Discloses Define Quotes & Sayings

These were people ... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people. — Rick Bragg

People always say you can't win if you don't play — Lev Yilmaz

Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything ... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs. — Mallory Jansen

She knew all about the cops and their trigger fingers and their predilection for dealing with those who would attack their brethren. Her father had drummed such stories into her from a young age; more so into Whiz, who bore the burden of being a black boy about to grow into a black teen. "If the police even look at you funny," Dad had said, "you hit the ground and put your hands over your head. Don't talk back. Don't try to run. Don't try to explain. They're just looking for an excuse to shoot you. Don't give it to them. — Barry Lyga

The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off. — Billy Beane

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. — Winston S. Churchill

It's always tough when you're fighting with your husband on the court. — Li Na

And it was worse because Edward Cullen wasn't in school at all. — Stephenie Meyer

Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing. — Mark Batterson

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear. — Italo Calvino

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards. — Mark Twain

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. — Cassandra Clare

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar. — Bill Sienkiewicz