Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Barrett

Handing a laptop to kids isn't necessarily going to be a magic bullet for improving student learning.

Alex Jones

I was concerned whoever did what they did would put a bullet in my head.

Marcus Camby

I was able to spend like two hours at the hospital (with Hodge, who could be released from Swedish Medical Center as soon as today). I would never think that a guy that took as many bullets as he (did) would be in the (good) spirits he was. Hopefully, he'll make a fully recovery like they said he would.

John MacLeod

He's bullet quick, and a true scorer. There are other small quick guys. But the big thing that separates him is he's got great range on his jump shot. He can shoot the 3 without any problem.

Sarah MacLean

And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.

Veronica Roth

I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.

Ali Moshiri

Our objective is in line with what their objective is. If Venezuela is looking for large increases in production, the silver bullet is the Orinoco.

Denis Leary

I literally go out with a set of bullet points,

Lawrence Summers

These are clearly issues of great complexity, there is no single structure, no single silver bullet that will be a solution to these problems,

Michael Robinson

Joe has complete control of this team, honestly.

Tommy Russell

It can be labor intensive. But with any industry, machines make it possible to complete the job fastest and make it less stressful on the employees. We've been integrating these machines into our repairs a little at a time the past 20 years or so.

Rod Thorn

He was a big piece to our puzzle and a quality player. So if it works out that we don't complete the trade, then we've lost a quality player.

Jim Tressel

He's a dynamic young man. He loves to compete. He's working to become a complete quarterback.

Ben Howland

He's a complete player. He is going to be an excellent pro and he could be playing for the Sonics right now just as much as for the Huskies.

Ron Hassey

He's a guy that wants to be the leader and wants to take complete control, which is what you want in a catcher, and what we have in ours.

Roland Fite

(Hernandez) produced for us. He did very well. He didn't give up anything. There was a part where it seemed like he lost his cool, but other than that I had complete confidence in him.

Tim Sandidge

He said I could help out in spots, defending the run and stuff like that, and that made me feel like he didn't really think I was a complete player.

Jon Gruden

He's a very fast, and a much more physical, complete linebacker now than when he was a starter a couple of years ago.

John Hume

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

Katherine Collins

He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.

Robert Esche

He's a great man. I like him a lot. Obviously, stuff will come out. I don't really know the details of it. But I do know he is a good man.

Tony Blair

His WMD program is active, detailed and growing. The policy of containment is not working,

Eric Smith

It is labor intensive and detail intensive. You've got to put your heart and soul into it.

William Feather

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

William Strunk, Jr.

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

Edward Miller

Robust imaging must be a part of every e-commerce site where image detail is essential to the sale.

Scott McCormack

In terms of where he might go after that, that is going to be up to Mr. Rahman. And I understand now that the details of his release and his -- any potential onward travel are being handled as a private matter." ()

Crispin Glover

It's originally a mathematical term, ... Something that veers off the line is eccentric, not concentric. If you look at the poetry of that, there really isn't anything wrong with going off the line and exploring different things.

Elliott McCullough

We're exploring options. We want to make this as painless as possible." ()

Steven Ucherek

The songwriting process is strange. I like exploring with different subjects. I'll write songs that are really personal and no one will really know what I'm talking about.

Brian Greene

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Gillian Cross

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

Matt Strauss

We've been exploring how to do this everything from kiosks in malls to having crews live on the road going to different venues.

Joe Moore

Knowing what they have to pay for the next four years would be a luxury for their budgeting.

Ricky Woods

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't (make up) this game. They might not have school down there for three or four weeks.

Ivan DeJesus

It can't be just three or four guys, it has to be the whole lineup to do the job. That's the only way we can win.

Greg Graham

He's a four man (power forward) that can go inside or outside. He's a very good athlete.

Lenny Bernstein

Going into the tournament, we recognized the considerable parity of the top four teams in the conference. So, we looked at it in terms of if we do really well, we could take the whole thing. And on the other hand, if we do really poorly, we could be fourth.

Jim Swift

Good grief! You realize I'm going to be 60 in four years? What's a matter with you?

John Hogan

He's a little insecure right now about what he's doing, but I don't think he has reason for it. In the four years we've been using him he's grown immensely, but he still maintains great quality.

Preston Clark

He's got 'em all, four pitches. And nobody really hits him hard.

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Holly: It takes four seconds to get to that door... I'll give you two!

Bob Israel

It could be six months before many dealers reopen doors,

Martin Freeman

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

Whoopi Goldberg

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Veronica Roth

A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

Yann Martel

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

Eric Katzman

In the 2-1/2 months that have elapsed there has not been any divestiture news.

John Godina

It has taken six months for me to get past my injuries.

Patrick Faure

I really think we can be more optimistic than we could have been six months or a year ago.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Whitney M. Young

You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.

Julia Gillard

The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

Peter Tork

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Len Wiseman

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I like fast plots with things that explode.

William Shakespeare

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

Bryan Fuller

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

Ayn Rand

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Don DeLillo

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Mike Conner

I probably should play him more. He's averaging two points every 30 seconds he's in there.

Tramain Hall

All of a sudden they took the points off the board, ... It was like, 'Are you serious?'

Adam Morris

I've got to put on some more points and more yardage,

Ike Taylor

They put up a lot of points and they put up a lot of yards, ... We know they're going to be on the attack.

Bryan Robson

It's not over though, there are still a lot of points to play for.

W. S. Gilbert

It's a tight race in the WCHA and we know these points are so important.

Jason Allison

It's a tight division, there's not a lot of points separating a lot of teams. We're going to have to go out there and come up with some wins.

Orlando Bloom

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

Paul Klee

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

Frida Kahlo

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

Elmer Rice

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.

David Sedaris

Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them they remind me that I'm doing fairly well. "No more laundromat for you," they hum. My stove, a downer, tells me every day that I can't cook, and before I can defend myself my scale jumps in, shouting from the bathroom, "Well, he must be doing something. My numbers are off the charts." The skeleton has a much more limited vocabulary and says only one thing: "You are going to die.

Stephen Jay Gould

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

DAVID FEHERTY

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Cheryln Bennett

If you make a little money, you spend it on other things (for artwork).

Brian McBride

And, of course, I like to spend time with my wife and my two-year-old daughter.

Jim Romaniszyn

I wanted to spend more time with the kids.

Lisa Stevens

They will spend a lot more time together. This kind of socialization is very important ... for breeding.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Shannon Bennett

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

Ezra Pound

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

Rosalind Wiseman

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Rob Sheffield

On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

Ron Atkinson

Zero-zero is a big score.

Toshihiko Fukui

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

Robert Caro

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Rick Warren

Life minus love equals zero.

Topher Grace

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

Kevin Smith

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Kevin A. Ford

I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.

Naoto Kan

The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.