Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anything that creates a spark is going to start, potentially, a big brush fire.

The old stumps were still visible, so that after we cut the brush away, we went around and planted seedlings and we've followed up pretty well. It was probably the early 80s by the time we got the whole way across. It's a really steep hillside and difficult to work on.

Something as simple as clearing brush from around buildings could save a town like Oracle.

Dear dead women, with such hair, too - what's become of all the gold / Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grow old.

Ethan Zohn

It opened people's eyes to what's happening in a place that people forget about and tend to brush off.

It's not something we brush under the rug and hope people do well. We're on it constantly.

Christopher Poole

There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.

Flossing is so important. Brushing does not get in between your teeth but flossing will.

Loretta Young

As soon as I get home from a day of work, I bathe, brush my hair, put on fresh makeup, and slip into a hostess gown.

Matthew Scully

Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals.

Jamie Wyeth

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

Abhishek Bachchan

I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.

James Galway

The reason I play studies is to brush up my technique and style after a tour.

I've had to have thick skin since I was real little. ... Growing up, people told me I was white, I was too small, I couldn't hang with them. I had to have thick skin and brush them off and prove them wrong. That's the same thing I've got to do here.

Conditions are very favorable for brush fires. It's dry, windy and there's low humidity.

Ben Alexander

Everybody has a personal bias. If the dog weighs less than 40 or 45 pounds, they will probably have trouble encountering logs or heavy brush or tall grass. It doesn't mean they can't do it, but they're limited.

It's just opening up a can of worms. It's going to be a witch hunt. I'm not saying to brush it under the rug, but where does it end? It scares me for the good of baseball.

Jennifer Armintrout

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

Kurt Warner

It's going (to depend) on his confidence to get up, snap and put it in the right spot time and time again, ... But it's more the confidence and the quickness to learning with your off hand. Try and brush your teeth with your left hand. It's not as easy as it sounds.

It's rustic if there is extra brush on it.

Maddie Ziegler

Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.

Every tech stock gets painted with the same brush those guys get painted with.

I couldn't be happier with the way he's come back this year. We got the softest trip possible the way it worked out. I didn't have to race him early or brush him into the wind.

Sarah Silverman

I do love the idea of ritual. I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.

Howard Dean

I'm not attacking liberals with a broad brush.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

I will preach with my brush.

And about 90 percent are caused by people, whether from an equipment spark or a brush fire or what have you.

John Lydon

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

You can see her sitting there on her father's tombstone; see his spirit brushing her hair.

We've not been able to place these brush strokes into the context of a wider canvas.

This week's practices will be all about brushing up on things. We'll help the players with things that they feel they're not doing crisply.

Paul Gascoigne

Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!

The media often give an uncharacteristic perception of some other cultures and religions, and Islam in particular because it's the unusual, extreme, odd stuff that is kind of newsworthy. Sometimes, people of Islam feel that they're getting painted with a brush that represents only a few.