Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

Charles Dickens

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Alan Watts

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Akshay Kumar

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

Chris Cooper

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

Chogyam Trungpa

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

Chita Rivera

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

Alex Rodriguez

We know he's got a very fine arm, and he throws 96-97 and throws all his body at you. I took some good swings, he challenged me, and you tip your cap.

Diane Wakoski

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Brendan Taman

We're getting down to the nuts and bolts of it.

Suzanne Collins

Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.

Jane Elliot

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

Hugh Johnson

We might get blindsided by some (hedge fund) announcement that nobody's anticipating, ... You worry about another big bolt out of the blue.

George Will

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

Mark Zupan

I said, 'Don't bolt it down. That's gonna come up in no time. We'll kick this thing in six months.' And then it's six months, and you're going up the ramp, and I'm still in the chair, and it doesn't look like I'm going to be running any marathons.

Willie Geist

My routine is to ride that snooze button as far as it will take me, take a quick shower, get dressed in the dark and bolt out the door.

Kevin Adams

He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come.

Bouwe Bekking

Chris Nicholson came up with a complicated but brilliant plan. Try to fix the ram with other bolts and hope that the seals inside are not too damaged.

Britt Bonneau

We've all seen flashes of what Joel can do. But, this year, he's just been so much more consistent.

Steve DiPatri

We were a step slow tonight, but we were able to grind it out. We show flashes of being a very good team, but other times we show how young we are.

Randy Dunton

We're just immature, and we're not where we need to be in terms of competitive greatness. Yet, there's times when there's flashes of very solid basketball. That's where we've been. I'm not happy with it, and we're very disappointed that two or three players couldn't step their game up and make the plays they needed to make when the game was in the balance.

Eric Jones

We've shown flashes and made strides, which we're proud of. But we have a ways to go, too.

Michael Chapman

When I look at them, I flash back to my own kids.

Gemma Mana

So I sat at the table and it was like a lightning flash hit me.

Tina Gaughan

She's very fundamentally skilled. She's not real flashy but she doesn't have to be. She just does what she has to for the team.

Julie Solis

She's not a flashy player. She just does her job.

Gareth Williams

signals like this flash a red light, but they don't necessarily mean anything.

Tommy Amaker

We started to get some stops in the second half, and that was a key for us. We did some things that kind of put us in a hole early, but we showed some maturity to claw our way back in, and we didn't panic.

Bill Trumbo

We were in a hole early. We just couldn't let Williams shoot anymore. I was really pleased with the way we played defensively in the second half.

Nigerian Proverb

When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby

Mark Reiland

We didn't want to be in a hole in the last round, but we really stepped up in a lot of places. Those are pretty big wins for those three.

Ashley Knoll

I think I realized around hole 14 that Virginia wasn't going to mess up. She was playing steady; she was playing safe. I started playing for second (place) around there.

Brad Soderberg

It always seems to be the hole in the dike.

Tom Romance

Kyle has a lot of tournament experience, but it has always been as an individual playing various tours. It's a little different going to a different school with teammates and on relatively different courses. He doesn't have many holes in his game.

George Clooney

What you learn after you're 40 is it's just about plugging up holes in the boat,

Jim Cassidy

I don't want to be in the one hole or the 13 hole because you have to do things you don't want to do.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Avicenna

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

William Shakespeare

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Mike Utley

The problem with lightning is, it kills 10 percent of the people it strikes. The 90 percent that live wish they didn't.

Jack Straw

The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent,

Billie Joe Armstrong

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Harry Harrison

So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.

Lexi Thompson

I've always used a mallet putter on tour. I get too much face rotation with a blade.

Mark Calcavecchia

My putter may be replaced sometime soon, or thrown away.

Doug Tewell

I still have it, and I'm still using it, ... I'm not sure if Walter will ever get that putter back.

Chris DiMarco

I don't know how I even took the putter back,

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Dave Wood

I feel that I got stopped (because I'm black),

John Mellencamp

Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.

William Maxwell

My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Jim Crace

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

David Hallberg

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

Richard Greenberg

I thought if I stopped writing, ... the world would explode.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

David Anders

When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.