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.

Shawn Ashmore

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

Samuel Alito

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.