Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Brooke Bingaman

We do see spring in our future. There will be a block of dry weather early next week that could transition us into more typical spring weather than the persistent rain we've been experiencing for so long.

Ann Coulter

Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system of signals. He was mostly bemused by the Democrats' primetime speakers and told me he used to be an independent, but for the last 20 years found himself voting mostly Republican. Then he corrected himself and said he votes for the American.

Andy Burnham

People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it’s absolutely clear.

Amy Waldman

In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

Alice Walker

You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.

Anna Quindlen

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

Andy Stanley

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

Andre Gide

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Kathleen McCarthy

The Rockland runner is very good and Kate stayed with her the whole race. Kate is so consistent. I can always rely on her to finish strong.

Ellis Hobbs

The season is not over. This is Week 17 and we want to finish strong. I can rest later. They pay me to play.

Louis MacNeice

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

John Gibbons

We want to hang in there and see what develops. We want to finish well and say we had a good year. You play until you're eliminated.

Landon Donovan

Crucial, ... You don't want to worry about other results, you don't want to worry about getting a result in the sixth game. If you can finish it ... you finish it.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We finished this one. We made it hard though. I told the guys that they are kind of hard on their coaches.

John Kaleo

I started the game and played about halfway through the game. To get hurt in the 3rd quarter and watch in the 4th quarter was tough, ... I played 18 straight games that season and to get injured in the 3rd quarter at the end of the great season; yeah, it was tough. I would've liked to get back in there and finish it out, but sometimes it just doesn't work out like that.

Rafael Nadal

Is more for precaution. You don't know tomorrow what's happen, no? But now I am happy because I don't feel too much pain. But I can finish the match, so that's a good sign.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Harry Gunatillake

It is better to have talks about talks than have nothing at all. I think by the middle of this month we should see some movement.

Sarah Dessen

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

Tim Cahill

a narrative story -- one with a beginning, a middle and an end. I used to take miles and miles and hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes, and I still do. But now, about three-quarters of the way through the thing, I can see the structure of the story in my mind.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Alex Kelly

It was hellish conditions, if you will, on top of the chimney.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.