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.

Mike Pompeo

Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.

Neil MacDonald

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

Charlie Whitehurst

There's no telling what James can do next year. The sky's the limit for James and a bunch of other young guys. It's pretty easy to call plays and block with James in the backfield.

Michael Pariza

What CLA does is it's able to block that step of little fat cells getting bigger. Our results showed that CLA made it easier for people to stay on their diets.

Lance Cottrell

We've been surprised how long it takes the Chinese to block these sites. It generally takes them in excess of one week.

Frank Warren

We tried to make this fight many years ago but the stumbling block was always what Roy wanted to be paid.

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.

Paul Kariya

Defensively we didn't do a very good job. But over all it was just lack of a 60-minute effort.

Mark Francis

Defensively we did a good job. I thought we had a good performance all around.

Kraig Clifton

Defensively we did a good job. But offensively, we just weren't smooth. We had turnovers and didn't execute.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Sandra Sanchez

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

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.

Oliver Stone

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

Michael Hirst

I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness.

Lauren Willig

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

Martin Buber

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

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.

Eckhart Tolle

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

John Davidson

CPI and PPI next week could be a little light, so that might get some attention,

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.

Elizabeth Kaiser

I was praying that it would go out. For a while I thought it was just going to be a big pop up.

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.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

Danny Boyle

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

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.