Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lil Wayne

Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard.

Larry Kramer

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

Joseph Heller

There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.

John Madden

Some yards is better than none yards?

Kyle Cooper

I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, "because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text".

Lloyd Kaufman

My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A yawn is a silent shout.

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.

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.

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.

Kevin Millar

The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

Pat Sajak

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

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.

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.

John Paul Stevens

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

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?'...