Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Hurdle

We've always wanted to improve our bullpen, but until this year we weren't able to get the pieces we wanted. It's been frustrating. . . . It's not easy to spend the bulk of the game battling for a lead and then seeing it get away. . . . Now we have some depth. We have some quality arms.

J. Horton

We've always believed. We feel we have the pieces to be a really good basketball team, and it's just a matter of us going out and doing it.

Kyle Hines

When we weren't winning, we were still working hard. It just didn't seem like we had all the pieces of the puzzle. We all believed sometime we'd click, and I'm happy it's now.

Tim Salmon

When we were coming up, it was kind of a retooling thing and we were filling in with whatever you could fill in with. (Now) you've got a good ownership that's not only going to allow those guys to play, but they're going to bring in the pieces and make it competitive and allow them to win.

Kevin McGowan

We're sitting on a pretty ugly non-performing piece of real estate. Tens of thousands of people work downtown. I've never seen any one of them picnic there.

Peyton Sellers

We're going to take this first race and keep a conservative approach to it, go home in one piece and try to get better for the next race. The car we've got now is a good car and we're going to build a better car.

John Tortorella

We're going to miss him. He's a main piece to our puzzle, offensively, defensively, on our power play, all the things. Having said that, we'll hope he comes back but if he doesn't we have to be concerned about bringing someone up and we have to keep on playing.

Tim Mahoney

We're going to fix this piece of legislation. We're going to try to put together a program that solves the prescription drug problem in this country.... The way we change this is, we have to change Congress.

Kenneth Jay Lane

A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.

Jean Richter

What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end

Simon Hoggart

What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

Ken Johnson

We're going to do anything we can do to try to piece this puzzle together.

Chinua Achebe

...Nothing puzzles God

Luc Montagnier

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.

John Felmy

We're still calling on consumers to be prudent in their use of gasoline. It's just a complicated jigsaw puzzle we're putting back together.

S. Walker

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Jon Cooper

We've got good leadership and chemistry on this team. That's something our team lacked the first two years. There's still a couple of pieces of the puzzle needed to push us across the top. Rome wasn't built overnight, but I truly believe we can pull this thing off tonight.