Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up.

Edmund White

I think it's really interesting to talk about Foucault in one chapter and smelling poop in the basement in the next. It seems to me that life is just that complicated.

Michelle Miller

I don't have to throw stuff into the garbage that is perfectly good. I'm cleaning through my basement and closets and have been able to offer a lot.

Clinton Sparks

I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time, and music was my best friend, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Eddie Compass

Our officers have been urinating and defecating in the basement of Harrah's Casino, ... They have been going in stores to feed themselves.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

Chip Sigmon

You'd go to the Kannapolis Y, and the weights were hidden down in the basement where no one ever went, ... Now weights are the centerpiece of every Y in the country.

Robert Coleman

All I heard was this big explosion, and I saw fire come out the basement door. I called my mom downstairs, then hurried up and rushed them out the house.

Kelly Bastone

Everyone has important family stuff under their beds, in the basement and in the attic. As a museum, it's our place to offer this kind of service to the community.

Paul Gillis

I think it's going to do a lot of good for the city. I think that it's going to help out by cleaning up the houses, some of the streets.

R. Inge

I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tainted with an illegal substance. It's just going to make the playing field a little more level.

Tracy Bowen

It isn't getting better. We just keep cleaning it up every year.

Bob Greenly

He has started work on cleaning up the property. I haven't been out there in a week, but (Underfer) is working on it.

Mario Gallucci

He feels sorry for these people, that they're living this nightmare. But he also knows they were sterilized. If they weren't, then that was the fault of the distributors who were sterilizing the tissue and cleaning it.

Roseanne Barr

Excuse the mess but we live here.

Brent Newell

Particulate matter pollution kills people. We're a long way from cleaning up this problem.

Peter Evans

If you've got a switch underwater obviously it won't operate. It's also difficult to repair. There's so much potential damage from static discharge, dirt and algae that the cost of cleaning it would likely exceed the cost of replacing it.

Peter Evans

If you've got a switch underwater obviously it won't operate, ... It's also difficult to repair. There's so much potential damage from static discharge, dirt and algae that the cost of cleaning it would likely exceed the cost of replacing it.

Jon Bruning

Conservatives, come out of the closet

Lance Loud

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.

Jodi Picoult

You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

Karen Thompson Walker

Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.

Judith Light

We all have our own closets to come out of

Henry Van Dyke

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

Jeff Williams

They still have all their stuff and their closets are full. It never occurred to me how difficult it might be to move into somebody's house with all of their stuff in it and then pick up, without a pause, in the normal day-to-day operations.

Alex Steffen

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

Glenn Martin

We're just in dire need of room for special education. We're using all the space we can, including closets and showers.

Helen Marshall

I went to the site, ... This is the Fountains of the something or other. It is really now just a big, big pool of stagnant water, with garbage thrown in.

Rob Corddry

It looks like garbage, my ass. But trust me, you're lucky it's not full-frontal.

Walter Dean Myers

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

Yehuda Berg

Your garbage, transformed, is your gift.

Frank Dane

Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector.

Andy King

I myself only had my garbage picked up last week, and when I went home, my wife told me about it,

Lauren Holly

I had that L.A. mentality, I shredded the garbage and I had picked a house that was isolated,

Jose Saramago

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

Connie Johnson

You can't get shrimp with so much garbage out there. You'd tear your nets up.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

GM Howson

We submitted another offer and we'll see where it goes.

Jon Brayshaw

I will offer no preconceived solutions. The worst thing in the world is for the first selectman to tell them what to do.

Lute Olson

He's doing fine. He called to offer us his congratulations. He's upbeat.

Bill Tolford

We may never get another offer like that.

Wayne Wilson

He was offered scholarships by Colgate and Niagara, but he wants to be an engineer, so he picked us.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Molly Ivins

Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

Allen Lichtenstein

Absolutely. That's perfectly within the realm of what should be done.

Bill Johnson

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

Brian Blair

This is set up perfectly for retail - some day. With that said, we would be doing a service, not a disservice.

James Whistler

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Aldous Huxley

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Annie Lennox

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Paul Davis

Keep writing that stuff ? I'll keep getting 27 points.

Jim Hogan

There is going to be a ton of stuff happening.

Jack Soden

We've been thinking about this stuff for so long, but now we can actually do it.

Allard Baird

We think he has the stuff to be a starter.

Mike Fitzpatrick

I think it's the weight of the swelling inventories. And the geopolitical stuff has cooled off a little bit, but it's just in the background.

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

Adam Dunn

He has this big generator he's started once a year for like 20 years just for stuff like this,

H. Hart

He does stuff like that all the time.

Rob Sheffield

I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

Joe Mauer

He's just touching up. He was a up a little bit, but he was throwing hard.

Cliff Floyd

If you have anything on the throw and it's accurate, you've got a chance,

Johnathan Joseph

If you're on the top guy, you're going to get some balls thrown your way.

Mike Hampton

If you're durable, if you're used to throwing a lot, ... I don't think there is any problem.

Andre Ward

I think my jab has a lot to do with having a throwback trainer in Virgil,

Jason Johnson

I just didn't have command. I usually usemy sinker as my out-pitch and tonight I couldn't throw it where and when I wanted to.

Tom Gordon

I hadn't thrown him a curveball in the at-bat. I had thrown him fastballs and cutters.

Sim Osborn

I had these toys in my house, I've thrown them out, and told everyone I know.

Gerald Laird

I'm throwing good, my thumb is 100 percent,