Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Blunt

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

Tom Bissell

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

James Bretzke

I think the instruction is Rome's answer to all the different pressures brought to bear on it, ... It's presented in a somewhat ambiguous fashion with in-house vocabulary that allows for a range of interpretation to be taken from it. A lot will depend on where the bishop falls on the issue beforehand.

Kelsey Chow

I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.

Rob Henderson

Hence, low bond yields are ambiguous for policy. It's a classic on the one hand, on the other hand speech.

Greg Behrendt

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if they don't want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they're sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that's a pretty good sign that they're not into you.

Wang Dawei

Liu's case could serve as a warning to those who attempt to breach athletes' rights by ambiguous means. His appeal could enhance the awareness of athletes' legal rights.

Jenji Kohan

Pot is a vehicle for the show. It's so in the zeitgeist. It's talked about in the news, in the courts. It's a morally ambiguous narcotic (and) the universal rebellion drug.

Christopher Hill

Nuclear weapons, nuclear programs are not something that one should leave in an ambiguous state.

Charles de Lint

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Alan Autry

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

Paul Hoolahan

We want to see if we can coexist. These are questions that no one can effectively answer at this point.

Carlton Cuse

We know what the ending is seriously. This is a show that demands an ending. We want to find out what is the fate of these people. Do they get off the island? What is the nature of the island? I mean there are some big fundamental questions that you want answered at the end of this show.

Dale Mitchell

We know what kinds of products are being sold to homeowners in the state but we don't know how those products are being used. The household use survey will help provide some answers to the questions we've had about residential use of pesticide products.

William Scott

When I was an undergraduate at Princeton, freshman year, first term, I ended up in the course on Plato's Republic. That book just captivated me - not because of the answers, and the answers can be somewhat unsatisfying, but because of the questions, the way you went at it, the methods, the kinds of questions you could ask, the different answers you could get. That's why I'm still fascinated by that book.

Craig Watson

Venus and Serena have chosen not to choose Sydney for a few years ... answer best known to them, but it's something that's really been on their schedule.

David Mitchell

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

David Lange

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Jarome Iginla

We knew they would raise their game and we didn't match it after they started coming at us. It's a matter that later we've got to be better. I don't know if it's bearing down more or we've got to be more disciplined, but we're going to need to change and we have to do it in a hurry.

Martin McHugh

We know we're getting nuisance bears in the check stations.

Lawrence Small

We know from 28 years of experience with giant pandas at the National Zoo that they are real crowd pleasers, ... There is just something about these black and white bears that fascinates children and adults.

David Tang

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

David Baron

We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,

John Bollinger

We're in a long-term sideways type of market, a consolidation market, typified by alternating cyclical bull and bear markets lasting a year or two each,

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Athol Fugard

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Roger Mahony

We bishops got ourselves and the church into this problem, so I can understand that, and I have no problem with that whatsoever. None.

Richard G. Scott

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.

John Strachan

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.

Joseph McAleer

Many years ago it probably was much stricter, but looking in recent years it has been common for the bishop to give dispensation.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Bible Bible

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Frank Keating

I think there are a number of bishops -- and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category -- who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.

David Gibson

I don't think it necessarily calls for a technical fix, but it's important for what it says about the credibility of the bishops and the confidence Catholics have in their hierarchy.

Sandy Johnson

We mentioned it coming in here that we thought it might hurt Bishop Hill because of the prices.

Jeremy Mincey

Vernell was the heart and soul of our team. He brought leadership, experience, he brought a lot to the table. To see a guy like that go down takes a toll on the team.

Muhammad

Verily your deeds will be brought back to you, as if you yourself were the creator of your own punishment

Louise Jameson

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

Michael Strahan

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

Jason Hall

The powerful Superman Returns property will be rightfully brought to gamers with a strong creative vision supported by compelling new technology so they can experience The Man of Steel(TM)'s superpowers firsthand,

Richard Tucker

The person we chose brought a lot of skills and experience and credentials,

Alberto Romulo

The perpetrators of this heinous crime shall be brought to justice,

Mike Ryan

We are probably looking at six months to two years before some of these outbreaks can be brought under total control in the poultry population.

Roger Hatch

We've already brought people up for Akio and Christoph and the guys who just got onto the fire department. Between that and the injuries it's been unreal this year. I mean. it's great that our guys make the national team, but all this really tests our depth.

Rich Cathcart

We know Baca and Stewart are going to playing well, but how well the team does depends on how well the other kids improve.

Neil Callaway

(Velasco) is not in the two-deep. He's not in the plan for this Saturday. His future depends on him.

Byron Katie

My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Michael Strahan

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

Mads Mikkelsen

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

Felipe Alou

The possibility was open for him to be here during the game. It all depended on something he had to do.

Amy Johnson

We are pretty solid. It all depends on how this team comes together.

Bonnie Reed

We are prepared but we are learning a lot from what happened. It puts us on notice to do a better job. You can't always depend on the state or the federal government to be there for you.

Red Berenson

We've addressed the ranking thing, and how fickle that is this time of year. Every weekend, two more games go by, and someone moves up or someone moves down depending on those games. So, the ranking doesn't matter.

Sharda Persaud

We are going to see more small falls for two to three months and then some summer optimism.

Billy Donovan

We felt like Darrel Mitchell was the key to their team, so we tried to run at him and trap him as much as we could. When he gets his 18 or 19 points, everything else falls into place.

H. Hunt

We feel that Niagara Falls will be on the upswing and we want to be a part of it.

Ken Leung

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.

Mark White

When it (the price) falls to between one or up to two times the price of steel then it (aluminum) will grow into the mass volume market -- not before.

Bob Semling

We had a very solid performance, especially as good as River Falls has been playing lately. A 14-point win on the road is nice to see.

Thomas Fuller

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Tommy Fabian

She tends to throw good pitches when she falls behind.

Brian Beckwith

When you can pass, the rest falls into place.

Charles Dickens

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Charles Dickens

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.

Charles Caleb Colton

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Charles Caleb Colton

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Al Pacino

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Ari Adler

We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.

Dennis Schain

Ultimately, before they build, we'll inspect to make sure the plan has addressed all the issues and will be implemented properly.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

O. Henry

The plaque we presented was to commemorate the installation of the floor.

Michael Levine

Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.

Bob White

That's our frustration - the way it's presented to the community.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Darren Kimball

When I look at 2006, I see a lot of the same pressures I saw in 2005.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Mark Zandi

My sense is, there will be more inflationary pressures going forward.

Rob Lowe

I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.

Warren Christopher

not succumb to suggestions or pressures that they leave.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Alastair Campbell

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

John Burnside

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

Peter McTeague

We're pretty much spinning wheels in a pretty tight range from Friday.

Jeff Evans

She's cooperating, she's upset. Somewhat relieved, she said.

Gary Goddard

I think we probably get somewhat better prices,

Dave McCoy

We're pretty much just waiting. It's somewhat frustrating." ()

Nick Saban

Right tackle has been somewhat of a problem,

Dudley North

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

Don Lindburg

It really is turning out to be somewhat of a hardship.

David Spade

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

Jack Kilby

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Bridget Derrick

Our terrain here is pretty wooded and it's somewhat rolling.

Charlie Daniels

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

Charles Tupper

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

Charles de Gaulle

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Charles Dickens

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Charles Dickens

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

Charles Spurgeon

Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

David Crystal

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Dean Koontz

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

Carl Sandburg

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Charles R. Swindoll

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

Edward Sapir

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

Edward Abbey

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Edward Herrmann

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Elizabeth Taylor

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Beck

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.