Famous Quotes & Sayings

From their point of view, there's no inflation danger. The main risk is to slow growth, and they should keep cutting rates.

Paul Brooks

If it's worth cutting a tree for, it's worth doing right.

Fred Allen

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard -- let him worry about cutting it.

Ross Anderson

He was a strong leader, extremely competent. He walked into an utter disaster, and slashed spending without cutting corners.

Brian Sabean

He was a possible callup and he's the guy to keep an eye on. We'll take a long look at him. The other players are A-ballers, still cutting their teeth.

Tracy Kidder

I would read and write all night long and, as a result, wound up cutting a lot of my other classes.

Greg Fitzsimmons

I'm sure people are shocked when they see a guy speeding and cutting them off and having road rage while in a Prius.

Hilaire Belloc

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Bjork

Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we're not. For me, it is really exciting to take the cutting edge technology and take it as far as it can get virtually, use it to describe/control the musicology or the behavior of raw natural elements, and then plug it with a sound source which is the most acoustic one there is - like gamelan and pipe organ. So you get the extremes: very virtual and very physical. In that way you shift the physicality.

Eric Hoffer

There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

The part that is related to FEMA we can get back, but trips to the zoo, to the mall and to the movies we have to incur, ... I'll have to find the money by cutting something else because we will not say no to helping evacuees.

Kevin Love

The players that are here from last year and the players that have joined this team are really on a mission. We're not done until that buzzer sounds tomorrow and, hopefully, we're cutting down the nets.

Alice Temperley

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

Billy Williams

I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.

(The president) is cutting a little here and cutting a little there and really selling the Great Lakes short at a time when there ought to be investment.

Andy Serkis

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

We like Jason Bulger. But we think the way our staff sets up now, one of the strengths is the depth. Cutting him is something we debated, but you have to give up something to get something.

Paul Simon

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

Paula Deen

We were walking the floor. We weren't cutting the TV off at all just hoping to get a glimpse of him.

Siri Hustvedt

Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.

Stephen Jay Gould

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

We think the program is proving to be very successful, saving Houstonians a lot of money and cutting down on freeway collisions.

We've decided that cutting residents' weeds is not a good idea because unfortunately we have a lot of people who get lazy ...

We didn't figure on $3 (a gallon) diesel fuel. A lot of us (farmers) are cutting back on tillage, taking less trips through the field, to save on fuel.

Flavor Flav

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

Kurt Vonnegut

there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

Arlen Specter

There has been a generalization that justices like to retire at the end of a term so as not to disrupt the work of the court, ... if you were to have a 4-4 court, with its proclivity for being evenly divided, you wouldn't have decisions for the cutting edge of all the questions.

We're trying to be on the students' side by cutting out the middleman, the wholesalers.

We kept cutting the lead to four, then we got it to two, but we just couldn't get over the hump. Centralia is a good team. They're tough to play.

We need to either start cutting expenditures and services, or we need to find new revenues.

William Shakespeare

It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.

William Shakespeare

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.