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MARCUS MARINGOLA I was just happy with how aggressive we were at the plate in the second game. It seems like we had t...
ERIC MCARTHUR I was just hitting. With two strikes, you just go up there and battle. That's what you do against a ...
GRADY SIZEMORE With two strikes, that was a big homer. Anytime you see a guy do that with two strikes it's a plus.
CARL HUNCKLER Strike one, strike two. Good location - hitting spots. If you throw strikes, guys have to swing. Tha...
ODALIS PEREZ A lot of guys have success off him early in the count. If he gets two strikes on you, he picks at th...
CODY RANSOM Those guys hit so well with two strikes. We were throwing pitches five inches off the plate and they...
CHANCE WHEELESS We haven?t hit the ball real well all year, and finally we?re starting to come around on that. We wo...
BOB LEWELLEN Really the last couple of times out we've really done a much better job of pitch selection with our ...
BRIAN MORRISON John went three for four with two doubles. He is really hitting the ball well.
JASON SWEARINGEN I think when he is really good he pounds the strike zone and stays out of the middle of the plate. H...
TERRY FRANCONA A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The t...
STAN MUSIAL He's hitting well from both sides of the plate. He's been picking up everybody else.
JOHN RUSSELL He's a tremendous athlete. Last year he struggled at the plate, but he has really worked on his hitt...
CRAIG TRYCHEL Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
SATCHEL PAIGE The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against ma...
DAVID BOIES That was a great momentum changer for us because we really started hitting well after that play. We ...
TRISHA WALL I thought we hit the ball really well today. (Terry) played a great game, hit the ball well. He is v...
CHAD BAKER She's always around the plate and she does a good job of throwing strikes. When they're not swinging...
EVANS BOUCHARD Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
SATCHEL PAIGE I feel very confident with two strikes. I feel it's more of a freedom. I get very upset with myself ...
DAVID ECKSTEIN Strikes are the only way to protect worker's rights.
GABRIA CARLINI Those two base hits I gave up, I had two strikes on both the hitters, and I take pride in that. When...
JOSH CRIBB Hitting two shots like that is ridiculous.
BOB TWAY They're not making mistakes, and they're living on the corners. You don't make a living hitting bord...
GARRET ANDERSON Pedro is hitting good pitches. He is a talented kid that if he gets strikes he is able to hit the ba...
TIM CORBIN You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.
CONNIE MACK Holly is doing a really good job. She has had two back-to-back really good efforts. She's really hit...
JANET TATE It's not a bill that protects. It was not intended to protect.
DON CASEY I didn't like it that our guys threw so many balls. They were all throwing strikes pitching in the b...
MIKE HARGROVE Right there I was just trying to protect. I think he caught a little bit more plate with that pitch ...
B.J. UPTON Strikes are the only way to protect worker's rights. If anything there are too many taxes in Italy, ...
GABRIA CARLINI I've very rarely seen the ball hit that hard. Cass knows to adjust with two strikes.
DAVE PETROCELLI He'll say, 'Yeah, you couldn't hit that, Luis, no way,' ... He's a strike-thrower. And when he's thr...
MARK WILEY He'll say, 'Yeah, you couldn't hit that, Luis, no way,' ... He's a strike-thrower. And when he's th...
MARK WILEY Elliot was really in a period where he was writing a lot ... feeling the inspiration. It was really ...
ALEX BERAM I'm like a magnet here lately. I don't know why - I don't really stand that close to the plate. Most...
RYAN STRIEBY Once he settled in, he really did a nice job keeping Taft off balance. They're a really good fastbal...
DALE CUTSFORTH Quadrant has chosen to step up to the plate to protect the neighboring rural aesthetic with an expan...
STEVE SHIFTON He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense.
CHAD ARTZ I was always brought up to be patient at the plate. That's the approach I've always taken to hitting...
B.J. UPTON I had two strikes, and I'm just looking to get the barrel on it and make something happen. I was abl...
CHAD TRACY Luke and Christian didn't try to do too much with their hitting. Some of the guys are pressing too h...
JOEY KALMUS You want one to two true pitchers that can beat anybody and six arms that can throw strikes.
TIM SAUNDERS When you get to the playoffs, you'll win it with pitching, defense and timely hitting. That was a go...
JASON HORNE I pray that someday you will find that forgiveness. I know Terry would have wanted you to be forgive...
LEROY GRAHAM Weed came up with the big two-run double to tie it and that kind of gave us the spark there. Hitting...
LYLE WESNESKI Kline threw the ball over the plate (54 strikes out of 78 pitches) and made them hit it. He kept it ...
BOB THOMAS They don't get any tougher than that. Two outs, two strikes in the ninth.
