Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Steinhardt

The pattern in which photons are blocked or not blocked had never really been computed. In the laboratory, we were able to construct a device that was effectively like doing a computer simulation to see the patterns of transmission.

David Malpass

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

Dev Hynes

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

Carl Sagan

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.

Antoni Tapies

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

Charlie Dacey

That was huge. You've got to block out on a free throw. No one's moving, everyone's standing still, and you just don't block out on a free throw. Simple little mistakes.

Richard Long

That would be a big block in terms of the way Telstra looks at this. But I wouldn't expect the board to dismiss it out of hand. They will at least look at it.

Evan Wolfson

The 1913 law is an artifact of an era of trying to block racial equality. It's serving its mission of discrimination.

Jeff Bzdelik

We came out of the blocks with good energy and it was a wire-to-wire win over a good team.

Phil Frame

The quality of the Web cam is so good you can see their feathers move up and down as they breathe. This is pretty remarkable.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Don Marshall

To get a gold is a feather in her cap.

John Windham

To even make the state tournament was a feather in our hats.

Liam Payne

The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.

Dutch Proverb

Pick the goose as long as it has feathers

Morgan Hallett

Let's just say that when you put on those feathers it isn't hard. You just have to tap into the side of you that is screaming to jump out.

Tim Collins

Many of you are probably surprised I have neither feathers nor horns.

Johnny Miller

We were very close. We hunted everything with hair and feathers together.

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

George Galloway

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

Kate Grenville

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

John Hughes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

Melina Kennedy

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

Jonathan Ames

I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

Ernest Hemingway

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

Ted Rall

I'm a better polemicist in prose.