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.

Tim Roth

Mostly, people watch their shows online and they watch them in a block. They don't have to tolerate the commercials, and they also don't have to wait another week. People binge watch. It's interesting.

Regina Brett

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

Tom Selleck

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

Tom Hooper

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Toni Morrison

I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.

Tom Hayden

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

Stephen Colbert

John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.

Jane Jackson

The big thing is it's brought us closer to friends from 40, 50, 60 years ago. They're calling and sending notes.

Danny Thompson

People saw we had kids and they brought us a canopy and a tent,

Kenneth Koch

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Jim Ratcliffe

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

Rick Anderson

The other day, I brought up (video of) Silva this year and Silva last year. And he's night and day with his delivery.

Kristen Newlin

We know she likes to go to her right, so it was my job to sit on her right, and we brought the double-team from the left.

Dave Tippett

That was a new move we saw today. He brought that one out of the closet.

Joe Johnson

Mike brought a lot to the table, ... As an attorney, he knew where we could go and where we couldn't, and that was very helpful to us.

Don Young

He brought us over here so we could keep our identity as a job shop.

Tom Woods

That's where toughness shows, on the defensive side of things. And I think that's exactly what happened tonight. I was real pleased with the defense, and the intensity level.

John Bliss

Our defensive pressure was a big part in the win. It kind of fueled our offense and gave us some relatively easy baskets.

Chris Richards

We're a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

Alan Nicholl

Twenty-some shots is a tremendous game, offensively. For them not to score a goal, you have to hand it back to our kids; they put up such a great defensive effort.

Lou Geary

Only one of them is a junior. It doesn't matter who you put in the backfield. You've got to have someone hammering away at those defensive linemen. They also give us time to throw the ball.

Robert Vaden

On the defensive end we had no energy. I don't know why.

Carmelo Anthony

On the defensive end, they really turned up the pressure on us.

Bobby Johnson

Jay makes a great throw or a great run for a first down. As an old defensive coordinator, I would hate (to face him).

Casey Silver

Krystal is experienced, works at her game and is a strong hitter, ... Hannah is very versatile and can play all of the defensive positions.

Cary Thompson

She ran our offense all year. She was a real floor leader for us.

Terry Boe

Michelle has to take the front seat tonight. She led our team up and down the floor tonight.

Karl Hobbs

His status is at the point where he's getting up and down the floor a little bit. And we're hoping that he'll be able to play on Thursday.

Doc Rivers

He's been great. He's been in a zone on the floor, off the floor with teammates. He's just been in a zone all the way around.

John Washington

The floor plan has expanded about 30 feet,

Stephen Braveman

The floor is a nice place to be when you're trying to be quiet and have intimacy. You can't hit your head on anything, and you have more space to spread out.

Billy Donovan

They like to go up and down the floor and we like to go up and down the floor. The team that executes that phase better is the team that will win the game.

Kristi LaFleur

A lot of people have thought we weren't going to make it all year long. So the girls psychologically wanted to go out on our home floor and prove them wrong.

Greg Nossaman

They're probably on the locker room floor right now because they're spent.

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.

Jim Tressel

Antonio showed a lot of burst. I thought this was a good step for him.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

bell hooks

In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

Diana Vreeland

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

Scott Westerfeld

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Lorrie Moore

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Gordon Bethune

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

Rusty Wallace

I made my decision. I'm sticking to it,

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.