Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Depp

At Last My Arm Is Completee Again XD

Phil Garner

I'm seeing younger and better arms coming into the league in the last five or six years. Washington has good pitching. Same for San Diego.

Nancy Gibbs

In a year when it felt at times as if we had nothing in common anymore, we were united in this hope: that our men and women at arms might soon come safely home, because their job was done. They are the bright, sharp instrument of a blunt policy, and success or failure in a war unlike any in history ultimately rests with them.

Noam Chomsky

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements.

Marc Morgenstern

In many ways, this is a numbers game, and you match firepower with firepower. It's definitely an arms race. The fact of the matter is that the content industries recognize that it takes a lot of firepower to protect their assets, and they're willing to take the steps necessary to do so.

Andrew Niccol

In a way, my film is a how-to about becoming an arms dealer, ... During the making of it, I needed guns in the Czech Republic, and it was cheaper to use real guns than replicas. I bought 3,000 Kalashnikovs and then sold them back at a loss. I wouldn't make a very good arms dealer.

Andrew Niccol

In a way, my film is a how-to about becoming an arms dealer,

Emily Cook

I'm never thinking 'injury' at the top of the hill. I've got my headphones in at all times. So even if (the announcers) are talking about 'Emily Cook broke her feet in 2002,' I don't hear them. I block it all out. I'm thinking technical. I'm thinking of when I need to set up, when I need to drop my arms ... whatever I need to do in the air. All you're thinking is positive thoughts.

Wayne Richardson

I knew it was gone when he hit it. I think they were trying to get it in on his hands and it got out over the plate and he got his arms extended. He hit the ball a long way and it was just a great way to win.

John W. Thompson

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

Marge Piercy

If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.

Mark Zuckerberg

AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.

Terry Pratchett

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

Michael Biehn

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

Michelangelo

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

Michelangelo

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Michelangelo

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

Michael Madsen

I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.

Max Brooks

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

Keith Richard

I broke three, actually. And punctured a lung. And it's a ludicrous story, really.

Matt Lane

I broke down. I just started crying. I've never gone to one of these for a friend before.

Richard Stiennon

But when they did that, it cut into their profitability. Doing that broke their business model, so I think this is just a last-gasp effort to put a viable face on a business that's going nowhere.

Howard Stern

Because of you, I had clout. Because you gave me the ratings, I was able to go into every general manager's office and tell him to F off. It was a great run. We broke every rule known to radio and mankind.

Scott Bleier

No one likes to lose money in technology. We marginally broke 3,500 and everybody has been looking for a giant capitulation day. We may not get that but this is a market that is healing.

Scott Bleier

No one likes to lose money in technology, ... We marginally broke 3,500 and everybody has been looking for a giant capitulation day. We may not get that but this is a market that is healing.

Jenji Kohan

My ex-boyfriend said, 'You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.' Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, 'Well, screw you.' And we broke up.

William Shakespeare

Music do I hear?Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,When time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men's lives.

Lao Tzu

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Wolfgang Puck

It's very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there's no restaurant that you have one cook and one chef and nobody else in the kitchen. Generally you have five, ten, 15 people with you. So that's really important is to train them right, but first you have to hire the right people.

Liang Chow

In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

Yves Rossy

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

Alice Waters

If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

Trisha Yearwood

And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.

Blake Shelton

I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat.

Gurinder Chadha

As I grew up, I always refused to cook Indian food very vehemently, and to this day, I don't cook chapatis at home. I'd always say, 'Why do I have to do it? Why don't the men do it?'

Joel Salatin

I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.

Victor Hugo

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Dennis Green

Seattle blitzed us a few times, but what really hurt us was dropped passes. I've said it before -- dropped passes and penalties will send out your punter, and that's what happened.

John Brockington

Plunkett was dropping passes in between three guys; he was hitting guys falling down. . . . We were a much better team.

Claudio Piron

By mid-summer Bund yields could drop to 3.0 percent.

Day One

Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,

Grant Billmeier

Most teams would drop their head. We found a way to make it positive. We figured a lot of teams might not think we're that good, so we've got to go out and earn our respect back.

Kate Warne

I think the underlying sentiment has actually been relatively positive even though we've seen technology shares drop over the last week and drop significantly.

Mark Foster

It is always good not to drop a shot in a round especially in these conditions,

Allen Wright

I saw the female drop to the ground and start screaming. She got back up and I saw a large male, clench his fist and punch the female twice in the face.

Chuck Jordan

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

Bobby Patrick

My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got 6 feet (nearly 2 meters) of water in it.

Jake Pavelka

Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

Jacoby Shaddix

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

LaMarcus Aldridge

I'm a very good 15- to 18-foot shooter.

Laurel Scherer

It just didn't make sense. The lodge is 42,000 square feet they're not lacking for space.

Nhat Hanh

Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.

Jodi Picoult

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

Jodi Picoult

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

Brittany Murphy

I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it. ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.

Elif Safak

We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same. He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.

Jack Randorff

And they're the people most likely to want to hear every word.

Bible Bible

And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.

Augustus

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Richard Conway

even if you didn't hear another syllable of evidence.

Stephen Carter

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'

Ben Feldman

Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.

Mayor Snow

We'll just have to wait until we hear back from them.

Stephenie Meyer

About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn’t know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

Thomas Adams

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

Rebecca Lobo

Make it a point to be around those with positive energy - people who want what's best for you, people who understand your goals and priorities.

Victor Hugo

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Stephen Covey

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

Sharon Stone

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

Sidney Poitier

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

Sidney Poitier

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

Sherman Alexie

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Vin Scully

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

Stephanie Mills

Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.

Rumi

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

Tom Berenger

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders

Todd Helton

We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

Shane Claiborne

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

John von Neumann

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Gary L. Francione

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

Barry Zito

I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

Barry Sanders

You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.

Bar Refaeli

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

Austan Goolsbee

I think actually the American people are pretty realistic. In polls they ask what do you think of the president's policies. Is he on the right track? They say yes. They ask them how long will it take for the economy to recover. And people are saying two years.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.