Famous Quotes & Sayings

A man who's got a very nice tractor would rather perhaps have it inside with a blanket on it and perhaps put his wife outside.

Dakota Fanning

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

David Blunkett

I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

Zell Miller

Now is the time. This is our time. Call and write our senators and organize and tell your friends to do the same. Cover this process in a blanket of prayer. ... This is our chance to be doers of the word and not hearers only.

It was very surreal, it was very traditional. We were bringing offerings, and I had a blanket in my hands, offering it to Chief Julio.

Mike Robinson

This was a shift from a person selling on the street on a blanket to being in a more closed environment. It suggests that it requires a little more work on their part. It's good that we are forcing them further underground.

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Don't give them just a blanket and a bowl of soup. Give them housing and services, and eventually that person goes out and gets a job.

Corporal punishment is prohibited, but it's not a blanket policy that prohibits an employee from ever touching a student. There are situations when an employee may have to intervene physically in situations such as student fights.

We knew if we let them play their game with all the energy they had, it was going to be a long game for us. We just tried to do the same. We put the blanket on them in the neutral zone, and they got frustrated right off the bat.

This was a blanket release of all claims. And I am not in a position to comment on the veracity of the allegations.

Eleanor Catton

There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.

She threw back her blanket and said 'Hi!' ... She was a wonderful human being who was just freezing.

business world covered in a blanket of hesitation.

E. B. White

If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket

I was sitting here on this blanket so, here's the truck - maybe 6 feet.

She worries that Daisy's going to get cold in the winter, so I brought this blanket over.

He said it was my fault because I challenged the press, which I didn't do by the way. That never happened. I didn't challenge, I wasn't stupid enough to issue a blanket challenge to the entire media.

But I think that the trusts would be better off treating obesity or getting people to lose weight rather than introducing a blanket ban,

One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.

Marc Singer

I'd see people in the middle of winter sleeping under a blanket in the snow, ... I'd be looking at them from my window and I would think, 'What's going through that person's mind?'

If depression had settled like a blanket on the minds of most players,

I don't like giving blanket contracts. This is one of the things the city of Pasadena is losing control over.

David Boies

There is evidence of what we see here is an exit strategy for Netscape -- that because of the blanket Microsoft has put over it, Netscape was not able to continue its pattern of innovation.

Shari Sebbens

I'm a believer, but an unsettled one. I think it has something to do with the fact that my grandmother always told me she would come back and tickle my feet at night time when she passed away. She hasn't gotten me yet. But I keep the blanket over my feet at night, no matter how hot it is.

Liberty Ross

I still have my Levi's jacket that I bought on the Portobello Road when I was 14, and it's like part of me, you know, it's got oils in it, and it's my comfort, security blanket or something.

Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but ignore IM, it's like locking the doors but leaving your windows open. Your security initiatives have to blanket both IM and email.

Jamie Dixon

We want to help all our guys in any way we can, if they want to further their careers, but our focus is on our guys and getting ready for (first-round opponent) Louisville. People are smart enough to know when the right time is to talk about other schools. Every situation is different, so to give a blanket statement wouldn't be the right thing to do.

Rod Blagojevich

I think a blanket anything is usually wrong. We're talking about convicted murderers, and I think that is a mistake.

Laura Bush

I remember feeling as if a blanket had been thrown over our school,

Elias Zerhouni

The issues that we were facing were not related to stock holdings in great part, ... Therefore, this is where I convinced myself it was not necessary to have a blanket divestiture rule.

The blanket label of 'tech' does more harm than good for investors.