Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Goldman

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

Scott Hartnell

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

Emile Cioran

The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?

Mike Robinson

This was a shift from a person selling on the street on a blanket to being in a more closed environment. It suggests that it requires a little more work on their part. It's good that we are forcing them further underground.

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Jeff Greene

I'm always signing blank deeds. That's how an escrow company works.

Allen Huddleston

I don't think we've ever played a game that ugly. I don't remember ever missing that many point blank shots, making that many turnovers and still having the lead.

John Milton

From the cheerful ways of men / Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair / Presented with a universal blank / Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, / And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

Terry Pratchett

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

Larry Garrison

As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial.

Demian Bichir

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

Tracy Kidder

I wanted some way to invite readers in, to set the stage for the book - and I tried many different things.

Bobby Collins

I wanted to call it 'Street Smarts' because that's what the book is all about. I've learned a lot in this business and in this life, and I want to pass it on.

Cliff Moses

The one thing about the open concept is that there's only one wall. We wanted to have an entertainment center and book cases, so there wasn't room for a fireplace. It's nice on a cool evening to go out and enjoy a fire.

Michael Moore

As far as today is concerned, there has been no impact at all from the ban. Everybody is cheerful and supportive.

Amelia Barr

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

Miguel de Cervantes

Health and cheerfulness make beauty

Plautus

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

George Washington Cable

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

George Meredith

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

Garth Nix

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

Thomas Haliburton

Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

A. Hodge

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

O. Singh

A rapid reduction to operating costs, especially through job cuts in France, may not be feasible.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

Fred Lewis

The system is the problem. It's not the people. Whatever we paid them, it would be well worth it to cut them from being subsidized by private interests. It's wrong.

Justin Lee

No matter how I cut my hair, when it grows out, it will always grow out into The Bowl. I just naturally have a bowl.

Donald Selkin

Sometimes these things are put out for self-serving reasons. But these short sellers want to cut their losses.

Judy Martindale

See what's left and look to see where you can cut back on discretionary expenses.

Dale Friedman

Right now we've pretty much finished our part, ... They are cut loose and on their own.

Ed Allen

Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.

Mel Pins

We wanted to beautify the entrance to our neighborhood.

William Drummond

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.

William Drummond

Of this fair volume which we world do name / If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care.

Lizz Harmon

The theme of the fair this year is All-American Fun, so we wanted to make it something that all Americans could afford.

Anita Allen

Sometimes it's fairly obvious they're trying to hide their face. That's a first tip maybe they are trying to hide something and it's obvious from the picture they aren't who they say they are.

Deborah White

It would be fair to say we are a little disappointed that some of our peers haven't participated,

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

DeMeco Ryans

I spend my spare time watching film. That's a fair statement.

David Carr

I've been treated fair since I got here, ... I have no problem with how I've been treated. I've been booed, but that's football. A lot of the time, I would have booed, too.

Michael Peca

I've been full of confidence. I just needed one to go in for me. I'm still going to get my fair share of goals this year.

Dan Porter

It wouldn't be fair to say these are under-utilized resources.

William Wordsworth

Oh, be wiser thou!Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

Jonathan Dimbleby

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Desiderius Erasmus

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Blaise Pascal

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Charles Bukowski

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

Eduardo Chillida

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Brandon Sanderson

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

Brandon Sanderson

Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?" -Brandon Sanderson (Elantris)

Brandon Sanderson

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Gregg Williams

Cod and halibut tend to co-mingle quite a bit.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Fran Townsend

Quite frankly, I think we did quite well.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Gil Dufour

We have quite a lot. I think we have ten or twelve colors. The varieties of blue, the varieties of red and of burgundy.

Ashley Wagner

The SoCal weather can't be beat, but I just haven't quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Steve Baldwin

And you don't have to feel it has to be presentable all the time. You can shut the door.

Richard Sherman

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

Rick Riordan

Happy Birthday!' I yelled, 'Now, shut up!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Shut up, sod off, and let me in. (Fury)

Mary Ellen Mark

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Mara Wilson

I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Jason Marquis

You look out there, ... and there aren't too many true aces out there that are going to shut you down.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Nathan Rosane

In U.S. ways so that when we leave, we don't have to come back.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Andrew Jones

It's really sad, but in a lot of ways it was time.

Warren McCormick

Not at all. But there are ways to do it properly." ()

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Carl Sandburg

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

C. S. Lewis

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Charles Kettering

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Baltasar Gracian

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

David Nash

If it works for you, then that's great. It's what makes you feel safe.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.