Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Maddin

The spirit of my films... I always want them to be kind of contrarian. Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy and careless on the other. I guess that's what you get anyway, if you're not planning very much.

Graeme Simsion

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

Ginger McCain

I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would like to retain him but felt it was to the advantage of his owners he should be sold at this time.

Georgia Taylor

Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.

Georges Simenon

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

Harry Browne

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

Harold Feinstein

On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.

Harold Evans

I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn't regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities.

Gregor Mendel

When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and their progeny, as numerous experiments have proven; a pair of differing traits, on the other hand, are united in the hybrid to form a new trait, which usually is subject to changes in the hybrids' progeny.

Greg Walden

I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

Howard Lake pressed hard and shot well. We have to improve on handling pressure up front.

I don?t really know that much about Hand, we haven?t seen them this year. I do know that Hand has a lot of depth.

I don't know how I made it. My hands were shaking but it went in the middle.

I don't know if (Suggs) will play this week, but we'll see if he can handle the ball.

Rick Barnes

I didn't think inside we handled the pressure and the physicality of the play.

Aaron Rowand

I didn't even see the ball. I just saw Robb take off. Joey (Cora) was yelling at me, 'Go, go, go!' So I tried to get up and get back on my horse. As soon as I could, I was out of gas. I thought I got my hand in there.

I didn't see much of it, my hands were shaking too much.

I didn't know if it was going to be good. I didn't know until I saw the referee's hands go up.

Ingmar Bergman

I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.

Jack LaLanne

Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he still does ten bench-press reps with a hundred-pound dumbbell in each hand. He's training to set a leg-pressing record. I put things in the guy's brain way back when, and now he'll never get away from it.

J. D. Salinger

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

J. D. Salinger

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

J. G. Ballard

Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

Jack Levine

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

Jack Johnson

I can change the world with my own two hands

Mother Nature had the upper hand in this situation.

Casey Neistat

One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?' Most people don't, and say they are different sizes, but it's 4' x 8'. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it's an important skill to have.

Brett Favre

No one is going to hand us anything, especially now,

I think they can vote, but I think their hands are tied a little bit.

Eric Chavez

I think the way his stuff was and how he handled the hitters, that was the most impressive performance I've seen here. He wasn't worried about the lineup, the (left field) wall or anything like that.

Dan Lewis

It is a security incident, and it is in the hands of the FBI.

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands

LeBron James

Jason made some tough shots with a hand in his face.