Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Palahniuk

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

Wynton Marsalis

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

Morihei Ueshiba

The only cure for materialism is the cleansing of the six sense (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind). If the senses are clogged, one's perception is stifled. The more it is stifled, the more contaminated the sense become. This creates disorder in the world, and that is the greatest evil of all.

The people are looking for somebody that will clean up the mess. The last thing they're looking for is somebody from the mess. Jim fills that bill.

Julius Peppers

The Patriots are going to be very disciplined. We have to work even harder to clean up the stupid mistakes we made.

Christopher Fry

What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean

Nicole Ari Parker

We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

Bill Burr

I was certified to take x-rays, but you can't just show up and start cleaning people's teeth.

That was some real one-on-one time you got with your mother. Other than that, you're doing chores, she's cooking, cleaning and probably hanging up clothes.

John Bush

We need to have trained people to clean up situations like this.

We could never clean this place by ourselves anymore. I have an unbelievable staff that works very hard. They're very mature and know that it takes a lot of hard work to keep this place in perfect shape.

We have to use it. We can't clean it out all the time just for this (voting).

Hu Jintao

We can step up cooperation in the research, development and use of clean and replaceable energies and deepen cooperation in the field of traditional energies,

Marcus Samuelsson

As a chef, I could not wash my hands - nor clean pots, pans, utensils, meats or produce, nor make soups and sauces - if I did not have clean water. Were this to happen, of course, these would be the least of my concerns. Because water is the linchpin of survival: without it, not much else matters.

Lisa Randall

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

We have the cleanest fuel in the country here.

We were having good shots, but we weren't getting many clean rebounds that usually lead to points in transition. We were still down only eight and we had the ball. It was a testament to how good our defense was we were still in the game.

Today's vote promises to ultimately eclipse dirty and expensive fossil fuel with clean and efficient solar power.

Timeliness is an issue. Oysters have two reproductive seasons, spring and fall. We missed last fall and this spring, and we don't want to miss this next fall. Each season represents $125 million, and recovery is harder each season we miss. We have two or three months to get the debris cleaned up.

Javier Solana

We will see ethnic cleansing reversed, ... I think it will be before wintertime, no question about that.

Luke Wilson

We have competitions over who has to clean up the dishes, and when it gets horrible, Owen and I play H-O-R-S-E,

Richard Baker

We have been trying for decades to clean up New Orleans public housing to provide decent housing for residents, and now it looks like God is finally making us do it.

We're using natural methods to clean up soil pollutants.

Most cleaning workers receive 'Here's your keys' training. 'Here's your keys, here's your building, we'll see you in an hour or a day, or a month, and we hope you'll do well.' There's a better way to train.

We just cleaned it up. When there's graffiti, we just paint over it.

You'll get a different version. This one's cleaned up.

Anthony Davis

You just got be more disciplined. That's all. I mean, moving and flinching when you're not supposed to. I've been here for a long time. Things like that, you just don't do. You can't do things like that and expect to stay in this league. So I've just got to clean stuff like that up.

I think Marco made a pretty big mistake on top and I made some mistakes on the bottom, so I knew it was going to be real tight. I had the opportunity to shut the door if I had a clean run, and I didn't do that.

I thought Nevada dominated every phase of the game. They were outstanding. I thought we really struggled. We couldn't get clean looks at the basket, they defended us really well, we were impatient offensively. It didn't look like a team that has won 19 games. I didn't recognize our team out there.

I thought it was a clean hit. But there are no regrets and I make no apologies. I think it's a tough situation to be in as a safety or a defensive back. You have to hit somebody, that's your job. That's what you're paid to do. At the same time they're going to fine you and punish you for doing that.

I thought it was a clean block. How many people does this stadium hold, 53,000? I thought 53,000 people thought it was a clean block. And another million watching on TV thought it was a clean block. But one guy with all the power thought it was a (crappy) block.

It is fair to say that there is nothing on the road, or on the drawing board, that comes close to delivering such a formerly contradictory combination of jaw-dropping engine performance, fuel efficiency and clean emissions.

Melinda is a very detail oriented person. She comes up with her own system of doing things - she can clean something better and faster than I can.