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.

Cathy Allinger

We're not caught up in terms of information and equipment.

Rodney Harrison

We're not caught up in history because what we've done in the past means nothing. As soon as you start feeling good about yourself, that's when you've set yourself up for failure.

Mike Kelly

Man, I started to get a little worried, but then I thought, it's just a balloon, it's not going to hurt anybody. But when the ropes got caught on the pole, I saw how much force it really had. Somebody could have gotten killed by this.

English Proverb

Make not the sauce till you have caught the fish.

Robert Brusca

LTCM didn't cause this; LTCM got caught up in this,

Trent Rollins

Luke was going up a weight and I knew he'd be giving up some muscle. I expected him to do what he did for two-thirds of the match, which is to keep it close. In the third round he just got caught and that was the end of him.

Lord Byron

Maidens like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair

Chuck D.

Let's not give us a lot of credit, OK. Because he missed some shots today. He got a lot of looks. He still caught the ball.

George Whalin

Lowe's and Home Depot may have got caught in the middle of this. Retailers are under tremendous pressure by Wall Street to keep growing.... Should that be at the cost of a community? I don't think so.

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.

Italo Calvino

Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Mike Schroepfer

Luckily we do not have any known use of this exploit, but it is fairly critical if there were to be (an attack), so this is a recommended download.

David Carroll

Liberia is an important piece of the regional puzzle. This election comes at a critical moment.

John Wicks

Losing that lead was critical as it gave them momentum to open the second half.

Konstantin Sapronov

Many major manufacturers have either already developed or (are) planning to offer devices with Linux. The only thing that is needed to encourage the evolution of Linux mobile is a critical mass of users.

Kim Gandy

Many of us think of her as one of the mothers of the modern women's movement. She played a very pivotal, very critical role in launching the second wave of the modern women's movement.

Manmohan Singh

So far we have reports of 50 dead and 15 critically injured.

Bobby Pierce

Mike was not sharp. He missed some spots on critical counts. He can pitch better, and he will.

Dr. Shannon

Mr. McCloy remains in critical but stable condition. He had an uneventful night.

Toba Beta

Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge.

Michael Garner

She worked at the soda fountain at Woolworth's in Little Rock, and they met there.

Bob Swank

Six of our nine losses in the last three years have been at Fountain Central. It should be a good indication of how good we can be this season.

Athanasius

For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.

Paul Auster

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

Woody Guthrie

Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen

Benjamin Franklin

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

Ayn Rand

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

Donal Henahan

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

Charles Caleb Colton

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Sasha Azevedo

Life is not recognized by living as much as it is by giving.

Jean Bruyere

Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.

Sathya Baba

LOVE lives by giving and forgiving.  Self lives by getting and forgetting.

Sandra Miniutti

So, giving this time of year is very important.

Greg Chandler

Milo is looking as good as any of the pitchers we have right now. He hasn't been in the rotation, but I have no problem in giving him the ball. Each time out he proves me wrong.

Larry Brown

Maybe we are giving effort. Maybe we aren't good enough.

Ally McBeal

Music is my way of sharing my story, of giving back, and hopefully offering hope.

Jeff Ulbrich

Last year, we introduced the 3-4, but at the same time, we retained all our 4-3 calls, we practiced them. It was kind of always like, I don't know if it was inevitable, but it kind of seemed like that at times, that we were going to go back.

Agnes Obel

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

Erich Leinsdorf

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Kathryn Lasky

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

John Szabo

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

Mike Collins

We just introduced it, and we sold three right away, ... This will become a very big model for us.

Rusty Hardin

We think the video shows a lecture on what their policy is. We would've introduced it if they hadn't.

Mario Batali

I just was introduced to the writings of Lucius Beebe, and I'm going to read him.

Cameron Mackintosh

I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Jose Andres Puerta

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

James McAvoy

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

Greg Myers

No one was quite sure where she landed,

Stephen Ryan

From a branding standpoint, they've done something quite important.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Mickey Loomis

We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Mark Berman

If the reports are accurate, it will be devastating.

Richard P. Feynman

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Dan Shechtman

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

Barbara Thompson

LWS is kind of science with an edge.

Carol Licko

Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.

Dennis Flanagan

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

Dennis Flanagan

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Democritus

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

Democritus

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Democritus

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Coolio

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Donald Tusk

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Deng Xiaoping

Seek truth from facts.

Democritus

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Source Unknown

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Joe Wurzelbacher

In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Mary Evans

If we have the Word let us/ say it/ If we have the Word let us/ be it/ If we have the Word let us/ DO.

Ryan Church

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Mike Johnson

We've done an hour-and 15-minute workouts and not said a word to each other.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!