Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Malpass

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

Jeff Bzdelik

We came out of the blocks with good energy and it was a wire-to-wire win over a good team.

Joe Vitt

We came out of the blocks smoking. Then Marc got hurt, (we) had a few turnovers, let them have a couple of third-down conversions.

Melissa McCarthy

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

Katherine Fogg

Tyler is our primary passer on the serve receive and he's very sure-handed. He blocks on the weak side and he does very well there. He can hold his own in the back row, too.

Seth Shostak

Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?

Ed Morgan

Most of them cost less than $500. Someone who's in a wheelchair might need their desk elevated to fit the wheelchair. You could get creative and use cinder blocks if you want to.

Larry Krystkowiak

We haven't seen a shot blocker like that. They had nine blocks in the game and obviously that leads into our somewhat miserable shooting percentage.

Jacob Burtschi

Justin Williams leads the nation in blocks for a reason. He's got a long body and he's quick to get up (to block a shot). You've got to give him a lot of credit for stopping a lot of our offense.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Zack Snyder

To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Jim Berry

The pellets take the color of the wood that they're eating. They're in a very distinct little pile, like gritty sand.

Cecelia Ahern

The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color

Carl Maria von Weber

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

Ashley Tisdale

I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.

Arnold Schoenberg

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Aron Ralston

It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.

Padgett Powell

Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.

Mack Brown

We wanted to make sure he wasn't color blind.

Rachel Bilson

I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Ramakrishna

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Michael Foreman

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

Jim Angell

Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

J. T. Walsh

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Mike Birbiglia

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Christopher Wheeldon

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Bob Ross

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.