Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Shawn Achor

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

Sue Grafton

I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.

Michael Emerson

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

Ray Bradbury

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

Michael Pollan

The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins of the soy itself.

Ravi Zacharias

While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.

Siobhan Davies

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

Neil Gaiman

I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

Allen Ginsberg

Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.

Albert Camus

I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.

Clay Shirky

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

Amory Lovins

Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.

Lorrie Moore

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

Roe Hye

So far we could not find any stem cells regarding Dr. Hwang's 2005 paper that genetically match the DNA of patients. Dr. Hwang's team doesn't have scientific data to prove that it has produced such stem cells.

Peter Andrews

Ninety-nine percent of the work in stem cells does not involve cloning. This episode will have little impact on pace of research in the field as a whole.

Craig Venter

Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live.

O. J. Simpson

I envision devices that detect disease much earlier than conventional detection methods. It could eventually be possible to initiate treatment at this very early stage using implanted devices that communicate with cells at the molecular level.

Simon McBurney

As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.

Chris Capuano

I've been throwing pretty good for location. I've been throwing more between starts and that helps out with location and making it easier to pitch.

Odette Annable

I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.

Sarah Hall

Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.

Mitchell Moore

We sort of fed off each other. We were able to do some things inside which got Logan open. When he started hitting his shots, it made it easier for us.

David Clarke

Making a network faster has never made it more secure or easier to use.

Abel Maldonado

made it easier for government to take property away from private citizens. That should be harder, not easier.

Roy Halladay

Loyalty for me is very important. You don't see it a lot in sports, not as much as sometimes I think you should. It's something that's important to me, it's something I value. It makes it easier when you're treated the way I've been treated.

Earl Blumenauer

less about reform of the ESA, or to protect species, and more about making it easier for the exploitation of the environment.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Adam McKay

I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Paul Pate

Could you imagine reducing our fatality rates by 60 percent?

Tom Izzo

Fatigue had zero to do with the loss. We did not do a good job of handling our lead in that situation.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Ani Difranco

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Ed Rollins

People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding.

Brent Carpenter

People don't understand the law, and they get in a hurry.

John Waters

People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.

Matt Eastwood

People don't throw out technology for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Jim Miller

People don't shop the way they used to. We had to throw in the towel.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Brodie Croyle

Don't get used to that. I want to stay back there and throw it if I can.

Suzanne Collins

Stay with me. Always.

Oscar Wilde

The best revenge is to live well.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love.

Jose Gonzalez

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

J. Hoover

We have to stay prepared. When the time comes we should be ready.

Melissa Marr

'Graveminder' is about a mortician, a young woman with commitment issues, a dead teenager, and a town called Claysville where the dead don't always stay dead.

Cory Lempka

If (Gallagher) has to choose, I would like for him to stay as the wrestling coach.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Stephen Sommers

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Mike Stratton

They were stepping in it and stepping on it.

Kevin Hart

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

Cecilia Bartoli

This is the secret-the repertoire. You have to try to consolidate your repertoire. It is a big step if you know how to do that.