Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Woodruff

We're not being productive with runners on base. That's the bottom line. When we get runners on base, no one is stepping up and making the big hit for us. That's what you've got to do in close games.

Bob Kirby

Madison looked very comfortable shooting. The bottom line is that if we can get that third wheel in the scorebook each week, we could be tough down the stretch.

Adan Dualle

Let the Government get to the bottom of the matter and leave no stone unturned.

David Yost

Look, these people are not street-level dealers. This is not the bottom of the food chain.

Steven Camarota

Millions of people are going to keep coming every decade unless we restrict it. That's the bottom line.

Skip Rimer

Much of the Midwest is at the bottom of the rankings because the Midwest is heavy in manufacturing, and that sector simply hasn't done well over the years. Manufacturing is seeing some growth but isn't creating jobs like other sectors.

Anonymous Toast

May the ships at sea never be bottoms up

Al Horford

Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villanova was tough. They were city kids. But we're going to play our game no matter who the other team has.

Tom Kettman

(Media) comparing us to this team and that team, we're not looking into any of that comparison stuff. The bottom line is, we've got to stay focused, keep wrestling the way we've been wrestling all season.

Issa Rae

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

Michael Shea

Make no mistake about it ? I wanted the characters to know what we're doing,

George Lois

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

Stephnie Weir

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

Guy Ritchie

So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one.

Melissa Ordway

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

Carolyn Strauss

Much ink has been spent on the tale of getting the show to the screen, ... The proof is in the product, however, and we say without reservation it is a series that charts entirely new ground in terms of scope and ambition, yet remains rooted firmly in the fundamentals of solid characters and well-told stories.

Gayle Forman

Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.

Karin Slaughter

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Towson Fraser

Obviously, they've got an incredibly compelling story to tell.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Mike Easley

Given the facts and circumstances of this case, I find no compelling reasons to invalidate the sentences recommended by the jury and affirmed by the courts.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Aaron Karo

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Howard Levine

New-store growth is a significant contributor to our goal of making Family Dollar a compelling place to shop and invest. As we have indicated, this year we are focused on improving our new-store opening processes and increasing our new-store productivity to drive better returns to our shareholders.

John Roberts

On the other hand, simple disagreement about whether it's an appropriate issue for the public to see would not strike me as a very compelling governmental interest,

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.

Jim Epperly

Sending a team to the free-throw line 43 times is not something you want to do.

Josh Blaisdell

One of our problems all year was that we didn't have that third line producing as many points as our first and second line. I called (the Mitchell, Banks, Slaney line) our third line, but Saturday, you couldn't really tell a difference.

Steve Ellis

New Line is kind of pushing the envelope.

H. Hart

When the offensive line is playing well, I don't think it really matters.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Steve Tyndal

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

Basil Bunting

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

Elizabeth Edwards

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Edward Heath

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Lindsay Meggs

One of the things we talked about is it didn't matter about how we won, we just needed to win.

Meryl Thomas

One of the things I've always tried to do as president of the (Penn Hills) PTA is to get everyone moving in the same direction, no matter what the project was.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Sushma Swaraj

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Andrew Barrett

Next week is going to be more normal, when we get back to the real matter at hand, which is earnings.

Daniel Suarez

We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.

Marianne Williamson

Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.

David Alan Basche

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

Alan Moore

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

Daniel Clowes

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

Doug Aitken

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

Hasan M. Elahi

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

Bill Buff

Surprisingly, one in Providence, Rhode Island, just shows that big-time congestion can come to small and medium size cities. In addition, Tampa, Florida; San Jose, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; San Diego, California; and Cincinnati, Ohio; are all new to the top ranking this year.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.