Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Turner

Ultimately, it's the (department) chairs and deans who are accountable in hiring and promoting people.

Kevin Spencer

There are times when we have people on standby or other weather-related things where they have to stay in. There are a few chairs in the engine bay, but that's really all they have for space.

Louis MacNeice

Time was away and somewhere else, / There were two glasses and two chairs / And two people with one pulse.

Ani Difranco

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

Dorothy Thompson

We actually purchased those real tall tables and chairs like you see at Starbucks.

Perry Poe

We are planning to have extra chairs up front, but expect there will be some people standing.

Jonathan Collegio

The Democrats could play musical chairs in Illinois and get a better lineup than they have now.

Kevin Kerr

The debate over should oil be at $60 or $80 is like a debate over rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Earl Little

Nobody was throwing chairs or anything like that. We discussed it and we handled it in a professional manner.

Josh McRoberts

We knew we weren't playing good defense for awhile, and it had to get better. We weren't containing people, and we weren't relying on each other.

Eric Nicoli

We are seeing progress and we are at least containing piracy.

Jason Hunter

We stayed poised in some tight situations. We swarmed to the football and we did a good job of containing and tackling.

Dan Sylvester

We played 3-2 (zone) and man, but we did a better job of picking up their 3-pointer shooters. We just did a better job of containing them.

Travis Sysko

Nick Flannery had a nice fourth quarter. We had a tough time containing him. We had too many turnovers down the stretch and they made their free throws.

Gerard Debreu

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

Sarah Marshall

It is going to take a team effort, not only worrying about shutting down Davenport but also containing those guards. We will have to work on that.

Vince Carter

I think we did a good job of containing him, but he stepped up. He didn't score a lot of points, but he made shots and got rebounds that were big for them.

Ivan Pavlov

With each meal, when edible substances find their way into the oral cavity, thick and viscous saliva containing much mucus flows out of these glands.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Charles Studd

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Charles Stanley

(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

Charles Spurgeon

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

Alan Moore

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker

Al Jarreau

I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

Chloe Grace Moretz

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

Chinua Achebe

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Carl Honore

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Tim DeBruycker

We stopped doing what we were doing and we let them right back in the game. Then we're tied. No matter what we did in the first few minutes it didn't mean anything.

Joddie Gleason

We started off the season making a few more turnovers than we would have liked, but a lot of that had to do with all the new players learning a new system.

Nancy Diers

We started a little slow, and we picked it up after the first loss. We didn't serve receive well, and we missed a few serves that were critical. That just comes with experience.

Jamie Watson

We started a few games where we started strong, experience-wise but we should have played better in the end. We needed this game to stay in the playoff hunt.

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Bridget Riley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Brian Setzer

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

Aldo Leopold

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

Dylan Moran

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

Derek Walcott

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Andy Stanley

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

China Mieville

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

Dave Barry

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

Dave Barry

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

Buenaventura Durruti

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Jack Beven

Should we get another out-of-season storm, we will use the 2006 named list.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Cheryl Hayashi

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Wendy Squires

We are named one of the Top 10 tourist trains in the country.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

George Blagden

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

Ice T

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'

Drake Bell

I have a dog named Steve that lives at the studio.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

Bob Ross

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

David H. Murdock

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

Caio Fonseca

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Bryan Ferry

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Jimmy Dean

We are going to shut it off at 33 or 34 teams. We still have room for individuals and for some teams.

Edith Wharton

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

David Trimble

In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.

David Bromstad

Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.

Deepika Padukone

I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable.

Edouard Manet

If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.

William Shakespeare

What! Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?

Saint Augustine

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

Charles Studd

I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

Charles Stanley

God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

Alan Watts

The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

Alan Rickman

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

Alan Moore

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

Alan Cooper

Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information. Typography should not vary widely in an interface.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

Chris Carmack

I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.

Chris Abani

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.

James Williams

Yeah, I suppose so. We'll have to look it up somewhere.

Sam Reed

We were supposed to get it the first of December.

Mike Radke

We wrestled very well. We weren't outstanding. We just wrestled like we're supposed to wrestle.

Robert Wilson

I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.

E. Hicks

She was able to make some shots. That's what she is supposed to do.

Mike Landry

She's a player. You watch her play and you say, 'That's how the game's supposed to be played.

Common

Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.

Francine Prose

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Rich Jordan

We did what we were supposed to do, but we are not where we are going to be. We are going to be better.

Tim Finchem

If I want to make something known, I have to make a concerted effort to get the word out. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, only has to say something, and it's tomorrow's headlines.

Greg Patterson

I think we've got a tiger on our hands.

Brenda Jones

I always like to say he'd be another Tiger Woods.

Joey Sindelar

Tiger has the viciousness and the charm. Vijay is just military. He's just precision. But when he's good, it's scary.

Tammy Quist

This tiger was probably not being aggressive. It was being a tiger.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.