Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Clark

It blows his mind, my mind, his wife's mind.

Jay Shippole

I think when you reach this stage of your life, you're just looking for the traditional. It just seemed to put the finishing touch on the relationship. I never had children, so the thought of being a grandmother just blows me away.

Chuck D.

We've been very fortunate not to be a 'firecracker band' that blows up and goes away.

Benjamin Franklin

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face

Chris Baker

He has a leaf-blower and each morning he blows away the leaves from the veranda and outside area. He also operates the sprinkler, and for that gets to drink XXXX Gold cans all day. At night he also drinks shots of Captain Morgan rum, but he pays for those.

Walter Benjamin

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his ''competence.'' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Fidel Ramos

These nuclear tests are serious blows to regional security and to the global non-proliferation regime and international nuclear disarmament efforts,

Tom Grant

Once this market blows out it will become a multibillion business. Venture capitalist always like the market size that has the letter 'B' in them.

Ray Evernham

It just blows me away. For the honor to come from people who know the business means a lot more than anything else you'll ever get. This means a great deal to me.

Sean Maguire

I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having cans of lager thrown at me.

Martin Dunn

Aerosol cans explode like a bomb. When they are subject to heat they become very dangerous.

Beth McGinley

We did get a couple of things back. Some of it was in the truck and some of it was in a garbage can outside (of Valley Truck and Trailer) in the pouring-down rain. I actually had to dig through the garbage cans to get some things back.

Richard Stanley

Obviously if you're Coppola going into 'Apocalypse Now' off the back of the two 'Godfathers,' you're in a much better position than coming off the back of something like 'Dust Devil,' which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places.

Mari VanderWal

When I worked in Ames at the recycling center we had two containers - pop cans and two-liter bottles. Now we have seven different sizes in plastic, and they expect us to separate them all out. Do all of that on the same penny.

Corita Kent

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

Mike Gibson

We used to get a lot of different products from manufacturers because the cans were mislabeled or the cans had dents in them. Now those manufacturers have found secondary markets for their goods.

Mike Adams

He wanted me to be more vocal, ... I've got to be a captain out there. I've got to take control.

Mike Barnett

What you look for in a captain is pretty obvious. You look for someone who's been with the organization for a period of time, who has the durability to be in your lineup each and every night, who has the skill level to back up their comments, ideally with ruggedness to step up and support his teammates. We looked at all those things, and clearly the decision was unanimous.

Rob Sumner

He is a guy you can count on in all areas, offensively and defensively. He is strong on face-offs, on top of being a very good penalty killer. He is our captain here and he is a big leader for us in all areas.

Jim Haslett

He'll have surgery and he will be put on IR. He's our team captain and he's the leader of our defensive backs. He's been in the league a long time. He's started 10 years in the league, so it's going to be hard to replace him.

William Shatner

What does God need with a starship?

Catherine Young

Patty's our captain and she's worked on her leadership skills. She's gotten so much better at setter it's unbelievable.

Kay Yong

The captain said -- using an explicit four-letter word -- he said, 'There's something there,'

Sarah Miller

All three of them were awesome, they were great and they did everything for us. It was classic captain leadership.

Tyler Browne

Everyone has been playing really well. Lennart is really stepping it up and showing his captain spirit.

Irish Proverb

Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

Sukarno

I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

Aminatta Forna

I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it.

Richelle Mead

God,” I moaned. “Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?” “No one made you keep drinking it.” “Hey, don’t get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite.” “Sure,” she said.

Russell Lynes

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Robin Williams

I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

Sarah Vowell

I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water'... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.

Samuel Johnson

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Vivian Stanshall

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

Dave DeCecco

Soft drinks are a big part of it but they are just part of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick

Robin Williams

I still think Nancy does most of his talking; you'll notice that she never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

John Sicher

Traditional carbonated soft drinks have got a tough road ahead. The migration to water and sports drinks and other noncarbonated drinks seems to be permanent.

Andrea Cohen

We're not prepared to talk about expanding it to juice and sports drinks until we know the system is working OK.

Sitiveni Rabuka

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets it.

John McNeley

J.R. has such a quick release, it doesn't have to be a situation where he gets that open.

