Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stan Kenton

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Daniel Smith

If our form of expression comes out of blatant robbery then we as the messenger are open for justified criticism of our message.

Karen Holbrook

The issue was the coach had entered into a clear violation of NCAA bylaws, it was a considered to be a blatant violation, and an egregious violation, and one that had no remedy.

Michael Specter

The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, and the misguided desire to do good - for our health, our families, and the world. That is why so many physicians dismiss the idea that a patient's race can, and often should, be used as a tool for better diagnoses and treatment.

Edward Greenspan

This is a blatant example of overreaching by the prosecutor.

David Leavy

We have seen continued fighting and reports of atrocities. It only underscores the brutality of the Milosevic regime and his blatant disregard for human life, and the necessity for NATO's strong response to his repression.

Jimmy Wales

People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it. It's in poor taste...People have a lot of information about themselves but staying objective is difficult. That's the trade-off in editing entries about yourself...If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Boomer Esiason

They all like to chirp, ... There is such a blatant level of competition between these guys. It's like the scoring title in the NBA.

Kay Daly

This is an extraordinary and blatant display of judicial activism.

Ellen Anderson

This is not a trivial matter. From my perspective, this case demonstrates a blatant disregard for the privilege of owning a liquor license and for city ordinances designed to regulate the sale of alcohol.

Sandra Smith

He was a leader, he wasn't a follower. The boys are really having a hard time. Every last one of the kids is having a hard time because they really looked up to Jeffrey.

Frankie Dettori

He could win it and go on why not? He's done nothing wrong. He just lacks experience. He's got to tackle the big boys sooner or later, so Saturday should be a good test for him.

Simon Fuller

S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

Larry King

I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.

Joe Ehrmann

What would happen in Sacramento if we raised a whole generation of boys to love and be loved, to connect? There is the potential to spark life into these kids. The potential to change all of Sacramento by teaching kids to become part of a team and a community.

Maura O'Connor

Hockey has always been a big deal here with the boys program. But people are starting to realize what we're doing. That's good, because we really do have a good team.

Dan Hoffa

I thought we really stepped up in the fourth quarter on defense, otherwise we struggled the other three quarters. Offensively I was very pleased with what the boys did. They just seem to step up when they need to and that is something we've been doing all season. This was a good team win and I'm proud of them.

Scott Touchette

I thought everyone, boys and girls, did very well. We set a lot of P.R.'s (personal records) today.

Carl Brown

It is something that I refer to as a little miracle. Boys' Town is a secret that we now want for people to know. For the people around that have nothing else to do, I really want to offer them hope. The hope that there is a future out there for them and I want them to understand that there are people out there that care for them. The thing is, they'll not care until they find out that we care.

Nadine Velazquez

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

Michael Raab

Going forward, DaimlerChrysler's fortunes will be driven by Mercedes Benz.

Bill Cowher

He's a special person; he means a lot to this team. He's been very much an inspiration to this team. I think we're driven very much by trying to make this a special year for him.

Mario Gabelli

I think we're going from a market that's driven by momentum and driven by a flow of funds to a stock picker's market. That's going to provide very good opportunities for those that are focused on given areas.

Don Perata

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven by a date.

Bob Thompson

I watch a lot of sports, and so far that's been what's driven the big-screen phenomenon. It's a status symbol; a lot of people get a lot of pleasure being able to show off this enormous piece of hardware.

Abu Mohammed

The minibus had just driven out of the garage when something exploded.

George Twigg

It's been a pretty graphic reflection of how much these nomination races are driven by momentum.

William Butler Yeats

Considering that, all hatred driven hence,The soul recovers radical innocenceAnd learns at last that it is self-delighting,Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.

Thomas Gray

Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, / Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

Alexander Pushkin

Ecstasy is a glassful of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

John Smoltz

When you're put in this position, you have either one of two feelings gut-wrenching or ecstasy ... there's nothing else you can feel,

Anja Huizink

Using ecstasy may increase a risk that is already there.

Ben Cherington

We may see some of the same faces back this season.

Will Durant

Often your face is your autobiography

Salma Hayek

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

Saul Bellow

At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

Ronnie Wood

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

Zach Braff

Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.

William Golding

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

David McKay

I'm keen to see some new faces and think it's time for that to happen,

Marcel Proust

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

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.

Paul Kariya

I thought we moved the puck around pretty well and we got some traffic in front of their net. But this is a long series, and they've got a great hockey club. We've got to improve our effort.

Jonathan Joseph

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Jeffrey Sharon

I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hundred deer. Zoos would sell me this stuff or they'd trade.

Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent! Dr

Wilson Mizner

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Marc Bulger

You've got to go with Torry, but once they get going, maybe the second hundred (yards), Kevin would win,

Neil Davidson

It's not a particularly profitable business. There are a hundred other things (where) American investors can put their money to better use and more profitable use.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Andy Schulz

Kids were making plays all over the place. They refused to lose. We refused to lose. Time just ran out. Fortunately, we were ahead.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Lisa Murray

Kids saw their town from a different perspective, through the lens of a camera.

John Lawrence

Kids need to try different things. They're making us do this and we shouldn't be doing this. There is no reason.

Patty Murray

Kids need something in this town to do,

Suzanne Collins

I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.

Tim Winship

I think it's pretty much inarguable that the value of frequent-flyer miles is on the decline.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

William Least Heat-Moon

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

James Osborne

I ran about 60 miles a week over the summer and I'm putting in about 50 miles a week now. So when I start tapering toward the end season it should be interesting.

Tom Taylor

I pushed him a little through one of the miles to get him back on pace and the next mile he totally went out the back door,

John Stokes

Its probably 300 miles to the gallon, I guess,

Alan Culpepper

You don't want the race to go without you, but you know you have 22 miles to go. It's a balance.

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Mike Purcell

He really wouldn't stand out in the crowd.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Glen Taylor

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Wavy Gravy

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Walter Scott

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.