Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Foreman

I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.

Jon Foreman

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

Johnny Winter

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland

John Cleese

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

Malcolm X

I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words

Matt Smith

My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.

Matt Taibbi

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

Matthew Quick

Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle--almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.

Mary Webb

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

Pablo Neruda

Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.

Kathy Reichs

Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat.

Narendra Modi

We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.

Oriana Fallaci

Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

Orhan Pamuk

I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque.

Olympia Snowe

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

This is a collaboration never before seen that enables us to put a bold imprint on the launch of THE BLUES BROTHERS DVD and we are incredibly excited to be the first national edition of Hollywood Master Storytellers.

The horse is waking up at just the right time. When he got to the quarter pole, I thought, 'Son of a gun, I'm going to win the Blue Grass.

Otis Taylor

The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music of the folks. Blues is folk music.

You don't have to have an animal, or be in 4-H or FFA, to exhibit at the fair. With an Exhibitor Handbook and a nominal entry fee as low as 75 cents in some categories, everyone has a chance at taking home a blue ribbon.

You've got three generations of truck-buying families here with Ford blue ovals tattooed on their foreheads.

All that blue was out on the field,

Steve Scott

All of a sudden just out of nowhere, this big blue streak jumps up onto the table and goes flying by me, and I looked up, and it was Antonio Davis jumping up on the table and jumping by. And it scared the heck out of me.

The driver (of the pickup) just kept going. He was in a Ford Ranger, kind of a blue color, and kind of high for a Ranger.

Helen Clark

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

Ach, Rangers are alright, but they still haven’t invented blue grass.

The level of reimbursement made it impractical to continue. For the long-term financial viability of the practice, we had to walk away from it (the Blue Cross PPO).

Rick Schroder

The long hours required to shoot NYPD Blue would prevent me from being where I really want to be at this time - which is with my family.

The main contributor to the index was China Mobile. The strong sentiment for the stock spilled over to other blue chips and helped the index breach the 16,000 points level.

James Thurber

I don't remember any blue poodles.

Emily Dickinson

The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

Ellsworth Kelly

The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on the panels than the 'presence' of the panels themselves. In Red Yellow Blue III the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea and can be repeated anytime in the future.

Ellen Tauscher

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

Simon Sinek

It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else.