Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel E. Morison

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

David Ayer

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.

Steven Wood

The trade figures are distorted by the effects of foreign re-insurance on the World Trade Center. Nevertheless, international trade is contracting.

Anthony Chan

I think it's fair to say it'll be the least important or most distorted jobs report in memory. Maybe both.

Elliott Walden

He's by Distorted Humor, and we always want to support our own stallions.

Neal Asher

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

Paul Wolfowitz

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.

Bob Johnson

In the 16 years I've come here, I have never heard so much uninformed, misleading and distorted testimony on a bill.

Hugh Johnson

These numbers were highly impacted if not distorted by Hurricane Katrina.

Denis Leary

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Charlaine Harris

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

Chris Carpenter

When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.

Jan Brett

When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.

Margo Wootan

It's not enough any more for the government to publish dietary guidelines and point their finger at Americans and say, 'Eat better.' It takes more than that.

David James

There will be a lot of fingers pointed obviously because the four goals we've conceded have all been from set plays,

Roy Barnhart

It sat around here for years. I wouldn't use it. I ripped my fingers up and everything. If you had a glove on, you were going in with it.

Ronald Kessler

We plan to stay with this group over the next two years so that we can keep our fingers on the psychological pulse of this population.

Trombone Shorty

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

Michael Gove

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

Rob Thomas

About midway through (last) year, we started having to think about the big mystery for season two.

Capt. Ready

They tried to recruit some students from Dowling Middle School.

Mimi Rodriguez

It's an unwritten rule that the middle passenger should get two armrests.

Cameron Crowe

I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.

Lance Armstrong

There's a setup here and I'm stuck in the middle of it,

Jacqueline Roberts

It was the middle of the night. We waited for the ambulance for 45 minutes.

Ed Parkinson

It will be all or nothing. There won't be any middle road.

Giancarlo Fisichella

It was important for me to do my best. It was really hot. In the middle of the race you are tired. It's important to concentrate.

Charlie Sexton

We were trying to nail this one song, but the feel was all wrong,

Benoit Mandelbrot

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

Caroline Corr

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

Lee Melchionni

For him to make those shots at the end, it's a little like daggers, nails in the coffin.

Johnny Pesky

It was for the whole shebang, you know? ... You play every day tooth and nail in order to be in a spot like that.

Bob Dylan

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

Judith Curry

This new study really nails down that link.

Sebastian Horsley

My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

Max Lucado

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

Alain Prost

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot...

Deepika Padukone

I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

Sarah Garuti

When he got angry, he would have a tone of voice that really scared me.

Ed Sheeran

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

Bitsie Tulloch

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

Bette Midler

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

Chauncey Billups

It's all about guts. I've had so many ups and downs, I'm not scared of being down.

Bill Keller

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

Jamie Brown

We're not going to show up and shove it off the truck.

Teresa Kerry

You said something I didn't say. Now shove it.

Peggy Noonan

could even shove Alberto Gonzales down their throats.

Khaled Hosseini

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

Bill Rammell

It will be an important part of wider work into admissions testing,

Henry Shelton

Things are worse. The gap's getting wider -- between those who have and those who do not.

Anthony Brown

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.