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.

Matthew Arnold

Let the victors, when they come, / When the forts of folly fall, / Find thy body by the wall.

Robert Harris

Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.

Bob Punter

Scott and Rob (Hummel) realize that if they want to play Big Ten basketball, they can't stay where they are. (Martin) already has a pretty well-proportioned body, but he still has a high school body as opposed to what you see in a Big 10 game from 6-8 players. He could put 20 more pounds on his chest, and he'll be impossible to handle. And I could be really smart.

Miroslaw Pulit

Search dogs pointed to a particular spot, so we brought in extendable cameras we were able to see a person's head and started digging, and next to that body we found another one.

Miroslaw Pulit

Search dogs pointed to a particular spot, so we brought in extendable cameras ... we were able to see a person's head and started digging, and next to that body we found another one.

Ralph Hodgson

See an old unhappy bull, / Sick in soul and body both.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SENATE, n. A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Sathya Baba

Mind has no physical form and so it does not perish with the body; only the body perishes.

Joe Ward

Mrs. Jones had received a lot of injuries to her body, all over her body. She had over 60 wounds. There were slashes. There were stabs, ... It looked like she had fought for her life in that room. And lost.

Todd Tubutis

We're not being in your face about it, but we're not shy, either.

Jiri Fischer

Life without hockey, I hope I don't have to face it for some time.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

Bob Stein

Love him or hate him, he's no fool. He's realized he may have lost his leadership post, but with the trial he faces losing much more than that. He may not be as focused on keeping his House seat as he has been.

Tom Larson

Last year, the weather was at everybody's back and we did better than the industry. This year, the weather is in everybody's face and we feel we're doing better than the industry.

Maureen Cooney

Let's face it. You're not going to order lobster.

James Harper

Let's face it you can't get any worse than being in default.

Antawn Jamison

Let's face it - when myself, Gilbert and Caron step up, we play a lot better as a team.

Michael Farber

Let's face it. We struggle with this too. It's a tough year to pick a winner.

Mark McGwire

Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,

Robert Davies

Lycos has experienced phenomenal success during the past several months,

Alan Doss

Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,

Mike Nugent

One of the things I've been concentrating on is not worrying about the past, ... Even if it's not my past.

Chris Klein

Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.

Bible Bible

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Landon Donovan

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Ken Goldstein

One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is.

Mark Dyer

Obviously, we're getting closer. At some point in the calendar, we have to have negotiations with the one it comes down to.

Jeff Shaffer

No one point is more important than another.

Mike Heimerdinger

No. I don't have a point of reference.

Heather Bowie

No, I don't feel like I have a point to prove. I don't think there is anything to prove.

Julie Robertson

No point in going out of here too early. We'll take all the time we can get.

Dennis Ritchie

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Mike Graham

(Girard) has pushed him to the point where his serve is much better.

Debra Messing

As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.

Elena Satine

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

Domhnall Gleeson

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

Catherine Tate

I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.

Rodney Brooks

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

Alexander Skarsgard

For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, "I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!"

Eric Block

We don't know (about the house), ... That's the scary part.

Aaron McGruder

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

Charles Taze Russell

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.

Jim Towey

I would be shook up if I were part of a shake-up.

William Hamilton

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

Evan Savoie

He walked to me and he shook my hand.

Paul Chryst

All I did, I shook his hand, just said, 'Hello' and that was about it.

Kevin Mitnick

I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.

Lisa McGiffert

When you read stuff like this, you wonder who you can trust.

Dominic Monaghan

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

Aaron Carter

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

E. B. White

I wish they had stuff like this when I was little.

Troy Williamson

I feel pretty good. There's still a lot of stuff that I need to work on. I'm just trying to get better as I go along.

Chad Cordero

I did stuff I thought I'd never do, ... It was totally unexpected.

Kevin Federline

I don't know. Why does all that stuff come out?

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Alfred Hitchcock

Never turn your back on a friend.