Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Giles

Patterson had a good breaking ball. He was either tough or we weren't very good. He was all right.

Corin Tucker

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

Richard Serra

Steve's early work had a lasting effect on me. The density and the gravity of the sound was so great it prevents recollection. The power of Steve's music has to do with its sound. Tempo counts, and language is pushed to the breaking point, where the meaning of the word is obliterated and lets the music out.

Todd Wuerger

Steve breaking the record gives the team some momentum heading into the final meet of the season. We have really pushed these guys hard and they have come back and responded.

Dennis Kirk

Some kids are put in shelters and there are a number of reasons. Kids run away from home and there are other problems in the community that have an impact on attendance. They are breaking state law by not coming to school.

Michael Dowling

Our goal in creating Interpret is to fill a void in this marketplace by building a company that follows consumers' leads in breaking down content silos, and to help media, content and technology companies realize the true value of their brands. The key to success in the digital future is developing a common, consumer-driven language for technology developers, content companies and advertisers and Interpret is structured to fit those needs.

Lee Humphrey

Our big guys did a good job of breaking the press and getting into the paint. I got a couple off our big guys inside.

Stephanie Brown

Our coaches have done a really good job of breaking down things, just breaking down our swing,

Adam Sohn

Rob Glaser went before the U.S. Senate and said, 'Windows is breaking my software, let me tell you how.' In fact, it does not.

Mike Scioscia

Our goal is to have every catcher relate to every pitcher. I don't think there is anything getting in our way of using any catcher at any time.

Mike Griffin

Playing catcher wore me out last year. I wouldn't mind still playing, but as long as I'm in the lineup and helping the team.

J. Salinger

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. There's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them and then you never know where the hell you are. - The Catcher in the Rye

Mike Trapasso

Landon knows his role and knows he is our catcher of the future. He is a confident kid. He has done a very good job as a freshman.

Dusty Baker

That's the toughest thing for a young catcher is to take charge of a situation.

Joe Girardi

I think I made most of my strides as a catcher working under him. He is the one guy I really felt I had to have.

Randy Johnson

I think it's important that the catcher realize that even if you think something is going well and it really isn't but you're convinced it is, that he still try to get you through the game when things aren't going well.

Jim Tracy

It didn't make any sense to push it. A catcher goes through a lot of wear and tear. He needs to be 100 percent.

Larry Rothschild

He's become a good catcher for us. He takes a lot of pride in it, and he's improved in every phase.

Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

A. Bush

rejects of the old ways of command and control from above.

Plutarch

Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to

Scott Benedict

Our mantra is good pitching and good defense, so that was kind of a typical game for us. For (Peacock) to be able to command three pitches like that was very impressive.

Antonin Scalia

Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

Scott Harris

That command just created an internal skeleton for this object.

E. B. White

Our goal is to give our Incident Command Team the same communications support capabilities at the scene of an emergency as they would have in the office.

Elisa Massimino

Our findings reveal a picture of military discipline from which the doctrine of command responsibility is completely absent.

Samuel Freeman Miller

It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.

Charlie Lester

Part of my plan included giving up red meat, which I did without a fight. I really haven't missed it. Except for one thing -- pot roast.

Rachel Farwell

Our leading scorer every game, except when we played Atchison, hasn't been more than a three-point difference. So, what's working in our advantage, is when they all can score we're pretty tough.

F. Stone

Statistically, the game was pretty even, except for our shooting percentage. Jess had a lot to do with that. She's long and you have to shoot over her.

Betty Williams

That could've been disastrous. Normally they would be in that classroom, except today.

Dale Lortz

Our pitching has been very solid all year and this was no exception a Marissa did a very nice job.

Jamie Heward

I'm hoping we can keep scoring like that. We played well except for about a 10-minute span in the third period. We're a young hockey team and we're going to learn from it.

Alafair Burke

Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.

Peter Morgan

Koizumi really hasn't talked much about anything else except postal reforms,

Steve Sternberg

I think 'American Idol' wins, except during the finals of the figure skating, if the U.S. is doing well or if there's some major scandal.

Megan Schwab

Our practice is really structured this year. So, we'll have a time for hitting and a time for fielding.

Pete Dunn

Our pitchers were just horrible, horrible pitching with the lead. Everything you shouldn't do with a lead, we did. We started pitching from behind, walking people, hitting people.

Rex Walters

I'm hitting the road tonight to find some players.

Darren Clarke

I'm hitting it nicely and I'll try to keep it going. There are a lot of people who want to win this a lot more than I do. I would love to do it myself, but it's not that important.

Charles Coody

I think they accomplished that. All the players are hitting the same irons they did 20 or 30 years ago.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Venus Williams

That was an unbelievable tie-break. She just kept hitting winners but somehow I stayed in there,

Brandy Williams

It has been hard. At first, we were struggling. But then we started to come together when we needed to. We started hitting our peak at the right time, and I feel like we've done well.

Bob Jacoby

Last year, our pitching wasn't as strong. Our fielding and hitting have improved.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Bruce Montgomery

Different VCs have different sweet spots for where they want to invest.

James Lind

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Kurt Tsue

The surf spots are still not deemed safe.

Denny Green

Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,

Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Vincent Lecavalier

I think he thought I was going on my backhand but I stayed with my forehand.

Mitch Kapor

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Charles Stiles

I have intentionally stayed out of that discussion.

Felix Hernandez

I threw it and it just stayed up there. It was an error.

Milan Hejduk

If it was a regular-season game, I would have stayed in there for sure,

Chris Palmer

If Tim had stayed healthy, I think ultimately he would have been successful (in Cleveland).

Kellie Pickler

When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell.

Robert Hogan

He was ducking down, and he kind of stayed moving,

Ian Scott

I was surprised it stayed right there so I could go get it.

Steve McQueen

Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine....