Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thornton Wilder

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Joe Cook

So few communities have the opportunity to take a blank canvas of land and create a core for its residents,

Turkish Proverb

One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.

Johnny Rutherford

No one can tell you how much it's going to cost -- it's a blank check,

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Steve Meyers

I feel like they need to come back and demonstrate some prudence, and better management, before we write them a blank check.

David Keene

From now on, this administration will find it difficult to muster support on the right without explaining why it should be forthcoming. The days of the blank check have ended.

Oleh Rybachuk

Fundamentally, you can say we have a blank sheet of paper on the table right now, but with the principles and criteria on which we will appoint these people.

Joyce Blazier

I was sitting here on this blanket so, here's the truck - maybe 6 feet.

Rick Perlstein

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.

Jimmy Collins

We're not doing the small things it takes to win right now. We've got to go back to the drawing board and practice blocking out, faking before we pass, making free throws.

Amber Frey

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

Mike McGlynn

Last year we had to sit back and pass block on every play because defenders really knew we were a passing team. This year, the defensive ends just can't pin back their ears and come right at us.

Davis III

Last year was a big building block for me, getting back to playing a full schedule.

Allison Hine

Last year, some wanted to go to Block Island and the Statue of Liberty.

Eddie Locascio

Several streets had been blocked off and there were a ton of police cars there.

James Jeffords

moderates in both parties can do what we've done before: Stand up to block these anti-environmental initiatives and instead pursue policies that protect and respect our environment.

Al Warden

Mt. Lebanon couldn't block us. That caused them problems.

Dave Ramsey

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

Geoff Johns

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

Tom Yawkey

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Linda Lavin

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

Elie Wiesel

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

Damien Hirst

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

Kurt Koeppen

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Elliott Wilson

Nelly knows that if he's going to make a record about grills, he has to get Paul Wall on it, because he's the go-to guy for other rappers. But Nelly was smart enough to realize that nobody had made a song dedicated to this growing phenomenon. They effectively captured it.

Edward Hirsch

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

Hermann Hesse

One can be happy when he finds his dream, but every dream has to be followed by a new one and you can't capture any of them forever.

Jesse Jackson

My experience has been whenever captured soldiers are released, it at least creates a window for dialogue.

Jeffrey Logsdon

Monday Night Football is a television institution, if not a cultural institution, ... It's not unlike '60 Minutes' trying to go to '60 Minutes II.' It never really captured the audience.

Max von Essen

My favorite app is, without a doubt, Instagram. It's such a fun way to share photos and life's captured moments with friends, family and fans.

R. Robinson

I can't have an unidentified car disappearing up the road any more, because it'll be captured on CCTV. After all, it was CCTV that helped police capture the London bombers.

Stu Rodman

One of the keys is whether (the staff) have captured the right alternatives.

Bill Gerber

I was searching for a project that really captured the American spirit,

Tamara Feldman

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

Andy Roddick

I felt pretty good coming off of last weekend. The transition coming off grass last week to clay was pretty evident in this match but I thought if I could get through this one I'd be all right.

Bible Bible

We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed

Bruce Lee

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Barbara Sher

Time is clay; make something.

Nat Cole

He got it, man, ... Clay understands the music. I've been fortunate in my career. But it's a tough fight out there by yourself.

Gaston Gaudio

I am satisfied, I felt very well in spite of not having played on clay for a long time.

Ron Walker

I anticipated we'd have had it done in November. But it will be fairly soon. Our goal is to have full water service, with Clay County Regional Water by the summer months.

Dan TerAvest

Right now it's very clay-like soil that holds a lot of water and gets real spongy. The clay soil holds the water so the fields stay wet. We can't mow it and then it's unsafe to play on. It's a vicious cycle.

Mother Teresa

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Sathya Baba

Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine love.

Dennis Prager

Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

Denis Lavant

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Mariah Carey

I feel like it was just timing and that for the first time, I feel like this is an expression of who I am.

Zaki Safar

Freedom of expression stops when it hurts someone.

Deepak Chopra

Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.

Deepak Chopra

When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Carl Sandburg

Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.

Mike White

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Mohammed Habib

Maybe after the president wins elections, as we're sure he will, the freedoms that we've seen for the Brotherhood over the last year will be taken away.

Marsha Blackburn

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

Mick Foley

Love wrestling? On October 1st, Spike TV gives you more of what you love! Total Nonstop Action.

Lawrie McKinna

Losing Nick is a big blow, but it gives other players in the squad an opportunity to show us what they can do.

Dani Caron

Moving it back has really helped because it gives me more time. Because the strong pitchers just throw fastballs. I can put more movement on it now.

Granth Sahib

Meditate on that Lord, our True Lord and Master, who gives sustenance to all.

William Cowper

Nature, exerting an unwearied power,Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.

William Cowper

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.

Sam Rockwell

Money is power and power gives you choice.

Lisa Abron

Now we've got to pray and hope somebody gives us a wildcard.

Pat Gillick

Nunez gives us some versatility in that he can play three infield positions and is a switch-hitter.

Richard P. Feynman

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Tom Waits

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Dennis Potter

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Dennis Haysbert

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

Denis Diderot

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Edgar Allan Poe

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

David Lindsay

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

August Wilson

I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things,

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Bill Owens

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Donald Trump

I say God is the ultimate.

Donald Trump

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage

Walter Jones

I think so. This is the ultimate goal.

Yul Brynner

Now that Im gone, I tell you; Dont smoke. Whatever you do, dont smoke.

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Phil Kessel

I don't have to worry about it right now. I'm just going to go out there and play and whatever happens, happens.

Alexandra Adornetto

Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

John Erwin

We'll do whatever we can do to assist,

Mike Singletary

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.