Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lane

Caffeine only temporarily blocks the signals to your brain that let you know you?re tired.

Kevin Kwan

I know an elderly society matron in Singapore who would rather walk in the scorching sun for blocks on end rather than have her chauffeur drive into the Central Business District at peak hour and pay the $1.50 surcharge.

Sheila DiNardo

It just sums it all up, of how focused she is as a player. I think when she gets into a game, she blocks everything out, including records or anything like that. She just plays. Definitely, not one of those foul shots bothered her.

Herman Frazier

A lot of times we field calls about the large blocks of tickets that are held by corporations and different people who sometimes don't come to the contests. Now they will be able to put those tickets back into the system.

Bill Sammler

It's not like performing an evacuation before a hurricane. You only want to move inland two or three blocks or get up to the second story of a building.

Jim Phillips

For instance, for every 500 students, we need a new school; for every 700 students, we need a new school. The administration has to provide the direction and we have to determine the perimeters as the starting blocks to those long-range plans.

Shane Carruth

It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film.

Matt Wagner

It was a short one, so I was going to leave it. But I took it and made a few moves and got a few great blocks and took it all the way.

Paul Morse

Sometimes they have options moving outside just two blocks of where they're now located.

George P. Shultz

Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.

John Parry

What might have been lost in terms of production and refining capacity was more than made up for by the hurricanes driving oil prices up a couple dollars a barrel.

Leendert Staal

There is nobody who can, with any certainty, forecast demand. But there is definitely not a need for increased capacity for custom manufacturing. Speculative investment of several hundred million dollars is not the wisest move.

William Rochelle

We just have one catastrophe after another in the industry. I'm not sure any of them have the capacity to respond on their own.

Newt Gingrich

To David Sarnoff, the creator of NBC, the word 'visionary' meant a capacity to see into tomorrow and make it work.

Chris Bown

He taught me how to do things for people that they wouldn't do for themselves. He had an endless capacity to give.

Sean Randolph

Research and development never stopped, it was going on all the time. The entrepreneurs didn't vanish. The creative people and the scientists did not go away. Yes, employees were lost and profits fell for a while. But the fundamental capacity of the region, the foundation for new technologies, never was impaired.

Sergei Lavrov

Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements.

E. B. White

Refiners are exhausted, like runners in midmarathon. They've been pushing very hard since last year. As a practical matter, these things have limits. If you push too hard, capacity drops.

Liang Liang

He knows how to handle the subtle inner feelings in a Eastern way while retaining the American way of telling the story.

Patrick Franklin

What we have in East Texas today in regards to gay rights is the tyranny of the majority. It is up to us to stand up to that tyranny.

Prince Nayef

It is a fact ? unfortunately ? that there was (a plan) to target key installations in Eastern Province,

John Congemi

I want to try and make this place a destination for people to come and want to play. The renovation went so well. There should be a line out front to play the East Course.

Jimmy Tubbs

He might be pressing a little bit, but he has to keep working. We'll start the same lineup in East Carolina.

William Howard Taft

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

Roger Ebert

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

Zaha Hadid

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

Jerry Davis

Region 5-AAA is loaded. Other than East Hall and Lithia Springs, this is by far the toughest team we've faced. It's going to take a great effort to win this one.

Hal McRae

If somebody else tried to do what Jimmy does, they'd leave here in a straightjacket. He's different. What works for him probably wouldn't work for somebody else. He's so gifted, and that's probably made what he's going through worse.

Ron Beard

Jimmy was in the groove. He looked unstoppable.

Don Reed

Wherever you go in Montana, you are going to run into someone who knows Jimmy Dow in athletics.

Pat Burrell

Without Jimmy doing what he does, we're not where we are now. He's what makes us go. To not see that is pretty bad.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Kurt Busch

Roger told me to stand on the right pedal, turn left and go fast. He doesn't want me to do anything different. Just race hard, race smart.

Bill Womack

Our left side should be really solid and we should be strong up the middle.

Brian Griese

If you look at our running game, the push that they're getting off the line of scrimmage on the left side is something we haven't had here before. It's been very impressive.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Alex Brown

I don't know that we've got his number yet.

Robert Keats

I don't know where their number comes from.

Steve Tisch

I'd be shocked if the suggestion internally to recommend two teams ever comes up. I think the numbers are too big. I think it would be an overwhelming suggestion. Over time, possibly.

Richard P. Feynman

Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

Richard J. Needham

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Cynthia Johnson

In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going there.

Paul Vachon

If you give them open looks, they don't miss. But if you have someone there, and especially with Paradis because she shoots from the hip, it's going to be a little tougher than if they're open.

Jeff Hironaka

In the first half, we (hit the 3), and that opened things up. We had better opportunities to go to the basket. That's how we have to play.

Justin Leonard

I played a practice round with him at Baltusrol in the '93 Open on my 21st birthday,

David Cross

If the owner hadn't come and seen the smoke, by time this place opened tonight it would have been rolling.

Scott Gerber

We are going to pursue every option to get it passed.

Orrin Hatch

It is important that I keep working on all options to protect our state,

Sundiata Gaines

I really think our only option is to win the SEC Tournament.

Lauryn Williams

Allyson had the option of running, and she wasn't very comfortable as the first leg. No one is angry. No one is upset about not being able to run the relay.

Nicholas Kristof

Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?

Stephen Bailey

This provides a second option for our students.

Dana Stabenow

I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

Dan Becker

There's lot of options out there for me.

Jarno Trulli

I am not in a rush and we are talking but I have other options and I don't want to wait until September to sort out my future.

Jean Brault

It was the first time that I would say I sowed, as we say in the business, a little seed to get one of these non-conventional contracts.

Charles Baudelaire

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

Sean McGuire

A seed that he planted 40 years ago ... I think he would be very pleased,

Mike Hayes

The seeds germinated, but as it leafed, it died, ... You'd come back a day later, and it would be dead.

Deepak Chopra

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

Clara Blair

She planted the seed about two years ago.

Ben Howland

We're a two or a three seed and I think that's pretty certain.

Vandana Shiva

When you control seed you control food

Glen Taylor

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Johnny Christ

If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

Charisma Carpenter

You can't stand her, but you can't stop watching.

Maggie Lynch

It's pretty standard throughout the country. And we don't give them to families, like they do in New York.

John D. MacDonald

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Danny Nikolic

He was always travelling like the winner. I like the horse, he will only get better.