LLOYD MCCLENDON It's like baseball. You step up to the plate and you'd like to knock it out of the park but the brea...
EDWARD FRANCO If you think he's tipping, you get it fixed. But if you're throwing it middle of the plate, he's not...
BURT HOOTON We didn't tell the story of a cancer patient. This movie is about the run and the great thing that h...
SHAWN ASHMORE She was really aggressive throwing strikes. That is something to build on.
ROB ADAMS with the average response time in the last two weeks of September hitting two minutes, two seconds.
GEORGE ABBOTT We're playing well right now. We've been hitting the ball well, playing excellent defense and throwi...
CLARK ADAMS When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because...
P. J. O'ROURKE It is time for Virginia to step up to the plate and protect private property rights from government ...
BILL CLEVELAND Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
ROBERT SMITH Not getting two runners in with only one out really hurt. There are two ways to look at that. It is ...
JOE BLUMBERG With most people they really don't want to get hit. Because it hurts. Your natural instinct is to pr...
DAVID GREEN I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.
BILL OWENS I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into th...
BEBE REXHA You can't underestimate the following that Terry Gilliam has.
PAUL DERGARABEDIAN As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed...
STEPHEN RODRICK We have been hitting the ball real good. We try to approach the plate aggressively and hit the ball ...
JEFF DAY He was missing his spots a little bit and made some mistakes with two strikes.
JOHN RUSSELL It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.
JOE GARAGIOLA A lot of people don't know the details of the bill, and you can really say the bill is bad.
CESAR LARA Since there is no standard grading system for pearls, you really have to know the business you are d...
ROBERT ARTELT I used to tell him that with two outs and a man on second, I want Arnold at the plate.
PETE ROSE This guy has been swinging at strikes and taking balls. That's been the most impressive thing he's d...
JOE MADDON That's pretty good. I'm really impressed with our hitting.
LANA ROSS Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.
MARK RUSSELL Throughout my 40 plus years of knowing and working with Bill that has been his role, be it in busine...
BOYD PALMER It's noticeable. It's 40,000 [fans] in Boston, standing up in the first inning with two strikes,
JOSH TOWERS Hitting the ball the other way, and pitch selection. Being more relaxed at the plate and being more ...
ROBERT ANDINO I feel good out there right now and I'm throwing strikes, plus the hitting and defense has been just...
BRIAN BOONE I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and ...
ERIC CLAPTON I had two good swings (in the first four plate appearances), so I went back to the cage and worked w...
JIMMY ROLLINS You can't go down 1-2-3 in two innings in a game like that. You can't after spending the past two da...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ I thought we did an awesome job batting with two strikes. We put the ball in play.
BOB KITTLE We're coming on after a little bit of a slow start. We're hitting the ball hard. We're doing more si...
DALE CUTSFORTH (Bryan) hung a breaking ball over the plate. It was a mistake. (Baker) did a good job hitting the mi...
MAX HARKRIDER What really matters is the teams coming in. These two teams travel well, so that's really good for b...
JEFF WHITEMAN Matt really stepped it up. He didn't have his best stuff but went out and pitched a complete game. O...
BRIAN GRUBER She's tough. She's got a unique style with hitting two hands on both sides, and she's just tough. Sh...
LEN THIEDE We think the bill strikes the right balance between modernizing coverage in the program and making i...
CHARLES SYMINGTON I started hitting my spots in the later innings and just kept building on that. In the fifth, sixth ...
ERIC MEYERCHICK We've really been coming on lately hitting the ball. We've been doing a good job manufacturing runs ...
BOB ROWE It's a really good sign that he's hitting. He left hitting the ball pretty good. He was hitting it l...
JEFF PENTLAND The restaurant business is definitely exciting, with lots of energy that goes way beyond what's on t...
JORGE RAMOS You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really...
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondere...
BRANDON SANDERSON You see that kind of broad-based support because we all believe Bill Nelson has been good for the bu...
COLE PEACOCK I know the plate is 17 inches wide and it doesn't expand. But with these guys it does. It really mak...
JOE ROWE The American missile strikes show that they are not satisfied with what Pakistan is doing. The resul...
AFRASIAB KHATTAK To be able to come back to my hometown and be a part of showing these kids they can be a part of wha...
JACOB TAMME We had a good scouting report. But we really didn't know that Gerty was that good. Then they were go...
BRYAN HARRIS Things that we've worked on -- the two-strike approach, hitting your spots, picking each other up in...
CLINT MYERS The business community is convinced we are going to have a pension bill.
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RANDALL TERRY He who frames the question wins the debate.
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RANDALL TERRY The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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RANDALL TERRY If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, the...
RANDALL TERRY Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
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RANDALL TERRY Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a f...
