Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dario Marenco

The most important thing is not to lose Blue Shield. I'm glad we came to some kind of understanding that doesn't delay that project.

David Chu

The most important focus is the blue on blue concept.

Michael Kors

South by Southwest, the optimism of an endless horizon and blue skies ahead.

Pink Floyd

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain.

Tom Schrader

Techs are moving a little and you have oil and gasoline down, which is moving the transports. The drop in energy is also knocking the oil sector lower, and that's maybe weighing on the blue chips.

Randy Bernard

Ten years ago, when I'd call a potential sponsor, PBR stood for Pabst Blue Ribbon. So it's fun when you call now and those folks actually now Professional Bull Riders.

Lord Byron

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin - his control / Stops with the shore.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.

Jimmy Smith

Put those guys in those dark jerseys, those heat-seeking, heat-soaking dark blue jerseys.

Marco Coleman

As far as health, that's just a blessing. There's just so much that's out of your control, that you don't know how it's going to go. Really, you've just got to be really fortunate. You've got to be lucky.

Connie Allen

Rachel is the kind of person that is going to take the smart shot. She knows that we need her to step up and score. If she doesn't score, she finds other ways to be a leader. She keeps some of those underclassmen in control and knowing what to do out there. You have two freshmen, a sophomore and two seniors out there. That's a lot for a point guard to have to control.

Michael Bennett

Really, I'm at a loss for words. It humbles you, but it really makes you feel like (expletive). To go from doing a lot to doing nothing, it makes you feel like (expletive). But at the same time, we have no control over anything whatsoever.

Kong Quan

Progress has been made and the control has been exercised on the funds that were involved in the case,

Kevin Yang

Probably Cosmos' major shareholders still declined to hand over management control to GE.

Tim Collins

Our service doesn't run on the public Internet. It stays within our own network. We have total quality control from the customer's home until we hand it to the public switched network. We have prioritized digital voice over data.

Tim Collins

Our service doesn't run on the public Internet, ... It stays within our own network. We have total quality control from the customer's home until we hand it to the public switched network. We have prioritized digital voice over data.

Devanei Hampton

Our defense just did not show up. We need to play our game, no one else?s. We need to control the tempo.

Jeff Rogers

Our defense did a good job. We knew they had some speed up top, but we were able to control them.

Michael Gallagher

Public opinion has turned around. It was dark in the '80s but is now very bright. We have proved that we can operate the plants safely and efficiently.

William Hearst

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

Brian Moore

It was about dark when we got here. We couldn't see much, but we knew it was severely damaged.

Author unknown

The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

Bob Mould

I used to live too much of my life worrying about what other people thought, ... My dark and introspective life was solitary. It was valid, (but now) I finally feel like I have a family. I'm integrated. My friends are really important to me, and they have a lot to do with why this record is so (expletive) cool.

Ian Campbell

The world today will either be stepping forward into an era where conservation and the environment really matter, or it will be stepping back into the Dark Ages, where the people of the world think that slaughter of whales using grenades, electric lances and shooting them with rifles is something that we should accept,

Allen Iverson

The whole paper is like a book, Tales From the Dark Side or something.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Raila Odinga

This is taking us back to the dark days of the '60s, '70s and '80s.

William Cullen Bryant

Deep in the brightness of the skiesThe thronging years in glory rise.And, as they fleet,Drop strength and riches at thy feet.

Peter Schultz

Deep Impact lived up to its name and more. But there are undoubtedly more surprises to be pulled out of the treasure trove of data.

Ariel Sharon

deepening its involvement in incitement, violence and terror.

Greg Sims

Deep down, we knew we were better than that. For the kids that have been in the program, this wasn't acceptable.

Lance Wilson

Deep down, that feeling is there. But you have to be ready for every game. If you want to run the table, every night is the same challenge.

Venus Williams

Deep down I'm disappointed I'm not able to be ranked higher,

Judy McGrath

Colette's experience demonstrates her deep understanding of the complexities of a global business. I know she'll be an outstanding leader in our company, and I am extremely pleased to have her join our team.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Thomas a Kempis

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

Christine Gregoire

The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane.

Barbara Kingsolver

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Brian Jacques

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

Jane Hamilton

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Al Capone

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

John Cross

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Claiborne Pell

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

Mary McDowell

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.

Kym Whitley

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

Capucine

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

Thomas Kempis

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Lithuanian Proverb

A dunb man won't know any better, and a smart man won't say anything about it!

Jerry Lewis

the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life.

Peter Kalikow

today marks a turning point in the relationship of the MTA and its unions.

Maxim Marinin

We just thought about skating, not a medal. We just thought to skate well and we did it, and the marks were OK.

Robin Hobb

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

Jan Rokita

This marks the end of the post-communist era.

Hank Brown

This marks a new day for the university.

Ben Okri

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

Brendan Fraser

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some...

Jane Campion

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

James Theodore Bent

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

Charles Kettering

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Jami Attenberg

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Anton Chekhov

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Craig Ferguson

Ocean's 13 is all about cool people having a good time, and who doesn't want to see that? Well you, apparantly, 'cause you're watching me.

Bootsy Collins

It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we're so worried about gas prices that we don't even see this stuff.

Jerry Woolsey

It was tough for us to keep up with them. They got on a roll and shot really well.

Jennifer Schack

We could see a shower in today's forecast. We could see a storm roll through.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Don Cassidy

You don't have to be 75 to use a rolling wire basket.

Cameron Bennerman

This is 2006. We're just trying to keep this thing rolling while we're here.

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

Walter Benjamin

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

Joseph Addison

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

Phyllis Diller

Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight.

Joss Whedon

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

Chang-Rae Lee

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

Saina Nehwal

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Peter Ward

He is the new broom, and he can sweep clean.

Aaron Spelling

Ten years of any show is amazing, but one about a minister? Wow.

Andre Agassi

Ten weeks ago, I didn't know where things were going to go,

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

John Avlon

Politics is history in the present tense.

Dee Brown

We didn't play as well as we wanted defensively and offensively. We're not doing the things we want but we'll take the win. The Big Ten is a grind-it-out conference.

Clive James

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Donald Young

I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.

Andre Agassi

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

Alphonsus Liguori

No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary.

Jim Butcher

And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.

Kaley Cuoco

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

John Dryden

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm

David Mitchell

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Kaley Cuoco

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Thomas Wolfe

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

George S. Patton

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

Jonathan Ive

There are a thousand no's for every yes.

Allen Moore

It was something I had done a thousand times,

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.