Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerald Treece

The problem with these types of witnesses is they can collapse like wet cardboard boxes. Inmate testimony doesn't have that great a ring of credibility.

Joseph Tomaselli

Mold is everywhere. There are 1,800 types of toxic mold ... Mold gets triggered by water and it needs food, like paper, wood, cardboard and fiberboard.

Cherie Blair

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

Lynn Shelton

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

Patricia Hogan

Her shoe-button eyes and little smile with just a few lines - those are very simple strokes that convey many things to many people. Her little heart, originally a cardboard heart embedded in her chest and later printed on her clothing, is such a sweet touch.

Y. Harburg

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

William Holden

I like to get into a situation that is real, where I can say, 'Here's a chance to react as a human being, not some wound-up doll or robot that goes round and round a track, or a cardboard cut-out like the character I played in 'The Towering Inferno'.

Mark Frauenfelder

The Cat Dancer is a 30-inch piece of wire with some little cardboard cylinders on the end. My cats go crazy for it. I stuck it on the wall with the adhesive mount, but I ended up taking it off so I could hold it and play directly with my cats.

Carol Burnett

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

R. Ingram

We have said we are in this for the long haul and we mean it.

Fred Taylor

We've hauled off 40,000 yards of material to a certified landfill.

Barney Roling

We've got to haul manure. It's not a question of if; it's a question of when.

Jim Whitaker

It is not a highway, ... In our meeting in Washington, it was referred to as a highway. It is not. It is a haul road.

Stewart Udall

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Carl Tobias

It might give them pause to think they might be sued and hauled into court.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We got our legs moving. Everyone started skating. You do that they've got to haul you down every once in a while.

Kathy Deepe

Before, you would haul out the language books, and they would start groaning.

Charles Harper

They got a rope around him and they just couldn't haul him in. The water there is awfully cold.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Stephanie Zimbalist

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Brian Eno

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

David Alan Grier

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.

Ezra Klein

If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Caio Fonseca

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

William Shakespeare

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Dana Perino

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

Elizabeth Warren

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Denis Leary

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Al Jourgensen

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Ben Linder

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

Eddie Vedder

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Eddie Vedder

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

Brigitte Bardot

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

Cindy Crawford

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

Dario Argento

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

Mark Harmon

When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.

Mike Myers

I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.