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.

Scott Walker

We showed we could play with them and score five-on-five, which was important. I don't know if it was a mental block or what, but it was good to get those. Guys were going to the net hard and it made a difference.

Doris Lessing

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

Doris Lessing

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

Donnie Wahlberg

In high school, I was one of the cofounders of New Kids on the Block my freshman year in high school. But I also started studying theatre in high school my freshman year as well. So throughout high school, I was actually doing both.

Cory Doctorow

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

Clive Cussler

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.

Donald Trump

People move into a house a block down the road. You know who`s going in. You can see and you report them to the local police. Everybody`s their own cop in a way. You got to do it.

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.

Jim Haslett

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

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is as exact a science as geometry

George Shinn

My exact words were, 'Oklahoma where?' ... I said, 'You've got to be kidding me, David. Do they have an arena?' I knew nothing about Oklahoma City.

Julie Schablitsky

If we can find a cornerstone, we would know the exact location of the home.

O. Singh

I saw my swing on video, and I found out exactly what I was doing wrong, and it was the same mistake that I've been doing forever. I worked really hard last week, tried to fix it, and it's on the way, I guess.

Chairon Isenia

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

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.

Casey Moore

Definitely! It didn't feel good (Thursday) night getting honorable mention, but that's just motivation for me.

Dwane Casey

Decision-making down the stretch is so huge. Marcus is going to be a super point guard in this league. You have to take his good with his bad.

John Vigeland

Dec. 23 and 24 were really good and Dec. 26 was huge. I'm not sure why but returns are down -- we were prepared for more returns than we received on Dec. 26 -- and sales are up.

George Goncalves

Dealers weren't that interested even though we had good indirect bidding.

John Ellinger

D.C. is a very good team that prides itself on its work ethic, ... I've already said that if you've got talent and if you work hard, they're going to win a lot of games.

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.

David Shulman

We're at the stage of the market where it seems to be detaching from historical fundamentals.

Carlos Fuentes

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

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.'

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.

Ashley Wagner

I might be more of a tomboy on the ice, but when it comes to fashion and things like that, I'm a total girlie-girl.

James Matthews

We've had tickets sold all over the state, so I don't know where the winner might come from,

Lyle Setencich

We've had some problems. If we want to stop the run, we can stop the run. But we might not be able to stop the pass.

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.

Kate Looby

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