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.

Richard Bach

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.

Richard Turner

Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.

Thomas Sowell

The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action

Robert Guillaume

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

Robert Ashley

Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.

Robert B. Parker

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Robert Anton Wilson

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Max Cleland

Deployments have increased some 300 percent, and the military has been decreased by a third: Hello, good morning -- you can't keep that up forever, ... Sooner or later you're going to get people stressed out, spread too thin around the world, and they just won't put up with it anymore.

John Feehery

Denny is good at picking up the pieces. He is a very soothing influence. At the end of the day, I think people will be looking to Denny for leadership.

Bill Walsh

Dennis Green is as good as they get,

Randy Martin

DeMorius had a good night and Markie had some good, tough runs on second effort.

Rig Veda

A person who performs good Karma (deeds) is always held in high esteem.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Clint Hurdle

You aren't going to replace a Todd Helton, but we have guys that can do things for us.

Martin Milner

You can't do a serious show about two guys in their 60s trying to find their route.

Aaron Cook

We've got 25 guys who aren't worried about history, just playing hard. We've got 25 guys who have learned some lessons the hard way.

Mike Shanahan

We'll keep all three of those guys out, ... But they should be able to go next week.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Robert Davies

Sometimes, it's hard to tell people what to do.

Andre Roy

Sometimes it's hard to get going because it's early, but I think once you're in the warm-up, you're ready to go. And I kind of like them in a way because you get done early.

Evgeni Plushenko

Sometimes it is so hard to walk on the street that I would like more to be in my car. It is unbelievable - crazy, crazy, crazy. People screaming, wanting autographs, wanting to take pictures with me. I like it, but sometimes it is too much.

Josh Homme

Sometimes hard decisions have to be made, and sometimes wonderful decisions have to be made. You've got to be willing to make them all.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Mac Gifford

She plays to win and she is a very mentally tough person. She just can't stand to lose.

Annika Sorenstam

She is very, very strong. She is mentally strong and she is tough.

Carlton Valentine

(Holt) did the little things that we didn't do. When you look at a four-point game, you look at the little things. We need to find some mental toughness, intestinal fortitude, a way to get it done. We'll get better.

Shane Montgomery

Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game.

Scott Podsednik

For the most part, it's just mentally getting over the hurdle, trusting it, being able to go out and put it in the back of my mind to where I'm not worrying about it.

Jodie King

I am disappointed in how we played. I really think it's a mental block. We were so keyed up, we had a letdown.

Ray LaCroix

It just didn't come together for us this year for a variety of reasons. I don't think it had anything to do with ability, I think it was a lot of mental things more than anything else. It's the same things that have plagued us all year.

Linda Hamilton

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Eiichi Katayama

We still see no prospect of a return to net profits.

Roland Nash

When it comes down to it, it is a net positive. But there are so many more important things.

Mike Lalonde

We didn't score on those chances, but I think we just have to keep getting the puck to the net and it will happen.

Ed Graczyk

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Michael Owen

It bothers me when I don't score.

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Holly Pickens

We had a lot of volleys that went for a long time. The score is kind of lopsided, but we had some long volleys.

Christine Sinclair

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

Tracy Egeland

I just think we did little things right. As a result, we were able to score some goals.

Josh Betts

It made it not look as bad, I guess, ... I think if we had a little more time, we could have had a better outcome, or better score at least.

Bob Bandoni

We didn't score as much as I thought we would.