Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kazinsky

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

Mike Connors

Make sure I mix up my pitches and keep guys off balance and I think I'll be fine.

Ed Moyle

Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely. Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.

Kevin Kyle

Luke Smith is a really good player and they have some of the same balance that we do. They have some size, a good bench and some guys who can shoot it. And they play really good pressure defense.

Dan Bartram

Lucy came out ready to play. But it was a good, balanced effort for us.

John Winters

Maintaining strong fiscal performance combined with balanced investments provides a catalyst for the private sector to continue to grow.

Mike Stock

(Lewis) wants to win so bad. He felt like he had to take over the game himself. But the reason we were here is that we've been much more balanced offensively lately.

Nicola Sturgeon

Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland.

Leah Rush

Legislators don't want to feel their hands tied, but you've got to balance that with the public's right to know.

Alexandra Paul

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

Alexandra Paul

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

Alexandra Paul

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

Itzhak Perlman

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

Israel Horovitz

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Richard Rogers

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Richard Rogers

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

Richard P. Feynman

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Robert Kazinsky

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Drew Goddard

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

David Eisenberg

Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expected that 1 percent of the protein could have the essence of the whole protein and could form fibrils on its own; I certainly didn't expect that. There were only seven amino acids in that fragment. Rebecca later found the peptide could be cut to only four amino acids and form fibrils.

Drew DiPippo

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

Tim Deal

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Keith Gumbinger

Leveraging yourself out at a time when (home) prices are very high certainly could set you up for difficult times.

David Pierce

Let's see... how old am I? I'm definitely in my 50s... and I've certainly always been in my 50s. I could be older than that... but I'm not willing to face that.

Richard P. Feynman

We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Ken McEldowney

Lenders are increasingly using risk-based pricing to make loans. If you don't find out your credit score, check your credit report and correct mistakes, you're going to be totally in the dark, and run the risk of paying far higher interest rates on loans.

O. J. Simpson

License holders should always check their tags immediately upon receipt and then place them in a safe and secure location.

Roger Bailey

Last year's Freedom 100 epitomized the racing of the Indy Pro Series. We saw numerous lead changes, side-by-side racing and a late shootout for the checkered flag. To be able to showcase that type of racing at a venue like Indianapolis is extraordinary.

Roger Stone

Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush.

Stanley Clarke

Maya Angelou is a very prolific writer. You can read her stuff down once and sort of walk away, but if you really want to get the richness of what she is saying you have to check it out a couple of times.

O. Winston

My knee checked out medically. There's nothing else I can do.

T. D. Jakes

My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

Rick Perlstein

When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer melodrama of everyday life of the 1960s.

Robert Mankoff

I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

Frederick Daily

Lightning really does strike twice for some people, especially if you were found to owe large adjustments in the past.

Manny Legace

(Los Angeles) played a very solid hockey game tonight. We just found a way and gutted out the win.

Sathya Baba

Love towards all beings. The founders always had in view the Unity of all life and the progressive march of man towards Divinity.

Robert Fulghum

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Jonathan Gaw

Search has become that thing that we lost and now we've found again. It's a Prodigal Son.

Ron Krumer

Mr Sharon underwent an abdomen scan and we found liquid which we removed, without operating.

Atharva Veda

Meeting the Lord, Nanak has found peace and bliss; his life is redeemed, and prosperity dawns for him.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

O. J. Simpson

So far, we've had a pretty positive reception.

Byron Scott

One positive of having a young team is they don't quit,

Jermaine Dye

No one ever said this was going to be easy. We've got to stay positive and just find a way to get some momentum.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Allan Houston

Now we are trying to do something positive for them.

Tyra Banks

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Diane Sawyer

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Bobby Flay

My first trip to the racetrack was with my grandfather, Willie Flay, and it was at Belmont Park,

Chris Cornell

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

Diane Ravitch

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

Dennis Prager

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

Denis Kearney

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

Denis Diderot

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

Denis Diderot

Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Sam Allardyce

I was at the game, but he never rang me.

Chuck Olson

She worried about what she would do if she ran out of gas.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Angel Jr.

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better,

Daniel Yergin

We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

David Harsanyi

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

Chuck Palahniuk

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

Willard Scott

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Paul Walker

Michelle Rodriguez is like the most original person on the planet. She's so straight up, uncensored all the time. Be ready. I love her for that.

Mariano Rivera

Like I said before, I can't stop. If I have to go two, I have to go two. That's the way it is. And tomorrow is going to be the big one, so if I have to go two, I will go two.

David Bowie

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

Aaron Levie

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Richard Gentles

We'll know tomorrow from the vet if he can be released.

Charles Spurgeon

No one served God by doing things tomorrow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

Charlize Theron

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

Alexander Kozulin

Tomorrow we will show the world our might!

Brigham Young

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.