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.

Tim Roth

Mostly, people watch their shows online and they watch them in a block. They don't have to tolerate the commercials, and they also don't have to wait another week. People binge watch. It's interesting.

Regina Brett

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

Tom Selleck

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

Tom Hooper

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Toni Morrison

I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.

Tom Hayden

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

Stephen Colbert

John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.

Ayrton Senna

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Jane Goodall

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

Bram Stoker

The blood is the life!

Eldridge Cleaver

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.

Liam Gallagher

We should be judged as musicians, and bloody fine ones at that.

John Klippel

Warm water increases blood flow to joints, plus the heat increases the flexibility of the joints. And because of buoyancy, there is less force on the joint, so that one can exercise without pain.

Pat Campbell

We went through most of the year on a downer and we sure didn't want to end on this note. I definitely thought we had a shot. Unlike the other games we showed the urgency off the hop but strangely we let down in the end when we usually smell blood and go for it.

Adoniram Judson

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.

Alex Martinez

There is always a pressing need for blood at all of the local hospitals.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

English 16th Century Proverbs

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

Ernst Toller

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not much of a cake person.

Anna Sui

What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.

Tom Robbins

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

Tony Hale

If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.

Richard Simmons

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

Ray Charles

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.