Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Sadler

Until somebody gets called in for a pass-through penalty or what have you, nobody really knows where the line is. I'm sure we're going to push the line and push the envelope a lot come Sunday.

There's been talk about can we put it in an envelope and mail it to them. But in looking just at some of this, it would take a full-time person every day doing just that.

No one wants to get that envelope with Internal Revenue Service in the upper left-hand corner. No good can come of that, usually.

An envelope is not just an envelope, it's a letter. We still will go to the mailbox hoping today it won't be just junk mail.

It would seem that retailers have had a tendency to push the envelope with regard to marketing their sales events.

This is a whole different ballgame, with so many people being displaced, ... We have to push the envelope of the rules that were appropriate in the past. If we wait, people will be stuck in these cavernous shelters.

You've got to seal the envelope and put it in the mail. And we didn't seal the envelope.

Auguste Rodin

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

Even at these levels, our financial performance fits within the envelope that is out there.

David Eckstein

We didn't lay back and let things happen today, ... We hit and ran and just pushed the envelope all day, that really show Tony's management style.

Water-based life is very much an Earth-centric view, and we can push the envelope on that here in our own solar system. We have the methane seas of Titan.

Richard Branson

If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

Martin Scorsese

Could you double-check the envelope?

Marjane Satrapi

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

Mike Holmgren

Next season, I would expect more from him. I'm always going to push the envelope a little bit, and I think he would expect more from himself.

Richard Roeper

For those of us who follow this stuff, it's a lot of fun because for many years it seemed winners were preordained. This year there really is going to be that moment when they open the envelope and you're going to think, I don't know what they are going to say .

He's an interesting commodity. He's got very, very quick feet. He's very very athletic. He pushes the envelope all the time, every play. Because of that, you get some phenomenal plays, but you've got some things you're not going to be very happy with.

Bill Sienkiewicz

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Who ever thought up the word ""Mammogram""? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone

Pat Benatar

I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.

I think their latest issue pushed the envelope too far,

Terry Crews

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

Peter O'Toole

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

Dwane Casey

We wanted to increase the tempo, push the envelope and play as fast as we could. If you are going to be a running team, you have to do it every night. You have to force it. Sometimes the guys think they are running, and they are jogging instead of sprinting.

I'm pretty happy with the way I threw. In Baltimore, I pushed the envelope a little more because I was a veteran. Over here, I'm fighting for a spot.

Elliott Sadler

I'm sure we're going to push the line and push the envelope a lot come Sunday.

Emily Carr

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

George Lucas

I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

Clifton Fadiman

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

This trial provoked interest on the part of the press, which pushed the envelope of free inquiry to meet public interest. The matter was so sensitive the press was reined in by authorities who put a lid on coverage.

Rich Sommer

After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed?