Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Louise Arbour

Rules that block persons with disabilities from obtaining personal documentation or from voting in elections can be modified, often at little expense.

Paul Steinhardt

The search for a structure that blocks the passage of light in all directions has fascinated physicists and engineers for the past two decades.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

Ban Ki-moon

The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.

Bridgit Mendler

The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over and cast our ballots, and it was really cool. I love the civic pride of being a part of this national activity.

Rasheed Wallace

Body (Wallace) was blocking shots left and right, grabbing rebounds. The kid's a monster. I am just glad he's on my side.

Kirk Lewis

Between classes, eight students walked the halls cheering, blocking the hallways, chanting. They were protesting.

Michael Robinson

Blocking downfield overall was great from the receivers.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

Walt Jocketty

After a discussion I had with his agent, I think it would be probably less than a 50 percent chance that would happen.

Bruce Aylward

Now it's simply (about) getting the financial resources to get this thing finished. You'll never get another chance like this.

Brandon Warren

Tennessee let me know when they have a good tight end, they know how to use them. I'm really looking forward to my visit because it will give me a chance to hear how they intend to use me and take a look at the new system they are putting in place.

Gary Scelzi

Running late tonight gave us a chance to run in perfect conditions, ... I know we won't have conditions like this tomorrow but we did learn that this racetrack can hold a lot more than we've been giving it.

Jeff Banks

Right now, Tyler is doing good in a lot of facets as far as pass protection. Matt's showing a different type of quickness to the hole since last year even. He's really running at a high level. And Marcus has shown some maturity. He knows everything he's doing, he's making the right reads. He's going to the right keys in pass protection. So that gives me a chance for our offense to be able to depend on him.

Tiger Woods

Quite frankly, I probably shouldn't have been in the playoff. I wasn't putting very well at all. I just hung in there and hung in there. ... For me to have a chance to win the title, I was lucky.

Jon Gruden

Quarles has great versatility, but we also like him as our middle linebacker. Ruud, some time in the future, will get his chance to play. Ryan has earned the job in Jeff's absence.

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Michael Lambert

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Doug Palow

Our defense shut down just about everything tonight.

Chris Carlson

Our defense played tough. I just thought our zone did a really nice job on them.

Zhang Guobao

Any slightest fluctuation could drive speculations on the oil price.

Mark Solomon

Officers drive by that park constantly, since it's right up from the precinct.

Gholamhossein Elham

During the attack, the local driver and a Revolutionary Guardsman was killed. The police immediately intervened. One smuggler was killed and one arrested.

Tom Nelson

Defensively, I think we played a pretty good ballgame; they only had that one drive on us. Overall, I was pretty proud of the defense.

Tommy Jr

The thing was, I ran and I fumbled it, so I had to make up, because I couldn't go out like that. So I had to do something to make my team rally back, and I tried to put a drive together.

Ben Johnson

The things that are working here are locally driven right now.

Adan Canto

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Matt Smith

The 'movie drunk' that you see, the guy that's all over the roadway going ten miles an hour ? that?s probably about one percent of all the intoxicated drivers that will actually get arrested.

Felix Sabates

The most important factor was all the drivers are there. To make a hall of fame successful they need drivers to make appearances.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Tony Fadell

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

William Ames

The worship which directs itself toward God as our good regards him either as he is ours at present, in faith, or as he is to be ours, in hope.

Gary Schare

There are two primary ways that drive-by downloads are done, either through a vulnerability in IE itself or an add-on, or because the user has the security setting set too low.

Ewen Bremner

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.

Robert Hill

We've said in principle that we would be interested in providing a provisional reconstruction team either on our own or in conjunction with other parties,

Kid Rock

I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.

Thomas Mars

It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.

Shannon Schonrock

We're playing horrible right now. We're not playing tough at either end of the floor.

Peter Cameron

As long as I've got my eyesight I'm not going to stop.

