Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Harris

It was the original money pit. Old wiring burns places down and old plumbing floods. So what we have is a 1985 infrastructure or innards covered with a 1909 exterior.

James Wolcott

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.

The Secret Service came to me and thought I was burning the White House.

Henry Rollins

The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.

The story about the great things Senator Burns has done for Montana has been told, but we need to reiterate it and remind voters what a tremendous resource Senator Burns is for the state.

The smell of burning rubber is always great in the air.

The siding of the cabin was metal and . . . they would light the stick on fire and use the blackened portion of it to write their names with. And, as they were doing that, burning embers would fall onto the grassy area. That's how we feel the fire started.

Harriet Stowe

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

As long as you keep up the momentum, keep going and don't take breaks, you'll burn a lot of calories.

Those three guys are pretty solid. With three league games each week, we shouldn't be burning them out. If Donnie can throw two of them, Michael can throw the other one and Dustin can relieve them, we should be good shape.

Shawn Green

Those things have really been put on the back burner of everybody's mind in dealing with the referendum. We're going to get financial things squared away and get back to the business of education.

What really burns me up is that it took me less than two hours to find out that you are supposed to multiply those numbers by 80 percent.

Doc Rivers

We just kept scratching. I told our guys at halftime that I thought our first half was as soft defensively as we'd been all year. And we started our third quarter out the same way. They got three or four open shots and I had to burn two timeouts but then I thought our bench, even though they were outscored in a big way, was the reason we won the game.

The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How can you go to Phoenix and have a storm? Usually, you have to take tents to try and keep from burning up.

The whole time they're here, it's just them. So they don't get teased, they don't get harassed, they don't get stared at, ... Plus, they can show other kids that have been burned 'Hey, I've got the same injuries, but I can do this.'

The victim -- his legs were burned really bad.

Lev Grossman

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'

Hugh Johnson

You have to be careful about prejudging this - I've seen so many investors burned at the stake thinking things like 'Value is about to come back,' ... Let the market tell you what to do. Don't tell the market what to do.

What continues now is to keep the torch burning and not let the world ever forget what a pedophile is.

We've been sleeping on the . . . ground like rats. I say burn this whole . . . city down.

Dick Cheney

We talked about expediting the funds for ... the people whose homes burned and their businesses burned.

There's going to be a lot of fire out here for a long time. This fire's going to burn for weeks.

There's nothing like a big room with a wood fire burning in it. The warmth and the cheeriness of it.

Mike Jacobs

I started smelling burnt rubber. I looked around, and (the kitchen) was just smoke-filled.

I've been burned by George Lucas too many times,

Brian Cashman

I've been burned before. But I haven't been burned this year.

Shirley Manson

I've been on the go since January, and I think we all just feel a little burnt out ... We came to the conclusion that we shouldn't carry on without having a break. Any stuff that you read about our future is bogus, because it's completely undetermined as yet.

What's happening to our world? Imagine the year 2000 and our ozone layer has vanished... Our planet has a fever and she is burning up - what will you do?

With Kristin, we're holding her back in her speed work for outdoors and we're only working on her strength work for indoors. We'll start speed work at the end of March. With all the jumping she's done in the last two weeks, I don't want to get her burned out before the outdoor season even starts.

We got ourselves in a hole. They sure burned us on it.

We're very pleased he rejected the president's proposals. We're grateful to Sen. Burns that he has come out so strongly.

Barry Bonds

The last at-bat, I was pretty burned out, ... I have a short period of time to help as much as I can. Hopefully, it doesn't hurt the team. They've been there all year. I'm having to make fast, fast, fast adjustments.

The interesting thing for me is let's see if we can do it again. That fire is burning even hotter.