Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Solis

The other rumor is they might bring Kingsville and Alice into our district. They've also said it might be more convenient to move Roma to the Laredo district, but that's just a lot of talk going on. I myself wait until it happens.

Hector Tobar

I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.

Nancy Martin

Working here is like being in the middle of an Alice in Wonderland set.

Jerry Cantrell

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

Rico Love

AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.

Libby Lenton

It's kind of embarrassing - Alice told me before the race that I was the oldest in the race.

Kevin Murphy

It's a black dress, and Mary Alice jumps in to tell us, 'Martha Huber always said she'd never be caught dead in black. Sadly this was no longer the case.' And it cuts to Paul Young burying Martha Huber, and she's wrapped in black plastic.

Carol Windley

It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.

Trent Reznor

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Alan Parker

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

Alan Moore

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Chinua Achebe

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

David Hockney

Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

Benicio Del Toro

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Benicio Del Toro

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Barnett Newman

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

August Wilson

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Audre Lorde

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

John Hewitt

It was incredibly difficult. It's like burying your children - and that's all I'm going to say about that.

Cynthia Ozick

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

Kevin Flanagan

These were probably people whose family never picked up the ashes. It's not unusual for a cemetery to get these kinds of remains. The problem is: You're supposed to be burying them.

Marcus Aurelius

Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thus burying your poor sardonyx? Such rings are more suited to your legs the weight is too great for fingers

David R. Brower

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

Susan Olsen

What we try to do is keep our happy history stuff separate from our regular business. People who are doing genealogy are all excited about researching Miles Davis; you don't want them to be in a situation where they're working next to someone burying a loved one.

Sylvia Plath

I wondered what I thought I was burying.

Peter Brand

When they were refurbishing buildings, they had no compunction about taking statues of a predecessor and burying them.

Michael Stanton

Burying Katrina is the theme, getting some closure, just putting it to rest for a minute.

Denzel Washington

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch....

Steve Foley

We started slow, and they caught us off-guard a lot. It was all about us turning it up and not letting them stick around because we could end up on the wrong end.

Arturo Dubois

We are a defensive team, but I guess at one point we got caught up trying to score with them.

Gilbert Arenas

When you turn on the tube you see him hitting six 3s in a game, so you know he can shoot the ball. And this was just one of those nights when he caught fire.

Heath Schroyer

We're not going to sign a post guy just because he's a post guy, ... Too many times, guys get caught up in, 'I have to have this.' You have to recruit players.

Tim Duncan

When he gets into a rhythm like that where he starts going, it's like you want to sit there and watch him play. You get caught up in what he does and that's probably the worst thing that we can do is just sit there and watch him play, but you get mesmerized by what he's doing.

Josh Fox

Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

Brandon Williams

We found out Wednesday. It caught us by surprise. We didn't have much time to figure out how to play without him.

Katy Perry

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

Brian Macy

We started out the game very tentative. They played some good defense to start with ... our cuts were slow, we didn't play very well.

Leslie Mann

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

Marty Parkes

What they're shooting for is what Mike called a visible and playable difference between those two cuts of rough.

Robert Brusca

We're still seeing job cuts in manufacturing, and it's going to stay that way for some time.

Grover Norquist

A tax increase offset by larger tax cuts may or may not be a good idea, but it's not a sin.

Barbara Reynolds

A lot of streets are still very dark in town and not set up numerically, ... This cuts down on our response time.

William Maestri

This is a fundamental priority for us, because this cuts to the very heart of our mission, ... to educate and be educated.

Gene Sperling

They're trying to turn their focus on cuts to important domestic programs that weren't even part of the problem.

Michael Lopez

They take short cuts to get the job done, thinking that's going to please the employer.

Jose Maria

The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed.

Laura Hunter

We want to see a clear, specific deadline that gets us from here to a (final) decision.

Joe Mihalich

When you run that baseline when it's a dead ball, you give a team life.

Ann Rice

When you're watching TV and they're reporting 50 people dead in Mississippi and you haven't heard from your family, well, you think the worst.

Ryan MacMurchy

When we were winning, our practices were (about) grinding each other, getting on each other, yelling and hollering. It's been a little dead out there lately, not as competitive.

Terry Greene

What has impressed me the most is Wildfire has been winning when things aren't going his way. He's dead rail but he's been drawing all outside boxes.

