Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marco Brambilla

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

M. Wolfe

Making the show the first week was good. You always want to get off to a good start. It helps you keep your attention for the rest of the swing.

Imad Moustapha

Let me first thank President Bush for his concern about Lebanon and the fair and free elections that will happen in May, ... Now President Bush can focus his attention on the really terrible occupation of the Palestinian territories and the occupation of Syrian territories and Lebanese territories by Israel.

Anne Menard

Legislation is being brought before the state to bring clarity to this industry, which is growing. We are now a booming industry. Because of grass-roots interest, more and more attention is being put on this industry.

Brian Dawkins

Last year you saw Porter do his thing a little bit. He was the featured guy and he made some big plays for them . . . Though you have to pay attention to Randy because of all the physical attributes he brings to the game, you still have to pay attention to Porter, because the guy can still go up top on you. He is a big guy (6-2, 220) that can run.

Brian Dawkins

Last year you saw Porter do his thing a little bit, ... He was the featured guy and he made some big plays for them . . . Though you have to pay attention to Randy because of all the physical attributes he brings to the game, you still have to pay attention to Porter, because the guy can still go up top on you. He is a big guy (6-2, 220) that can run.

Matt Ryan

Legally, we're not required to respond within any particular time. The governor's doing his best to be fair and give these important decisions the attention they're due.

George Ryan

Legally, we're not required to respond within any particular time, ... The governor's doing his best to be fair and give these important decisions the attention they're due.

Jill Dougherty

Leaders of the opposition said it had been done deliberately to take attention away from their demonstration.

Larry Freed

Online retail is figuring out ways to compensate for being a virtual experience by providing a lot more information than you'd be able to find in-store. Many online stores offer extensive product information, side by side specification comparisons, customer reviews and 360 degree views, all from the convenience of your computer.

Sarah Clark

More often than not, the error is in the customer's favor. We encourage our customers to point out any discrepancies, and when they do, we compensate them appropriately.

David McKay

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Guy Kawasaki

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

Vicente Fox

We are going to support everyone to recover their goods and rebuild their homes that were destroyed, to compensate agricultural producers for the loss of crops, and in finance plans for businesses,

Augustine Eguavoen

We want to compensate for missing the World Cup. We have paid back Tunisia, and we want to do the same to Ivory Coast.

Augustine Eguavoen

We want to compensate for missing out on the World Cup and also for not winning the Nations Cup for a long time.

Will Whitehorn

Let me be clear, this is an estimate only,

Ted Parrish

Semi stocks won't do anything until we get guidance about estimates for 2004. Otherwise, the stocks will get really overheated.

David Greene

My job is to put out the most conservative estimate and we're hoping to raise somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000 between the 16 authors.

Suze Orman

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.

Patricia Olson

O ctober 25th, estimated before we'll have power or water or anything,

Gary Samore

No one can estimate with any precision how long this will take,

Russell Sciandra

My estimate is they're going to simply ignore the law and ride it out until the end of the governor's term. And everyone I've talked to seems to feel the same way.

Joe Schaefer

If a tornado went over a row of trees and didn't hit a house, there was no way to estimate the scale.

Jeff Fletcher

When you can understand how much you're using in those areas, you can estimate a calculation of how much greenhouse gas you're emitting.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

John Breeding

So, it's back to practice for us on Monday. The thing I like is that we have three weeks to get things sorted out before sectional. We saw what we need to work on. Now, we just have to focus on it.

Brian Seymore

Momentum is very important heading into the playoffs, and I'm just so proud of our guys right now. I think we get better each and every week, and now we can focus on improving our seeding.

Scott Luster

Moving Lindsay outside forces defenses to honor the left side and that means they can't focus on our middle or the right. Lindsay on the outside gives us the outlet we needed.

Bill Cowher

Maybe we focus better. Maybe there's a sense of urgency. We've been the underdogs and our guys relished that.

Todd Hultquist

Meal times are such a focus for Hispanic families.

Isabella Rossellini

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

David Cole

Low risk is something we generally recommend that users can ignore. Medium risk is something we quarantine, and high risk is something we automatically remove.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

Russell Smith

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

Jen Smith

More Americans seem generally lazy while many undocumented immigrants work harder for less pay because they want a better life and know what's at stake in getting that life.

