Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

Ivan Feinseth

Mills is in a very hot sector, but they have a negative return on capital.

Maria Sharapova

Mentally it was pretty tough, when you know you've got a very patient opponent and you know that it's really hot out there.

Mark Peterson

Maybe the weather was just so hot it didn't feel like summer was over yet. I don't know.

Susan Blake

maybe before it's too hot but not cold.

Tina Brown

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.

Elizabeth Bowen

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

Jenna Morasca

On my season of 'Survivor,' the tribes were split: a tribe of men versus a tribe of women. Even though the women kicked the men's butts at the first two challenges, we were a hot mess at camp.

Tamara Tunie

I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

Kirk Anderson

If we get rain, things could really perk up and look good.

Pat Anderson

We've been stagnant for too long. This will perk us up.

Karen Altfest

I think that will perk up her portfolio.

Katie Couric

If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Bruce Montgomery

Different VCs have different sweet spots for where they want to invest.

James Lind

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Denny Green

Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,

Kurt Tsue

The surf spots are still not deemed safe.

Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Michael R. Bloomberg

making sure there are things going on that are unpredictable.

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Andrew Burke

Look. We will give you the servers. We will give you the DRM. We will give you the middleware within the box. And we'll make sure that all of those work effectively together.

Josh Beekman

Now they want to be sure when you come in that you're going to graduate.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Kenneth Lay

I did everything I could humanly do during this time. Did I make mistakes? I'm sure I did.

Jeff Hanna

If anything, it was, 'Are you sure you want to do this?',

John Currie

We need to make sure they all understand that this is a different Northeastern than it was 20 years ago,

Joe Wineke

We need to make sure our vote is out there.

Ryan Robertson

We pounded it inside. That isn't something we do real well, but we did it better than usual tonight.

Raymond E. Feist

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Jamie Oliver

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

Blaise Pascal

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Franz Ferdinand

He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips.

Clara Barton

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Richard Shelley

Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.