Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iain McGilchrist

The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.

Ian McLagan

I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

Graham Phillips

With film, you read the whole script three or four times, and you really have a solid blueprint of who your character is. Whereas in television, that blueprint is constantly changing and adapting, and sometimes you have to take a risk.

Gary Clark, Jr.

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.

We're trying to recreate the fine details using more of a Woodland design and less of a corporate one. The building's color palette should reflect earth tones and less competing colors like yellow, blue and red. Colors should complement each other. We don't want to be loud.

Alex Wong

The real pressure in Hong Kong should be on semiconductor stocks like ASM Pacific and QPL, ... As we don't have semiconductor blue chips, pressure on the index shouldn't be too great.

Homaro Cantu

All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.

Henry Petroski

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

Banks

I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

This will make three boys. We get a blue pin for boys and a pink one for girls.

The particular bullish case for the blue chips here is that they've really had a correction over the last month or so, ... I look for the blue chips to catch up with the rest of the market and make new highs later this month.

This should have been our game. This was very disappointing. They (the Blue Jackets) came out flying to start the third period, and we weren't ready for it for some reason.

We always wanted House of Blues to do a venue here. But, it wasn't until they saw all the momentum at Victory that they were ready to make a commitment.

Rick McCallum

There is a common misconception about Star Wars that we shoot everything on blue screen. We actually built 72 really large sets on the film but, because there are so many different planets, there is always some part of the sequence that has blue screen in it.

Larry McMurtry

When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one.

We think we can do a lot of things, other than play hard, and still control a football game. We need to learn you can't do that. We're so damn blue collar that if we don't go out on the football field and play hard, we're not going to get results.

This time, we kind of took the inspiration from the old Wolfman Jack border radio and how he influenced a whole generation of musicians with everything from blues to all kinds of hillbilly music and gospel music. It reached all the way to California, and I've heard people tell me they got it in Chicago.

We liked that look, but when the steel plates came to the house, they were hot-rolled steel, so they have a sort of blue quality. We love the blue, so now we're going about the process of finding ways to protect and keep the color the way it is.

Those yonder do I envelop in blue and red!

We can talk until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it's a blunt instrument. The RPI is just one of a great many tools that we use.

Jay Feaster

We don't want to find ourselves short at the blue line. (Ranger) gives us another option.

Cindy Sheehan

We have been greeted with overwhelming support, in blue (Democratic) states and in red (Republican) states,

We will gradually discontinue these interim arrangements and services as Virgin Blue and other carriers grow.

David Wong

John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls.

Claude Monet

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.

Mary Wilson

We are so interested and impressed that she has been an effective blue governor in a red state. She handled a prison standoff like a pro.

Dominique Moceanu

I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!

Hugh Laurie

When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was a jolt of electricity. It grabbed me by the throat, it made me shiver. And I knew from that moment that this was for me and this would be with me for the rest of my life.

Hunter Hayes

Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love. Musically, I'm always finding my way home.