Famous Quotes & Sayings

James St. James

I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful.

Joe E. Lewis

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

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.

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".

John Madden

Some yards is better than none yards?

Joe Torre

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

Joe Torre

Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know

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!

Paul McCartney

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

Phil Rizzuto

Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.

Mickey Rivers

Out of what... a thousand?

Terry Butcher

Veggard Heggem, my word, he must have a Yamaha down his shorts.

Sean Hannity

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

Peter Salovey

At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

Pierre Trudeau

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

Phyllis Diller

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

Roger Clemens

When I get too much rest, I'm usually erotic.

Tom Seaver

I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

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.

Reggie Jackson

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

Sean Paul

CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG.....NAW EAT NO YAM...NO STEAM FISH....NOR NO GREEN BANANA BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA..

Shia LaBeouf

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

Shahrukh Khan

So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently because it would be highly embarrassing if I said "good evening Yaleites" or "Yalers" or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at... yaaaaa... that wouldn't make for much of a speech.

Randy Harrison

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.

Soren Kierkegaard

It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?

Roger Angell

This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.

Robin Williams

My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat.

Truman Capote

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.