Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bohjalian

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

Neil Strauss

Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.

Nikolai Gogol

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

Pico Iyer

In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

Willie Bloomquist

We were half a stride away today. Jose made a great play, but the guy just barely was safe.

Garrett Smith

We've had Boy Scout projects to clean up that bike lane many times. The street is barely wide enough for cars.

Mitchell Baker

We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor.

Helen Roberts

My body has held up like I can barely believe,

Simon Walker

Mike and I barely talked during the race,

Paul Steinhardt

The pattern in which photons are blocked or not blocked had never really been computed. In the laboratory, we were able to construct a device that was effectively like doing a computer simulation to see the patterns of transmission.

David Malpass

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

Dev Hynes

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

Carl Sagan

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.

Antoni Tapies

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

Charlie Dacey

That was huge. You've got to block out on a free throw. No one's moving, everyone's standing still, and you just don't block out on a free throw. Simple little mistakes.

Richard Long

That would be a big block in terms of the way Telstra looks at this. But I wouldn't expect the board to dismiss it out of hand. They will at least look at it.

Evan Wolfson

The 1913 law is an artifact of an era of trying to block racial equality. It's serving its mission of discrimination.

Jeff Bzdelik

We came out of the blocks with good energy and it was a wire-to-wire win over a good team.

Garry Hynes

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

Joe Jordan

That was a lack of understanding between Brian Priske and the linesman,

Bubba Thornton

We have a legitimate shot. We have a shot because of the depth people like Brian and Jamaal give us.

Daniel Vettori

We've got plans to try and get him out and luckily to this stage it has worked. We feel pretty good about things at the moment. Obviously getting Brian and Chris Gayle (for 68), who are two huge players for them, helps us immensely.

Josh Duncan

You just keep working hard, knowing that you can't give up. Things are going to happen. Unfortunately, you can't control some of those things, like Brian getting hurt, so you just keep moving on.

Jeffrey Buttle

Where we lack (Olympic) experience, we'll make up for it in support. I've talked to Brian Orser, Elvis Stojko and Kurt Browning for my preparation.

Jason Brandt

Like they've been all year long, they're very consistent throwing strikes. Brian threw well. We've probably misused Eddie to where we bring him in in relief. Eddie has done a great job for us. He has a good mix of speed. I was very pleased with those two guys.

Ned Colletti

I was used to the pace. I'm used to working fast, thinking things through. Brian and I were together 11 years. It seemed like one long season. We were always retooling and rebuilding and reloading. One of the greatest things we accomplished was playing only 14 games in 9 years where we were out of the race.

Jake Schkud

I was having trouble with my jump serve, so I went back to the float serve I learned from Brian (Beckwith). It seemed to work for me. I like to call it the 'Hissing Cockroach,' courtesy of Brian Beckwith.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Richard Hunter

We have had some bumper figures from Exxon and that augurs well for Shell later in the week.

Mark Ruffalo

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.

Tony Stewart

Guys are doing it in the middle of the corner, coming off it and coming on. It's softening the front bumper because it's the guys that are doing the hitting. Trust me, I did my share of it, too.

John Banks

What is benefitted properties of the lake? Is it just those that are adjacent to the lake or, as in Rice Lake, is it the Lake District, the entire city and properties on the west side of Rice Lake? ... Some municipalities may create a 1,000 foot bumper of properties adjacent to the lake and they would be the benefitted properties.

Hani Durzy

The Reagan memorabilia runs the gamut of his life, everything from an original bumper sticker from the 1980 election to magazine covers and T-shirts. It just shows that Reagan had many admirers.

Adrian Lund

SUVs can have the same utility they do today and still be equipped with decent bumper systems that extend down to where they match up with those on cars, ... Until then, motorists who bump into mismatched vehicles, even at very low speeds, will have no choice but to open their wallets.

Carl Edwards

I watched the tape, and I know how he did it. He was relentless. He just drove up under everybody's bumper until they got out of his way. That's what he did. We'll have to do it that way.

Caroline DeWaal

Last year, there was a bumper crop of food-borne illnesses from FDA-regulated foods.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Rick Carlisle

We've moved on. It's unfortunate. But we're just trying to win without him.

Bruce Bell

We have not seen anything yet that indicates they've moved off their union-busting agenda.

Tom Daschle

We haven't made progress. We've moved back from progress, ... a half-measure only.

Trey Parker

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Fred Kindle

We have successfully moved into a phase of profitable organic growth.

Jim Tildsley

We really played well in the first half. We shot well, passed well and moved well without the ball.

Dan Davidson

Politically, they just could not get it moved out of that icebox.

Rainn Wilson

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.