RANDALL TERRY The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
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TERRY MCAULIFFE The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separate...
TERRY CREWS It wasn't until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was rat...
TERRY GLAVIN Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each pie...
TERRY WAITE I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect t...
TERRY PRATCHETT Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at partie...
TERRY EAGLETON When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that f...
TERRY SOUTHERN Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democrati...
TERRY GLAVIN I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.
TERRY MCAULIFFE Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
TERRY PRATCHETT A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.
TERRY PRATCHETT The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money....
TERRY PRATCHETT Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, becaus...
TERRY PRATCHETT She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite th...
TERRY PRATCHETT The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
TERRY PRATCHETT The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation o...
TERRY GLAVIN I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&...
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TERRY WOGAN Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
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doing your VAT return with a head ful...
TERRY PRACHETT I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisian...
TERRY BRADSHAW People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best in...
TERRY MCAULIFFE John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend...
TERRY GILLIAM The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios,...
TERRY ZWIGOFF My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You...
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TERRY TEACHOUT I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st...
TERRY GILLIAM Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing...
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TERRY TEACHOUT Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. Bolivia's Evo Morales, having lo...
TERRY GLAVIN It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan ge...
TERRY GLAVIN It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...
TERRY PRATCHETT I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the serge...
TERRY PRATCHETT Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
TERRY GROSS This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
TERRY PRATCHETT I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brand...
TERRY PRATCHETT The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no la...
TERRY PRATCHETT They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was n...
TERRY PRATCHETT Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
TERRY MCMILLAN What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
HELEN TERRY William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identif...
TERRY PRATCHETT I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" TERRY PRATCHETT If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's wha...
TERRY PRATCHETT The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the s...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still g...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all ...
TERRY PRATCHETT The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and tryi...
TERRY PRATCHETT Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
PAUL TERRY Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
TERRY PRATCHETT Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
TERRY PRATCHETT It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of goi...
TERRY PRATCHETT If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunders...
TERRY PRATCHETT In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
TERRY PRATCHETT Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
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TERRY GOODKIND Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation ...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
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TERRY PRATCHETT Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
TERRY EAGLETON After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in...
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TERRY PRATCHETT There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach sma...
TERRY PRATCHETT The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surp...
TERRY PRATCHETT [And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterward...
TERRY PRATCHETT Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
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TERRY PRATCHETT You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag...
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TERRY PRATCHETT Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a...
TERRY PRATCHETT Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet...
TERRY PRATCHETT I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th...
TERRY PRATCHETT Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
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TERRY PRATCHETT If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe...
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TERRY HANDS I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ...
QUINLAN TERRY The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
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TERRY EAGLETON Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo...
TERRY PRATCHETT Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
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TERRY PRATCHETT Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec...
TERRY EAGLETON Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
TERRY MCCORMICK Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue...
TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ...
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TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ...
TERRY WAITE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology....
TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
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TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a...
TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
TERRY GILLIAM I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea...
TERRY PRATCHETT Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
TERRY PRATCHETT It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
TERRY PRATCHETT The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b...
TERRY SOUTHERN ’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn...
TERRY PRATCHETT Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces
TERRY PRATCHETT It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...
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TERRY PRATCHETT It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
TERRY PRATCHETT If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
TERRY PRATCHETT Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
TERRY PRATCHETT ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
TERRY PRATCHETT We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
TERRY PRATCHETT His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --...
TERRY PRATCHETT Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
TERRY PRATCHETT Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
TERRY PRATCHETT DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
TERRY PRATCHETT It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li...
TERRY PRATCHETT Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—species...
TERRY PRATCHETT Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon...
TERRY PRATCHETT Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the mus...
TERRY PRATCHETT Don't worry, it's not loaded.
TERRY KATH Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
TERRY PRATCHETT To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
TERRY PRATCHETT Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and...
TERRY PRATCHETT No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom...
TERRY PRATCHETT "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"<...
TERRY PRATCHETT Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended....
TERRY PRATCHETT Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industri...
TERRY GLAVIN When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other ...
TERRY BRADSHAW I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is grow...
TERRY PRATCHETT I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
TERRY SOUTHERN As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to I...
TERRY GLAVIN A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of M...
TERRY GLAVIN Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain...
TERRY SOUTHERN What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a...
TERRY WOGAN Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every...
JOHN TERRY I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the pr...
TERRY PRATCHETT Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what mig...
TERRY TEACHOUT Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
TERRY PRATCHETT There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from differ...
TERRY PRATCHETT It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Al...
TERRY PRATCHETT It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and th...
TERRY PRATCHETT My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my...
TERRY WOGAN I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying...
TERRY BRANSTAD Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
TERRY GILLIAM Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwid...
TERRY TEACHOUT The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.
TERRY BRADSHAW