Ballestraisms

To which we wanted to reply, "When you're right, you're right."

(One of his underlings told us "Done, to Mike_Ballestra, means done.")

So . . . I guess you could say that the definition of a Ballestraism is a saying that says what it says by saying what it says in the way it says it.

• A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
  Arnold Horshak, in "Welcome Back, Cotter" (among others)
• An impossiblity is an impossibility.
  Michael Stephen Ellis
• Anytime you've got this kind of disruption, you've got disruption.
  an expert on the TV news
• As always, too much of a good thing is too much of a good thing.
  Rudy_Trubitt
• At your age, where you are, you are.
  someone in the movie "City Slickers"
• Boys will be boys.
  permissive parent
• Companies do business the way they do business.
  A. P. S.
• Denial is denial.
  Urban League spokesman
• Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be.
  The Commodores
• For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like.
  anonymous
• Haters gonna hate.
  astute psychologist
• He lived at home.
  Mark Beech in "The People's Team"
• He's the kind of man for the times that need the kind of man he is. . . .
  Unix fortune
• I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.
  Popeye
• I'll do what I can do, but that's all I can do.
  Jack Nicholson as Henry Moon in "Going South"
• If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
  Jacob, in Genesis 43.14, RSV
• If it's in the game, it's in the game.
  trademark for Electronic Arts
• If it's not there, it's not there.
  Jerry_Panza
• If that had been good, it would have been good.
  Glen Ayers, commenting on one of my returns while playing racquetball
• If that's it then that's it.
  Esteri_Randlett
• If we can't do that, we can't do that.
  Steve_Stafford
• If we need the time to do that, we need time to do that.
  Jeff_Tetoris
• If you didn't know there had been a storm, you wouldn't know there had been a storm.
  editorial in The Hartwell [Georgia] Sun
• If you do, you do; if you don't, you don't.
  Roger_Bartz
• If you don't change direction, you're going to end up where you're headed.
  Van_Jones
• If you get in the habit, you get in the habit.
  Robert K. Oglesby
• If you're where you're at . . .
  Michael Kirk
• It ain't over till it's over.
  Yogi Berra, used in a song by Lenny Kravitz
• It is what it is.
  anonymous
• It's it, and that's that.
  advertising slogan for Lite beer
• Last night it was just like nighttime outside.
  Cynthia Thomas
• Many people have dubbed the Garden snakes the 'garden snake' . . .
  from an essay on [so-called] garden snakes
• Once the lid was off, the lid was off.
  Rush Limbaugh
• Que sera, sera. (What will be, will be.)
  old song
• Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
  Gertrude Stein, who is Gertrude Stein
• Sometimes bad is bad.
  Huey Lewis And The News
• Sin is sin.
  Sharon Wilhelm
• Sumus quod sumus. (We are what we are.)
  motto of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota
• The amount of data we extract probably wouldn't be as much as if we extracted more data.
  someone that worked with Ballestra
• The bill is the bill.
  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
• The business of America is business.
  Calvin Coolidge
• The element type is the type of the element.
  EDI*Expert software tutorial
• The overall drive has been overall.
  someone wearing overalls
• The place to nip it in the bud is in the bud.
  Dallas Morning News editorial
• We shall see what we shall see.
  Robert Scott
• Well, if it's a general's star, then it's a general's star!
  Maj. Margaret Hoolihan
• What I am is what I am; are you what you are or what?
  Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
• What I have written, I have written.
  Pilate, in John 19.22, NASB
• What's done is done.
  Lady MacBeth, in Shakespeare's "MacBeth"
• When people do not have understanding, they will likely have misunderstanding.
  Phil Sanders
• When the Ortega family wishes you a happy birthday, we wish you a happy birthday!
  Señor Ortega
• When we say overnight, we mean overnight.
  USPS slogan for Express Mail
• When you want your truck, you want your truck.
  GMAC commercial
• When you're hot, you're hot.
  Jerry Reed
• Why should I have to pay for something I shouldn't have to pay for?
  someone in a TV ad
• Words can never express what words can never express.
  Ashleigh Brilliant
• Y'all don't need to go unless you need to go.
  Kent Prince
• You are what you are.
  Stephen Stills to Judy Blue Eyes
• You can automate as much as you can.
  someone at EDS
• You can never be more saved than saved.
  Tilt_James
• You can't change anything if you don't change anything.
  Brenda_Schlender
• You found what you found.
  Ira Einhorn, a.k.a. "the unicorn killer," to police, when they questioned him about finding the body of his murdered girlfriend in a trunk in his apartment
• You have deceived me, and I was deceived.
  Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 20.7
• You want just exactly what you want.
  radio commercial
• You're you and she's she.
  Cynthia Thomas