Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bipasha Basu

I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.

William Strunk

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

William White

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace.

Larry Beinfest

During the interview process, the adjectives about Joe were consistent: prepared, smart, competitive, communicative. All the things we were looking for in a manager.

Tim Salmon

You run out of adjectives to describe him because he does things you've never seen before.

Thomas Sadoski

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Dick Schaap

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Angela Davis

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

Jim Rogers

Wayne is the county that was built through the tremendous growth of business and manufacturing for a century, and now that's declined so the jobs have declined. People came here for jobs. They're leaving for jobs. It's as simple as that.

Mike Parks

The people who built this course for us were shocked by the prices we are going to charge. They said on the East Coast a course like this would cost between $10 and $15 per round.

Chris Kennedy

We stress that Congressman Weller's relationships with various Indian tribes has been longstanding, built out of strong mutual support for a number of common causes.

M. Wolfe

We stopped doing that about six episodes in -- even though we'd built nice big sets -- because it just stopped the storytelling cold.

Christopher Granville

There is no question that he's in pole position, that he is being built up as the Number 1 successor. But at the same time there are several risks for him.

Michael Keaton

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

Michael Shermer

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

Michael Nesmith

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.

Tim Arnold

Whether or not the YMCA is ever built doesn't concern me; I have a 6-year-old daughter and I want her to be able to play somewhere.

Brian Roehrkasse

This is an inaccurate and misinformed interpretation of the administration's legal analysis.

Scott Ritter

There is a lot of inaccurate information and irresponsible speculation today, particularly from the U.S. government.

Stan Rosenstein

In some cases, Medicare has incomplete or inaccurate data.

Laurence Fishburne

It's inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because he's telling stories on the little screen doesn't mean he shouldn't be telling stories on the big screen.

Janis Joplin

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

Florence Nightingale

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Gertrude Stein

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

Kim Harrison

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

Joe Biden

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

Benjamin Whorf

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

Rob Sheffield

I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.

Kenny Graham

We started pulling some of the starters even though it was only 2-0 but you have to look at the big picture.

Vince Carter

When you think something can't be done, that's when he pulls off another stunt.

Bill Maher

New polls show that Obama is now pulling away from Mitt Romney. And, of course, what could be more natural than to see Mitt Romney and pull away?

Greg Williams

When we get real rain I'll have to get a tractor and pull them out of the mud.

Wayne Morgan

We're going to have to pull up our bootstraps.

Nick Rodriguez

We're doing better than I was hoping. I didn't think we'd be able to pull off a win until sometime around March.

Mike Matheny

It's just a shame we have such trouble scoring runs for these guys, especially after a first start like that, and he has to walk away with a loss. It's a shame we couldn't pull out a win for him.

Nate Gallick

It's even better that the team pulled this out and did great.

Paul Cunningham

They pulled their stuff together and made this happen.

Dennis Franchione

We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.

Erron Kinney

A lot of it is on us. We have just got to do better in tight situations. Me included.

Daniel Briere

They're tight games. I thought tonight we had the better chances.

Rick Barnes

This is what it is this time of year. For us to do what we did today, in a tight game, it was terrific.

Doug Ellis

It was a tight match. It was a little disappointing we didn't win.

Mike Holtzapfel

That's what we can realistically look at. I know there are going to be some tight races.

John Roberts

You see she has a very tight grasp,

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Dan McNeill

As tight as we are, we are happy.

Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Benjamin Franklin

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Barbara Tuchman

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Josh Bullocks

As rookies, we can't be a weak link. We can't play like rookies.

Brooke Bingaman

It's a weak system, so even if it arrives, there won't be a lot of rain.

Kwame Brown

Actually, it was a little weaker than when I was here.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Clarence Day

Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.