Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Ford

Harris Interactive has been diligent in creating a voting panel that is balanced, statistically valid, and representative of all I-A conferences and independents.

Jiang Zemin

There are still in this world a few interest groups which always want to seek gains by creating tension here and there,

Derek Damon

His numbers speak for themselves. He hasn't let up a goal in the NCAA tournament. So obviously we are going to have to make sure we are creating a lot of traffic for him.

Lenny Klompus

The people themselves feel they are part of something and they are helping to make something and are creating the initiatives that the governor wants to do.

Brian Idalski

We talked about the importance of scoring playoff type goals. Creating traffic in front of the net, moving into the slot and finding the open area. Tonight it happened to be higher in the slot.

Stephen Allen

What I'm actually doing is proposing to invest in Indiana. I'm actually talking about creating jobs here.

Jeff Southard

What you're doing is creating an expectation in the public that you're doing something that VDOT won't be able to fulfill. You're setting VDOT up for failure. You're setting VDOT up to take the fall.

Cameron Rast

I thought we looked very sharp and started the game very quickly. We did a good job of forcing the issue and creating opportunities and we found ourselves up by three goals early. If I had to say there was one thing I feel we need to learn from this match, it is how to play with a lead. We weren't as sharp in the second half and didn't quite force our flow to the game.

Nancy Bain

I think what you're creating is false promises.

Virginia Woolf

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

Kurt Schwitters

New things had to be made out of fragments.

E. M. Forster

Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am a writer of fragments.

Larry Bortniker

Just make sure they have a glass of wine first.

David Darst

I think investors are looking through a glass darkly. Their outlook is relatively murky, so they are putting money under the mattress, so to speak.

Timothy McVeigh

He walked back and put his hands up to the glass (against my hands), ... He smiled ... and off he went.

David Patten

He knows the magnifying glass is on him right now. We have to be very supportive of him right now. There is a lot of pressure on him. He needs to make those throws.

Tom Kruse

Have a glass of wine, some pasta, sit a while and chat. Just let the guys know when you're ready to bottle, and they'll set you up.

Mike McCarthy

He said he needs to be 100% sure. He knows what he has to put in to play the way he plays. I'm an optimist. I think the glass is half full. It's about him and his family.

Caron Butler

He's been the sparkplug, hitting big shots when we need them. Like I told him, I hope that he makes the All-Star team. That would be big for him and for this organization. But if not, he's an All-Star in our minds. He's hitting the glass hard and making other guys better.

Jay Wright

He's good. We actually recruited him. We really liked him. ... You know what he's going to do. He's just going to pound you. He's going to go to the glass every time. He's going to be very physical. He's a good player. He might surprise some people, but he doesn't surprise us because we recruited him.

Mark Twain

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly

Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Robert Pattinson

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

Rod Serling

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

Voltaire

All is but illusion and disaster.

W. Somerset Maugham

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Yann Martel

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

Zelda Fitzgerald

One illusion is as good as another.

Jorge Amado

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

William McDonough

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

William McDonough

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.

Richard Courant

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Walter Scott

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Zig Ziglar

Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.

Michael Keenan

If you look at the subcategories, you see a backlog in sales orders while inventory levels are down and purchasing commitments are up,

Scott Skiles

I'm pretty sure Larry invented the game. I'm pretty sure about that.

Darin Strauss

I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.

Neil Gershenfeld

In a way, the Fab Labs are havens for inventive outliers in society.

A.E. Howard

It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Bill Ross

It is a language, and it touches on things oral or written language don't get to. When I first met Antonio, I wondered if he could speak. He was so shy.

Tony DiSanto

Laguna' was sort of told in the visual language of a lush teen drama. The idea here was to be a little grittier, more voyeuristic.

Carol Bruess

I think we're seeing a more relaxed, more offensive, some would say, use of language, the use of swearing.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Stephen Sachs

He doesn't know what language is. He has been totally isolated,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Kim Bauer

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

Susan Kuretsky

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

William Paul

The painting put all of the pieces together and proved it was real.

William S. Burroughs

You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

Robert Delaunay

Nature engenders the science of painting

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Robert Motherwell

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

Robert Rauschenberg

Basically painting is total idiocy.

Robert Rauschenberg

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

William Wordsworth

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Robert Plant

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

Wayne Thiebaud

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

W. G. Sebald

This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.

Wayne Coyne

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Wayne Dyer

Living from the perspective at which you came from and returning to source really is an act of remembering, rather than an act of learning.

Jimmy Johnson

There are so many pieces to the puzzle,

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Russell Baker

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Robert Shaw

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

Warren Buffett

You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

Warren Buffett

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Emily Oster

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

Joe Hopkins

There will be planes in the air, and no, we're not worried,

Andrew Kluger

Rather than rush through with the inspection, to get the planes up right away faster, that they should take their time carefully.

Howard Dean

no safer today than the day the planes struck the World Trade Center.

Charles Bickers

Deliveries will take place as soon as planes are completed.

Anne Hathaway

The movie showed on planes it seems like forever,

Claudio Ranieri

In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

Cillian Murphy

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Robbie Bach

Historically, there's been one price point and one configuration. You got it whether you wanted it or not,

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

Bruce Jackson

I think that's all been settled, I don't know what their point is now, anyway.

Frank Thomas

We've got to try and do something with this, because it's getting to the point where it's getting really frustrating. This is excruciating. After I run, it's just really, really sore. I ran the other day (Friday), and I ran hard, and it was really sore. I don't know what we're going to do now. Hopefully, we'll come up with something.

Royce Chadwick

We've done pretty well. It just comes down to whether we put an exclamation point on the season or a period.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Roy Wright

I think we?re getting to a point of equilibrium. I think we?re getting back to the norm.

Djuna Barnes

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

Umberto Eco

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Rick Danko

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

Rick James

You and I, we'll be together 'til the six is nine.

William Jennings Bryan

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Virginia Woolf

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

William Wycherley

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

William Shenstone

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

William Shatner

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

Nicole Richie

I was like a trash can - I took everything.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Ashley Thomas

We took the practice, so much I shouldn't be worried.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Maggie Mueller

We took them lightly. And we shouldn't have.

Solomon Jones

We took them for granted. If we don't play hard, we took them for granted.

Norv Turner

We took a look at all 16 of them,

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Louis Cataldie

Being in the water that long makes visual identification essentially an impossibility,

Elliott Erwitt

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

Annie Lennox

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

Asif Kapadia

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

Stevie Wonder

is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think a visual identification will be possible. It's not about the numbers. It's about the body.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think visual identification will be a possibility,

Claude M. Bristol

Undoubtedly we become what we envisage.

William Shenstone

Written on a Window of an Inn,

Samuel Beckett

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

William C. Bryant

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

Wendell Berry

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

Pat Schneider

And what is more generous than a window?

Maria Callas

Don't come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can't make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.

Joseph Joubert

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

Mark Twain

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.