Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoff Luebkemann

The picture is not nearly as bleak as the statistics may portray. They virtually all get one inspection a year.

David Doyle

On multiple occasions, I told Faye that from my perspective, the city administrator had done a tremendous job in steering the city out of the bleak financial situation that it was in when he was first hired.

Willie Randolph

I feel very positive. No matter how bleak it might look, this clubhouse is going to stay positive.

Tom Graham

Four years ago, things were so bleak in parts of the area, but we've had exciting news in Russell County that is invigorating. This is a real turnaround point for us.

Andrew Hopman

We have never given up, no matter how bleak things looked. These guys are fighters; they could be losing 24-2, and they'd still never quit.

Mark E. Smith

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

Craig Young

With this bleak outlook and this share price, it's going to be extremely difficult for the government to sell. Telstra would obviously like less regulation, but that's something which is out of its hands.

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

Steve Morrison

Life would be pretty bleak for humans on this planet if we don't have very many species to share the Earth with.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Chris Bohjalian

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

Chris Lander

We have to use this as motivation. But it's not one we can dwell on. The season starts over for everybody right now. We've got to forget about this and move on.

Patrick Marleau

We have to learn from it, but we can't dwell on it. We have to go get two points in Calgary.

Ella Wilcox

Who is the strong? Not he who puts to testHis sinews with the strong and proves the best;But he who dwells where weaklings congregate,And never lets his splendid strength abate.

Tim Casey

We didn't dwell on (the loss). As soon as a game is over, we focus on our next game. We have a very mature group of guys who understand that, win or lose, we need to move on. (The loss) is just one game. We just have to move on.

William Shakespeare

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Jane Seymour

Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing there'll be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday.

Greg Cox

We don't dwell on it. Our goal first is to always win the West Yosemite League championship.

Lee Melchionni

You always want to play well, but it was a tough game on the road, we got a big win and you want to take that into the next game but you don't want to dwell on it.

Jody Craddock

We'll never forget Jake. We remember the good times. But Joseph makes sure we don't have much time to dwell on the grief that we felt.

P. J. O'Rourke

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

Barry Trotz

He's a real professional that's a good human being and helps as a great teammate. When you encompass all those things, he's a real quality player but more so quality person.

Doug Barber

What's neat about this Rivers & Spires festival, there are many festivals under one umbrella. We're trying to encompass our total community.

John Updike

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

Mike Kennedy

We're able to focus on master-planned communities, in part because they really encompass all the disciplines we have.

Sri Chinmoy

In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy.

Monica Johnson

True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.

Ben Kennedy

The fans encompass you a lot more. All around, it's fans. So that will be really cool.

Tom O'Brien

Army-Navy, by far, ... Many rivalries Ohio State-Michigan, USC-UCLA, Auburn-Alabama are regional rivalries within conferences that encompass a state, or maybe two states, whereas Army-Navy encompasses all 50 states.

Werner Herzog

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

Frank Quattrone

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

Marlon Wayans

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

Masahiro Tanaka

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

Chris LeDoux

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

Jarvis Cocker

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

Scott McGehee

Juliette in particular - there is so much in her face,

Christine Benz

The predicament is not particular to (Janus) in any way.

Larry Coyer

We have to research a lot of things to see what particular scheme (they will run).

Larry Bowa

That was a terrible call. A terrible call,

Pat Barker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Ronda Rousey

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.

Tom Mueller

From the very beginning, we said we wanted to know the truth about this terrible incident, ... Now we do

Andy Weir

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Jami Attenberg

Please make me either relatable or terrible.