Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacqueline Novogratz

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

Jennifer Warnes

The purity of sound that Cisco Music and Bernie Grundman have achieved with this 45rpm version of Famous Blue Raincoat 20th Anniversary Edition is shockingly perfect. I have never heard any version of Famous Blue Raincoat which sounds better... and I've heard them all. No caveats: This LP set is unbelievably gorgeous. I have been waiting two decades to hear it like this. Cisco's 45rpm edition is simply as good as Famous Blue Raincoat gets.

Jeaniene Frost

God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.

George Will

So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.

Hippocrates

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

Evelyn Waugh

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

Eugene H. Peterson

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Amid the gray, an incongruous band of daytime blue asserts itself. To the west, a pink sun already begins its descent. The effect is of three isolated aspects, distinct phases of the day. All of it, strewn across the horizon, is contained in his vision.

Gil Gerard

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.

Harper Lee

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Gregory Maguire

They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.

Ian Anderson

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

Guy Deutscher

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Gavin Walls was an integral part of last year's team and we are pleased that he will remain a Blue Bomber for the foreseeable future. Gavin established himself as one of the premiere defensive ends in the CFL in 2005 and we expect him to improve upon that Rookie of the Year performance in the years to come.

Eoin Colfer

I am not exuding anything," said Holly through gritted teeth. Orion tapped her shoulder. "I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins.

Eoin Colfer

Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut." Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell. "I'm the nut!" Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.

Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky... from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework. “I know magic can be stolen,” said Artemis. “Because I stole some myself.

Chris Hardwick

A lot of people complain in the year 2003 that it's not the world of tomorrow as foreseen in the 1950s. 'Where are the flying cars?' people say. 'Where are the robots who bring us blue drinks and warn us of danger?' Alright. We don't have those things, specifically, folks, but you know what we do have? Laser vaginal rejuvenation surgery.

Christopher Atkins

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

Christian Slater

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

Christian Bale

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

Gene Vincent

She's the gal in the red blue jeans.

Felicity Jones

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

Famke Janssen

I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.

Francis Picabia

One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain.

Ike Turner

I've got a combination of the blues mixed with hip-hop-all in one sound. I'm going to make a real big change in music, man.

I'm kind of surprised because bluegrass isn't in demand in The Villages. It's rock 'n' roll and country.

I'm from Houston, I grew up in church, I've been singing that way since I was a boy. Kevin is from the blues capital of the world, Kansas City. We can't do a Count Basie tribute without that. You'll hear the South in anything we do.

Fiona Apple

It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter,

Fiona Apple

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

Henry Miller

Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined him to be. He came from the blue and returns to the blue. He has not perished, he is not lost. Neither will he be forgotten.

Cate Blanchett

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.