Richard Rose

Anything you can do like that can be helpful, anything that can open eyes up.

David Morris

The temptation is to pick the eyes out of the wines to make a great wine, a trophy-winning wine,

Unknown

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Richard Natonski

I wanted to come out here to look you in the eyes to tell you that this is a good aircraft,

Matt Damon

a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales as seen through the eyes of Terry Gilliam in a wild fantasy world only he could create.

Mike Gillespie

The one thing that he has done is pitch consistently. It's not overpowering, knock-your-eyes-out kind of stuff, but it's good stuff and he throws strikes. He doesn't get rattled or become afraid, you kind of know what you're getting.

Patrick Walsh

After all we went through this summer, all we wanted was the'05 season to get started. I had tears in my eyes when I walked on to the field tonight thinking about all we went through. We could have lost by 700 points, but at least the'05 season had started.

Jerome Bettis

Running backs, we have eyes in the back of our head. I saw it coming.

Doug Young

Anything that we didn't water didn't do well. Field tomatoes were way off, cucumbers were way off.

Chan Gailey

I've said, 'Hey, it doesn't matter who walks on the field. You have to get ready to play,' ... It does not matter who's in the game and who's not in the game.

Pat White

I've been doing this since I was four years old. Nothing on the field scares me.

Frank Gonzalez

The worldwide tsunami research field used to involve maybe 200 people.

Huston Street

You never like the first pitch to be taken deep. But it's not about how pretty it is, it's about walking off the field with a win.

Brian Sun

While the firm may have historically done some work for Mr. Ovitz, neither the firm nor Mr. Fields was involved in any way in the Anita Busch matter.

Sebastian Coe

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

Nathan Brown

There was a great field this weekend. I really gathered it all together today. I thought I performed well yesterday in the high jump, and then had a good pole vault and hurdles today.

Bryan Way

There's no way he's going out on that field. We want to make sure everything is OK.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

DeShawn Stevenson

So we've got to go out there and play every game like it's a playoff game and play together like we're doing. We're doing a good job.

Charlie Kemppainen

Ryan has had a very good season. He could always shoot, but he's improved his overall game a lot.

Andy Robinson

Rugby is a physical game and sometimes it erupts but we are not condoning it and it's disappointing,

Dean McAmmond

Sanford was phenomenal. He kept us in the game and he's been doing that of late. We should have come away with two points.

Richard Segal

There will be two new products next year. In the first half there will be a person-to-person skill game and in the second half there will be another more akin to casino.

Sergio Sarmiento

The rules of the game have changed. The ruling party must learn how to negotiate to survive.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Shane Doan

To get momentum like that is huge. We've got to find a way to keep it going. We've let it slip away too many times.

Brian Brohm

We got that momentum going, got in a rhythm, and you saw (that) once we get into it, we can do pretty much anything we want to, ... We've got to get into that rhythm every game.

Marlon Brando

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

Kasey Kahne

We had momentum. We've had momentum all weekend long.

Dick Powell

When it starts to move it will make a lot of noise and it will move and have a lot of momentum and take anything in its way out.

Hannah Arendt

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

David Stahl

If Merck can win on those, then they can really say they've got some momentum on their side.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Don Nickles

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector,

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

David Livingstone

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Allison Pearson

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Thomas More

He travels best that knows when to return.

Raymond Carver

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

Roland Barthes

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

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.

B. R. Hayden

We'll have to take a look at it and see what the situation is and find out what's going on.

Bill Belichick

Every situation is independent. It takes two parties, or three to a point, to make a deal, and when that happens, we have one, and if it doesn't, we don't.

Commissioner Steele

This sounds like a win-win situation to me.

Sha Zukang

This situation is very undemocratic, unfair and unreasonable,

Adam Ereli

We are watching the situation in Togo closely.

David Greenlaw

You have a much, much different situation today.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Jamie Foxx

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Al Franken

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.