Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Spencer

John Bland is so quick off the football he's hard to find,

Jorge Ramos

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

Atharva Veda

All other tastes are bland and insipid; through them, the body and mind are rendered insipid as well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

John Galbraith

these are the days when men... seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.

Dale Murphy

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

Liane Moriarty

Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

Julia Brown

Multinational companies inside and outside the mainland (China) are turning to local and traditional themes to stand out from the all-too-often bland crowd of international corporate identities.

Leslie Fink

People often think that light cooking is bland and boring, causing them to only stick with healthier eating for the short term. But if you use lots of flavorful ingredients such as fresh herbs, fruit juices, garlic and other strong seasonings, low-fat/low-calorie cooking can be very delicious and satisfying, helping people to stick to a healthy eating pattern for a lifetime.

Jeremy Irons

It's a musical I've never seen, but I've loved the music for some time, ... This is a great, wonderful contrast from making movies.

David Hastings

I try to pick shows that are a contrast for the season. This was just something different.

Stacy Sullivan

The land is so beautiful. But in contrast to that, the houses are run-down, the poverty is so bad, and there's pollution everywhere.

Grant Dalton

the most extreme leg in terms of its contrast in weather.

Alain Resnais

They got the idea. In life, we rarely remember a whole song; in Potter, there's often a violent contrast between the situation and the song.

Lee Raymond

With the improvement in oil prices, second quarter net income increased 18 percent from the first quarter of 1999, in contrast to the seasonal earnings decline that we usually see from the first to the second quarter of each year,

Pierre Ellis

The third-quarter Employment Cost Index is ... reassuring in the sense that labor costs as measured on this index remain very contained, in contrast to some other labor cost indexes.

Karl Hobbs

This game will be a contrast of styles. They want to be deliberate, run their offense and force us into a half-court game. We want to run.

Shyla Nelson

This contrast between this beautifully written, elegantly constructed music and this outrageous storyline is part of what drew me in.

Shelley Conn

People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

GM Howson

We submitted another offer and we'll see where it goes.

Lute Olson

He's doing fine. He called to offer us his congratulations. He's upbeat.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Warren Buffett

The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

David S. Goyer

Da Vinci always seemed like the prototype Tony Stark to me.