Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Brooke Bingaman

We do see spring in our future. There will be a block of dry weather early next week that could transition us into more typical spring weather than the persistent rain we've been experiencing for so long.

Paul Konerko

You have to resist the urge to think that way. It's hard to do, block that stuff out, but it's something we have to do.

Mike Pompeo

Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.

Neil MacDonald

There's no spam filter in the world that is going to block this, which is why it is particularly insidious.

Charlie Whitehurst

There's no telling what James can do next year. The sky's the limit for James and a bunch of other young guys. It's pretty easy to call plays and block with James in the backfield.

Michael Pariza

What CLA does is it's able to block that step of little fat cells getting bigger. Our results showed that CLA made it easier for people to stay on their diets.

Lance Cottrell

We've been surprised how long it takes the Chinese to block these sites. It generally takes them in excess of one week.

Frank Warren

We tried to make this fight many years ago but the stumbling block was always what Roy wanted to be paid.

Baruch Spinoza

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

Kenny G

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Deborah Tannen

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Karen Johnson

We have a shortage of communication with the district.

Edward Abbey

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Alexander Alekhine

The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.

Douglas Conant

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

David Foster Wallace

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

Rashad Anderson

People say we may lose this tournament because of lapses. It's not happening.

Carmelo Anthony

You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.

Bob Hamley

You find out more about people when you lose than you do when you're winning. We're trying to find our identity.

Jay Hakkinen

There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if you lose that awareness, you shouldn't have a rifle in your hand.

Luke Donald

I don't think you win or lose this tournament off the tee. I mean, it's all around the greens.

Ozzie Guillen

How can you be a choker or a loser when you've won 91 games?

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Branford Marsalis

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Bono

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

Bruce Beresford

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.