Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Kelly

Our members last got a raise when Willie Brown was the mayor of San Francisco and Gray Davis was the governor of this state. The district, we believe, can do better.

Richard Spies

Some of the things the University was able to do earlier in Simmons' term created a buzz that said, 'Wow, that is bold, that is aggressive.' The fact that we have been able to keep it up ... shows that Brown is a force to be reckoned with.

Dean Duerst

Our game plan was specifically for Marisa Brown (Evanston Ill.) to take care of Tiff Weimer. Obviously she is a very special player and Marisa did a fantastic job.

Karen Benzel

Our beloved, endangered brown pelicans have a never-ending struggle to survive. Pelicans have been my inspiration. I've wanted to retire, but I can't I promised them I'd help them. They have had such a hard life, and they still do.

Mike Lewis

Physically, he resembles him a little bit, at least a slight resemblance, the shape of his face, the brown hair. Journalistically, he's kind of followed in Jennings' footsteps, as far as he's done a lot of foreign reporting. He was embedded with the Marines in Iraq. Bosnia, Afghanistan. Pakistan. ... He's not a lightweight.

Diantha Harris

Red gives one energy, so the combination of the red and brown in this dress is giving Sarah the energy to keep her busy schedule. It's also nurturing and supporting, so she doesn't get off balance. While we could say that it is a color we don't normally find young celebrities wearing, it could be a very wise and wonderful choice for a young woman in a crazy business who is looking to be centered and secure.

Carol Brown

I'm here today to get chocolate chips and brown sugar, I decided to make cookies and brownies.

Steve Alford

Jeff Horner has imposed his will on this tournament. I thought the job he did on Brown was outstanding. What he did (against the Gophers) was no less than incredible.

Ed Heintschel

Kyle Brown was darn near impossible to guard.

Mark Regnerus

Relating to teenage girls can be a real dance so to speak. I know we're going to have difficulties when we get to that age.

Gary Murphy

Parkview's a good team. They're going to be a dangerous team for a lot of people in their conference.

Marcia Angell

Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful.

Gary Weiss

Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.

Estelle

People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage... it's a buzz.

Nasser Judeh

Such extremely dangerous weapons included missiles, explosives and machine guns. Such practices contradicts the nature of the Jordanian-Palestinian ties.

Simon Davies

Surveillance over our private lives has reached a dangerous new level.

Pink Floyd

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Sal Rosselli

Staffing has decreased dramatically over the years. Their normal operation is to eliminate departments and lay off staff. It's all about money to them. That's the real danger to patient care.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Ridley Scott

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

Alice McDermott

Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Bharati Mukherjee

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Karin Slaughter

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

Martin Villeneuve

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.

Julia Glass

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Mike Scioscia

If you look at it purely from the organization's standpoint, we'd like Ervin to keep progressing with our catchers, but this is very important: We're not standing in his way.

E. P. Thompson

Anything I said would be purely speculative at this point.

Brandon Gray

This is a real snub for moviegoers. This is not necessarily about quality -- this is purely political.

Travis Smith

For some people, seeing it for the first time, it still works on just a purely visual level.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Suzanne Vitadamo

She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Eric Poteet

He's not doing this for credit. He's doing this because he recognizes the need.