Famous Quotes & Sayings

Four years ago, things were so bleak in parts of the area, but we've had exciting news in Russell County that is invigorating. This is a real turnaround point for us.

Willie Randolph

I feel very positive. No matter how bleak it might look, this clubhouse is going to stay positive.

If they cut tournaments, the little guys play less and the big guys make more money. At least now, the little guys can play and make money. ... If the rumors are true, it's looking pretty bleak for middle-of-the-road guys.

Obviously, he's a great talent, but I think we've opened holes for him at times. At the same time, I think he's made us better at times when things looked bleak as far as the holes. It's a group thing. It's us working for him and him working for us. It's worked out well.

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.

Life would be pretty bleak for humans on this planet if we don't have very many species to share the Earth with.

The picture is not nearly as bleak as the statistics may portray. They virtually all get one inspection a year.

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

Steve Williams

This run is not as potentially bleak as we thought, but we're putting everyone on notice of a possible closure.

There is a debate as to whether this is a relief rally or the start of a second half recovery, ... But the year has been bleak for the group and since we had such a big pullback early on, I think chip stocks have more upside.

With cash, we will be able to buy commodities in the region to distribute to the most vulnerable hungry, poor Afghans. Without cash, the lean season will be also very bleak for many.

Per Petterson

'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.

On multiple occasions, I told Faye that from my perspective, the city administrator had done a tremendous job in steering the city out of the bleak financial situation that it was in when he was first hired.

Anita Brookner

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

The only true sickness is home-sickness, for each and every one of us can feel how we are part of two totally separate realities. We have one foot in a linear, finite reality that seems quite bleak sometimes, and the other foot in an expansive, eternal reality that is encompassed in unconditional love for all things and also a oneness with all things.

Mark E. Smith

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

We have never given up, no matter how bleak things looked. These guys are fighters; they could be losing 24-2, and they'd still never quit.

Craig Young

With this bleak outlook and this share price, it's going to be extremely difficult for the government to sell. Telstra would obviously like less regulation, but that's something which is out of its hands.

David Brown

The message is still very bleak for the UK High Street and the MPC is not off the hook yet for rate cuts,

This win came at a very opportunistic time. It looked very bleak for us in the first eight minutes of the game, but thank goodness we have some resilient players.

I've never know the number to be this high - the percentages to be this high - but I've never seen the revenue situation as bleak as it?s been this year.

Rich Rodriguez

Things looked bleak there for a long time. But our guys kept hanging in there and we got a little momentum there in the fourth quarter.

Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny

It was already pretty bleak for those vehicles for several months in a row,

It looked pretty bleak there for a minute.

It's going to be the healing of the world. I think the fact that so many see it in a very dismal way, a very bleak way, it shows we've lost sight of the God of hope, as Paul says.

It's a very cold, bleak environment, ... I was late, but she turned up at the restaurant alone, installed herself at the bar. By the time I got there, there were shrieking all with laughter, as if they knew each other for a long time.

John Reilly

It's satisfying that a permanent memorial is here, that signifies the loneliness of the place. It's right on the spot where the plan crashed and in keeping with the bleak moorlands.

Steve Williams

It's not as potentially bleak as you might think by just looking at the dam counts.

Tarja Halonen

Bleak natural conditions in the cold North have certainly helped teach us to work hard in order to survive and to take care of each other.

Gerry Adams

Perhaps just once in a fairly bleak international situation ... maybe hope and history is reigning in Ireland

Bill Griffith

Adele is one of the most, to coin a cliche, life-affirming people I've ever met, especially because of her bleak outlook,

Willie Randolph

No matter how bleak things look, in this clubhouse we're going to stay positive and keep playing. Things can change around.