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.

Richard P. Feynman

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

Robert Kazinsky

I loved playing computer games. I used to be one of the top World of War-crafters in the world for a couple of years.

Bruce Schneier

Looks like kindergarten cryptography to me. It will keep your kid sister out, but it won't keep the police out. But what do you expect from someone who is computer illiterate?

American Council

Many people sit in front of a computer all day while at the office. When they go to work out, they are trying to get away from that environment,

Jason Calacanis

Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.

David Orton

Second-quarter sales results were significantly impacted by the greater- than-expected slowdown in the global personal computer market.

Clive Thompson

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.

Jackie Wagstaff

Meanwhile, we've got schools that are failing. Those computers are not going to help those children. Not one bit.

Brian Setzer

My friend sent me the song, which I hadn't heard before, ... It faded in toward the middle, and I thought the computer file was broken. But we did research and found out that a tape fragment is all that exists of the song.

Philip Rumore

No one in the schools knows what it's all about. It's doomed to failure if you don't involve people and let them know what's going on.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Terry Anderson

She was doomed from the start. I can't imagine Gale isn't tremendously disappointed.

David LaBahn

When you're saddled with the fact that it's not low-level offenders and there's no accountability, it's doomed for failure.

Victor LaValle

Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

George Santayana

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

John McCarthy

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

Britt Beemer

I would say that the first quarter of next year probably has already been doomed by this episode,

Patrick Mason

Life is what happens while you are trying to get well.

Will Rogers

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

Margaret Millar

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Chris Beatty

Life will throw stones at you, and it's what you do when that happens that counts.

Theodore Roethke

Let others probe the mystery if they can/ Time harried prisoners of shall and will./ The right thing happens to the happy man.

Andrew Taylor

Life has overtaken our original plans, and we're hear tonight to talk about the tragedy this weekend. We're here to talk about what happened and to try to prevent it from happening again.

Alfred Adler

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Michael Wickett

Life doesn't happen to us, it happens from us

Michael Wickett

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Robert G. Allen

Like a baby, ... I woke up every two hours and cried.

Leah Smith

Many people just don't know. We spend hours practicing everyday, even on weekends, to make sure we get a move right.

John Neal

Seventy-five hours every three years is required by the state, ... We do 100 hours every year.

Ellen Smith

Miners only have a one-hour supply of oxygen underground, but mine safety teams can be located up to two hours away. That's not very comforting.

Jay Frank

More than two million people watched the video during its first 24 hours online.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Scott Hunter

I can't live out here. I can't have someone out here 24 hours a day. How do I stop this?

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Sergio Garcia

I was still waking up six or seven hours before my tee time. I'm slowly getting back into it.

Retief Goosen

No, I'm not even thinking about the lightning incident,

Richard Jackson

I was so focused, I let nothing, neither rain nor the lightning stop me,

Harry Harrison

So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

E. F. Benson

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

Avicenna

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

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.

Jack Straw

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

Scott Trost

We made a little adjustment. We switched off on screens on him. We made him work for all his shots.

Nancy Buirski

If they get to a screening and it's sold out, don't get too discouraged.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Sidney Poitier

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

Christopher Darden

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Dana Addis

We have to work on moving, setting screens and shot selection.

Patricia Clarkson

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

Diablo Cody

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Joe Keller

Now we won't be sitting on each other's laps. This will be nice.

Dean Smith

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

Eric Takamura

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Eddie Van Halen

Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

Jim Butler

We want to make sure the vessel was not compromised when it was sitting on the beach.

Anne Donovan

I was stunned. I was sitting over here (on the sideline) stunned that it was happening.

Michelle Johnston

I was sitting there thinking how to give her condolences if she lost. All of a sudden, like wham, she won.

Scott Young

I was sitting over there and all of a sudden bam, bam, bam.

Steve Prentice

More than ever, what we spend on is more important than how much we spend.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Kathryn Stockett

I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.

Gary Shaw

We try to give them a little leeway. They're not always staring at their watches.

Burton Rascoe

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Amanda Hocking

Wendy: Why are you staring at me? Finn: Because you're standing in front of me.

Paul Ballew

We do have some payback out there staring us in the face.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You gonna keep staring at me, Great Acheron, or are you ready to chew me a new one?

Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.

Paula McLain

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Marc Guggenheim

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Ciara

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Dean Ornish

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Kim Crosby

Unless you've been there, unless you've woken up in it every morning,

James A. Michener

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you

John Owens

Unless you're going to under-developed part of the world, they're everywhere,

Edgar Mitchell

Our success and our understanding is that all beings are right inside, the deeper we go inside ourselves. There's a saying that Unity uses that I have always liked: "Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me." We all have to be a part of this. We have to be the initiator. We can't wait.

Elbert Hubbard

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

Eddie Vedder

Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.

Earl Nightingale

Don't wait for change. You change.

Earl Nightingale

Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Deepak Chopra

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

Dr. Tsou

I have been waiting 25 years for this time.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Alan Cohen

Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?

Stewart Rahr

I can't seem to shake waking up early.

Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Avril Lavigne

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

Desmond Tutu

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Alvin Toffler

I work virtually every waking hour.

Dr. Miglietta

It can be anything from him waking up to having a seizure, or it could be involuntary.

Terry Pratchett

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Annie Dillard

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

Douglas Coupland

I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.