Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Miller

We've always wanted to live in the village. This street offers some good-size houses, big yards. Really kind of private and quiet, but just a few steps away is the hustle and bustle of the village.

Jim Kelley

We're making progress, but we'd still like to see the population get lower. The problem we've been fighting is that they've had two straight years of good reproduction. So it's kind of like taking two steps forward and one back. But we think if we stay with the program we have in place, we'll eventually get there.

Ross Levinsohn

We're going to take some pretty dramatic steps to provide industry-leading safety.

Debra Peterson

We're going to take all steps necessary to protect the creativity and innovation of our employees.

Bill Richardson

We're going to focus on two important areas: one is verification, the second is what steps are the North Koreans taking to dismantle their nuclear weapons ? concrete steps,

Javier Lopez

We found that many large introns are removed by multiple recursive splicing steps, ... These steps involve the sequential excision of smaller subfragments. Our work also indicates that most recursive splicing events leave no clues in the final mRNA. This is why they have not been detected before now.

Jeff Brown

We felt like not only was (the compliance check failure) unintentional, but that we took many, many steps to prevent it.

Bill Belichick

We brought 45 guys here. When one man goes down, that's what the other is there for. He steps in.

Jim Larranaga

We both agreed that this was something that doesn't represent George Mason University or our basketball program. That we needed to take immediate steps to send that message not only to Tony, but to the rest of our team and to the rest of the athletes who represent George Mason.

D. James

What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting

Jamie Lee Curtis

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

Wolfgang Schuessel

I would find it grotesque if we begin negotiations with Turkey and leave Croatia out the door to starve, ... It's important that the voice of Germany is heard more clearly here.

Christopher Moore

I did the one with the big butt. They said they want something that looks like a Renoir with the face of a 19th-century painting, so we had to do a grotesque painting. It was done in four days.

Mark Gatiss

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. I've never quite been able to shake that.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucious, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids --always by a Freemason.

Stephen Gillers

From the media's perspective, extremes are news, ... completely distorted by the emphasis on what I would call the grotesque or extreme cases.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

Jennifer Egan

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

Pat Riley

When it comes right down to it I coached a horrible game. I started the wrong lineup, I made the wrong substitutions and I called the wrong plays.

Tim Read

What a horrible way to go. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

John Burnham

We British weren't all horrible monsters, there was some justification in asking for taxation from the colonies,

Ben Kingsley

Unfortunately I went to a hotel in Krakow, and unfortunately, one night, there was a brawl in the bar because a horrible anti-Semitic remark was made to one of my fellow Israeli actors, one of my fellow actors who was an Israeli, sorry, and we were all extremely upset. I reacted rather violently, I'm afraid.

William Shakespeare

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

Chris Colfer

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

Charisma Carpenter

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.