Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.

Bobby Cox

It wouldn't stop bleeding. It just kept going. We couldn't bandage it.

Vitali Klitschko

I had a special bandage fitted to my knee but sparring was still difficult,

Tubby Smith

He's wearing a bandage on his left hand. The bone he broke in his hand has mended, but he's wearing protection and he looked good in practice yesterday. He'll be a big help.

Mark Zandi

It's time to pull the bandage off America's foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but to make it happen soon we need to speed the resolution of millions of troubled home loans. Six years have passed since the crisis began, yet instead of accelerating, foreclosures have slowed.

Mark Parrish

Guys have as much confidence in Garth as they do in Rick. (Garth) keeps those old bones limber on the bench, so he's ready.

Mike Babcock

He's cut around the eye. I guess the bones are fine. They sent him for a CAT scan or whatever, but it sounds like he's just fine and everything's precautionary, so that's real positive.

Stan Conte

He does have bone chips. We knew that after he took the MRI during spring training. He does have it, and he's going to have intermittent discomfort with that. A lot of players have those ... There's nothing we can do except keep an eye on it.

John Jay

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, -- that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

Matt Applebaum

Our play wasn't acceptable. We were a big part of the reason Bones was getting hit.

Rachel Dretzin

Part of why she's so successful is her own personal outrage about injustice. She's like a dog with a bone and she won't stop until she's told that story.

Michelle Gardner

I have watched my mother . . . work her hands literally to the bone for her family and her community. If my mother has never given to herself, it is because she has always given to others.

Denis Medeiros

Being overweight or obese makes you more likely to develop heart disease, cancers, diabetes, bone and joint problems and surgical risks.

Charles Schumer

I need to sort of bone up on this a little more.

Chuck Hill

I think the analysts will now exclude more stuff than they would have otherwise. If I'm faced with all or none, I'm going to say all. If it's broken out, I'm going to be more reluctant to exclude the indirect costs.

E. B. White

When her support system broke down here in Michigan, ... she was faced with some tough decisions.

David Joyce

When he realized he was getting duped he actually broke down and started to cry. He thought these guys were friends and helping him get the pictures off the Internet.

Don Peterson

We suspect that high winds broke the pipe that holds the ramp.

Doug Robinson

I thought we played a great game tonight. I thought we outplayed them. Trumbull has a good team. We jumped up on them, they broke back with four straight goals, we outplayed them in the third period and overtime, but they got a lucky bounce. That's what can happen in overtime.

Dawn Karpell

I thought our defensive effort was fantastic. Most of their points came from the foul line. We really broke down what they wanted to do.

Tim Johnson

I think a lot of the buck does stop with FEMA, ... Their system for matching law enforcement needs with law enforcement resources out around the country broke down.

Maurice Cheeks

He was going to play no matter what. If it was broke he was going to play anyway. He'd get it taped up and go out there. It may have been a factor on his foul shots.

Thomas Gardner

He was speechless. He broke down. It was hard for him to get the words out. . . . I cried when he broke down.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Jeff Kinney

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

Andy Holt

I would urged Nico Hinds to hand himself in to the police.

Glenn Morris

Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth,

Bengie Molina

He kept saying he was sore, he was sore. He couldn't do another pitch. He couldn't handle it.

Jeff Koinange

hands down, even if in jail or in the grave.

Paul Hackett

What you have to like is how he handled the situation, how he handled the team, his calmness, how he ran the team,

Dan Peitz

Going a mile, I didn't know if we could handle everything. Our horse wants to run farther.

Rob Niedermayer

He's got the sweetest hands I think I've seen on a guy. He doesn't panic with the puck at all. He doesn't let too much intimidate him or rattle him out there, and that's a big thing.

Gregg Langbehn

His two-out RBI was a big run for us. It seems like he's handling all the pressure pretty well. He's holding his own.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Kurt Busch

Roger told me to stand on the right pedal, turn left and go fast. He doesn't want me to do anything different. Just race hard, race smart.

Bill Womack

Our left side should be really solid and we should be strong up the middle.

Brian Griese

If you look at our running game, the push that they're getting off the line of scrimmage on the left side is something we haven't had here before. It's been very impressive.

Wayne Allen

Have we ever looked at something like that?

Jim Murphy

He's a special kid. He's someone to be looked at down the road.

Mike Price

He's just running around a little bit. He looked good, though.

Ben Kugler

We looked at what would it take to be a winner and not a casualty.

Paul Merson

He was poor. But he's the only one who looked like scoring.

Lindy Ruff

He was strong for us, and looked comfortable.

Bobby Bowden

He was the quarterback who looked like a guard. But I remember his rollout passes.

Kurt Schuette

He hasn't competed in a while, but he's looked very well in practice. He played well in the qualifying round.

Gary Bennett

He had it all working today. That looked like Livo from the first half. He's throwing anything at any time.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Robert Neelly Bellah

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Samuel Butler

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Sally Ride

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

Will Rogers

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Twyla Tharp

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Trofim Lysenko

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Wilhelm Keitel

A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.

Walter Lippmann

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Marie-Chantal Claire

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

Natalia Kills

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Stuart Rose

There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.

Maria Sharapova

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Paul Kuschel

I would have been better off wearing nothing on at all.

Michael Sheen

I would never use prosthetics. I don't like sticking things on. I don't really like wearing wigs, either.

Mallory Jansen

Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.

Gerard Way

The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide.

Leon Max

Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.