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.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Dennis Schain

Everybody knows that there is more need than funds available.

Jeff Harris

Everybody knows that there are spots open here. We really, collectively, just haven't been getting it done.

Joe Crawford

Everybody knows that's a major part of Rajon's game, ... He's probably the quickest player I've played against.

David Harris

Everybody knows that it's going to be going away at some point.

Larry Nelson

Everybody knows that in this event, you have to score. We knew what we had to do when we walked to the 15th tee. We had to get it going.

Jeff Oldham

Everybody knows somebody -- if it's not themselves, it's a mother or father or relative -- that needs help with their prescription drug cost. There's nobody who doesn't need help. This is a huge load off their shoulders.

Ryan Byrd

Everybody knows it. You look up at the banners and the last championship says 1959-1960 and it just gives you motivation to strive for that.

Joe Theismann

Everybody knows it takes 49 players to make a team, but without Big John this would not be a championship squad.

Ricky Davis

You saw it right here on the stand, ... Right in front of you.

B. R. Hayden

We have a rule for that, but I don't have it in front of me,

Phil Cline

There's really only one way out and one way in. Once he's inside and by that front door, he's got them cornered.

Jorge Posada

There's nothing he could do. I'm right in front of the plate.

John Swiatek

We were learning what we were doing while we were doing it! We put a front office staff together, and we put a marketing plan together, and we just went for it.

Steve Watkins

Making the team is not in the front of my mind at all. I just wanted to come in here and show them what I can do.

Peter Salinas

So I went and knocked on the front door, and when I did, I noticed that there was heat emanating from the front door.

Ron Miller

She was ready to wear her tennis shoes to go stand in front of the bulldozer if she had to,

Leo Howard

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

Barbara Jordan

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Bob Dole

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

Aldous Huxley

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

Susan Sarandon

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

Thomas Chalmers

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

Victor Hugo

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Vanna Bonta

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.