Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Cannon

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

Jim Kaat

When he took BP everybody would kind of stop what they were doing and watch.

Jim Kaat

Every now and then they threw one where I was swinging.

John Hodgman

The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.

Rob Andrew

It wasn't even borderline, it was about two yards forward.

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.

Jennifer Garner

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

George Steinbrenner

I'll stick to building ships.

George Steinbrenner

I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.

George Steinbrenner

I'm pretty excited, this is a big, big one.

George Steinbrenner

Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad.

George Steinbrenner

I guess heaven needed a shortstop.

George Steinbrenner

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

Jeremy Clarkson

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

Jim Parsons

In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

In another 100 yards he would have been in front. In fact, in another 50 yards.

Bubba Watson

I grew up a diehard Yankees fan.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A yawn is a silent shout.

Greg Peterson

Let nature be in your yard.

Jay Mohr

True Yankees are born, not made.

Moby

Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Kiki Smith

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

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

Indra Nooyi

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

Gwyneth Paltrow

We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.

I don't know how many yards they got, but they didn't do too much of anything. We went in there the same way; we didn't do anything special.

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

Lou Gehrig

The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

Lou Gehrig

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

Lou Gehrig

It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

Jon Stewart

Here's what I realized about the yam - it's the same colour as a Nerf ball. You may be wondering: 'Is he saying he ate a Nerf ball?'...