Mohammad Khan

Therefore we will talk to you in a language that you understand. Our words are dead until we give them life with our blood.

Susan Allan

Universal vaccination for hepatitis B is one opportunity to ensure newborns have a healthy life. It's also an important step toward eradicating this deadly disease.

Tanya Hilgendorf

We're getting lots of good information and are still putting things together, but our investigator spends half the day picking up dead bodies.

Leonard Sonnenschein

See that parrot fish? He likes to swim up and see people. So if he doesn't see any, he jumps up (from the water) to take a look.

Michael Jones

Right now, we're just making sure nothing else jumps that line.

David Hallberg

Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.

Steve Wright

There's just not one team that jumps out off the page. It sure does make it more interesting for everybody.

Butch Pedersen

He's supposed to be in a 5-2. Then we yelled 4-3 at the last second. Then he jumps back and plays a middle linebacker.

George Braun

Kyle can be a big time player if he keeps working at it. He's 6-5, he runs and jumps well. He can move.

Sasha Cohen

I think I was probably not nervous but just a little apprehensive. Ultimately, the jumps just weren't there.

Ashley Wright

We realized we were ok and nobody was dead. He jumps on top of me, I scream out in pain, and he jumps out the window.

Rob Scheidt

That score just jumps out at you. I've never seen that.

Chuck D.

It's no longer 'run to the park' on your own. Parents want to feel secure where they are and what they'll be doing.

John Jordan

It's no longer in our faces. The lynching is still being done, it's just being done covertly.

David Cardwell

It's no longer being done to be better than the other guy, but to keep up with the other guy.

Tom Stehn

It's now in its second year; it's no longer a juvenile. But this one particular whooping crane doesn't know where Aransas is. Its parents never showed it.

Diane Arbus

They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.

Tom Stehn

You don't find them, but they're no longer with their parents.

Jim Barnett

This man is proven to be an ineffective extremist. We're no longer talking about one out of 435. We're talking about a very powerful position, as one of 100 in the United States Senate.

Stephanie Ferlita

I tried to tell them they accomplished a lot. Their season went on longer than a lot of other teams. And they made it through some tough times that a lot of other teams didn't have to face.

Allen Staggers

It's a little tougher because you're spanning such a distance. It takes a little longer to do.

Patricia Brady

After 200 years, the real Martha Washington can be seen again.

Jan Baran

You might want to read the old clippings about Martha Stewart ,

Britt Beemer

She was off the charts. Right up there with Martha Stewart.

Kurt Barnard

Retail sales of Martha Stewart products won't suffer in a terminal way because right now Kmart needs Martha more than Martha needs Kmart. Her products are selling well because people really like them.

Robert Passikoff

She's not ducking what happened. This is a platform to show the reformed Martha to the world.

Howard Davidowitz

I think there's a message to Martha in here, and part of this may be negotiation.

Richard Wright

They didn't even know about the ski school until Mary told them. They didn't even know about that.

Lech Walesa

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

Steven Tyler

Mary had a little sheep,With the sheep she went to sleep.The sheep turned out to be a ram,And Mary had a little lamb.

Brian Glass

Mary Ann was just outstanding running the bases. Sometimes, I don't think she really understands just how important she is to our team.

Janet Evanovich

He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush." Mary Lou Molnar

Fulton J. Sheen

At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.

Margaret Atwood

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

Terry Tucker

Our witness was the judge's assistant, a woman named Mary Cherry. So we had Terry, Terry, and Mary Cherry.

Bob Stoops

We're going right now with Rhett, but we've still always got Paul ready to go.

Paula Cole

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

Barbara Harris

The reward for success in St. Paul is eviction.

Thom Gunn

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Jeff Howard

Mrs. Scheele, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Paul got together and thought it up.

Chris Squire

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Dario Franchitti

I'm still in shock about the whole thing. I didn't know Paul very well, but I've been through this before. I just feel for his family. It's such a tragedy.

Randy Weber

I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.

Darrell Bricker

He's not going to be able to do a lot that's different from Paul Martin.

Rob Lowe

I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'

Keith Kameg

This could have been wrapped up that night.

Ken Hitchcock

We can't get all wrapped up in what's going on,

Mayor Goulbourne

It should all be wrapped up by week's end.

Patti LaBelle

They were wrapped up in blankets. They couldn't clap.

Monica Johnson

It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.