Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rhys Ifans

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.

James Glassman

Inflation springs from how intensely resources are used. There is an enormous amount of unused capacity sitting out there, and it takes a lot of growth to absorb that.

Oscar Wilde

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Henry King

The El Paso hotel market did very good. El Paso hotels in general made money last year. I think we're going to see a decline in occupancy (this year) because we can only absorb about 200 rooms a year without decreasing occupancy, and it looks like there will be more than 200 rooms coming on line this year.

John Adair

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Jared Bernstein

These numbers reveal a labor market that's not bouncing back quickly enough to absorb new entrants along with the people laid off during the downturn.

John Novak

These suppliers who are dealing with 20% or 30% or 40% increases in raw materials, you can't expect them to absorb that pain indefinitely.

Ralph Norris

The market is not going to be able to absorb these sorts of increases. We've got to look at ways and means of reducing costs.

Melissa Eisenstat

Although Siebel is paying a hefty premium for this small company, its large market cap should enable it to absorb this acquisition with modest dilution this year and none next year.

Marty Turco

I actually like the red. I don't mind the colors at all.

Duane Davis

I didn't like (the helmets), ... My primary reason being the school colors are green and gold.

Placido Domingo

I loved working with Spiro because he has the totality of colors in his performing palette. He is a singer of wonderful imagination and a real professional.

Neil Schwartz

This is all part of fashion. You'll see teams with cooler jerseys and more popular colors with higher sales.

Virgil Thomson

They look better than we do; they can wear all colors on stage. We're sort of oyster-colored.

David Johnson

Different colors make it easy for people to keep the dogs straight. They wanted a red husky, but there aren't very many red ones around, and the ones they did find didn't work.

Zhu Zhu

I have really long hair, so I don't cut it all that often. Sometimes, when I'm working, I just have the stylist on set trim it for me. I don't dye my hair. When I was a teenager, I dyed my hair five colors at one time. It was all different shades of red going from more orange to more purple. I thought I looked so cool.

Gloria Vanderbilt

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Chad Morgenthaler

Some of them are hard to find now. The specific colors are the main thing.

Suki Waterhouse

Photographing friends means that there's a spontaneity to the images. I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and I love taking cool pictures of them.

Billy Pate

He's a great player and an interesting guy. He's not like a lot of guys, out there screaming and yelling. He's passive and quiet, one of the most humble guys you'll meet. He never loses his cool and always gives us a fighting chance.

Dan Dougherty

He's always cool under pressure. He's always been that way. He was trying to stay calm, and I was going crazy.

Grant Preston

He's got great composure. He's always cool and calm. He's been a great leader for this offense. That's a big part of the success he's had so far.

Jeffrey Toobin

He's got to let passions cool, a year at least until this trial goes forward,

Steve Nyman

He's got the coolest head. He's not a choker at all.

Josh Stiles

I think (the GDP and ECI figures) will tell the market that the economy is not cooling much and that wage pressures are building.

Mike Condo

We're pretty excited. It's such a cool audience. We really like playing for a teenage audience. They really get in to it.

Bobby Labonte

I think we think alike. We drive similar setups, I think. It feel like it's the coolest opportunity.

Tony Scott

Here's someone who loves touching the dark side.

Zach Galligan

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

Rose McIver

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

Rob Brydon

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Richard Paul Evans

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

Richard Dawkins

Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.

Richelle Mead

See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.

Richelle Mead

You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.

Russell Baker

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Zach Galligan

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

Bill Harden

The uniforms are a darker red and is really pretty. It's a very contemporary look.

Patricia Richardson

I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.

Jeff Ament

I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.

Sarah McLachlan

The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in the moment. I'm part of this beautiful world, and it's fantastic, and I don't really know how else to describe it.

Nick Tosches

To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.

Ryan Murphy

Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it.

Patricia McCormick

I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

Banks

I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Larry Brown

He'd be in a lot more trouble when he got at home if he didn't do what he did.

Mark Mersel

He knows those guys. It's more of a homecoming than you might know.

Simon Spurr

I'll always be a Brit abroad, and I love London so much, but New York is my home.

Najib Razak

The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Mike Babcock

I liked to see less plays through the neutral zone and more plays around the net, but he (Hudler) played well tonight.

Brian Stewart

It can load any standard truck on the roads today with any standard ramp.

Charles Brannon

You concentrate on the traffic. If you don't, you're going to be right next to the animal. I just go out and get it, load it and go to the next one.

Brandon Flowers

We're loaded with talent down here, but if that's the coaches' decision, you have to respect that. I still think they can do pretty well down here.

Bruce Carter

That's real good. It takes a lot of the load off of me. I'm rooting for them. As long as they keep running, I'm happy.

Wanda Hartman

All of our trucks are loaded up and pulled out about 10 minutes ago.

Alan Curbishley

They are exceptional. They've posed loads of questions for everyone in the Premiership, and it's up to the big teams to respond.

Alan Curbishley

They are exceptional, ... They've posed loads of questions for everyone in the Premiership, and it's up to the big teams to respond.

David Jacobs

a while back. There were enough compressors running, but the load was more than they could handle.

Steve Lekwa

Once we did this it would be a tremendous load on our rangers, be we didn't see any way around it. To not do anything was to invite, for some people, a disaster.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

George Charamba

I no longer talk to you and you must never phone me again.

Georg Hackl

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.

Elliot Morley

In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.

Joe Nathan

It's really nice to get out there the next day. You don't want to be sitting down there thinking about it any longer than you have to.

Harry Harnish

The turkey vulture has a V-shaped wingspan and a white head. Unlike eagles, vultures tend to glide for longer periods of time.

Peter Frampton

The Longer You Love,The Longer You Live,The Stronger You Feel,The More You Can Give.

George Crabbe

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

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.

Henri Matisse

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

Frank Mullins

At first I thought you paint only when inspired, ... I'd do nothing, then I'd paint 10 paintings in a week. Then I'd fret.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Persis Khambatta

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Ben Whishaw

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

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Sadaharu Oh

I'm 100 percent sure. I spoke to him recently and told him we really want him to be a part of our team.

John Tortorella

I'm getting tired of the 25 percent rule. It's deflating.

Gennady Onishchenko

And 92 percent of them are drug addicts.

Walther Bothe

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

Nancy Reagan

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

Rachel Carson

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

Cynthia Nixon

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Farrah Fawcett

It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Alison Goldfrapp

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Peter Liguori

I know you get second-guessed in this business, but I'd rather be second-guessed for the right reasons.

Rita Clifton

It was one idea which was rather relentlessly executed,

Kevin Spacey

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Agin Muhammad

I understand the reactions, but it's not for me to reduce myself to that level.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Scott Simon

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

Forrest Gump

Just stay a little longer.....Okay Jenny I'll stay.

Richard McIntyre

Hamid took him as a brother. He let him stay at his house.

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

Larry Pleau

He's going to stay with the organization for a long time.

Alice Lowe

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Robert Hogan

He was ducking down, and he kind of stayed moving,

Sara Ramirez

Stay true to who you are. Don't let anyone else define you

Roger Hammer

I'll stay where I am, a big pod in a little pond. I'll just come out when I think I have a big one.

Clint Hurdle

He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

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.