Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fenton

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

Ibrahim Hooper

It's irresponsible for the top elected official in any state to suggest blanket wiretapping of houses of worship.

Carolyn McCarthy

and here we are giving them (the industry) blanket immunity.

George Carlin

a blank slate -- and you get to play.

John Carey

A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.

Dean McAmmond

They have always seemed like they were going to move me. To finally pull the trigger and it be a blank is, on one end, disappointing because I think I could help a team in the playoffs. I'm not getting any younger. It would have been nice to be in the playoffs, for sure. I've been in Edmonton before, so that would have been exciting.

Vance Mahan

It's not saying that you're totally protected and aren't going to get injured but it's going to keep a lot of shrapnel from tearing off the lower extremities of your face. We've shot this with a 12-gauge shot gun from point-blank range which is about a meter or three feet. It stopped that. We've shot it with a 44-magnum point-blank range. It stopped that. We shot it with a .357 at point blank range and it stopped all of it.

Greg Foreman

For a writer to sit before a blank page, as a painter before a white canvass or general before a bloodless field; before the first scribble of creation, is a moment like no other. The writer is consumed by the trice of bliss, jollity, determination, and sensitive to a true and deepest affection.

Mark Ryan

It's not dissimilar to The Weather Channel where when someone signs on, they don't want to see a blank screen. They want to see what the weather is for their local community.

Julie Raeder

Water, milk, juices and even some foods contain a lot of fluid. Any foods that will melt, such as gelatin or flavored ice treats, or foods that contain a lot of liquid such as soup are measured as part of your fluid intake. For most people, the foods consumed count for about 20 percent of one's fluid intake.

Rosecrans Baldwin

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

Bible Bible

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Alex Rodriguez

That's the only reason I play baseball. It's what I'm consumed to do right now.

Christine Ebersole

'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

John Eade

It has got the broadest product portfolio and the deepest pipeline of any drug stock.

Jacques Chirac

I share the pain of those families who have lost a loved one, and I offer my deepest condolences and sympathy,

Jim Hall

This is a sad way to end his career. His family has my deepest sympathy.

Jim Doyle

This is an incredible tragedy. One in which a great family tradition like a deer hunt has turned into such a great loss for the families involved. The whole state of Wisconsin feels the deepest sympathy and pain.

Mike Walker

This is probably the deepest team I've had. I have nine or 10 players who are about even. This group wants to get over the hump for everyone.

Laura Lopez

This is the deepest snow we've had in a long time. I never thought we'd get this much.

Johann Gottfried

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Bill Bavasi

We wish to extend our deepest sympathy to the Mateo family.

Andi Mallarangeng

The president gives his deepest sympathy and condolence to the families of the victims.

Pat Hanlon

I wouldn't say disappointing. I think surprising is the right word. And that includes sales to the general public, not just the waiting list members.

Andrew Miller

It can't be right that ministers be given such wide and general powers.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Bill Donald

I think it's going to be important, if we can get markets open in the same general are of the world. It will help instill trust in the product we were used to before the ban.

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Robert M. Pirsig

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Yuri Milner

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Rick Warren

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

Sam Altman

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

Ella Wilcox

If you work with zeal and ardor till the night,You can only make the wasted moments right.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

Craig Kelly

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son, ... All I want is to be reunited with my son.

Kim Clijsters

If you don't do that, if you don't go for your shots, they're just too good. You have to try from the moment you get a second serve or a weaker first serve, just go for it.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Spalding Gray

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Hugo Ch

This is real imperialist penetration, ... They are taking sensitive and strategic information.

John O. Brennan

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

Masiela Lusha

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

J. B. Priestley

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

Dennis Farina

We keep monitoring ourselves, censoring ourselves, being too sensitive to this, too sensitive to that. We can't keep doing that.

Ben Howland

We were really sensitive to him shooting threes.

Randy Cunneyworth

He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.

Rahul Gandhi

I will speak to you tomorrow and till then I will sit there (among the delegates).

M. Wolfe

He was just sitting here three weeks ago.

Al Horford

I'd like to win another one. We'll have to sit down and talk about everything. I think we want to win another one.

Will Allen

I didn't come here just to sit back,

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Nick Adams

I don't know. We qualified. We'll have to sit down and talk.

Jody Conradt

I don't know when Tiffany's going to be ready, so we can't sit around and wait.

Chris Bartlett

I'd be called to one site, 'Oh, Chris, we need you,' and then the other site would need me too.

Ryan Miller

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

Whitney Cummings

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Samuel Richardson

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Robert Pattinson

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

Robin McKinley

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Wilmer Valderrama

If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.

William Hazlitt

True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.

Nate Parker

How many films are there about friendships between teenagers? And how many projects are there dealing with friendships among adults? True friendships - really dealing with the intimacy behind what happened then, and how long you've known each other, and the wounds that haven't healed. That's what [About Alex] film is about.

Nancy Werlin

From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

William Falconer

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Sandra Cisneros

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

William O. Douglas

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.