Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thornton Wilder

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Joe Cook

So few communities have the opportunity to take a blank canvas of land and create a core for its residents,

Turkish Proverb

One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.

Johnny Rutherford

No one can tell you how much it's going to cost -- it's a blank check,

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Steve Meyers

I feel like they need to come back and demonstrate some prudence, and better management, before we write them a blank check.

David Keene

From now on, this administration will find it difficult to muster support on the right without explaining why it should be forthcoming. The days of the blank check have ended.

Oleh Rybachuk

Fundamentally, you can say we have a blank sheet of paper on the table right now, but with the principles and criteria on which we will appoint these people.

Joyce Blazier

I was sitting here on this blanket so, here's the truck - maybe 6 feet.

Kirby Green

Groundwater withdrawals really don't respect our district boundary lines.

Kirby Green

Ground-water withdrawals really don't respect our district boundary lines.

Peter DeFazio

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, the relatively clear boundary (a steep ridgeline and road) ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight,

Nitin Gupta

If they can cross the boundary into the cell phone, satellite radio will have cleared the last major hurdle. MP3s are nice but the penetration of cell phones is phenomenal, and if they can get the technology down to the size where they can integrate it into a cell phone, it will be a huge step toward the mainstream for satellite radio.

Dan Storck

I didn't want the boundary study at first, but I realize we need it. The longer we wait, the longer it'll take to have an impact on the school. There's no good time for a boundary study, it's the most difficult thing any of us can go through.

Ruth Winstrom

We're starting to look more toward the boundary of Palm Springs.

Theodor Mommsen

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.

John Ortberg

There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.

Dean Tistadt

The only way to provide relief to the most students would be to do an administrative boundary change and move any new students into Halley Elementary School. It's the only thing we can think of that we can do and have changes in place for this school year.

Robin Chase

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Andrew Feinberg

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Mike Freeman

Luckily, very few changes were made over the years.

Cindy Moore

Making minor changes in your lifestyle is doable for most people.

Wu Xiaoling

Making interest rates and the foreign exchange rate market-oriented to reflect supply/demand changes in the market has always been a goal that we have pursued.

David Perlmutter

Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.

Joan Didion

Life changes fast, ... Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Chris McGinnis

Lots of changes are the nature of the beast.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Bob Collins

Looks like it's not going to have a big impact for our area,

Jay Sekulow

left open the possibility that we will see a marriage statute in Vermont that will impact this kind of arrangement or this kind of relationship.

Nastassja Kinski

Movies with Marilyn Monroe really had an impact on me.

Ron Lamberty

One of the things plants look for when they locate, they want to be somewhere where they won't impact the water supply. They usually try to locate at places where there is plentiful water.

Mark Kalwinski

More people means more revenues for the city, but it does impact on residents' quality of life.

Jim Delany

Money is important. People here (in Indianapolis) don't mince words when they talk about a $10 million impact (on the local economy). We're not going to go somewhere where we have to take less money.

Dennis Franz

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!

Dean Smith

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

Mark Shapiro

From a level of mental toughness and competitiveness, he has kind of reframed the standard for all of us in this organization. He made a big impact on our young starting pitchers.

Major Owens

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Jim Turner

share that information with their constituencies using public-information channels.

Edward Tufte

Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool.

Janis Karpinski

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

Peter Parr

My information is that he should be right for week one.

John Whitaker

Obviously, we want to get more information to verify these things.

Ted Morgan

More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.

Jim Bishop

Now the task was to get quantitative information about how much iron there was and about its chemistry. A year later, we had the results we needed that pointed to the continental margin as the source of the iron.

James Green

Next to his own writings, this is the most important source of information about him. There are discoveries to be made here.

Derrick Byars

Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.

Sandra Lerner

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Jack Baldwin

From our angle, you couldn't tell if it was going to make it to the net or not. It looked like everything was moving in slow motion.

Vijay Singh

On paper it looked very satisfying but I was very disappointed with the way I played the majors.

Ryan Hamby

On the first catch, Troy kind of looked at me and grinned.

Lupita Nyong'o

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

Dave Arnold

We do everything we can to minimize mortality.

Bill Johnson

We want to minimize placement disruptions if we can.

LaMont Jordan

We just keep getting penalty after penalty. ... If we can minimize those things, then I don't see a team out there that can stop us. That's why I say it's really all about us.

Don Griffin

You can never make a place 100% safe, but you can do some things to minimize the dangers.

Michael Marks

You can never be 100 percent sure but you can minimize the risk of selling to the wrong people. We have to be responsible.

Greg Blache

You have to tackle. You're not going to shut him down, but you want to minimize his big runs.

Jackie Speier

We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism - by making sure our infrastructure is secure and by working to minimize threats as much as possible.

Walt Byrd

We really tried to minimize the communities we affected.

Kevin Sullivan

Anything that can minimize paper and streamline the process would be great,

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

The only news will be the U.S. stocks. But on the geopolitical front, the upside risk is more than the downside.

Dave Ramsey

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

William Shakespeare

There's villainous news abroad.

William Shakespeare

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tim Danson

If we had our druthers, it wouldn't even be news - it would have been issued and no one would know about it until sometime down the road. But that didn't work out for us.

Albert Schweitzer

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

Ludwig von Mises

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

Denis Hayes

That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

Edgar Allan Poe

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

Christopher Hill

I can't say really that there has been progress,

Chris Corrigan

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.

Bart Stupak

Ill put my progressive credentials up against anyones.

Brendan Bell

We need to make sure there is some tangible progress in November,