Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Ford

There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Dave Hickey

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

Dave Eggers

Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

David Letterman

President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

David Wong

John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls.

Pedro Pascal

My family is Chilean, and I was born there. By the time I was four, we were living in San Antonio, Texas, and I just remember picking a blue bonnet and getting yelled at by some guy with a sheriff hat and a badge. I was traumatized. He told me it was the state flower, and I wasn't supposed to be messin' with it.

We're the blue line between good and bad, and if people are told how to harm us, that line can be crossed and ineffective.

We've been bullish for a little over two years. What was in place for two years is still in place: blue chip leadership and the flow of funds.

Mary Wilson

We are so interested and impressed that she has been an effective blue governor in a red state. She handled a prison standoff like a pro.

We have a snap of my dad wearing blue eye shadow, which I would always make fun of. When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!'

I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that.

Ian McLagan

I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

We're trying to recreate the fine details using more of a Woodland design and less of a corporate one. The building's color palette should reflect earth tones and less competing colors like yellow, blue and red. Colors should complement each other. We don't want to be loud.

Claude Monet

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.

Alison Goldfrapp

We shot it on blue screen, so it was this great big ugly, metal, weird, jerky horse-thing that Brad Pitt had sat on.

Banks

I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

This will make three boys. We get a blue pin for boys and a pink one for girls.

The particular bullish case for the blue chips here is that they've really had a correction over the last month or so, ... I look for the blue chips to catch up with the rest of the market and make new highs later this month.

This should have been our game. This was very disappointing. They (the Blue Jackets) came out flying to start the third period, and we weren't ready for it for some reason.

Rick McCallum

There is a common misconception about Star Wars that we shoot everything on blue screen. We actually built 72 really large sets on the film but, because there are so many different planets, there is always some part of the sequence that has blue screen in it.

Larry McMurtry

When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one.

We think we can do a lot of things, other than play hard, and still control a football game. We need to learn you can't do that. We're so damn blue collar that if we don't go out on the football field and play hard, we're not going to get results.

This time, we kind of took the inspiration from the old Wolfman Jack border radio and how he influenced a whole generation of musicians with everything from blues to all kinds of hillbilly music and gospel music. It reached all the way to California, and I've heard people tell me they got it in Chicago.

We liked that look, but when the steel plates came to the house, they were hot-rolled steel, so they have a sort of blue quality. We love the blue, so now we're going about the process of finding ways to protect and keep the color the way it is.

Those yonder do I envelop in blue and red!

Jay Feaster

We don't want to find ourselves short at the blue line. (Ranger) gives us another option.

Cindy Sheehan

We have been greeted with overwhelming support, in blue (Democratic) states and in red (Republican) states,