Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Brooke Bingaman

We do see spring in our future. There will be a block of dry weather early next week that could transition us into more typical spring weather than the persistent rain we've been experiencing for so long.

Paul Konerko

You have to resist the urge to think that way. It's hard to do, block that stuff out, but it's something we have to do.

Neil MacDonald

There's no spam filter in the world that is going to block this, which is why it is particularly insidious.

Randall Taylor

We talked about block watches, parent patrols and more police patrols when students are walking to and from school.

Bob Spoo

We just couldn't block them all. They came from too many angles.

Devon Frericks

We weren't going to shy away from him inside, but we knew if we went in there, they were probably going to block our shots more than other teams.

Jerome Bettis

What Stevens said is true; their job is to make sure it's not a big block party after the game. Our job is to make sure everybody gets a ticket.

Elton Kaahu

We 'wen block all this from flooding my house inside over here. We've got to do something, and this is coming worse too. This is coming way worse.

Steve Platt

This is not exactly the type of game you want at this stage. But you can't do anything about it but play hard.

Paul Freeman

We will be in the same type of shelter, undergoing the same stresses, the same situations, lack of privacy, food that may not be exactly to your liking, but it's hot food and it's good food,

Joe Viterelli

We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.

Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.

Jedd Gould

We haven't come up with an exact plan of where the money will be spent. We have to weigh our physical plant needs and our program needs.

Jim Haslett

Obviously, it was not exactly the way we wanted to get going.

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is as exact a science as geometry

Sean McGuire

But 25 years later, the exact opposite has happened,

Mike Bonin

No one ever said that they would be there for that exact time frame,

Chairon Isenia

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

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Erik Anderson

Defensively, we're as good as we have ever been.

Quincy Douby

Defensively, they did a good job overplaying my side and putting two guys on my side, trying to get the ball.

Stan Gundy

Defensively he's not there yet because he's still got a ways to go conditioning-wise, ... but he's a very good defender.

Brent Faurote

Deke (Nelson) has Urich (46-6) of Perry Meridian, a kid who placed third last year. There are just so many good kids.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Polybius

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Virginia Henley

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Roy Halladay

The biggest thing I've learned is location.

Sandy Jones

Frankly, we look for a new location each time this happens.

J. M. Roberts

Location is the prime thing we are selling.

Buddy Bell

It wasn't one of his better starts. The location wasn't as good, but (the Yankees) have a tough lineup.

Peter Jackson

There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Ryan Ward

We might be related, but it's very distant.

E. B. White

And you can use the time as you want. You could say, 'I need you to go pick up a prescription for me,' and that might take up 15 minutes of your time allotment.

Sebastien Caron

Even though we were up 3-0, we didn't want to let them get back to their game. I thought he might try to go (top) shelf, but I saw him look five-hole and was able to get my stick there in time.

John Jones

It wouldn't have taken much to just pop over, would it?

Laura Merritt

We shut them down and another one pops up.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Jack London

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Natalie Maines

Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

Danny Boyle

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Barry Gibb

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Gabrielle Aplin

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

Graeme Simsion

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

Ben Crane

To this day, the first thing I do when I walk into a restaurant is take off my cap.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.