Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sinclair Lewis

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

Mercedes McCambridge

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue

Jodi Picoult

You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

John Green

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

John Green

still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?

P. G. Wodehouse

...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.

Paul Provenza

There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.

How fitting, in the 25th year, that out of the blue a young woman of extraordinary talent should be discovered in an out of the way venue and become the surprise winner and only the second solo woman to win the Perrier.

Geno Auriemma

How many minutes? I would say 4,240 of those have been outside the lane, so there's no chance of getting hit and worn down. She's skating from blue line to blue line and enjoying life.

He's in the mould of (retired Blue Bulls No 8) Anton Leonard.

George Strait

I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder.

Sharon Robinson

I love to see all these Dodger blue hats and wonderful shirts. And I love to know they were made by students.

Benicio Toro

I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blues like Muddy Waters, and some early Elvis.

I'm blue collar; she's white collar. She's a CPA, and I'm an entrepreneur. It all works.

Lindsey Graham

If she didn't have that blue dress proving a relationship, they would have cut her up, ... The president of the United States used the full power and force of the White House to go after a young lady so that she couldn't hurt him.

James Peterson

I'm looking forward to it because I haven't played in town too much this year, ... We've always had great blues fans here that have come out to support us.

I'm kind of surprised because bluegrass isn't in demand in The Villages. It's rock 'n' roll and country.

I'm from Houston, I grew up in church, I've been singing that way since I was a boy. Kevin is from the blues capital of the world, Kansas City. We can't do a Count Basie tribute without that. You'll hear the South in anything we do.

I'm scratching my head and not sure what to make of it. Blue Lake is not strategically important to anyone.

I have not changed my opinion on blue chips this correction creates a buying opportunity. (But) if you talk about other averages, like the Russell 2000, they look terrible.

Ryan Clark

It'll be good to get Blue back. You could say he has a burr on, because he missed the first playoff game. Shawn likes to be the reason that we win, and since he didn't get to play, he can't take that claim.

Nomar Garciaparra

It just shows that they respect what I did when I was there and that's nice. I've always appreciated the fans in Boston. When I was signing autographs, I just reminded them to make sure they visit the gift shop and pick up something in a nice blue color.

It's guaranteed to turn your lawn silver and black, but every once in a blue moon you'll see moss on the grass.

It was like Frank Sinatra. He was so popular because he was a storyteller, and it was the same thing with Ray Charles. It didn't make a difference if he was playing jazz, soul, R&B, pop or country. And it was always about the blues and the feelings he portrayed. The blues is awfully powerful.

It was simply cultural warfare, red state vs. blue state. Time and service (U S West employees) resented youth and talent, and youth and talent had no respect for time and service.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

Joe Cole

It was strange not having him there. What's happened was a bolt out of the blue but I think he's going to be OK and I just can't wait to have him back with me again.

It was a win but that's about all I can say. I don't know if we had some spring break blues or what, but it seemed like we weren't that into the game.

Harry Smith

It's about how a single father struggles to bring up his two sons, ... And it's that kind of time when the oldest son announces kind of out of the blue that not only is he leaving home, but he's leaving the state. And he doesn't really have a clear explanation why, other than he wants to live his own life. And the father cannot wrap his head around like what's wrong with here.

Dennis Hastert

It's a good blueprint for America's future, ... We're also pleased this Congress can get its work done.

It's an insanely great day. It's blue skies, close to 50. Today is beautiful.

It's giving us such an incredible blueprint to start looking at culture.

It shows how desperate they are for entertainment, ... Bluegrass is a little-known musical genre.