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.

Riley Wallace

The seniors have led the way, there's no question about that. There was a time during the year when we lost a couple games that they could have gotten down, but they never did that. They just went to work and really kept it going. It all starts at the top with the leadership.

Charlie Batch

I've been to a couple of places, but this isn't the first I've been back to Detroit in a while. I was here in our bye week. During the off-season, I'm here twice a month. This is my second home. There are a lot of people I went to school with, a lot of friends I have are still up here.

Matt Proper

You're looking up at the sign and you've looked up at the sign three years in a row and it's like, Senior Night? Big whoop. But when you see your name up there it's like, wow. I only have a couple weeks left. It is kind of tough.

Antero Niittymaki

You play so many games, it gets into a routine. You get a couple days off, you get to think about what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong. You kind of think clearly. You get to see the tapes and what really happened. So it kind of helps a lot to see what's going on.

Sheldon Kuhns

This is big for our program and another step in the right direction. Had we won a couple more games, the number would have been higher. That's motivation for guys to win more next year.

Steve Montador

There are two teams out there. There were a couple they could have called on our side. It's a little frustrating the way we played, but a little frustrating the way we were played.

Brian Austin Green

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

Brad Paisley

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

Carey Mulligan

Leonardo is the most incredible actor, on the planet, with a couple of people alongside him. Getting to act with him is just [amazing]. I walked away from my audition for that and I couldn't believe that I'd been acting with him. I've worked with amazing people, but my friends freak out that I'm working with him. I freak out in a geeky acting way. They freak out in a starstruck way. He's Leonardo DiCaprio, and his fame is so big. That's a complete tangent about that.

Bruce Buckingham

The winds must be in limits at that point to not risk damage to the vehicle during its most fragile point in the flight.

Brian Lamb

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

Matt Farley

We hear speeches about how the rebuilding is in process and technically it's true, but those positive speeches overshadow just how little is being done and just how much damage there is here.

Gregory Craig

emotionally damaged and exploited this most wonderful little boy.

Jay Clark

Florida citrus growers were devastated by the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 due to tree damage and fruit loss, but more recently by the increased movement of citrus canker to new locations.

Chantal Petitclerc

Every day, Jeff Adams and I were kicked out of the track because they were saying our tires would damage the track.

Ken Bacon

This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.

Michele Aurella

If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there.

Scott Ogden

We really tried to squeeze one person in front and one person in back of Lawson to keep the damage at a minimum. But he's such a tremendous player that he is going to get his no matter what.

Luc de Clapiers

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

John Bunting

We're going to have to do a great job shifting gears in getting ready for something that's absolutely, totally different from what we've faced, ... It puts pressure on everybody. It is another form of the triple option. The forms of deception that they have with their form of the triple option is unique. It was last year, and it is this year.

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

T. S. Eliot

To make an end is to make a beginning.

Emma Forrest

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

Val Trujillo

Jason did all right, but he tries to overpower people and ends up falling behind. Then he puts one right over the plate, and they knock the hell out of it.

Bill Cowher

Some of our tight ends have worked in that area.

William Shakespeare

That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything

Bethany Hamilton

The end...is just the beginning

Aaron Small

That was huge; that play right there gives them their fourth run if they score it, and it ends an inning, ... Any time you make a play like that, in a game like this, it swings the momentum to the team that makes that play.

Pat Hill

Whether your undefeated season ends in Week 2 or after Week 8, it's tough,

Pat White

I've been doing this since I was four years old. Nothing on the field scares me.

Brian Sun

While the firm may have historically done some work for Mr. Ovitz, neither the firm nor Mr. Fields was involved in any way in the Anita Busch matter.

Bryan Way

There's no way he's going out on that field. We want to make sure everything is OK.

Ann Aguirre

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

Tim Clark

I do feel more comfortable over there. I go there and feel like, 'I can win this week.' I want to feel like that over here, too. There's no doubt, this is the toughest tour to win on, and the fields at the top are always much more bunched.

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

J. J. Johnson

I thought they flew around the field pretty well.

Fernando Clavijo

I think this year, the players have interacted not only outside the field, but inside the field. We have good soccer players who have a good mind for the game. They executed together and we have to make sure they put it out during the regular season.

George Arroyo

I think this will help us play well. Sometimes when we play at home we can stagnate, but playing in a new place and a new field can give us energy. I think that is an advantage.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Chris Ault

That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary guy we have got.

Charles Barkley

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Tom Craig

Bobby's the nicest guy in the world. He's so unassuming. But he's very dedicated, no matter what he does. When he worked here, it was always 110 percent.

Bill Shine

Bill's the type of guy you look at and say, 'He knows what he's doing. He's a solid journalist,' ... Could he be even stronger? We think he can be.

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Matthew Bright

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Diane Nelson

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

Albert Brooks

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.

Jerilyn Ross

It lets people know that it's a real and a serious and a treatable disorder, ... So many people for so long have not known what's wrong with them.

Al Thornton

It's very important for us. We're known as a team around the league that doesn't play well on the road. We have to get that monkey off our backs.

Marvin Miller

It tells me really what I've known all along. And that is that the NHLPA has never been a legitimate union at any time. It has always been an offshoot of management.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.