Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mallory Ortberg

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

Rod Wright

We're not coming out here to just hang with those guys and hopefully we can win the game in the fourth quarter. We want to dominate. That's not been said about USC.

Chipper Jones

We're not coming out here to go home after the first round. That would be a supreme disappointment.

Kurt Melton

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Herman Cain

We're not coming into Virginia to be a one-note Johnny.

E. B. White

We're not coming here with any false illusions.

Leinaala Lopes

We're not coming back until it is safe and secure.

Doug Holmes

Mandatory dues. Not only that, they were coming in there telling me you need to do this, you need to do that.

Susan Cohen

Life is lived in a circle. The dates keep coming back to you. People say, 'Move on.' But that implies a straight road taking you somewhere else. Nothing can take you out of the seasons of the years and the dates that recall your life. And since we were a happy family together, we had many happy days and those days are now sad days.

Alexandra Adornetto

The lake of fire awaits my lady

Garth Brooks

Life is not tried, it is merely survived if your standing outside the fire

Rick Christman

Mainly, we can't get into a fire because of the blow-down (of trees and branches).

William Williams

Love you? It'sa fire in the blood, willy-nilly!

Brandon Matich

Searle played his heart out, not having a varsity start before, he was tremendous. We threw the kid into the fire He made many good plays.

Tom Donahoe

Most young quarterbacks get thrown into the fire,

Alfred Reft

Mau was so fired up tonight -- he was a spark plug in the middle. He did a good job, hustling, getting digs. He'll have to take the (libero) jersey.

William Congreve

Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke

Tom Bennett

Maybe a fire hall, ... Ours is as old as dirt.

Margaret Anderson

I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Eric Turner

If I see her at the game, that's when everything flashes back. That's hard for me. Every time I see her, I want to walk the other way, because she's stronger than me.

Russ Guffey

We had some moments and we has some flashes. But flashes are not going to get it in a rivalry game.

Randy Dunton

We're just immature, and we're not where we need to be in terms of competitive greatness. Yet, there's times when there's flashes of very solid basketball. That's where we've been. I'm not happy with it, and we're very disappointed that two or three players couldn't step their game up and make the plays they needed to make when the game was in the balance.

Eric Jones

We've shown flashes and made strides, which we're proud of. But we have a ways to go, too.

Britt Bonneau

We've all seen flashes of what Joel can do. But, this year, he's just been so much more consistent.

Bud Foster

He's a guy that shows flashes but just needs to be consistent. When we've been really good, we've had depth, so we'd like to have that fourth guy. I'd like to see him put it together (today).

Ken Hitchcock

He needs to have a big year. It's his third year pro and that's usually when players start stepping ahead. He showed flashes in the (Calder Cup) playoffs and now all we're looking for is consistency.

Steve DiPatri

We were a step slow tonight, but we were able to grind it out. We show flashes of being a very good team, but other times we show how young we are.

Albert Schweitzer

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Albert Schweitzer

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

François Chateaubriand

One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light

Joanne Davis

My hat's off to them for doing their process in the light of day.

David Burks

Maybe everything's on the up and up. But in light of what's happened, people are just going to be naturally suspicious when these names come up.

Retief Goosen

No, I'm not even thinking about the lightning incident,

Keenan McCardell

When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,

Charles R. Swindoll

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Denis Hayes

An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.

Keenan McCardell

When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,

Karen Johnson

We need to make sure we have enough people to keep the lights on in New Jersey.

Kim Smith

She can shoot the lights out and that's what she did tonight.

Platon

I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

Richard Dormer

When you see a school bus, you got to think children. Even if the lights are not flashing, you got to slow down.

Deb Silverman

When it was time for lights out, I realized just what sleeping in a place with no way out is like.

Gregg Zaun

We tried just about everything, but it was just a tough day for him. I'm sure he'll be lights out next time.

Eddie Estrada

We rarely turn on the lights in the office because we have our skylights.

John Ide

What you're looking for is lights and markers.

Charles Dickens

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Alan Watts

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

David Sedaris

At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Charles Churchill

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

Edmund Spenser

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

Charles Bukowski

purple does something strange to me

Angus Young

You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.

Alfred Noyes

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Timothy Simons

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.