Michael Dixon

Most all of them are pretty much word-for-word the same. Most every impact statement is negative. Generally that's what they are because people talk about how much the resources pull away.

Denis Healey

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

Elbert Hubbard

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Jay Dillon

From what I understand, he is a good-sized 9-year-old - he's not a small child. He had already knocked the officer's glasses off, and hit and kicked him.

Eleanor Tomlinson

3D, the ever-changing 3D. It's great. It's been really interesting. My family came to the set a few times, and I see them with their 3D glasses on. It's lovely to have them there and be a part of it, and see the magic that we're playing with, because it really is incomprehensible until you see it on a 3D screen.

Dick Vitale

Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.

William Temple

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Alexander Pushkin

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Charles Dickens

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

Spike Jonze

On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.

Pia Zadora

I'd like to keep going, to keep exploring. It's like anything else there's no way you can reach any kind heights or potential in your first film.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

Jiles Smith

We need to work with them to get the height down to three stories.

John Jay

We can be undersized and play. We do sacrifice some height and girth when we have to slide down with more lean guys. Where we are now, I'm going to try and get as much time as I can out of each starter.

Caitlin Flanagan

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

August Wilson

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Edward Gorey

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Calvin Harris

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

David Pickett

Much has been written about 'super mums', but there are many 'super dads', holding down jobs and doing work at home.

Mike Greene

McNabb was having his game, but we were holding him pretty good. And we just let it get away from us. That's just part of being a young team.

Olivier Lapointe

Of course, there's only one person who stabbed the victim. They were not all holding the knife. But when we arrived, all those people were involved.

Jonathan King

Now you can see the end of the DNA. You can see the cylinder holding it, poised to go into the cell.

Gary Sawtelle

For right now, we're in a holding pattern because of potential new size requirements.

Kurt Eichenwald

I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long.

Mark Powers

I have been in touch with several rabbis around the community, and we're holding a meeting on Wednesday to see what collectively we can do, whether it's providing information in Russian to the Russian Jews, or holding meetings at different venues.

Susan Fredericks

I feel great. I'm the one holding the trophy.

Chris Duffy

I feel fine, like I should be out there playing. The only thing holding me back is the test. You have to remember a series of words and I just haven't been able to pass it. I'm fine, though. There's no need to worry.

Seth Shostak

One of the jovian moons, Europa, is coated with twice as much liquid water as is sloshing around our planet.

John Gilbride

Six of those puppies had liquid heroin implanted into the puppy's bellies.

Kenneth Miller

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuosi and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

Bonnie Tyler

I love eyeshadow, blushers, and eyelashes with lots of black liquid eyeliner.

William Shakespeare

And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.

Lawrence Summers

We have been pleased with the market response (to the 10-year indexed notes), ... A liquid market has developed.

Alfred McEwen

Any place where there's liquid water, there's life.

Tomas Taterka

The most liquid stocks went up the most.

Carolyn Porco

Once you have liquid water, you have the potential for living organisms.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Don Bluth

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Edouard Manet

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Ann Powers

He was wailing and snot was just pouring out of his nose.

Dale Carnegie

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

Albert Pike

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

Charles Lamb

Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.

Chris Souder

When it rains it pours, and its pouring here right now.

John Denham

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Wayne Coyne

I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.

Kevin Estes

I'm always a little worried when we play teams that are taller than us.

Greg Long

We all had a go and we probably surfed the tallest waves of our lives.

Ashley Boehnel

She's a big girl. She's tall and very, very strong. She was very physical.

Eric Osmundson

That's why they're top Division-I athletes. They get the fastest, quickest, tallest players.

Adam Baker

They're tall ... real tall. And real pretty.

Tom Thomson

Even with 'stealth' it's still a tall pole,

Peter Falk

Usually, I get hired because I`m tall.

Scott Westerfeld

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

William Golding

You'll get back to where you came from.

Henry Mason

Most wide receivers are 400-plus. If he could ever get to that point, you've got to think he would be faster.

Daniel Hope

My goal is always to keep my ears as wide open as possible.

Anthony Brown

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

James Garner

There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

John McCarthy

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Jamie Redknapp

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.