Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Katz

Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.

Daniel Boulud

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Ethan Harris

If you're doing budget planning in business, you budget for the downside risks, not for the most optimistic scenario. But the federal government doesn't have to worry too much -- it's the only business that has a blank check.

Rod Blagojevich

I think a blanket anything is usually wrong. We're talking about convicted murderers, and I think that is a mistake.

Laura Bush

I remember feeling as if a blanket had been thrown over our school,

James Fenton

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

Chris Mauro

Everybody's figuring how they're going to get on with their life. There's probably a shortage of 2,000 boards a week globally now. It'll be months before things are back up to speed where any Joe Blow can get a blank -- maybe even years.

Mark Schultz

The blanket label of 'tech' does more harm than good for investors.

Robin Hobb

Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.

Brooke Bingaman

Keep your fingers crossed. Wednesday looks like a break.

Glen Campbell

It hurts and I'm going to have to have it operated on. Sometimes, I have to use just three fingers on my left hand when I play.

Stuart Pearce

I think Trevor has stretched ligaments in his knee but we will not know for sure until all the tests are done. I have got my fingers crossed.

Frank Ostanik

I didn't, for whatever reason, get our guys to play hard. I can't point fingers at our guys because I didn't get them ready to play the way they needed to.

Dusty Baker

He hadn't had anything to this point. We'll keep our fingers crossed.

David James

There will be a lot of fingers pointed obviously because the four goals we've conceded have all been from set plays,

Roy Barnhart

It sat around here for years. I wouldn't use it. I ripped my fingers up and everything. If you had a glove on, you were going in with it.

Ronald Kessler

We plan to stay with this group over the next two years so that we can keep our fingers on the psychological pulse of this population.

Denis Leary

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Scott Terry

I write about everything in life. Whether it be things that plague us in the world today or what's on the front page of the newspaper or even love, it all comes down to what inspires you.

Dave Freer

just the main front in a war which has nothing to do with Iraq,

Glenn Walters

Josiah wrestled you down in front of your children, upsetting them to the point that they started to cry.

David Rudow

I think it's a good acquisition because it's the front end of development.

David Small

I think it brightens the spotlight on recycling as an issue in front of the General Assembly. It also recognizes that these things take time.

Marty Reasoner

It can be tough getting out of the way when you're standing in front of the net.

Linda Greene

He was a good kid, and he had a great future in front of him.

Paul Ford

He's a force. I got a front row seat on-deck.

Dave Strang

He shot it from the point. I think it was deflected once if not twice in front of the net.

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Rob McKittrick

He is that guy in the movie. He is that funny guy who can get in your grill, and be funny about it. He's a lot more interesting in person than you usually see on the screen.

Trevor Noah

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Taylor Hawkins

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

Shaquille O'Neal

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

Maddie Ziegler

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

Seth Rogen

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

Eric Antebi

We have to be creative. If people get an e-mail with a funny gimmick, they'll be more likely to pass it on and get involved.

Danny Devito

Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.

Anton LaVey

One of the keys to success is an unflinching belief that there are no rules. Anyone who's ever succeeded has gone on that premise; not buying established procedures, business or otherwise. The naysayers are inevitably left behind amid shouts of 'it cannot be done' and "should not be done'."

Richard Curtis

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

Reza Aslan

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

Rex Stout

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

Sarah Palin

Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

Richard M. Nixon

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

Ricardo Semler

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

Vince Young

Preparation is the biggest key right now.

Warren Buffett

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.

Marcus Trufant

We're not worried about getting the big-time stuff in the papers and magazines. We're just trying to win ballgames.

Umberto Eco

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

Rick Bragg

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Richard Karn

It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.

Robert Scheer

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

W. P. Kinsella

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

Rod Taylor

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

William Faulkner

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Simon Reuben

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Robert Schwentke

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

Werner Herzog

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

Bruce Goldstein

Before Clara Bow, all the screen sirens were kind of exotic.

Katie Couric

I know. I want to see it on the big screen though, you know?

Eoin Colfer

I'm kind of in the dark. All I know is that the screenplay is finished.

Ridley Scott

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

Casey Kasem

The dullest thing in the world is waiting for your scene. But the most exciting thing is seeing yourself on the screen and then getting compliments.

Ryan Murphy

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Scott Weiland

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Jeff Davidson

When plywood starts to go up to $23 a sheet ... that's a lot of dollars.

Errol Morris

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

Randy Cunneyworth

He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

David Francis

I think what we can say is we're watching the situation carefully.

Rahul Gandhi

I will speak to you tomorrow and till then I will sit there (among the delegates).

George Hamilton

Well, you were sitting practically on Len's lap.

M. Wolfe

He was just sitting here three weeks ago.

R. Halloran

He was in a stressful situation that day.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Susie Orbach

I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.