Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca MacKinnon

The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social media censors from blocking the movie's title from searches on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.

Marc Bulger

We have the luxury of having four really good receivers when we are in our quad package, ... At the same time, since Isaac is going to be down, Dane (Looker) can step in and play the fourth receiver, but Kevin, like I said after the game, could start for most teams. And there are different things that Kevin does better than Isaac, but at the same time, there are a lot of things that Isaac brings to our team that we will miss, route-running and blocking and just being that leader out there. So, we'll miss him if he can't go, but Kevin, he knows what he's doing.

Eric Davis

Tyler has been blocking a lot of shots for us this season. He not only blocks shots but he changes shots.

Mike Nolan

We've lost production out of the offense. That hurts, and you have to try to make up for that in other ways. We certainly have confidence in our two wide receivers from a playmaker standpoint, as well as at running back, (but) you need somebody to stretch the middle of the field, and our tight end position has been more in a blocking mode than anything else.

Peter Riegert

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

Darrell Blackman

We just went back and practiced after the Virginia Tech game and worked on some of the mistakes that we made in running our inside zones and stuff like that. Cleaned up a little blocking and stuff that we might have messed up in the first game.

Michelle Buckley

I think I've improved on my blocking a lot. My quickness at the net, transitioning back-and-forth, has gotten a lot better.

Sam Simpson

Johnson is a player, but he also got good blocking upfront. They put eight players back to stop the pass, so we've got to run.

Tom Sawyer

We had too many missed blocking assignments, and that takes you out of your game,

Abraham Lincoln

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Victoria Osteen

One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

Nik Wallenda

There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.

Jeff Davidson

That was great to see. That was the first home run over the fence in school history. And she hit it real well. This is a big park. It's 225 (feet) down the line. And the wind was blowing in a little. She had to hit it well to get it out.

Gina Martin

The 2002 holiday season will likely be a moderate one, not blowing away modest expectations, but not disappointing them either.

Holly Vlymen

We've gotten away from looking at the process of the game. We start looking at the big picture, and we start thinking about (winning all the games in a series). Right now we're blowing this up way too big, and that's what we did during the (losing streak). We need to play the game pitch by pitch.

David Eldredge

We've got power in the lineup. What's been frustrating in Cedar City are games where the wind's blowing in. Today, on a nice field and the winds down, we had a chance to put a few out.

Joe Winter

We're not at that point yet, but ... it looks like we're going to hit it in June. That is, barring the unforeseen -- God knows who blowing up God knows what -- and if oil manages to stay under $100 per barrel.

John Clements

We're working in the dark; we don't have an inventory list. We had an elevator guy standing waist-deep in sewage-contaminated water, blowing on the wires so we could short-circuit the elevator and get it working.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Zack Snyder

To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Ziggy Marley

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Yani Tseng

So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

Barbara Kerr

The ($3 billion) should be paid back, and then we talk about programs. Hit and miss is not the way it should be done.

Gwen Stefani

That was it. Suddenly you hit puberty, and it's like, you know, thrift stores! I just started deconstructing everything from thrift stores.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Joe Girardi

That was the kind of player I had to be. I had to do the little things to win, and they have to do a lot of them. They have to hit and run, they have to steal, they have to squeeze some,

Carolyn Brown

That would hit the majority of our members. Most would be in the 25 (employees-and-under) range.

John Krawczyk

That would be a big hit to the budget.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last one I hit. I want to hit one in my 50s.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last home run I hit, and I hope I hit one when I'm 50.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Mike Conrad

Timely hitting has been our nemesis in this tournament.

Bill Doba

We've had enough hitting. The kids are tired of hitting each other.

Johnny Smith

We just went back to the fundamentals of hitting this year. It's just making contact. We're not trying to hit home runs.

John Neal

I thought he was going to make it, because I was late and he'd been hitting everything. He kicked his legs out and kinda jumped into me.

Lt. Sanders

Just keep hitting them, that's how we make a dent.

Bernhard Langer

I'm still in shock. I started hitting double-crosses out here and you can't do that. I didn't hit another fairway the rest of the round.

Rex Walters

I'm hitting the road tonight to find some players.

Darren Clarke

I'm hitting it nicely and I'll try to keep it going. There are a lot of people who want to win this a lot more than I do. I would love to do it myself, but it's not that important.

Troy Dayak

We had opportunities and we missed them, and the momentum went back the other way and killed us.

Larry Mikesell

We just continually missed too many shots. I called two timeouts to stop the bleeding, but during that 16-0 run, we probably missed three lay-ups.

Jon Sundvold

I thought I missed the memo, but there wasn't a memo.

Vicki Flotta

I'm still not worried about walking under ladders. It's actually been pretty neat to see how we've pulled together and we really haven't missed a beat. We're probably all just a little more tired at the end of the day.

Krystal McKenzie

We got there, her mother said she could run it, and then we missed the 300.

Mary Harris

I was upset. I didn't say anything but I really missed it.

Kevin Kelly

I still had my confidence. I don't think I've ever missed three in a row.

Robert Ross

I think if Phoenix pulled out, it would be a missed opportunity for Phoenix and the state of Arizona.

Steve Armstrong

We couldn't find the net, just missed too many shots.

Bill Hicks

I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your f-kin' mouth.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You should go," I breathed. "You should definitely go." "Go here?" His mouth was on my shoulder. "Or here?" It moved up my neck.

William Shakespeare

"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.

Mark Billingham

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

Harry Crosby

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.

Ray Kroc

If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth

Casey Roberts

He'll put toys in his mouth and pretend like they're cigarettes, so I really don't want him to smoke.

David Sedaris

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

Buddy Ebsen

Don't say giddy-up to your mouth before your head is hitched up.

Bill Lee

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel...

Jose Rios

I was on the top of the slide going down.

Ryan Smith

They just slide into the lake, they don't even stand a chance.

Will Anderson

They wanted us to stop so they could do the cha-cha slide or something,

Al Goldman

Uncertainty in Washington has greased the slide downward.

Naomi Judd

An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

Margaret Atwood

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

Mark Dinger

No work can be done until the slide stabilizes and we don't know when that will occur.

Bill Vaughan

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Susanne Bier

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Bob Hill

His upside is a joke. He could be really special.

Anna Deavere Smith

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Paul Leming

There is still substantial upside in AMD's stock,

Nikita Khrushchev

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

Shawn Gilmer

If there is an upside to this game, it's that we didn't quit.

Georg Baselitz

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

John Heider

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.