Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Louise Arbour

Rules that block persons with disabilities from obtaining personal documentation or from voting in elections can be modified, often at little expense.

Paul Steinhardt

The search for a structure that blocks the passage of light in all directions has fascinated physicists and engineers for the past two decades.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

Ban Ki-moon

The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.

Bridgit Mendler

The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over and cast our ballots, and it was really cool. I love the civic pride of being a part of this national activity.

Kirk Lewis

Between classes, eight students walked the halls cheering, blocking the hallways, chanting. They were protesting.

Michael Robinson

Blocking downfield overall was great from the receivers.

Terry Hoeppner

Vince Lombardi had the seven blocks of granite. Well guess what? We have the seven blocks of limestone.

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Michael Lambert

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Doug Palow

Our defense shut down just about everything tonight.

Chris Carlson

Our defense played tough. I just thought our zone did a really nice job on them.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

David Brock

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

John Tortorella

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

Pete Hoffman

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Ben Lindsey

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Glen Gulutzan

We couldn't win a puck battle. I thought our effort was fine, but we made some glaring mistakes and lost battles.

Elliott Abrams

Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Adam McKay

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

Audrie Pattenn

The plane tickets were $1,100 (each). Right now the hardest part is paying all of that off.

Aaron Rowand

It was one last hurrah with my friends. The hardest part about being traded is you feel like you're leaving your family.

Pete Wentz

The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.

Milt Heflin

They make this look awfully easy. This is probably some of hardest work we've done in the human space program. I marvel at it.

Caitlyn Jenner

It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

Paul Netzer

Overall, the season went pretty well. We played the hardest we could every game. We didn't always win but we knew we had the toughness to win.

Peter Jackson

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

Kenny Carter

You have to have intensity for 32 minutes. It didn't happen.

Mario Chalmers

We just tried to match the intensity they were bringing.

Tim Wise

We haven't played with the intensity on that end that we need. That's where we'll put our emphasis.

Ken Jr.

Now that the second round is here, I think the intensity is going to pick up.

Craig Brehon

If they lose the game, they run a lot of sprints. Most of the time they come back and win. It's an intensity thing for our first group.

Amani Toomer

If I was a psychologist, I could tell you. We didn't match their intensity ... I just can't understand that.

Steve Crampton

Maybe we just weren't prepared for the intensity they were going to bring. But we'll be ready for them (tonight). We'll be a different team.

Tubby Smith

That's been our profile all year long. I just don't get it. We just seem to play with not as much intensity and maturity to start the game.

Al Jones

That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more and not reading as much. Students are getting to the point now that if it's not on the Internet, they don't trust the information.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Godfrey Reggio

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Rod Schwarz

It's real disappointing. I think it shows a lack of preparation and a lack of concentration. We just weren't ready to play.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's cold, it lacks solidarity and it's inhuman,

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Eric Butterworth

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Emma McLaughlin

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

Rhonda Johnson

Teachers are frustrated. They just don't know if they are going to be laid off or not. They'll find out when they come back from spring break.

Kevin Young

I've never seen him miss that one. Maybe he should have just laid it up, but he was pumped up and he wanted to make a big play.

Michael Quinn

I share the frustrations of everyone who was laid off. It was the last thing we wanted to do, but the money isn't there yet.

Martin Frost

never laid out as a requirement for deals.

David Jones

He laid down the gauntlet and his credibility is on the line,

Bible Bible

And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

Jeff Roberts

We've got a master trail system that has ? laid down on a map ? hundreds of miles of what will someday be trails.