Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Goldman

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

Scott Hartnell

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

Emile Cioran

The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?

Mike Robinson

This was a shift from a person selling on the street on a blanket to being in a more closed environment. It suggests that it requires a little more work on their part. It's good that we are forcing them further underground.

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Rick McGee

Before, it was more of a blank stare. Now, he'll turn his eyes to you and look you in the eyes when you talk to him. You can look at his eyes and know if it's him.

Albert Finney

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

Jose Padilla

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

Darin Strauss

Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

Albert Finney

You are with a new set of people, you are in a new location, there is always something new about it. I still enjoy that. It's still good fun.

Peter Cushing

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.

Ron Moody

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.

Albert Finney

I don't really look back at all. When I've made a film, I've made it. They kind of go out into the world and they're on their own really.

Colin Firth

I was not quite as gracious as Mark Darcy about wearing what my mother tried to make me wear. It tended to stop really, when I was quite young.

Michael York

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Vincent Frank

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

Paul Scofield

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

Patrick Macnee

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.

Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Kurt Koeppen

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

Stephen Gaghan

I could have concentrated on George Clooney's character, ... I could have had him in every scene and told the entire story from his point of view. That certainly would have made my life a lot easier over the last several years. But the canvas was too large. These days, if you make a movie about East and West and turn it into a simple piece of disposable entertainment, that seems to me criminal.

Robert Rauschenberg

A canvas is never empty.

Tom Yawkey

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Linda Lavin

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

Geoff Johns

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

John Wilson

As guarded, not necessarily secretive, but as private about his personal life as he used to be, for him to suddenly propose in front of reporters on the Eiffel Tower and jump up and down like the monkey in 'Curious George' on Oprah Winfrey 's couch, there truly is some problem there.

Matthew Szulik

As CEO, I had to get out in front and lead my people. I put the onus back on the CEO.

Matthew Szulik

As CEO, I had to get out in front and lead my people,

Dick LeBeau

As a defense, we didn't play very well in (the AFC Championship game) and that's going to be in the front of our minds, for sure.

Rodney Lloyd

The Bulldogs are very big up front defensively and offensively, and it's their great size that worries me the most.

Eli Broad

People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me.

Joe Stellmacher

During the game I don't really think about it. We've got enough to worry about in the back end. But now that I think about it: Justin out, Coop out, Kurt out. Just to see those young guys grow up in front of your face. They're doing a heck of a job. I can't say enough about them.

Kelvin Sampson

The strength of the team is up front now. But we don't have a guy who you know can give you points when the going gets tough.

Don McKinnon

The smoke (was) so (thick) ... you (couldn't) see in front of you.

James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam

As long as the book's vision is about something that's making life better for all people. That's our criteria.

Francis Mathew

As long as life exist, Overtaking is allowed.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Asif Kapadia

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Rich Coleman

Reading and writing are life skills that everyone should have the opportunity to learn,

Anthony Head

People said, 'That's going to be around your neck for the rest of your life. I didn't have a problem with it.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Amanda Lamb

Do you think it's a waste to have all this stuff sitting here?

Stephen Cohen

The site is safe... everything is functioning as normal.

Jennifer Hill

It was weird not having him sitting there telling us where to stand. It was hard, but the team stuck together.

Johnny Rivers

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

Bryant Young

That's just one game, and to sit here and say we've arrived, I can't say that, because we haven't,

Stephanie Zimbalist

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Brad Williams

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

Russell Dynes

We really haven't had a situation like this.

William H. Gass

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

Seth

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

Homer Simpson

Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.