Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Goldman

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

Scott Hartnell

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Jeff Greene

I'm always signing blank deeds. That's how an escrow company works.

Dan Brown

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Carolyn McCarthy

and here we are giving them (the industry) blanket immunity.

George Carlin

a blank slate -- and you get to play.

Diana Quick

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

Damien Hirst

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Rod Barnes

The thing that has helped him, our guys are so close. This is a close-knit group. I think that's one of the reasons why he came back. Most kids in that situation wouldn't have played today. But he made the commitment to come back, and I think the guys were excited to see him and really welcome him.

Stan Heath

The thing that got them over the top was Rondo's penetration. Time after time, where the shot clock was winding down with five or six seconds to go, he came up with the play. That's what great players do.

Antonio Villaraigosa

A few years ago, when (tourists) came to Hollywood, they were frankly a little let down because it didn't seem like that shining emerald of a place that they knew from afar.

Van Horn

A fair number of investors would like to see a sale, ... If they came out and said they're selling for $15 a share, we'd be excited too.

Jim Webb

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

Dan Hampton

The one thing that came back to me was how lucky I was to be standing there on that stage and it's all because of the benevolence of others and the great gifts and traits they helped me with and instructed me with all through my life. I could not be there without the coaches, the mentors, without the teammates I was able to play with all those years.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Allan Miller

People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for.

Jackie Young

The teachers union worked diligently during the last 21 months to secure a contract that will take care of the community, students and staff and make sure everything is equitable for everyone.

Dale Jr

The target is to run as good as you can every week. Everything else kind of takes care of itself.

Randy McClure

The thing that I'm most proud of, is tonight we got five kids in double digits. It's what we've been doing all year long. They don't care who scores and that's what I'm most proud of. They just play ball." ()

Ernie Passailaigue

After a while, they're going to drop by the wayside. The marketplace will take care of that.

Vic Tarasik

The most important thing we take care of is your immediate need, your transportation. You probably spend as much time in your car as you do in your home. It's an extension of you. It's important to you, and it's important to us.

Eddy Curry

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

P. Herbert

I sort of fell in with the wrong crowd. Things started getting twisted, and instead of facing my drug problem, I made excuses and justified getting away with it because I was maintaining a job and family.

Paul Davis

To be honest, I don't really think so. Everyone is tired this time of year. We can't make the excuse of being tired.

Jarome Iginla

We'll try to have the same mindset for Game 2 as we did Game 1. Now hopefully all the excuses are gone and we can keep going.

Tommie Harris

I take my hat off to them because they didn't have a bye week and we did. There was really no excuse for us to lose and not play as well as we were supposed to.

Tino Martinez

It's the greatest feeling in the world. Those teams we had in the late '90s and won the World Series, they just loved our team for the way we went about our business, the way we worked hard. We weren't real flashy stars. We didn't make excuses when things weren't going our way.

Christian Holland

The market is looking for a good excuse to sell off. The markets could be in for some trouble.

Bill Strassberger

To use that as an excuse to scuttle the program would undermine the integrity and security of the country.

Mary Leith

Tradition can be an excuse for staying the same, or for changing.

Robert Stimson

We expect Oracle to immediately execute a round of layoffs targeted at Siebel's back-office and administrative employees.

Roy Green

Losing is tough. I thought we played well enough to win. We didn't quite execute the way we wanted to down the stretch. We got a shot, which is what we wanted.

Robert Nichols

That was pretty nice to get in the end zone. I know what I have to do, I just have to execute and make it happen.

Kim Ensing

We had good focus from start to finish. We didn't really execute offensively, but we won with our heart. I've said it all season long, this team has heart.

Bret Reedy

I just think offensively the whole night we weren't in sync. We took quick shots, we took long shots and we didn't execute defensively.

Sarah Elliott

They had a lot of good pressure on us and we didn't execute our plays like we probably should have. We were just making a lot of simple mistakes that we could have corrected.

Nick Lewis

We didn't finish. We didn't execute our offense down the stretch and they did.

Gary Waters

We've got to execute defensively late in games. That's what's killed us.

Shelli Haferbecker

We knew that we just needed to execute a little better, and things would start to happen for us. Things got tight for us at the end, but we made the big play when we needed it.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Ben E. King

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Andy Roddick

First round of the U.S. Open, the last time that happened I was 17. It's not something I expected. You know, I just felt like I was going to have a pretty good run here.

Gloria Naylor

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

Grace Paley

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

Guillermo Mota

Everything felt nice and loose. No pain. It's good.

Natalie Maines

Everything felt more personal this time. I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Joel Brown

We've had trouble playing two halves all year long. We put one half together and we can't put the next one together. Tonight we got those two halves right.

Diana Gustafson

We could do it (set up shelter) in half an hour, if necessary.

Chad Cruthis

We talked about it and for our team right now, we had a lack of intelligence. We have a zone offense we've worked on for a month and a half and you saw that whole first half, we couldn't get people to get in the right spots.

Dale Dauten

If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would have would only be half as good as Steve Chandler.

Cory Hardrict

Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time.

John Robertson

The problem is, they are on a real slippery slope. In a year and a half they may not have any money,

Lord Chesterfield

We are, in truth, more than half of what we are by imitation

Smiley Blanton

For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Jeff Carter

That was one of the big things when they talked about playing me there at the start of the season.

Bob Bowlsby

That's the way it's got to be these days. When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postseason games, we share.

Ilya Bryzgalov

I wasn't nervous. It is hockey. Why am I supposed to be nervous? I'm relaxed just playing the game.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Jon Brion

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

Cara Castronuova

I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

Sherry Sylvester

Doug always makes it a point to talk to Peter.

Amelie Mauresmo

Dont try to look where theres no point looking,

Jaromir Jagr

First, we have to make the playoffs. Any point right now is huge.

Marcus Giles

The most important thing is to be able to put up a big inning when you' re down by five. As long as we're scoring runs, I feel like I'm doing my job.

Mike Ryn

We've been spreading out the scoring pretty well, and that's what you need at this time of the year.

Rick Anthony

We are scoring in bunches and getting them from everywhere.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Charles Harris

I would not have got to make my first film and I would not have been able to set up my second film.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

J. C. Chandor

To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.

Steve Adelsperger

We didn't rebound, we didn't do anything we talked about. They rebounded, they got second shots, and they made them.

Santiago Creel

Vote by vote, we are going to win the second and third rounds,

Stephen Jones

We have visited with Mr. McVeigh. We are going to work with him today, tonight and tomorrow for the second stage on Wednesday. I can't say anything more at this time.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Bianca Jagger

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

Arrigo Sacchi

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Bill Vaughan

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Toni Jennings

Where we are today is about where we were two weeks after Andrew,

Jay-Z

May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's

James Dyson

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.