Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Michael Sheldon

The mood of the market has clearly improved in recent weeks and this most likely reflects optimism that the Fed is close to the end of its recent rate tightening cycle.

Arnie Berman

Companies in the technology sector are clearly overcapitalized and they are going to be increasingly forced by investors to make decisions about their cash,

David Nelson

Despite its size and efforts toward branding and value-added, the company is clearly not immune to the inherent volatility of the various protein sectors.

Russell Gray

Anton staying with Otago clearly has had a significant influence on James as I'm sure it will on other players.

Paul Kasriel

A recession is in the eye of the beholder, and the eye of the NBER, but clearly we're struggling here. We're at stall speed and it's not clear what, in the short term, is going to get the economy's nose up.

Neal Miller

An IDNS report of tests results four days later states clearly that no cobalt 60 or other fission products were in that water.

Thierry Breton

The situation that is creating tension today on the currency market ... is clearly the American deficit.

Peter Cameron

As long as I've got my eyesight I'm not going to stop.

Emily McNamara

(Coach) does a good job of keeping the pressure off, but going into every game he reminds us we have a bull?s eye on our back.

Richard Rose

Anything you can do like that can be helpful, anything that can open eyes up.

Kevin Brownlow

The silent film was not only a vigorous popular art; it was a universal language - Esperanto for the eyes

David Morris

The temptation is to pick the eyes out of the wines to make a great wine, a trophy-winning wine,

Unknown

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Brion O'Connor

I usually operate on an intuitive level. I just saw something in this kid's eyes. It's an intangible thing. But there was a spark there, something I just responded to.

Richard Natonski

I wanted to come out here to look you in the eyes to tell you that this is a good aircraft,

Matt Damon

a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales as seen through the eyes of Terry Gilliam in a wild fantasy world only he could create.

Busy Philipps

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

Ani Difranco

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?

E. M. Forster

Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.

Drew Carey

Every election I have to hold my nose to vote.

Andrew Tobias

The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, " For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.

Taisen Deshimaru

If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.

Michael Cera

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.

Jack Steinberger

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

Cassandra Clare

Goodness, my nose is enormous,' she exclaimed. 'Why didn't anyone tell me?

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Dr. House

How does someone just start drooling? Chase? Were you wearing your short shorts?

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

John Challenger

Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's slowed everything down, paradoxically.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Angela Kinsey

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

Francis Bacon

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

Jeff Cooper

Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.

Jeff Bridges

Life's picking up speed.

Jean-Luc Godard

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

Mike Anderson

I didn't feel like I had enough speed to accelerate.

Jack McKeon

What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.

Sharon Alexander

We're struggling to survive, ... We can't go down after 59 years.

Scott Kazmir

I didn't have all my control. I was struggling down in the zone.

Errol Alcott

I think he's struggling for this weekend, that's for sure.

Tommy Lee Jones

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

John Haddan

We were struggling the first time through the league.