Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
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Related Enjoy it, learn from it and more than anything, never take your health for granted. Don’t just sei... CALVIN WADE Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours... GARY F EVANS... Elvis 30 No. 1 Hits NO DOUBT It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal. INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be sh... INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining... INITIALLY NO It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go... DONALD NO I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ... DONALD NO They tell me to be quiet When I’d rather cause a riot And have everyone screaming O... INITIALLY NO We had no doubt that they were guilty. JUROR NO We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first. JUROR NO Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can. JUROR NO We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t... JUROR NO I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them jus... INITIALLY NO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Philip doesn't let go, his eyes glinting with rage. "We're gonna survive this thing,and we're gonna ... ROBERT KIRKMAN There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all. JEFFREY FRY Opening day, you can't wait for it to get here and then you can't wait to get it over with so you ca... AARON BOONE Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two unde... JAMES BALDWIN In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film yo... JUDI DENCH We don't need a point, son. We're juvenile, we're dirty, we don't have girls, we have noses full of ... MARKUS ZUSAK And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. M... ALEXANDRA POTTER If you can't (or won't) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything? RANDY PAUSCH The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except... CHRIS CORNELL This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and... PETER MARSHALL You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no dif... ADAM OATES These rooms are decorated in two days. It's all kept secret. The neighbors spend the night in ea... PAIGE DAVIS To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accompli... DOUG COOPER If you need something inspirational, just point up to the top of your vision. MAZ NO PARADISE Sad but inspirational MAZ NO PARADISE We face a new world everyday, try to understand them
and love them more than our yesterday. MAZ NO PARADISE Believe me, Dream is better than Hope
but both Combined is the best. MAZ NO PARADISE Miracle is not so far away but easy to fade away. MAZ NO PARADISE Recognize every time before doing anything
that you always do a miracle. MAZ NO PARADISE Sometime if you look up in the sky.
There is a path of your destiny. MAZ NO PARADISE There is no paradise for you or me. MAZ NO PARADISE How much does he lack himself, he who must have many things? SEN NO RIKYū How much does he lack himself who must have many things? SEN NO RIKYū Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation... IM NO JUNG I expect consumer spending to continue to improve. The central bank is likely to raise interest rate... IM NO JUNG The negative impact of high international oil prices was big in August. We can still expect a recove... IM NO JUNG You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentall... WILLIAM PETER BLATTY You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just ... WILLIAM GOLDMAN Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count any... DAVE FILONI If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the mo... MEEK MILL If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record i... WILL.I.AM When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Buy yourself some time. Interrupt the ‘yes’ cycle, using phrases like “I’ll get back to you,... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE War is no solution to peace. 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DAMON LINDELOF I seem to hear thousands of voices--the voices of the common folk in the marketplace--urging me to g... EIJI YOSHIKAWA Here--you warriors--why this moaning and complaining? Have you no more sense than toads and vipers? ... EIJI YOSHIKAWA Through his mad fancying he remembered Mokunosuke's words: "Whoever you are, you are a man after all... EIJI YOSHIKAWA Ah, you pitiful, pitiful creatures! Beautiful family! Nobler far than stupid men..." he cried softly... EIJI YOSHIKAWA I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men. EIJI YOSHIKAWA Die? Then so be it. EIJI YOSHIKAWA Should misfortune visit the Court, that can only be the result of its continued abuses. If the palac... EIJI YOSHIKAWA Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us! EIJI YOSHIKAWA Call them robbers and cutthroats--were they not amiable enough when they had sufficient to fill thei... EIJI YOSHIKAWA But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in ... JULIET MARILLIER Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel. JEFFREY FRY Even a self-centric can say at the end of the day that s/he owes no explanation to anyone and has no... ANUJ SOMANY It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easie... KATHY NAJIMY Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The Baja is a survival race, and there is no break, but you're not up on the wheel all day in th... ROBBY GORDON Is there a chance? Yes. Would I say that every day? No. Would I say that in any other storm event so... 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ITZHAK PERLMAN When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for re... THICH NHAT HANH In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan'... MOBY
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