Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Edwards

Scott's the 'go to' guy for Between the Lions. The guys from Boston and New York were blown away by him.

Jim Butch

One passed through the Monterey community of Rankin County. You saw what that did. Weak structures will be blown down.

Joe Girardi

Obviously we've lost a bunch of tough games this year. Then we pretty much got blown out two days in a row. For our guys to bounce back, it says something about our guys. ... Guys picked it up.

John Milton

O fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted, / Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

Dale Sveum

Obviously I saw him trip. I thought he was going to get up. He wasn't grabbing anything, and it looked like he was smiling. But when I got to him, he said, 'It's blown out.' He knew.

Bill Wright

I can tell you that I was blown away; they had 36 states represented last year and right about 300 teams. Because they take over Oklahoma City, they play in all the gyms around the city.

Elizabeth Johnson

I found her head over here. Her body was blown into the next yard.

Christine Benz

Fund companies are increasingly looking at this as a retention tool. Perhaps its one way to keep your fund manager on board. I don't know if it's a full blown turning point, but companies realize it could be a brain drain so they're taking steps to stay competitive.

Brad Holmes

When we speak of the Day of Judgment, they're going to get blown out of their seats.

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

William Lennon

We're not bring these charges to be popular, we're bringing these charges in order to stand up and take on public corruption head-on.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Guy Hohenhaus

Lifting the last remaining hold order at Pimlico is a positive that things are coming to a close there. We will continue working with all parties involved to monitor the situation and bring it to a conclusion. We thank the owners, trainers, and staff for their diligence in practicing prudent bio-security measures and their patience as we work through this science-based process that will make sure the remaining horses test negative before they will be released from the detention barn.

Sathya Baba

Life would be stale if there were no trials and difficulties. It is these difficulties which bring out the human values in man.

Steve Mitchell

Let this be a starting point for us in renaming B Street a starting point for us to come together as a community all nationalities, bring it down to the human level.

Jim Johnson

Luckily, we had some engineers along. They just love that kind of scenario -- troubleshooting on the fly. That's what brings us joy in our work is fixing something and carrying on, instead of just being shut down.

John Strand

Luna Energy is a neighbor that brings tax revenues and new jobs to our city and county.

Buck Martinez

Luis Gonzalez has the respect of everybody in baseball, and his opinion is very valued. He's always been a character guy that we respect a lot. We felt that he brings everything we want on this team.

Issa Rae

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

Michael Shea

Make no mistake about it ? I wanted the characters to know what we're doing,

George Lois

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

Stephnie Weir

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

Guy Ritchie

So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one.

Melissa Ordway

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

Carolyn Strauss

Much ink has been spent on the tale of getting the show to the screen, ... The proof is in the product, however, and we say without reservation it is a series that charts entirely new ground in terms of scope and ambition, yet remains rooted firmly in the fundamentals of solid characters and well-told stories.

Gayle Forman

Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.

Karin Slaughter

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

Peter Jennings

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

Robert Mankoff

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Mallory Ortberg

Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

John Scalzi

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

Diane Keaton

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Carlos Ponce

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

Eddie Vedder

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I was pretty bad. I totally understand the decision.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Abby Wambach

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Murray Walker

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

Howard Davidowitz

Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.

Randy Cross

One voice is the only way to go.

Charles Spurgeon

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Charles Olson

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Denis Johnson

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

Debra Wilson

Voice is my instrument.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

Bartlett Sher

What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

Elizabeth Edwards

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Dirk Benedict

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.