Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Torre

Spring Training is probably going to make up our mind,

Eric Chavez

Spring training doesn't matter. Stats don't matter. You take that time, especially the veteran guys, to get ready.

C. S. Lewis

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Carl Safina

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Berenson

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Bill Vaughan

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

Aesop

It is absurd to ape our betters.

Bo Burnham

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

Gregory Keyes

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

Francis Bacon

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

George Herbert

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

Laurence Olivier

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

Noam Chomsky

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

George Santayana

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Bill Bryson

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

Jim Wallis

I think it would be a great meeting for parents curious about what's going on to attend,

Derek Sivers

I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.

James L. Brooks

I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.

Ken Hitchcock

I am excited and curious to see how we respond. In games 5, 6 and 7, you get a defining message on what you are going to be down the road, whether it's the next series or whatever.

Olivier Theyskens

I am curious to see what the others do. I was stressed. I wanted to know if it was too much like what I was doing.

Graham Cluley

I am also curious to see whether Microsoft will release its own anti-virus software with the service pack.

Suzanne Somers

I find that one of the most curious things is that I have fractionalized audiences. I have people who only know me from the books.

Susan Cutter

Given the complexities of emergency management in this country, and the increasing professionalism of the community, it seems curious to me that we wouldn't appoint someone who comes out of that tradition.