Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert Mead

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Anders Rasmussen

It is positive that the (EU) Commission is trying to reduce the short-term impact by proposing to let the blocked textiles into the market,

Jeff Samardzija

I thought we blocked exceptionally well. We hurt them with screen passes and every time we had three or four guys leading the way.

Jerry Bailey

I didn't get to a spot as early as I needed to. I got blocked and had nowhere to go. I had a feeling it was going to be too little too late.

Billy Donovan

Our blocks in the Miami game came the right way. They came with our big guys playing good post defense, moving their feet. When someone from Miami committed to shooting the basketball, most of our blocked shots were on the ball.

Aftab Sherpao

Right now people are angry. They are wailing and crying. Some of them have blocked roads in the town and we are trying to control the situation.

Jason Abercrombie

The kid (catcher) had him blocked off at the plate and he went to the outside and was able to sneak by there before the catcher got the tag on him.

Jerry Sloan

Andrei was terrific in helping our people. His seven blocked shots were lifesaving coming down the stretch. Their momentum picked up there at the end and we looked a little tired, but he kept us out of trouble.

Jerry Sloan

Andrei was terrific in helping our people (defensively). He had seven blocked shots which was really life saving coming down the stretch because their momentum picked up there at the end.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

David Cameron

Whatever happened to no reverse gear? Whatever happened to the historic turning point? If you keep turning it's not going to be very historic.

Frank Beamer

Whatever happened is unfortunate. I'm not happy about some of the things that happened in the first half. We'll leave it at that.

Henry Reiner

The people they were mad at weren't these people. They had nothing to do with anything. They happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Robert Cross

I think it's very analogous to what happened in the 70's. The arguments are all the same.

Romola Garai

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Denzel Washington

When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' ... Everything that has happened with this film and this moment is about the love that has come from him.

Duce Staley

I didn't get involved in an altercation. That happened in the club, but that didn't involve me. I wasn't robbed, and I had my 2 earrings. I lost my bracelet, that's all.

Kyle Williams

I don't know what happened out there. We played like a joke out there in the second half.

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Russell Baker

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Rose Macaulay

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Rose McGowan

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Rick Riordan

Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go! Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge.

William S. Burroughs

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.

Virginia Woolf

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

Will Durant

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.