Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Andre

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

Carl Andre

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

Carl Andre

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Andy Bitto

We have to get better technically in all phases. Sustaining our blocks (running game), pass blocking, being more efficient passing, getting a better pass rush, tackling ...

Norman Black

We have no problem with picketers. We do have a problem when they decide to block vehicles going in and out of our plants.

Anthony Marra

When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

Walter Jones

We were blocking the right guys and Shaun was making the correct cuts,

Charles Sturt

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

Elizabeth Warren

We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster.

Charles Eastman

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

Tom Kloza

We're going to see $3 a gallon gas quite commonly in the next week or so,

Toba Beta

When we do stargazing, we stare at the stars...and many other things which we have presumed commonly as stars.

Janet Yellen

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.

Ron Pernick

Solar stocks as a group are probably up 4 to 6 times more than most of the commonly followed indices.

John Wycliffe

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

Jonathan Swift

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption.

Gerard Burg

Natural gas production in the U.S is still not back up to 100 percent, and gas is the most commonly used heating fuel in the U.S,

Cass Sunstein

Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

Laith Kubba

Muslim extremists will be surrounded then wiped out,

R. Inge

The government of Afghanistan should prove that they are protectors of freedom by releasing Abdul Rahman and protecting him from extremist elements.

Ben Johnson

The opening salvo of Commander-in-Chief is a guilt trip for all those Americans who thought an unelected (and then-unelectable) feminist extremist should refrain from imposing her will upon the nation.

Ron Lewis

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

Vladimir Putin

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

Najib Razak

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country.

Najib Razak

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

William Gaillard

We've stated very recently that we are not in favor of having firearms on board,

Scott Fujita

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

Tom Watson

My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.

Anna Kendrick

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

Talisa Soto

I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

David Nail

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

Ted Ligety

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

Landon Liboiron

I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

Libba Bray

Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Ben Horowitz

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

Mark Twain

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Charlie Ergen

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Dave Gahan

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Jack Thompson

The other side wants to make me the issue,

Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Dan Auerbach

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

Andrea Gibson

Someday we will dare to trade good for true

Fred Armisen

Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.

Jewel

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see

Tom Cruise

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Patricia Briggs

Someday, I'm going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner - but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Sherry Turkle

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

Christine Taylor

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

Jimmy Buffett

Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will.