Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Goldman

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

Scott Hartnell

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

Emile Cioran

The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?

Mike Robinson

This was a shift from a person selling on the street on a blanket to being in a more closed environment. It suggests that it requires a little more work on their part. It's good that we are forcing them further underground.

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Mark Shapiro

Vindication is the last thing I feel, ... The only thing I feel is satisfaction that I am no longer being met with blank stares.

Dave Checketts

What's been done in the past I really have no control over. Frankly, I like the fact that we have kind of a blank canvas with some young talent, some very good draft picks and a chance to really build.

Rachel Sklar

Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

Rece Davis

We'll get there the day before and do some promotional work regarding our features. We'll get together and figure out how we're going to do the promotions. But everything is a blank canvas right now.

Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Kurt Koeppen

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

Stephen Gaghan

I could have concentrated on George Clooney's character, ... I could have had him in every scene and told the entire story from his point of view. That certainly would have made my life a lot easier over the last several years. But the canvas was too large. These days, if you make a movie about East and West and turn it into a simple piece of disposable entertainment, that seems to me criminal.

Robert Rauschenberg

A canvas is never empty.

Tom Yawkey

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Linda Lavin

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

Geoff Johns

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Paul Davis

People have always doubted us and questioned our intensity. We've gotten used to it. They didn't think we had a chance last year when he had to play Duke and Kentucky (in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight).

Tony Russa

(Opponents) still think he's a dangerous hitter, ... I don't think clubs look forward to facing him. If you think there's somebody who gives you a better chance to win than Larry, you put that person in there. I don't see him.

Jim Christian

On Thursday, all eight teams that walk through the door know they have a great chance to win it. That's why it's always tough.

John Bunting

Offensively when we had a chance to go out there after it was 14-14 at the half, I thought we would start moving the ball, but they snuffed us. They just stuffed us and stuffed us, and we couldn't convert anything.

Bryan Colangelo

Of course, we're disappointed, ... But to Michael's credit, he didn't just take the money. He talked about a chance to win, and in this case, he chose to play for the NBA champions.

Jerry Aldrich

Of course, they're spending the money to get more people in the gate, but, more importantly, they want to keep them in the gate longer. If you lengthen the experience, you extend the chance for an extra meal or a sweatshirt.

Jeremy Reed

Off the bat, I thought I had a chance on that ball. It may have been the wind, maybe not. Sometimes that wall there comes into play more than most.

Chris Guess

No question we'll have to play better. We are looking at this game as an opportunity. Not too many teams get the chance to play the No. 1 team in the state, so this is a great opportunity for us to show what we can do and avenge a very disappointing game last Friday night.

Marco Coleman

As far as health, that's just a blessing. There's just so much that's out of your control, that you don't know how it's going to go. Really, you've just got to be really fortunate. You've got to be lucky.

Jon Evans

Defense is one thing you can always count on. You can't always control whether you'll have a hot shooting night, but you can always play strong defense and tonight was a good example.

Koyie Hill

The sinker he was throwing today was really nice. It doesn't take anything away from his velocity or control.

David Allen

The sense of not having control is the greatest human fear. If you don't know what the very next thing to do is, it freaks you out. The hardest thing is to get past the stage where you don't do anything.

Linda Golodner

These medications have been used safely and effectively for decades. Our program responds to an unmet need -- we will give parents greater control to get optimum treatment for their children.

Stewart Tucker

The secret, which nobody realized at the time, was that with this sand, which was 100 percent inorganic, you can control exactly what goes in it.

Bob Donovan

The second period hurt us. They gained control of the game.

Guan Yi

The studies published today reinforce the shortcomings of our efforts to control influenza.

Kristy Curry

The shots that she's taken were all good shots and that's the difference. She has done a great job lately of being able to control the tempo more and making better decisions in our half-court offense.

Rich McKay

The misses are hard to recover from. And the pressure on the player is tremendous. Typically, a player drafted No.1, 2 or 3 is on that team because they weren't very good. Now, everybody is labeling that player as the savior. He's just a rookie. That's not fair.

Matt Hughes

Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.

Saad Qindeel

We are still holding discussions on four points but the draft will be finished.

Dan Bartlett

You hit panic mode if you don't like the first draft at all.

John Bolton

We are very disappointed with the draft that was produced last Thursday. We don't think it's acceptable.

John Stuper

There?s not a player in our league that you can give me in place of (Sawyer). He?d be my first draft pick out of this league.

Herman Edwards

Obviously, if we don't win a game soon here, we're going to have a high draft choice,

Mahmoud Othman

but the question is, would this draft satisfy the Sunni Arabs' demands.

William Ruto

I have learnt that they want to test the feeling of the people on the Wako Draft and pass the same message to the Government.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Preston Clark

The spectator traffic wasn't even a factor today. With this weather, they all headed for the hills.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Orlando Pace

The talks are going pretty good with Houston. Nothing has been written down or anything like that, but the fact I'm here and made the trip speaks enough for itself and their willingness to get it done. I don't think it will be a problem on that end. Really, it's up to St. Louis at this point. If nothing more, this puts a little more pressure on those guys.

David Krell

I've always felt that, given the fact that we would be fully automated, we would be able to pass on the savings to our market makers.

Greg Long

After 10 years, I think the fact that Avalon tries to be current, and not trendy has led to our longevity,

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jason Terry

Avery is a winner. Whatever he has to do to get us motivated to get back to playing good Maverick basketball, that's what needed to be done.

Steve Hadley

a very good set of consultations, a very good spirit in the room.

Dennis Ross

a very good meeting in which we were able to review a wide range of security issues and security concerns.

Martin Bashir

a very experienced investigative journalist. That's who he is. He's a fantastically talented reporter. And he's also a very good interviewer.

Donna Jones

A well-rounded young man who was high spirited, every one loved him, loved to joke with him, talk with him he always had a good attitude.

Ronald Steele

Auburn, the way they played us, is a little unorthodox with the 1-3-1, and they did a good job of taking me out of my rhythm. I've got to do a better job picking my spots on when to attack.

Chris Plonsky

Auburn has been a pretty good feeder for swimming excellence.

Oscar Wilde

A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Michael Fincke

Space has shown us over the past years that things aren't always what we expect, and that we need to be ready.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Ben Okri

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Martha Graham

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

Richard Avedon

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Janet Frank

When (Life Flight) picks up a patient, they have nothing to do with money. When they're called, they pick the person up.