Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barnett Newman

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

David Swift

We have some bumps in the road, like code enforcement, but we're taking steps to fix that directly. Basically, I think the current council is doing a pretty good job and most residents think that is the case, too.

Scott Gaffney

We've got guys who are hungry and selfless, and we've got the right mix. We're going to grow up a lot this season. We'll take our fair share of bumps in the road, but we're going to get better.

Gary Agnew

They played like they were down 2-0. You've got to deal with a lot of variables and a lot of bumps in the road. You just move on.

Steve Stirling

There weren't too many bumps in the road down low. There was better communication.

John Jay

There were definitely places where fouls could have been called, but UCLA did a nice job of not fouling on the shot. There may have been some bumps prior to, but for the most part they did a nice job of not fouling on the shot.

Pat Herron

There's a little more commitment. That's been a problem, just getting kids to commit to the program, but I'm starting to see it. The kids are playing through the minor little hurts and bumps that they may have not a year ago. That's showing some commitment. They're not staying home when they've got a little cold. They're coming and playing through it.

Greg Williams

It's all part of it. You always have bumps and bruises.

Julian Sensley

There's been a lot of bumps in the road to get here. I think that's why I had to come home to play.

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Bear Grylls

You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

Peter Lewis

We acknowledge he has a contract and we definitely want to stand by that and give him every chance of success.

Milan Hejduk

We always have a chance to win every night. I'm looking forward to the upcoming season and this new NHL era.

Mike Steib

We always feel we have a chance to win as long as we play hard and play good defense.

Rahul Dravid

We also see tomorrow's game as an opportunity to give a chance to some of our batsmen and bowlers.

Denis Leary

There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

Luke Perry

It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Robbie Stancil

We started out in a match-up zone. But we've worked and worked and worked on our man defense, and we did an outstanding job with it after the first quarter. I think we got Murdock extremely frustrated, and we kept (Marietta's guards) pretty contained.

Sam Allardyce

Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.

Nick Woodman

I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Alexander Payne

'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.

Neel Mukherjee

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.

Helio Castroneves

We're not here to make a statement. It's good the results are showing up at the track. The last few years we've been working extremely hard. Toyota worked hard with us, and unfortunately, Honda was always at the top of the game. Right now things are more balanced, so we are very happy those two years paid off.

Kathy Olivier

We've turned into a possession team. That's what good teams do. To be honest, we learned that from Stanford. There's a team that's extremely disciplined and they don't make a lot of mistakes.

Alanis Morissette

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Chloe Sevigny

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Earl Warren

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

David Hume

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Arnold Bennett

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Denis Waitley

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Ryan Howard

Wow, two wins in a row at home? That's big isn't it?

Robert Ray

They got us tonight, but we've got two more with them, that's why it's two out of three, ... Everyone's relaxed, we've won two in a row before. I can't tell you how many times we've won two in a row.

Diane Ackerman

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

Mike Day

We've been here three years in a row ... we're the most experienced team left.

Jim Shannon

We've won three in a row now. We're getting better. This is the time of year you like to see that. We feel like we're starting to turn the corner.

Catriona Matthew

To start with three birdies in a row was perfect,

Theodore Roethke

To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...

Brandon Makela

That's two wins in a row for us.

Charlie Sexton

I can still see that row of one-room shacks,

Stan Heath

They switched some things, and we didn't read the switches very well. We just made an inadvertent pass.

Randy Johnson

It's not something that's like a switch on my back, like I'm the Energizer bunny, like there's a switch I can turn on and turn off,

David Koechner

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

Mark Hynek

A little switch of our routine, that really threw us out of whack.

Tom Libby

If they were to switch back to incentives, frankly, it would undermine everything they've done.

Jeff Hickok

When that flipped, that was a nine-point switch in our favor.

Chris Liddell

I switch on and off very easily; I'm inherently lucky in that sense. I sleep well.

Ozzie Guillen

I switched my mind, ... It worked for us.

Steve Squyres

It is a big step. We've really switched gears.

Charles Dickens

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

Charles Dickens

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

Charles Dickens

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

Charles Dickens

I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.