Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tamsin Egerton

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

George Pipas

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Scott Skiles

I guess the assumption I'll go under is that we'll start the same way we did (Saturday) night.

Christine Callies

This is only under the assumption that the full tax rate cuts go into effect.

Bob Shimp

It's possible that we could work something out regarding 2007. But our assumption was that she would sell the conference and it would move.

Ken Holland

That's the assumption we're operating under. We're certainly going to look at all of our options, but we're under the assumption Pavel will not play with us this season.

Charles Sims

I want them to live on the assumption that they won't play another game,

Elizabeth McCracken

The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.

Tim Vonville

They are making the assumption that you are still recorded as a dependent on your parents' tax return, and therefore they have some right to send a letter home.

Ros Richardson

Chipping was the better part of our game. We've been working on our short game and now that is coming around it seems we have to work on the long game. Hopefully it comes together on Monday (for regional).

Kim Jones

Chipping was going well for pretty much everyone (and) most are getting off the tee pretty well.

Billeye Rabbe

The Sentence to Service workers transport the trees to the chipping site.

Paul Kurtz

They've been working hard on their games this year. I had them doing a lot of short-game practice. We practiced on the par 3 course, a lot of chipping and putting, really concentrating on the short game, trying to eliminate some strokes. Everybody has cut three or four strokes off their rounds this year. We'll keep doing the same things we've been doing all year and hopefully it'll work out for us.

Larry Bullington

They started chipping away. There were some things going on (minor altercations in the crowd and hallways) and we kind of lost our concentration. You've got to give them credit. They didn't give up. From the middle of the third quarter on, they outscored us.

Anthony Chan

The report illustrates the fact that housing is not defying gravity and is not likely to do so this year. We're going to see chipping away of housing.

Joe Clabby

It was good already, and IBM keep chipping away at making it easier to use - so that lowers management costs.

Carlos Boozer

Until they say we can't make it, we'll keep chipping away, and try to win and hold up our end.

John Lutz

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

Talulah Riley

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

Matt Cookson

He'll throw holy water out onto the vineyard.

William Vickrey

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Rowan D. Williams

If you think of intersecting circles, holy wisdom is that point at which the realities meet, overlap, intersect, interpenetrate.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

William Wordsworth

The holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration.

Karl Marlantes

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Muhammad

The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.

Mother Teresa

Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

Mary Beth Whitehead

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

Margaret Atwood

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

Richard Wright

They didn't even know about the ski school until Mary told them. They didn't even know about that.

Lech Walesa

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

Steven Tyler

Mary had a little sheep,With the sheep she went to sleep.The sheep turned out to be a ram,And Mary had a little lamb.

Brian Glass

Mary Ann was just outstanding running the bases. Sometimes, I don't think she really understands just how important she is to our team.

Fulton J. Sheen

At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.

Terry Tucker

Our witness was the judge's assistant, a woman named Mary Cherry. So we had Terry, Terry, and Mary Cherry.

Jamie Wyeth

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Jennifer Taylor

It is unusual. It is not your typical painted furniture,

Greg Peterson

As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: 'Just BE THERE, F**K!'

Richard C. Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

Morgan Fairchild

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

Billy Hughes

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Kathleen Carroll

While it's true that power is being restored and schools are being painted and progress is being made

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Willa Cather

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

Simon Van Booy

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

Eric Hoffer

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

Kirk Hoza

A vivid picture. One of the worst things I have seen.

Janice Dickinson

I have a very vivid imagination.

Brian De Palma

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

Robert Hass

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

Nikola Tesla

I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

Lorrie Moore

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.