Joe Nemechek

I think it gets back to being in the right place at the right time and getting the right break.

Bob King

God's on the sign He made it happen, so He gets top billing.

Bill Foy

Going through that type of tournament at the regional really gets you prepared for the national tournament,

Dan Stephens

He's a load, I'm telling you. When he gets set, you can't move him.

Tim Casey

He's a key player for us. He gives us that second perimeter threat. ... When he gets an open look, he's very confident. He wants to take the shot.

Bobby Frankel

He's a real nice horse, and he tries hard. When he gets competition, he tries even harder. When horses come to him, he'll go on.

Calvin Brock

He's got big traps and a short neck, ... I've seen him take a good shot in sparring. I've seen him walk through some big punches by Jeremy Williams and Taurus Sykes. His stamina in the mid to late rounds is a big question. You also don't know how he's going to respond if he gets knocked down.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Wang Jian

Gold has never been sold at such a high price in Beijing.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

Thomas Fuller

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Christian Backman

I don't even know what I was thinking. I just threw all my stuff up and skated around on the ice. When I got the gold medal around my neck, it was hard to hold back your tears.

George Babicz

He says his gold medal glows, and his silver medal sparkles.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

William Jennings Bryan

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Dave Tippett

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Walt Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Jason Wallace

That leaves it up to me to make plays and open it up for him, and then we'll be pretty interchangeable.

John Reid

take stock because there can be no justification for the kind of violence that leaves 39 police officers injured.

Justin Williams

It's huge. He does so many little things away from the puck, things nobody sees. He occupies one, sometimes two guys. That leaves a lot of room for people like me to work.

Josh Franco

It puts a strain on you. It leaves us wondering what are we going to do?

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Baha'u'llah

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

Dina Campeau

There is a problem even getting from Gilroy to Morgan Hill. What people really want is more options because right now we have nothing.

Brandon Roy

There are no Americans or Morgan States in the Pac-10.

Ashley Donnell

I watched the news this morning and I was shocked. I saw the picture and was like no, it can't be.. you must be talking about somebody else.

Alain Vigneault

He will practice with us (this) morning and we'll probably take him on the road. I'm not sure if he's going to play yet.

Richard Petty

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

Woody Allen

If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would sit there and I would be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" So who wants to think about that stuff?

Woody Allen

In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

William Scranton

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

William Scranton

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

William Scranton

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

William Scranton

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

Paul Stephenson

I think we were the better side on the night.

Wayne Gretzky

I will say it one more time, I said it the other night, I didn't bet, it didn't happen, it's not going to happen, it hasn't happened, it's not something that I've done.

Maria Hernandez

He's going to come out that gate, and I'm going to be here awaiting him. We are here day and night because we have hope.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Johnny Depp

He had watched the film for the first time that night and said it was brilliant.

Steve Peck

He does that night in and night out, he makes the big save.

Robert Cormier

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

Richard O'Brien

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

Sam Harris

If you're out of school sick and you're sitting outside on the porch getting some air, that's one thing.

Siri Hustvedt

In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

Ian Harrington

I just tried to work the outside part of the plate and stuck with that today.

Amit Hazan

I like the strategy they're taking, which is to consolidate the smaller players outside the U.S. to become a stronger player,

Taylor Momsen

Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

Rob Sims

It sits outside the realm of the DBA and application provider.

Dan Patrick

It's time for outside thinking. It's time for an outside viewpoint. And it's time for the people to have a voice in Austin.

Zell Miller

The president has come up with a bold, well-thought-out plan that will let virtually every American who pays taxes keep more of their hard-earned money,

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Keith Bogans

We've got to make the shots when they double-team Yao. That's what it comes down to.

Russ Crist

We made the shots to win the game. They just had enough time to get one off.

William S. Burroughs

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

Wayne Gretzky

I missed 100% of the shots I didn't take

Alan Nicholl

They had taken 20 shots but they hadn't scored so we were right in it.

Kevin Pittsnogle

It's tough to get shots over him because he's so long.

Mark Richard

We're getting closer. At least we didn't give up 52 shots this time.

Jim Morris

Avery was on fire. He had two other shots go in and out.