Runs Quotes

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.

My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.