Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Kati Haycock

That we have such problems is clear. The way to better results is less clear.

Porter Goss

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

Djuna Barnes

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

David Mitchell

Who was blowing on the nape of my neck.

Charles Krauthammer

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Janice Dickinson

I can wrap my legs around my neck.

C. S. Lewis

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

Austin O'Malley

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

Brooke Burns

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

Eli Wallach

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Albert Einstein

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

Wentworth Miller

Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from.

Terri Mitchell

The overall plan was to play our zone because we have so much respect for the athleticism of St. John's that we really needed a containment mentality.

Nikolai Khabibulin

That was a save I needed to make to keep us in it. I didn't make it, but the worst thing is to get frustrated.

Mike Frosco

That was the play of the game. That was a big win for us. We needed that one, because it swept them for us.

Bob Zeh

That was typical of our night. Whenever we needed a big shot, we couldn't get one.

Lynne Roberts

We just didn't make stops when we needed to. We never could really get over the hump.

Brandon Morrow

We just didn't get the runs we needed this weekend. We've just got to roll with it.

Michael Kramer

We were going to play somebody. After the (Christmas) layoff we needed this time and if Sterling hadn't made it, we would have scrimmaged ourselves.

Peter Sis

The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me.

Tom Griffiths

What we don't want is a noose around our necks.

J. M. Roberts

But that noose is tightening as well, as is the noose in regards to Saddam Hussein,

Jean Toomer

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Aimee Bender

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Ayn Rand

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

Margaret Atwood

They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.

Karl Marx

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

Muhammad Ali

Stay away from the ropes

Linda Lingle

They really put up with a lot and I think they're just at the end of their rope right now,

Isaac Asimov

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

Miley Cyrus

Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.