Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wright

Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.

Ben Gill

No one can pretend that simply re-opening our export channels will undo all the damage which has been done.

Li Datong

I'm very angry. We'll be going through regular channels to appeal.

Chen Shui-bian

This is the right way to open normalized communication channels to normalize relations.

Oscar Wilde

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Hideo Kojima

In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It's still dangerous for me to drive. I've driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.

David Zaslav

We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.

Howard Jacobs

XM Satellite Radio offers an extraordinary variety of music for all kinds of tastes, and we're very pleased that United Airlines' customers will have the opportunity to sample the exclusive, commercial-free music channels that have helped make XM the nation's leading satellite radio company.

Ariel Garten

Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

Philippe Petit

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

Mafumi Usui

Depressed, young people and the Internet - it's a very dangerous mix.

Becky Hammon

They are a lot more dangerous now. She's exactly what they needed.

Dan McCarthy

This is developing into a potentially dangerous situation.

Jeff Last

That's why it is so dangerous to fly near a thunderstorm.

Daniel H. Wilson

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys - white guys - are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Phyllis Bottome

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice

Frank O'Donnell

We should be doing much more to try to reduce this dangerous pollution.

Ben Johnson

The things that are working here are locally driven right now.

Brian Wilson

What they do, they do well. They are pretty goal driven and work hard.

Phil Keoghan

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

Ray Neidl

Fuel prices are up, and to a large extent we're being driven by fuel prices.

Evelyn Lauder

I've always been a person who is driven.

Ella Eyre

My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

Lisa Kleypas

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Scott Owens

Am I (going) straight? I haven't driven in three years. My parents won't let me,

Sergio Garcia

The market is being driven by the rally in New York, but overall we have the typically thin volume for the month of December.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Carl Erskine

Sometimes it seems the more you know, the less sure you are of yourself, ... I can just sit back and watch and not have to sweat it out for either side. What I know is, anything can happen in a short series.

Yoweri Museveni

Some people say accident. It may be an accident, it may be something else, ... very well equipped . . . the one I am flying all the time. I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked, or there was some side wind, or the instruments failed, or there was an external factor.

Marsha Blackburn

Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.

Thomas Campion

Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.

Roger Monson

Russia could go down 50 percent or up 150 percent. Either they do it or they don't.

Jonathan Coleman

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.

Steve Erickson

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.

Mark Richt

Quentin is thinking it all through before making a decision. I don't think either one is 100 percent sure about what he's going to do yet.

Jackie Fox

As fall comes, it's time to start looking at it again. It's a really good pantry staple and a great do-ahead fast meal.

P. J. Harvey

As long as oil prices are high it is going to be hard for natural gas prices to fall much.

Courtney McInnis

That play was big. We were thinking of just getting to the half and making adjustments. I thought they would run it out, but Waters made a great play. He picked it up and ran with it instead of falling on it.

Frank Robinson

Ramon has to trust his stuff, locate and not fall in love with the fastball.

David Cowley

Prices shoot up like a rocket and fall like a feather. But we will start to find our equilibrium this week.

S. Hughes

Profit taking and thin volume has been the main reason for the fall today.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South,/ Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,/ And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee.

Brian Durocher

People forget that we are predominantly an all-freshman team. When Jack Parker or Dennis Wolff's freshmen get tired they can fall back on their older players. I don't have a strong reliance on upperclassmen.

Kevin Doyle

People had nothing to fall back on and lost all their harvest.

Ken Hall

This is going to be a grass-roots campaign, run at the plant gates and in the barn,

Bob Rose

Every gate is jammed. You're running from plane to plane to plane.

Jennifer Thomas

We see him walking through the Pearly Gates tipping his hat.

Drew Brees

I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.

Alberto Tomba

Giorgio tried to push away from the gates during the race as I suggested to him. But unfortunately he was wrong. He made a mistake. It shouldn't have happened.

Mike Post

From the moment I get a request to having a truck moving out the gate is minutes, ... It's 'git 'er done' in action.

Vince Carter

Hopefully, it will be a lesson and make us come out harder. We'll try to come out of the gate and jump on teams and steal some wins and position ourselves as high as possible.

James Gleick

One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.

Scott Chasin

I think Gates had a very optimistic view of the world.

Richard McLaren

As a spy, under the laws of war, and his house being designated a military target, we are perfectly under international law in our right to do this,

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Troy Johnson

It would mainly be for people who already live and work in the Mankato area.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Harper

This isn't going to be some three-year study, the main idea is, 'Let's get something done,'

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Nancy Corona

Every refuge has a reason for being. One of the main reasons this refuge was established was for the migratory birds.

Bob Norris

We just don't have that many earthquakes under the main part of Portland.

Mike Bibby

We got stops when we needed to and that's the main thing. Our stops turned into transition points.

Mike May

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

Kay Yow

Offensively, we never got it going. We didn't play well on the inside. We didn't play well on the outside ... (FSU) played very well defensively.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

Tom Richardson

Even though it was an outside chance, that could have been me on the shuttle. It's kind of scary.

David Rossi

At this point in the semester our students would have already been suspended outside of school 700 days.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Joe Hale

We wanted an urban look with an outside that was simple and symmetrical.

Mike Parks

We just had one today outside a restaurant.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

National Press

really do want a different world than we're going to live in and, therefore, one side or the other is going to win because it's not negotiable.

Cesar Pelli

I've always loved three-sided patios. Courtyard plans are very common, but it's rare that it has one side open.

Barry Bonds

I've been able to see that other side of the fence. I don't think the transition will be that difficult.

Jenny Lewis

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

Sean Murphy

It was unbelievable. You don't see this side of sports.

Edward Gibbon

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators

Jim Allchin

That's why Sidebar is something important. You will be able to put it to the side and just watch it on the periphery, and the widescreen allows this.

Duane Coleman

That's what I was feeling, too. I was willing to go on the other side if I'm just going to be a spectator on offense.

Bai Ling

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.