Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Taylor

The police car, which had its blue lights flashing, was responding to a serious large-scale disturbance nearby when it struck the man as he crossed the road to where a taxi was waiting for him.

Tom Coughlin

The penalties are an issue that we have talked about until, quite frankly, we are blue in the face, ... And we will continue to do that. They are very, very bothersome. They are a nemesis to us.

David Carson

Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.

Don Yaeger

Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months.

Brian Eno

I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

Eric Burdon

One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.

Charles Platt

In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.

C. V. Raman

A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.

C. V. Raman

The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

Christo

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

Tite Kubo

I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

Steve Breen

Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

Banksy

I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as being 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

Brandon McArthur

We are just taking it one pitch at a time, one inning at a time. We are actually drawing closer.

Chris Cooper

We're drawing up a plan that will fix it. But for now, we're staying on top of it with sand and salt.

Gary Sick

We know that they have had the drawings for P-2 centrifuge and they've publicized that.

Todd Krill

We were going forward and took two steps back. We've got to regroup. We're going to watch the tape of the Madison game tomorrow and go back to the drawing board.

Ken Anderson

We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. I'm proud of these girls.

Joe Biden

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Le Corbusier

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

Johnny Gonzales

We did what we had to do to win. We are fighting for that third playoff spot and the kids worked hard for the victory.

Jim Brandt

We are not engrossed in total sunshine, but we're in good shape. We have a pretty good set of sunshine laws. The problem is fighting off exceptions. Every time the Legislature meets, there are exemptions considered. Accumulation of exemptions is our great potential problem.

Alan Cohen

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.

Alan Cohen

The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.

Debbie Kolosh

When you're out fighting a fire for hours and hours with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, maybe before you left you didn't have your breakfast, its a great place for them to be able to get something.

Shalrie Joseph

We didn't play our best, we didn't finish our chances, but this team never quits. We keep fighting to the end. We never give up until the final whistle blows.

Richard Russo

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

Jackie Smith

We have not received any paperwork on that from them.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

David Ricardo

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

Demetri Martin

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

Daniel Handler

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Randi Miller

We're still going to be a politically independent paper. We're still going to be the paper for Boulder's young adults and serve that readership with our reporting and advertising.

Constance Wu

Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

Brea Grant

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

Bonnie Tyler

It's really fantastic because families can come to my shows and they all like it. It's really weird.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Bruce Cockburn

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'

Nigel Barker

Many reality shows have failed because everyone's acting.

Terry Wogan

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.