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.

Richard Rogers

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

Patrick Schillinger

We're not dependent on just one line or grade of paper. We have a very diverse paper industry in the Fox Valley from fine paper to paper board to tissue. When there are fluctuating markets in one segment, usually the others offset any downturns.

Butch Waller

We're not changing anything. I learned that years ago. The key always for us is can we stop their inside people and get some boards and kick it out? By the looks of it, they'll transition, and so will we.

Bruce Cheney

Like everybody else, I enjoy my privacy and I don't want it invaded. At the same time, I enjoy breathing fairly regularly, and I don't want, for the sake of having to take my shoes off when I'm boarding a plane, to die because I got fussy about my shoes,

Sylvia Fowles

(LSU) coach (Pokey Chatman) challenged me in the locker room at halftime to get as many boards as possible. I just picked up my energy in the second half.

Mark Wilde

Let Willamette's board deal with the consequences. This is a great time for Weyerhaeuser to be out looking for deals.

Ken Auletta

Let's concede that most journalistic enterprises need to make a profit, and to do that, they must be like supermarkets, offering a range of choices to their customers - international news, weather, sports, business, gossip, movie reviews and results of planning board meetings. But too often, journalistic supermarkets have become specialty stores,

Lynn Ribolini

Leslie worked hard on the boards and defensive end. But we have grown to expect that out of her.

James Touchton

Many of the Board members have been out of school for 30, or even 40 years.

Scott Ellis

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.

Joshua A. Norton

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.

Diane Paulus

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

Diane Kruger

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Dennis Farina

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Aaron Eckhart

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Lesley Manville

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Taraji P. Henson

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

Chris Lamont

Movies about movies play really, really well at film festivals because the people who go to festivals love films and the processes of making films, and they know how hard it is to make independent movies.

Abel Ferrara

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Charles Lamb

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

Cameron Watson

We're having such a good time here. We have taken this film to a number of festivals and this is our favorite.

Brian Setzer

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

Brian Henson

we sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.

Adele

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

Kent Jones

There are as many festivals as there are mosquitoes after a rain.

Dorothy Allison

My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.

Joe Kennedy

When we see how large the tournament has grown and how many old friends come out and support us, it really makes me, my sister and my parents so happy. All this is in memory of their two sons.

Lora Pate

She has grown tremendously from last year. She's a wise and very heady setter.

Ron Kaminski

She has grown so much. You'd think that she'd been performing for 100 years (because of her range).

Erron Kinney

I don't know anything about it. I don't really know what to say. That is a little discouraging. It could maybe be a distraction, but he is a grown man and he'll be held accountable for whatever Whatever it is we'll all rally around each other and keep fighting.

Steve Dobey

Ideally, you want these openings to be grown up some, to provide protection cover.

David Wright

You look in the stands and you see grown men crying,

Mary Pickford

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

Tim Maloney

Getting hired under 18 is somewhat of a privilege.

Tony Dungy

I did not know Rod at all when I hired him. I got his name and talked to him on the phone. That's all I needed.

Tony Fernandes

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Kelli Williams

I'm convinced that I've been hired for jobs because I can cry on cue.

Bradley Cooper

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

Mona Williams

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Cynthia Lowery

We have hired some young people. If you hire somebody without experience, it's going to be lower.

Debbie Pace

Madison never incorporated and didn't get its own government. We don't want to get lost in the shuffle.

Bruce Jones

Many of our people have lost their homes.

Frank Oz

Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.

Meg Mallon

My first Solheim was when we lost at Dalmahoy (in Scotland) in 1992,

Habibul Bashar

Obviously we will try to win the match...no matter we have lost the first two matches.

Richard Duncan

No one realized how devastating this was going to be, ... Many of these people have lost everything.

Derrick Max

One way or another, everyone's lost sight of why we're here.

Neil LeBlanc

Obviously that day we lost some delegates, but we have also got more from other areas. We've moved on from there because we have to stay focused.

Dean Barker

Obviously it's very disappointing to have lost that race but we can take a lot of positives out of it still,

Steve Forbert

I haven't had the most lucrative career. If I'm going to be completely honest, I'm a one-hit wonder.

Michael Ovitz

That package was way too lucrative for the services performed

John Challenger

You don't see them this lucrative very often. This is kind of off the charts.

James Woods

I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.

William Roth

let Americans keep more of what they earn, and use their money as they see fit.

James Hong

Sentiment is weak right now and we're seeing a lot of short-term retail money selling.

Adrienne Worthy

One of the wonderful things for us is that people who give money also tend to give time.

Kevin Krewell

One is as a money scheme and the other is to produce useful technology.

Bob Hall

Obviously, you've got to have some money for a state-wide race, but the point is to have it not be an auction.

Mike Blum

No one really makes money on shorts. Probably one in 10,000, at the most.

Guy Ritchie

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

Cindy Hall

One time we saved up enough money for a saw.

Michael Arcuri

One thing we know is that he can raise money whenever he wants to, so he can still run if he wants to.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Peter Murray

More is going on now than at any time since the Victorians.

Mark Brunell

Obviously, it's been a long time since he's been in the playoffs, but he is used to winning in the playoffs.

Tyler Bolick

Basically, salaries have stayed the same since I started.

William Petty

I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.

Roberto Galvan

I have been here since Sunday. We are waiting for the blow.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Kathy Connolly

She's been here since 5 a.m. this morning.

Levance Fields

Of course, I'll be ready. I think I could have done it this year if Carl hadn't come back.

Cory Sarich

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

Jose Theodore

Obviously, this year I didn't play up to my level, but the year's not over yet.

Chris Evans

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Dick Van Dyke

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.