Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fenton

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

Ibrahim Hooper

It's irresponsible for the top elected official in any state to suggest blanket wiretapping of houses of worship.

Carolyn McCarthy

and here we are giving them (the industry) blanket immunity.

George Carlin

a blank slate -- and you get to play.

John Carey

A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.

Dean McAmmond

They have always seemed like they were going to move me. To finally pull the trigger and it be a blank is, on one end, disappointing because I think I could help a team in the playoffs. I'm not getting any younger. It would have been nice to be in the playoffs, for sure. I've been in Edmonton before, so that would have been exciting.

Vance Mahan

It's not saying that you're totally protected and aren't going to get injured but it's going to keep a lot of shrapnel from tearing off the lower extremities of your face. We've shot this with a 12-gauge shot gun from point-blank range which is about a meter or three feet. It stopped that. We've shot it with a 44-magnum point-blank range. It stopped that. We shot it with a .357 at point blank range and it stopped all of it.

Greg Foreman

For a writer to sit before a blank page, as a painter before a white canvass or general before a bloodless field; before the first scribble of creation, is a moment like no other. The writer is consumed by the trice of bliss, jollity, determination, and sensitive to a true and deepest affection.

Mark Ryan

It's not dissimilar to The Weather Channel where when someone signs on, they don't want to see a blank screen. They want to see what the weather is for their local community.

Dennis Hastert

We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children,

Anton LaVey

The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open to ideas and suggestion, not stubborn and closed minded.

John Wright

He had a gun on his person. People saw it and called 9-1-1.

William J. Clinton

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...

Robert Mugabe

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

Sarah Shahi

I love guns. I love shooting guns.

Vladimir Lenin

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Ryan Phillippe

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

Wayne LaPierre

Laws can't control the lawless.

Shen Xue

It was a surprise to me because I seldom make mistakes on my jumps but my mind was worried about him. When I was injured it was him who made the mistake. It's hard.

Roxanne Walker

I understand that they were seriously injured but it looks like they are going to recover.

Kuno Becker

It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.

Phil Jackson

Tracy looks like he's injured to me. He just didn't seem to play with as much vigor.

Dana White

Don't ever let anybody know you're injured.

Karen Ignagni

In many cases, the plans have negotiated lower rates than Medicaid with pharmaceutical companies.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Travis Miner

After the play was over, she said she was having pains in her lower stomach. So I went and told the preacher.

Debbie Stabenow

At a time when so many Americans struggle to pay for the prescription drugs they need, we must look for ways to lower the price of those drugs.

Michael Evans

They're paying a lot lower and they can make their services for a lot lower.

Dudley North

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Mark Mahaney

The valuation has always been reasonable on this name. The multiples are materially lower here. There's room for upside.

Mark Mahaney

The valuation has always been reasonable on this name, ... The multiples are materially lower here. There's room for upside.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

LeBron James

It got to a point where it was kind of mental. I've got to regroup.

Steve Rucchin

I don't feel I've done much of anything through this point of the year.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Jeremy Miller

He has the right to go to trial, but it would be a moot point by the time he did, because his shares will be gone.

William Golding

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

Serena Williams

I'm not taking Zika lightly. Especially being older, I definitely am going everywhere protected. I'm protecting myself.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Timothy Treadwell

I came, I saved, I protected and I studied,

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Tamara Tunie

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Danny Sullivan

I don't really have a range of what it would be it's all over the place.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Mike Jackson

well within the range of what is realistically possible.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.

Judy Turner

If you go out of your way to say it's non-platonic, then you're saying it's sexual. . . . They're trying to spin this and it can't be spun.

Johnathon Schaech

I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'

David Williams

I have no recollection of saying that to Dr. Whitehurst.

Mark Emalfarb

I keep saying this, but nobody's doing anything.

Heather Hibner

I'm not saying this to be political, but it really was a team effort.

Allen Settle

This is like saying I could not vote on sewer or water projects,

Elizabeth May

It's unfortunate. I sort of feel like saying

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Keith Bogans

We've got to make the shots when they double-team Yao. That's what it comes down to.

Rafael Benitez

Today, every time we shot it was a goal.

Russ Crist

We made the shots to win the game. They just had enough time to get one off.

Omar Minaya

He has a real shot to make this club. He's not here for show. He's here to make the club.

David Aebischer

He faked the shot and I pretty much went for it.

Sammy Mejia

He made a tough shot at a big time.

William S. Burroughs

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

Michael Ryder

I just shot it, and it went in five-hole.

William Maxwell

My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.

Vijay Batra

We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers,

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

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.

Spencer Stewart

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

Robert Meyer

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

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

Alex Ferguson

He has got three fractures in his cheekbone and it will be plated,

David Marshall

Hell, by then it'd been out there three days.

Ryan Murphy

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

Spencer Grammer

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

Carolyn Sime

It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close.

James Shuler

It's totally devastating, the way things went down.

Tom Petersen

They (the stores) don't have to be totally upscale, but we need some better things.

Shinji Mori

It's two totally different things. There was nothing wrong until I got injured.

Alan Mosley

This is totally unacceptable. This is going to have to be fixed, and right now.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,