#mma

When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#after #also #angels #because #best

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#hard #much #people #really #roommates

Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#commanders #enemy #importantly #message #military

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#english #feel #filmmakers #i #i feel

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch. ↗

— Johan Santana

#commanding #count #executing #fastball #get

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#absolutely not #cannot #catch #collect #commander-in-chief

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#category #complete #consistently #grammatical #handled

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#contemporary #dead #doing #filmmakers #friends

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.' ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#chance #creative #development #emergence #experience

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be thankful #being #benefits #command #earth