Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Frederic Amiel

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring...

My head was turned toward the puck and I saw him out of the corner of my eye. He got a pass, the puck was in front of him. I don't think it was a dirty hit. Stuff like that is going to happen in this game.

George H. W. Bush

My hope is that we will be able to turn a corner with China,

My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

Maria Bamford

My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say things that are not super supportive. Like once I did a set, and he says, 'Sheesh, no wonder you're still single.' I was like, 'Eight ball, corner pocket, dad.'

Clinton Morrison

She is happy. She only lives five minutes around the corner so she is buzzing.

She really got me to understand perspectives on portraits -- the way your eyes line up with your ears and your pupils line up with the corners of your lips. Your finger is the same length as your nose. Your forearm is the same length as your feet.

Mobile home parks are just not being created today, but mobile homes are being sold. They're going somewhere. They're filling in the corner of a hayfield here and an old wood lot there.

Peter is a smart player. He can read the play and he doesn't have to run from one corner to the other. He always seems to be in good position. He's a guy who would rather pass than shoot. He's done exactly what I thought he would.

Last year we thought we were finally going to turn the corner ... we actually saw a slight decline in travel. So we were half-right last year.

Let all the world in every corner sing / My God and King.

David Baltimore

So I don't know where he cut corners and where he didn't.

Hayley Wickenheiser

She threw it out from the corner to the high slot, and I just sort of made a little fake and went top shelf over the Swedish goalie. It was a decent goal, a nice goal. Sometimes you get them on garbage goals, but this was kind of a fun one.

She's very hard to mark and very tall. We spent about an hour practicing how to defend corner kicks. I guess we didn't do it very well.

Joakim Noah

When he knocks that 3 in the corner and we're running back on defense, there's no feeling like it.

Meditation simply means to pay attention: it has nothing to do with standing on your head in a corner making strange noises in foreign tongues.

Me and James communicated prior to the play. Their corners were playing a lot of cover three zones, so I wanted to out-run them. I told him to put it up there so I could make a play and he did.

It depresses people, right down to the level of a clerk-typist. The senior to mid-level managers have really been pushed into a corner career-wise.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the opera, I got to La Scala before Domenico, and I was hiding in the corner until he arrived, and I said, 'Quick, you have to tie my tie, please!' Otherwise, I'll wear a tuxedo jacket with jeans and my bling-bling cross.

Enrico Caruso

To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear.

Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

I like things clean, and I have a biannual clean-out of my apartment. I throw out raggedy things and things I never wear, and there's a Goodwill around the corner for anything worthwhile.

Kenneth Turan

There is stuff at which your jaw just drops, and yet they were hugely popular, ... It's an interesting corner of film history.

It's just amazing, the turnaround. We went from not being permitted to even stand on the school's street corner to being permitted to stand on school property and also have a club. It's a total reversal.

Its just the nature of the game. Everybody wants to win the first race and get to the first corner in front.

It's really a time saver. I can tell my gaffer, Put a stick in the corner over there,' and he'll install a fluorescent tube that illuminates a small area.

It's really a time saver. I can tell my gaffer, 'Put a stick in the corner over there,' and he'll install a fluorescent tube that illuminates a small area.

That's a set play where (Exter) comes off a double screen. We had perfect timing and he drilled it (from the corner as he was fouled).

That first jumper I took, that hook shot, it felt kind of good. After that, I had a little jumper in the short corner and I knew I was feeling it, the energy inside me, that I could score down low.

Sure enough, the tight end got just enough of me, the back was just able to get to the corner and they got a first down. You look at the tape, you study in your meetings and you see all this stuff, then you go correct it for the next game.

It's been incredible. We have fans standing six deep in the corners of the rink. It's been unbelievable.

Barry Trotz

It sort of validated what we've been trying to do for a long time. And hopefully it allows us to turn the corner and take the next step. That next step being making the playoffs consistently and being a threat for the Stanley Cup every year.

That?s saying something about maybe we?re starting to turn the corner a little bit.