Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Pratt

What I do know is our state and country is currently backwards and upside-down, and we all are to blame in one fashion or another.

Cassandra Clare

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

Drew Goddard

In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

Sal Souto

We are going backwards in our view. Things are getting worse in this country for the working people.

Gareth Thomas

Understandably, Mrs Catesby was very shocked and upset by the experience and thankfully only sustained minor injuries - a bruised hip and elbow from when she fell backwards in the assault.

Zingisa Mkabile

The premier is just shifting chairs. At the Health Department we are only going to go backwards as a province.

Michael Carty

We know Katrina had a negative impact on earnings, ... They (investors) are looking more forward than backwards on earnings.

Eric Hughes

We started rehearsing this backwards ... so that once the students were on the spot, they would be more confident with that.

Ozzie Smith

There are some guys that come off bad, but sometimes those people need you to come off like that. Sometimes they force you to come off like that, because you may tell them four or five times to go on, and they'll come back with their cap turned backwards and try again. Those are all tricks of the trade.

Jake Peavy

We were jumping around on the field. The next day I thought I had some bruised ribs, that I caught an elbow or something. But I never would've imagined it would have been this.

Mike Holmgren

I probably bruised him ... myself. I didn't think we played very smart on offense.

Paul Themba

The creation of a senate is in no way a move to improve legislative oversight. It has simply been created as an extension of presidential patronage, aimed at soothing bruised egos in the ruling party.

Gary Lough

Paula hit a rock when out training in January and developed a bruised foot and it is taking a long time to settle down.

S. Walker

Spring is a spiritually renewing time, particularly after Katrina bruised our spirit.

Julia Allen

Most cheerleaders have knee problems. I had just gotten back from the doctor about two weeks before this happened with a bruised meniscus and tendonitis in my patella. A lot of the girls on the squad have irregular cartilage and torn ligaments.

William Shakespeare

But words are words; I never yet did hearThat the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.

Bible Bible

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Bret Campbell

(Kelly) was productive early but has not been as productive late. He has a severe bruised thumb and has been struggling with that.

When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.

Rick Savage

You know, even though you have a limb severed, the signals keep running down the nerves so I still get an itch on my elbow or whatever.

Kim Nelson

Unfortunately with this stuff, it's not just elbow grease.

Alan Duncan

This problem is entirely of the Chancellor's making and, with the deteriorating public finances, he has left himself no elbow room.

Cassandra Clare

There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.

James Carville

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

Roger Clemens

Two split-fingers hurt my elbow like you wouldn't believe, and I've got a heartbeat in the back of my shoulder right now.

Paul Theroux

Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.

William Blake

When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether / Her knees and elbows are only glued together.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

Ellen Key

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Edward Norton

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Elaine Stritch

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

Don Marquis

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

Carlos Pena

The past is the past, but it doesn't stop me from having such good memories. Last year was such a wonderful experience for me - one I'll never forget.

Common

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

Bridget Regan

Being on film is forever. Television, as well, just lives on and on and on, which is really exciting. But then with theater, it's like an experience. You have to be there that one special night that was like that to see that one performance that was really remarkable. It's more intimate as well. So I like them both.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

Buddy Lester

I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old.

Brian Kernighan

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

Brea Grant

I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.

Charlie Watts

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

Tom Brokaw

The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.

Alexander Payne

In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

Alan Alda

When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.

Kin Hubbard

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

Lil' Kim

My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.

Naima Adedapo

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

Phil Jackson

I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I'm hoping that other knee doesn't have to be done. It's one of the toughest things to overcome.

Banksy

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

P. J. O'Rourke

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

River Viiperi

When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, 'Do a blog. It's the hip thing to do for male models.'

Baz Luhrmann

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

Alan Moore

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

David Cross

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

Gordon Eakin

We played a lot of players that we usually don't play because of injuries in the second game, but I'm disappointed that we couldn't pull of the second win.

Abiodun Orebiyi

Three people died, two male and one female. They had serious injuries from machete cuts. There were also gunshot wounds.

Rich Rodriguez

You know injuries are going to happen. Somebody else has to step up and take that role over.

Brevin Knight

We had injuries to everyone. We still have got people who are playing that probably could sit down, but that's the NBA.

Mike Ruddock

We have a lot of injuries but I still think we play some pretty sexy rugby.

Mats Sundin

We've had injuries before, but we have to play through them.

Jeff Bower

We have too many injuries to work on anything but PATs.

Craig Fugate

We haven't had any serious injuries or loss of life, and we'd like to keep it that way,

Kathy Harper

We are seeing anything from soft tissue injuries to major injuries that can involve paralysis from the lap belt, to thoracic injuries from the shoulder belt.

Bob McDonnell

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

Augie Ghio

We are well prepared for what we normally see 98 percent of the time, that minor to moderate incident.

Louis C. K.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

Carol Leifer

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

Matt Taibbi

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

Henry A. Kissinger

A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.

Peer Steinbruck

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

Matthew Vaughn

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

Gerd Langguth

Mrs Merkel has always been underestimated. She has an uncompromising will to succeed. She always seems to know what to do next and then get on with it.

Jane Austen

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

Jane Austen

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

Jane Austen

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

Jane Austen

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

Tony Blair

I think their real problem is that they have still not recovered from Mrs Thatcher going,

Cecil Beaton

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

Reggie Lewis

We were shocked when we had to go back out there on the onside kick.

William Arbaugh

would be shocked if they solved the problem.

Louis Sheldon

This is all tied to Jack? ... I'm shocked out of my socks.

Pat Gillick

We were disappointed. At the same time, you can't say you're shocked or surprised that something like this would happen.

Joe Hampton

I'm shocked by the turnout. We're very pleased.

Doug Eddings

Yes. That's why I was pretty shocked at what took place.

Kenneth Darby

Brodie kind of shocked me today. All I could do was just smile.

Serena Williams

I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.

William Cooper

I will be shocked if he didn't play.

Babette March

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Ben Saunders

What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe... but thankfully it's still intact.

Jeffrey Hawk

We are just really upset with the verdict that's come down.

David Suzuki

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

Byron Katie

Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

Bernie Mac

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

Edith Wharton

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them ...

Eamon

You look sad even though we just met No need to get upset But I got a show, gotta go, so I thank you And if you wanna still get sexed down You could catch the next Greyhound But until then, I gotta go, so I thank you

Anthony Brown

Watching upsets and being a part of an upset are two different things.

Bill Vaughan

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

Dianna Agron

If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.