Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Dunn

This is not a ripple effect. This is a tsunami.

Jamie Fellner

An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.

Jody Watley

The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.

Daniel Smith

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

Alberto Manguel

Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

Dan Brown

Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut.

Annie Dillard

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

Annie Dillard

Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.

Cindy Sherman

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

Gordon Richards

Railroading in a barn' was the expression they used, ... They'd get all the way here, and the view was shut out. The sheds were not very popular for tourism.

E. Hicks

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Aretha Franklin

On the sly, scoping for love.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

Carsten Juste

I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.

Charles Darwin

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Jim Yong Kim

One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.

Bob Dylan

The executioner's face is always well hidden.

Bruce Lee

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

Jim Mowen

I've been walking on eggshells and trying not to badmouth any other candidates.

Melissa McCarthy

I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that.

Virginia Jackson

I've been trying to get it done for a long time.

A. Hodge

I've been trying to find someone for a year,

Mark Indelicato

I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much.

Jimmy Rollins

I understood that he was trying to get to third,

Steve Ballmer

Things are working well. We're always trying to improve, though.

Sanjay Gupta

the wind was just clawing at the window, trying to get in.

Darren Sharper

This could be it. Or he could go one more year. I don't see him trying to go too many more after this.