Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Hogan

Her shoe-button eyes and little smile with just a few lines - those are very simple strokes that convey many things to many people. Her little heart, originally a cardboard heart embedded in her chest and later printed on her clothing, is such a sweet touch.

William Holden

I like to get into a situation that is real, where I can say, 'Here's a chance to react as a human being, not some wound-up doll or robot that goes round and round a track, or a cardboard cut-out like the character I played in 'The Towering Inferno'.

Mark Frauenfelder

The Cat Dancer is a 30-inch piece of wire with some little cardboard cylinders on the end. My cats go crazy for it. I stuck it on the wall with the adhesive mount, but I ended up taking it off so I could hold it and play directly with my cats.

Carol Burnett

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.

Y. Harburg

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

Gerald Treece

The problem with these types of witnesses is they can collapse like wet cardboard boxes. Inmate testimony doesn't have that great a ring of credibility.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

Dr. Roberts

He responds to stimuli and that's good. He's still critically ill, in intensive care, he suffered a collapsed lung.

Ed Regan

In the past, we've been skeptical about (collaboration). But we felt that the industry is on the threshold of collapse if something doesn't get done soon. This is one way to resolve the problem.

Mary Farrell

I knew that in the past that these financial panics had often triggered far worse consequences. I was actually less concerned about the market than the potential for collapse of the world financial system.

Peter Hain

the collapse in external and internal confidence would lead to a more serious situation.

Rex Tillerson

You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will recall, ramped up to near $150 a barrel. Then we had the financial - U.S. financial collapse. Oil prices collapsed all the way down to $40 a barrel.

Paul Cooper

The infrastructure market has collapsed and margins have fallen from 20 percent to 4 percent,

Warren Zinn

I wanted to be able to watch world history in the making. In less than two years, I was able to witness the collapse of two regimes. It's cool to open a world almanac and know that I was a part of history.

John Burnside

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Michael Santos

John always had his heart in this village. Sometimes he thought he was the village. He was a great ambassador. He put Brewster on the map on several occasions.

Dick Hawks

The inmates understand our concerns. They just want good, usable items.

Larry Todd

The inmates are doing everything they're told and spending plenty of time using squeegees and mops,

Eric Schlosser

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Don Fuller

It's your worst nightmare. It's tough. Any seasoned inmate will tell you lockdown is worse.

Kim Coates

I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

Tessa Thompson

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

Jeff Berg

I think in time, once the production catches up with demand, that this won't be a problem anymore,

Igor Shuvalov

Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.

Ron Dennis

His problem was not the engine, his problem was the tyre selection.

Youssef Squali

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

John Carter

It could be a problem at that point.

Johnathan Frakes

I think the problem with the soaps is that because they make 280 shows a year, the writing suffers.

Tom Collins

It isn't a problem unless you want it to be

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Rocky Marciano

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

Joss Whedon

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

Tiffany Jackson

Sometimes our doorbell will ring at 1 in the morning.

Richard Grimes

Standing in the ring awaiting the first round to start is not the time to think; I wish I'd trained for this. 

Mike Scioscia

He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.

Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

P. J. O'Rourke

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.