Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Devine

The girls were actually on top of the pit bull, screaming at it to release the puppy. These are mostly kids down here. It was a shocking incident that no one ever sees. It put a lot of people in distress and shock. Even the police officers were very compassionate and upset about this incident.

Louise Purtle

You can see the distress in the market. It's in as much pain as it ever has been.

Ted Pappas

It's the funniest play I've ever worked on. The title, in a way, is irrelevant to the facts and the plot of the play. It's one of three plays under the umbrella title of Damsels in Distress , which have seven parts in every show, all played by the same actors, all set in the same apartment, though they are unrelated.

Henry Fielding

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Mark Zandi

It is time to move on. House prices won't rise and the economy won't fully engage until more distressed properties are resolved and put back into ordinary use.

Bobbie Davis

They have met the requirements of their fiscal distress plan.

Charles de Montesquieu

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Al Bowman

The usual indicators that would tell you that a student was in distress simply weren't there in this case.

Scott Baker

What good is it going to do to show your emotion? They're going to eat you up if they get a glimpse of any kind of distress like that.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

Rick James

Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.

William S. Burroughs

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Jonathan Banks

The funniest guy I've ever worked with - it's just one of those things, again, where we look at each other and just laugh - is Jimmy Byrnes from 'Wiseguy.' Jimmy - we can't be in the same room together. He knows he can make me laugh just by looking at me.

Marc Demmon

That's the funniest thing about this. Everyone has their own interpretation, and that's OK.

Melvin Johnson

For me, it's great. Some of the funniest things go on.

Terry Teachout

What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.

Akiva Schaffer

You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world

Jake Johnson

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

Julane Sullivan

Mary is one of the funniest women I have met.

Mike Rumph

I thought it was one of the funniest things I ever saw. The locker room is like a fraternity. The outside world can't really judge that.

Judy Kirkpatrick

He is irrelevant to the discussion. He needs to stay out. He needs to stay in California.

John Charles Polanyi

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

Charles Lamb

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

Claire Danes

Money is only irrelevant if you have it,

Harland Braun

He's being well-treated and he's getting his regular medications . He said it's ... like some of the parts that he's played.

Julie Johnson

Our own rendition of the show is made up of parts of three different scripts of the play.

Michele Lee

In 'Seesaw,' I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I don't get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

Jack Santino

In some parts of Europe, they'd look for bears.

Claudia Schiffer

I only want to do small parts for now.

Paul Erlich

The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts

Valentino Castellani

It will be one of the most important parts of the games.

Mark Jones

It's a pretty comprehensive plan. There's some parts that play off one another and are supportive of one another.

Henry Ford

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

Dave Pirner

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

Lindsay Davenport

I was just able to eke out the second set, and the third set I just played a lot better and she started to make a lot more unforced errors.

David Duncan

Kirby was 8 of 15 from the field. That's pretty good. She played well.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing.

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Tiger Woods

I think I played really well - even though I had three bogeys, I think 10 birdies usually offsets that.

Leonard Little

It can't do nothing but get better now. We've played the worst that we can play.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Myron Rolle

He just told me not to put any undue pressure on myself. He said if I just relaxed and played my game, the big plays would come.

Tom Renney

I wouldn't say real bad. But it is uncomfortable enough where it would be day-to-day. And whether he plays would be just that, a day-to-day situation. ... He's a little uncomfortable and there's pain.

Katori Hall

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

Joe Vitt

He's a special guy, now we've got to see how he plays after a week's worth of preparation and somebody getting ready for him.

Hank Davidson

He shot 3-over on the back nine, and that was pretty good, too. The back is tough because it's long and it plays into the wind.

Scott Skiles

We took them down to the end. We had our opportunities. We just weren't able to make the big plays when they were necessary.

Rich Ingold

When he plays to his potential, we'll be all right.

Pat Summitt

I think Wendy plays a tougher schedule than I do.

Jerome Harrison

I think we were only getting three plays a quarter. I didn't realize it until the second quarter. I started getting cold, sweat drying off.

Joe Gibbs

I think it was one of the prettiest plays I've ever seen,

Roger Ebert

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

Whitney M. Young

You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.

W. Somerset Maugham

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.

Eleanor Catton

The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other.

James Joyce

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

Buster Keaton

You could write the whole plot on a postcard. We do the rest.

Julia Gillard

The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

Marshall McLuhan

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

Nancy Kress

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Dan Ross

I thought we'd be sixth or seventh after the first day.

Doug Castellari

I thought we had a shot at about seven matches. It didn't work out for us. They're an experienced team. We wrestled tough, but they were the better team.

Rick Riordan

Great," Percy said. "Seven of us against Hercules." "And a satyr!" Hedge added. "We can take him.

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Morgan Freeman

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Lamar Hunt

The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.

Bob Vaughan

You can tell we're nearing the end with our seven seniors. They can feel it, and they're hungry.

Keith Tkachuk

It's up to the Blues. We don't have much to work with ... seven days. But whatever happens, happens.

Brian Buckley

It was just one of those days. St. John's Prep, if I'm not mistaken, had seven firsts, so they were just on.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

William Blake

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Robert McAfee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

William Butler Yeats

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Chris Edwards

What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Clark Haggans

He's got three rings. There's nothing else you can say.

Karen Woodall

We've been trying to get that back for three years.

Wayne Krivsky

We tossed around the idea of having three catchers anyway.

Phil Jackson

We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.

Robert Meyer

It is phenomenal. When we first started, it was just me and three employees. We all wore many hats.

Larry Clark

I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,

William Cowper

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Henry Rollins

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

Marcia Gay Harden

The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'

Kay Redfield Jamison

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

Margaret Thatcher

Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

John Flavel

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

Jonathan Ive

Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers,

James M. Barrie

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

James Joyce

Love me. Love my umbrella.

John Green

I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

Cassandra Clare

The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Rob Maxwell

It has worked out well in the past, and I don't see why it will be any different with Travis.

Jussie Smollett

I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I've done it all. I've worked as a clown, literally, at children's parties.

Stanley Tucci

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

Jerry Schartner

Nothing worked for us, and they didn't miss.

John Force

It's in the gut. It hurts, ... But we've been through this before. We won't panic. We'll go on doing it the same way it's worked for us for 14 years. Don't worry about this old man.

Brian Cook

It just worked out that way. We thought that they would be a lot bigger.

Kevin Sutherland

It's worked out pretty good, but now I need the space.

Dr. Young

It's worked out great. I didn't think she would take to them, but it's been unbelievable.

Carolyn Clark

As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty.