Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A yawn is a silent shout.

Marian McPartland

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

Mickey Mantle

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

Mickey Mantle

The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.

It may well be in our own back yard by the end of the week.

Seth Rogen

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

John Ashbery

A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.

Joe DiMaggio

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

Joe DiMaggio

It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.

Joe DiMaggio

There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.

Joe DiMaggio

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

Joe DiMaggio

It's great to be young and be a Yankee!

Joe DiMaggio

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

Pat Sajak

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants

Marge Piercy

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,

Margaret Mitchell

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

Margaret Mitchell

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.

Margaret Mitchell

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

Lefty Gomez

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.

Lefty Gomez

I don't know. I've never been on second before.

Lefty Gomez

Only triple I ever got.

Lefty Gomez

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

Mark Leyner

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

Michael Kay

There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is... Joe Torre is for Joe Torre. ... The graveyard of Yankees coaches is loaded with bones of coaches Joe Torre did nothing about.

Merrie Spaeth

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

Mason Cooley

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

Paul Engle

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

Julia Glass

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

Judith Butler

I was off to Yale to be a lesbian

Henry David Thoreau

It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of their symbols. It is as if an ox had strayed into a church and were trying to bethink himself. Nevertheless, they are capable of reverence; but we Yankees are a people in whom this sentiment has nearly died out, and in this respect we cannot bethink ourselves even as oxen.

Jeremy Clarkson

Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

George Steinbrenner

I'll stick to building ships.