Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trevor O'Hoy

While Foster's scale and efficiency sees us better placed than anyone from a production perspective, the (Australian) market is struggling to absorb the huge volumes of wine that are discounting and squeezing sales margins.

James E. Faust

We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.

Alan King

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

Antony Beevor

When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.

Craig James

There is only so long business can absorb higher production costs. Something has got to give and what's most likely to give is prices.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We're trying to absorb any good ideas that anyone (has).

Brian France

We knew that when we did all the moves in the last three years, another event in Phoenix in the calendar year, another one in California, that would take time to absorb that in the marketplace. They've made a lot of progress with management changes that I think are starting to pay some dividends. I think they're going to have a very big crowd.

Pat Quinn

We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.

Bob Stalker

When one event after another comes this closely, the ground doesn't have the capability to absorb it. Unfortunately, the rest of the week we'll see good chances of rain, some of it very heavy.

Virgil Thomson

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

Ivory Latta

Off the court, we're cool. We're still cool on the court, but it's all about competing.

Peter Jennings

The worse things got around me the cooler I tend to be, ... I tend to focus very hard under pressure.

Tessa Thompson

As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

Bonnie McKee

If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.

Roger McGuinn

To me, being in the big time is not that big of a deal. I've been there; I know what it is. It's exciting, but it's also a lot of work and pressure. I love sort of flying under the radar where we can play theaters and sell CD's on the Internet, and it's really kind of a cool time.

David Ross

We try to slow them down when we get them to 100 degrees or so, so we don't over-cool them,

Mike Leaf

When it flashed up there with our name and logo, that's when it sunk in. That was pretty cool for all of is.

Chevy Stevens

When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.

Laura Yecies

We think it's kind of cool that this thing we work on day-to-day is really relevant to everyday people.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Arthur Miller

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Allen Tate

Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red Reverberance of hail upon the dead Thunder like an exploding crucible!

Alicia Sacramone

I love chocolate. I like milk and dark chocolate, but definitely not white.

Anthony Hopkins

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.

Anthony Jeselnik

You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.

Anthony Jeselnik

Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere "hah."

Anthony Jeselnik

I've always been fascinated by dark subjects, especially people's reactions to them. Why are people so uncomfortable talking about death if everyone dies?

Andy Dick

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Billy Connolly

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Tom Odell

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

Willie Geist

Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home.

Clyde DeSouza

Don't leave home without your visor, it's an ugly world out there

James McGovern

Don't go home and tell your constituents you did anything for them. In truth, you haven't,

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Mark Pope

Every year, when I'm with a new team, that's one less team that doesn't know that I can't play.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Jim Pate

We'll need no less than 10 volunteers a day and no more than 25 a day, and they must be prepared to be self-sufficient for one to two weeks.

Faith Hill

There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

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.

Chad Brown

You've got to realize there are 31 other teams in the NFL, so you can't get discouraged and let your play lessen in any way, ... Everything you do (in practice) is on film and people are going to watch that film, so you've got to be prepared to play even if this is not the place where you'll end up playing.

Tom Costello

It's less than what I was expecting, ... It would be of more value if we had that corner.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Ariana Grande

Take a load off, don’t take everything so seriously. And just be happier.

James Bay

My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.

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.

Georg Hackl

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

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.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Christopher Shays

We will come and make a longer trip soon,

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Heath Bell

Throw some paint on that. You won't see a thing.

Tony Bennett

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

Roy Lichtenstein

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Max Cannon

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Philip Guston

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.

Mac Miller

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

Ernest Hemingway

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Irving Stone

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

John Smedley

I'd say we're about 70 percent of the way there.

Paul Reiser

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

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Lori Lucas

About 81 percent say they plan to save later.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Bill Bradley

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

Lynn Flewelling

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

Len G. Murray

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

Roy Romer

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

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Brodie Croyle

Don't get used to that. I want to stay back there and throw it if I can.

Suzanne Collins

Stay with me. Always.

Oscar Wilde

The best revenge is to live well.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love.

Jose Gonzalez

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

Daniel Horowitz

Most important to me is that he stay away from my wife, Pamela,

Richard Burgess

We're always going to stay on his right side.

Kevin Howard

We couldn't stay with it. We couldn't stop the bleeding.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Martin Sheen

Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.

Lauryn Hill

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Johnny Depp

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

Johnny Depp

I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.