Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Hewitt

We executed well in stretches, but . . . we took a couple possessions off. It was finishing off the execution. Three times we had (Anthony) Morrow open in the corner. They didn't see him. I guess he blended in with the crowd.

Amy Grant

When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smiling, and all the children are frowning.

John Cooper

We are mapping out an entire master's degree that can be obtained over the summer of 2006, the fall of 2006 and the spring of 2007 using a blended format.

William Wordsworth

Written in Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.

David Blaine

I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.

Kelly Packard

We've blended Ruth in the mix quickly. It's seems like she's been there all along.

Daniel Petrie

Unlike any other form of writing, the stories of episodic television require the blended imagination, talent, and tenacity of a staff of writers,

Michael Walsh

Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.

Bob Lilley

I think we've made a number of good signings and we've blended them with a very strong core group from last year.

Young Jeezy

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

Yolanda Adams

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Yanis Varoufakis

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Tina Turner

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Imelda May

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Gin Wigmore

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.

Young Jeezy

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Chino Moreno

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brenda Russell

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

David Carson

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

David Bradford

That was a terrible thing he did in his early 20s and he's been very upfront that he's made some serious mistakes,

Mack Brown

That was a killer. It was early enough in the game that it shouldn't have been so big.

Jane Soepardi

We have already made a plan to hold another round early next year, maybe at the end of January or early February.

Rob Keck

We need to hook them on hunting at an early age, so they become appreciative of the hunting tradition. This will also increase hunter retention and ensure the future of conservation remains strong.

Ron Wilson

We just didn't have the energy level we needed to do the job and it was pretty obvious early on. The only thing I was hoping for was their energy level would sink because it was their third game in four nights, too.

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Elizabeth Warren

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

David Ulevitch

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.

Mike Irwin

That would not be fair to Red Hook. But we have a good team.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Jay Clark

We are out of the eradication mode. There is too much canker. We're in suppression mode, and most of that is going to be done by the grove owner or homeowner.

Anne Boyd

In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.

Lyle Mangum

We needed Pleasant Grove to lose one more. But we were a solid sixth and we placed seven wrestlers, the most we've ever placed, so I'm happy.

Anna Lee

Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

Steve Galley

Skyline plays incredible defense. I've not seen Pleasant Grove seem so out of sync offensively (all year).

Horace

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Liz Compton

We are still inspecting because we want to know what's out there. If you have a grove without canker, you should know if your neighbor has it.

E. O. Wilson

They were going to a take a dialysis patient on Piney Grove Road to a Cullman dialysis center,

Elizabeth Williams

Schools like Grove City, Brigham Young, and Hillsdale are some of our more popular schools. Their students are usually of very high caliber.

Imelda May

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Dave Davis

That was the introduction. I'd never heard of Matt, and I'm sure he'd never heard of us.

Dwyane Wade

That was the first time I've heard that, so it was good.

Luis Fonsi

That was the first song I heard from another writer when we first started to listen to outside songs,

Ricky Nelson

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music- I didn't look the same.

Mary Harris

We hadn't heard about any for a while and then, all of a sudden, two in one week.

Chip Gramke

We wanted to make sure all of the quotes we've heard from him are accurate. We hoped that they weren't but I think that he proved they probably were.

Hans Davidsson

virtually a living recording of the musical sounds heard hundreds of years ago.

Sathya Baba

The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.

Judith Butler

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.

C. S. Lewis

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

C. S. Lewis

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Cecelia Ahern

Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.

Cecelia Ahern

Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I’ve decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it pay well? Alex: Rosie, it’s not about the money. Rosie: Where I come from, it’s all about the money. Probably because I don’t have any.

Cecelia Ahern

Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.

Cecelia Ahern

Your heart can break at any age.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Mike Lynch

The police have said since day one that Congressman Condit has no link to the disappearance of Chandra Levy,

Denis Napthine

We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.

John Blair

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.

Michael Wasylin

I think it would be wrong to link that.

Charles Clark

I think it would be very, very surprising if they weren't linked in some way,

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them.

John McGahern

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

Bayan Jabor

He is the link between outside and inside,

David Mitchell

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

Gerhard Schroeder

The people don't see a future, the country's mood is gloomy,

Kid Rock

He was really in the mood for partying and wasn't about to be outdone by any of the other rockers.

Laura Mvula

I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.

Al Groh

I don't know that my mood is a Rolling Stones mood right now, ... It would be kind of a shame to miss, though.

Catherine the Great

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

Keren Ann

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

Dennis Brown

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

Wali Lundy

I think the mood of the team is wanting to go out there and prove themselves,

Grant Thomas

I was in the mood where it should have been a long walk off a short pier, but I actually went for a long walk on a long road.

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

Tom Leighton

That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,

Sebastian Horsley

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Manoj Bhargava

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

Bernadette Peters

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

B. B. King

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

AJ Punjabi

We're offering a reminder service. If you sign up for our e-mail subscription list, the notes are going to automatically be in your e-mail box.

David Bernstein

He used no notes and yet his speech was passionate and moving. It was very impressive.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Mark Dindal

I said to everyone, you can send any notes you want, but notes that speak to this, what the movie's really about, those are the ones which are going to be helpful.

Henry J. Heinz

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

David Graham

On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.

Dan Hartleb

He is so successful because he's such a competitor. I can't say I'm surprised he's doing this, but it's pleasant to see.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Caryl Chessman

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Karl Pilkington

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Dave Beeler

I was actually pleasantly surprised with how well we did (in cold, wet conditions).

Dr. Seuss

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Sara Teasdale

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

C. S. Lewis

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Cecelia Ahern

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

Bill Blass

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow

William Shakespeare

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*

William Shakespeare

What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?

Maurice Maeterlinck

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Chris Robinson

I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.

C. S. Lewis

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

Antoine Rivarol

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Petrarch

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Petrarch

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

William Shakespeare

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

William Shakespeare

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

C. S. Lewis

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Carl Safina

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Berenson

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Bill Vaughan

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

Bertrand Russell

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

Zack Moritz

That whole spring and summer, I was in the gym.

William Shakespeare

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

William Shakespeare

The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

William Shakespeare

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away...

William Shakespeare

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

William Shakespeare

So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

William Shakespeare

O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

William Shakespeare

But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

William Shakespeare

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

William Shakespeare

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Thought is the measure of life.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Milan Mandaric

My thoughts are now and always will be with George,

Don Cooper

My thoughts are here, and I want to be here, ... I want to win this now, here. That's my only focus.

Terry Pendleton

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

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Karen Rafalowitz

There are a lot of thoughts right now on what we can do. There's just not as much manpower.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Derrick Brooks

I would give up one thousand yards to get a win.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Edward Fitzgerald

To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

Elie Wiesel

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Andreas Gursky

A word is worth a thousand images.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Russell Smith

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.

Rainbow Rowell

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

Mark Sheppard

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

Thomas Schaaf

We haven't written off the title. If they stumble, we will go after our chance.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.