Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bronfman

In my 40s - when I was giving to the Red Cross, United Jewish Appeal and other charities - I said to myself, this is all well and good, but these are really amorphous things, and maybe there are some causes out there that I really give a damn about.

Ron Nehring

Is it illegal to have a friendship with someone who has business with the government? And if that's not illegal, then what kinds of relationships are proper or improper? Those are amorphous questions with amorphous answers.

Bob Verdi

Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.

Jessica Valenti

Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

Will Eisner

Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly in pursuit of the details of their past because it is from that they determine their own identity upon which they can base their strategy of survival.

Donald Greenberg

People may have feelings about an issue in some amorphous way, but then something happens that crystallizes these feelings and that helps people distinguish between position A and position B. Wedge issues sharpen those feelings.

Fay Vincent

He's in a very tough situation, and that's why I think it's the worst problem for baseball since the Black Sox. Because it's so amorphous and so big and so murky. ... For the first time Selig has the awkward position of having to authorize an investigation where he may be a target. No commissioner has ever been in that position.

Bradley Chicho

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

Autre Ne Veut

I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.

David Vise

He felt like an outsider. He felt angry, and he felt his brilliance was being overlooked. And he felt much smarter than the people around him.

Tracy Kidder

PIH combines idealism and brilliance to a degree I've never witnessed before in the public charity arena,

Patrick Arney

We're just not playing on all cylinders. We're misfiring here and there, with moments of brilliance and moments where we're just not good. But we've got a tough game (today). Harlingen High is going to be ready for us. We're the ones that knocked them out of the playoffs last year, and I hope my girls are ready because they look good this year.

James Sinegal

The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

Bud Collins

Strangers had met and created a true sporting masterpiece - a tapestry of daring and shot-making brilliance that they draped in Laver Arena.

Simon Rattle

Everybody who witnessed the premiere of the dance was deeply moved by the experience and many of themincluding myselfhad tears in their eyes when we saw the energy and honesty as well as the unbelievable brilliance and discipline of the young dancers.

Don Moore

Every student has their brilliance in something. There are students who won't excel in other areas, and it's remarkable the talent these students can demonstrate in the arts.

John Battelle

When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for the Independent Web is the mission of Federated Media Publishing.

John Mortimer

No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.

B.J. Upton

Just little things like footwork, just keeping my feet moving. I have a tendency of being flat-footed when I catch the ball. Keeping my feet moving. And that's what I've been working on.

Jake Bruner

Jordan is just an unbelievable player. But he's not the only player they have. They all can catch the football. They're a very good football team.

Spencer Havner

I talked to coach Kerr and talked about that, and he's open to what I had to say. I thought maybe that the first three plays in practice, we need to be sharp again, try to make it like that's the start of the game. I really don't know. I'm looking for ideas. We need to start faster or it's going to catch up with us if we don't. It's definitely inevitable.

Chris Kramer

I think it's a cool idea, but it probably won't get off the ground, ... There are a million nifty high-tech ideas that just don't catch on.

Ted Lilly

I think I realize how necessary it is to prepare for a long season. I thought last year I would be able to catch up and get myself ready to go to start the season. But I was just never as prepared as I needed to be.

Richard Doherty

He was about as good a renaissance-man catch as Sony could have hoped for.

Sinorice Moss

He used to give us head starts and then come and catch us a lot.

Crystal Candy

He did get away with it for awhile, but we worked closely with Disney security and with Disney. It was really a collaborative effort to try and catch him.

Steve Smith

He did catch the ball, but I wanted it more than him.

Paul Blake

It could have gotten dragged out. But there were other issues. It got to the point where there were too many things going on.

Jason Giambi

I think it's pretty pathetic that they tried to drag my father into it.

John Niven

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

Ursula K. Le Guin

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

Walter Scott

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

Jim Morrison

I offer images- I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached- like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors, we can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free. Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything- not just wealth. All the bullshit that he's been taught- all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.

Bob Elliott

If you try to tackle him low, he's liable to knock you out with his powerful legs. If you try to tackle him high, he's going to drag you.

Cody Acree

In our view, these proceedings could drag on for many quarters.

Dean Baker

Clearly, housing is going to be a drag on the economy; the question is how much does housing slow and how quickly.

Karl Marx

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

Ryan Klesko

This was a big win for us, ... We didn't need to get swept by these guys.

Eric Fellner

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.