Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Spencer

John Bland is so quick off the football he's hard to find,

Jorge Ramos

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

Atharva Veda

All other tastes are bland and insipid; through them, the body and mind are rendered insipid as well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

John Galbraith

these are the days when men... seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.

Dale Murphy

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

Liane Moriarty

Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

Julia Brown

Multinational companies inside and outside the mainland (China) are turning to local and traditional themes to stand out from the all-too-often bland crowd of international corporate identities.

Leslie Fink

People often think that light cooking is bland and boring, causing them to only stick with healthier eating for the short term. But if you use lots of flavorful ingredients such as fresh herbs, fruit juices, garlic and other strong seasonings, low-fat/low-calorie cooking can be very delicious and satisfying, helping people to stick to a healthy eating pattern for a lifetime.

Brad Hopkins

He's a disruptive force. But it's one of those things where you go into it knowing. You expect a challenge, and you have to be up for it.

Jim Hendry

He gets your offense going. He's a catalyst. He's a disruptive guy to the other team.

Jim Price

In the world of speed cooking, we're the think tank. We have a disruptive technology that the others don't have. It's life-changing.

Francis Costello

IM is inherently new to a lot of people, ... There is big gap between regular users and those who feel that it's disruptive and don't see how it will integrate.

Roger Fox

These things are extremely disruptive to the students, the teachers and the community. This is a small town. I just want this to go away.

Katie Meier

They were very disruptive to our offensive sets. I think we had some shots we could've hit, but they were very physical with Tamara.

Dale Hunter

They have a good team. They are a different team. The trades they made have worked out for them. Everyone forgets that these are young kids and what happened before was very disruptive for them. What they needed to do is move on. That's what life is all about, moving on. They've done it.

Mike Thibault

They're disruptive (defensively), but by this point in the series, we should be able to better handle it.

Roy Lind

It was the least disruptive of any options we could think of.

Sylvia Earle

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

Susan Minot

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

Michael Morpurgo

You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.

Bob Woodward

He's a man of conscience, and I'm sure he's been interviewed endlessly about why he did it,

Alana Stewart

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

Peter Benchley

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

Stephen Frears

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.

Gabrielle Giffords

Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Chuck D.

Jake is a 100-yard threat running the ball, he's a good thrower and he has a great understanding of our offense.

Isadore Sharp

It has been held to the principles of what Terry wanted. So 25 years is probably just the beginning.

David Pascoe

Law enforcement officers are held in a position of trust and they are held to a higher standard. That is why allegations like this are so troubling.

Tracy Egeland

I think they held up pretty well. We had a lot of skating, a lot of skill work. I think they did pretty good.

Cuki Alvarez

He held his opponent to the fence, threw leg kicks, knees to the head, and punches. It was three minutes of punishment and that's when the referee stopped the fight.

Kevin Delaney

He may not have been holding the steering wheel, but he was the one who held all the power.

Mark Blondin

Our members spoke out and held the line.

Gary Mitchell

I just held him like I would my own son.

Stacy Kim

I played pretty well. I missed a lot of putts that I could have made. I stuck it out and held it together.

Larry Powell

I'm very disappointed to have to come back now, I think we should have held out. I feel bad. I don't know what we got.

Rian Johnson

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Robert Toombs

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Tove Jansson

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

Robin Morgan

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Bob Taylor

I'll probably be working. To the ordinary run-of-the-mill person, I think this will just be another day.

Narciso Rodriguez

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Rick Vanhoy

Darius is stocky. And he's not an ordinary fullback because he can run right by you.

Ken Burns

There are no ordinary lives.

Ron Redmond

We've been there over a week, and we've made repeated requests.

Andrew Mitchell

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Mike Sherman

He seems to understand that this is a big year for him. And I think he wants to do something about that.

Rick Comley

He seems to be right on top of things and very alert. We've always had trouble with him.

Kevin Burton

He's had team success, but it seems like he's always come up a little short.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

David Walton

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

Virginia Woolf

We insist, it seems, on living.

Yogi Berra

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

Hilary Mantel

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

J. I. Packer

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.