Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Suelzle

Our two girls on the low blocks heard the announcer say two shots. They just stood there. But our girls on the top were boxing out. We have no excuses. We certainly had our chances.

Andrew Magee

I thought I might have to be a car-pool guy or a TV announcer or something last year,

Dan Gilroy

I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'

George Bernard Shaw

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

Ernie Harwell

McDonough said, referring to the Hall-of-Fame announcer who spent more than four decades as the voice of the Detroit Tigers. ''I thought I'd be with the Red Sox all my career. Really, it's the only play-by-play job I ever wanted.

Michael Crowley

One would be hard-pressed to find an announcer who served as the lead play-by-play voice for three major sports franchises for as long as Bill.

Ernie Harwell

The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.

Bob Sheppard

Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only work 81 days a year, so you don't make a living.

Randy West

As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.

E. P. Thompson

It is not unknown for gentlemen to come in and purchase two of the same items.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

Alan Grayson

Ladies and gentlemen, we understand the big picture after three weeks of testimony. The big picture is greed.

William Brownfield

Ladies and gentlemen, how can I get any sleep with so many conspiracies and plots? ... The truth is there are many things in this world that have nothing to do with the United States.

William Brownfield

Ladies and gentlemen, How am I going to sleep with so many conspiracies and plots?

James Baker

Ladies and gentlemen, at some point -- at some point -- there must be closure,

Mary Green

We want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, he did it out of greed, to get stuff to sell for a little pocket change. You're going to hear the whole history of Joe Michael Luna.

Garry Houston

True gentlemen. I've had a very special time.

Dave Murphy

We have a hard time keeping up with these older gentlemen.

Peter Mirsky

Parsons has been around longer. My impression of Parsons was that he was incredibly well thought-of, very diplomatic, and probably very well-received in D.C.

Adam Eaton

I think they were surprised to see me go back out there. I was under the impression I was going three innings the whole time.

Andy Engel

I was under the impression that you had to be a student to be on it.

Gary Mitchell

I was under the impression most people got the message. Apparently, the jury didn't.

Gregory Coleman

I was under the impression he was there (at the school), if you want to say, to allude justice,

Roger Gerlach

I think our team is going to show up. I know that's the pat answer, but we're not content. I didn't get that impression at practice.

Darrell Vienna

I think he validated what he did the race before. I had the impression that he wanted to run on turf, and I was wrong about that.

William Hatcher

I think the team's first impression was this was like homework.

Bucky Quici

He'll be around in spirit because he left so many people with the impression of what a nice person is supposed to be like.

Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods.

David Aaron

It is a question of putting into the text the language of our accord.

Wanda Peterson

Last summer I took a sign language class. There was a project where I was in a group. I was treated just like the other students (in the group).

Bertrand Russell

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Joe Torre

I think that's personality more than anything. (Hideki) Matsui is so different and he's got the language barrier, too.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind.

Don Talbot

Someone is going to have to stand up and produce something special.

Herman Edwards

I think offenses need rhythm. When you play and you go three-and-out, that doesn't produce any rhythm for you. You start pressing.

Steve Gibson

It is conceptually infeasible to get any other program to produce the same MD5 signature,

Beth Henley

I didn't really know how to get it to a producer or how to get it to an agent. Nobody's going to look at it unless it's a success.

Samuel Hopkins

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

Doug Henning

If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Bill Sammler

But from the standpoint of having storms that produce a lot of rain, we didn't have a lot this winter.

Jenn Lyon

I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.

James Sasser

have to produce a better today and a better tomorrow.

Sharon Jones

If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm.

Alan Alda

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.

John Uecker

Dr. Weir and I were about to pronounce you dead.