Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barney Ross

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

Arthur Rimbaud

I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.

Derek Jarman

Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

Deb Caletti

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

Al Yankovic

The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.

Al Yankovic

You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

Kevin Love

Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.

Shel Silverstein

When the light turns green, you go.When the light turns red, you stop.But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Tyra Banks

Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color.

David Gergen

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

Damien Mason

Lee crossed the line, but everybody does some wrong, and he has been very supportive of people in the community.

Philipp Lahm

Obviously we will be keeping our fingers crossed for Cologne. It would be great if we can win the title in front of our own fans.

Jerome Bettis

Of course, it crossed my mind. But that thought was short-lived. Fortunately, it's not (my last play).

Don Hill

She probably went over the edge today. She probably crossed over, really kind of marginalized herself,

Sartaj Aziz

We have never crossed the Line of Control,

Dan Gillerman

We are all keeping our fingers crossed and praying and are very elated by every small, however minute, sign of progress. But I think there is still a very long way to go... And hopefully Sharon will survive and come back.

Patrick Valenzuela

When we crossed the dirt, the leader drifted out and we got through. He just took off and got the job done.

Phil Jones

What has happened in this situation is, it's sort of crossed the line.

Keenan McCardell

When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,

Deb Silverman

When it was time for lights out, I realized just what sleeping in a place with no way out is like.

Kim Smith

She can shoot the lights out and that's what she did tonight.

Richard Dormer

When you see a school bus, you got to think children. Even if the lights are not flashing, you got to slow down.

Jessica D'Onofrio

Police pursued the vehicle, which had its lights flashing and sirens blaring.

Ned Yost

Carlos is one of those special guys. When the lights go on, he's ready to go.

Gregg Zaun

We tried just about everything, but it was just a tough day for him. I'm sure he'll be lights out next time.

Eddie Estrada

We rarely turn on the lights in the office because we have our skylights.

Mark Chandler

What it comes down to (is that) Lachapelle was lights out. He was the man.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Douglas Fairbanks

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Thomas Couture

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Uday Kotak

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Lee Majors

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

Kevin McCloud

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

Ronnie Milsap

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Dick Durbin

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Dennis Kucinich

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

Wallace Anderson

When I left, policemen were in uniform. Policemen were patrolling the streets.

Augusten Burroughs

What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?

John M. Smith

There ain't going to be trouble today because they got police everywhere. It's going to be all right because no one wants to go to jail.

David DeFazio

She didn't want to make any statements (to police). Nothing was voluntary.

Mohammad Khan

Seven police were killed on the spot and two are missing,

Gareth Peirce

Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

Chris Drury

Those were some tough losses. Responding to them was a pretty big step for our team confidence-wise.

Champ Bailey

I think we're tough when we do things like that. We were responding to some things they like to do. We're active.

Mark Vitner

I think they would be responding to all the talk of outsourcing and all the talk in the headlines.

Mike Holmgren

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of year for us.

Stanley Brand

I'm not going to get into responding to these things.

Victor Borge

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?

Denise Juneau

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

Kim Cattrall

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

Jason Collins

I knew that I was choosing the road less traveled but I'm not walking it alone.

Bob McKenzie

There are a lot of considerations, especially on a road that is as traveled as I-15.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Dick DeVos

One more step on the road to getting it done for Michigan.

John Adams

Since the road has been changed, that's just let everything come off the park.

Tom Tupa

She's doing great, ... She's completely done with all her treatments, and she's on the road to recovery.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Al Franken

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Al Franken

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Al Gore

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

Michael Bidwill

We're serious about winning. The new stadium allows us to do some things that we haven't been able to do before.

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Terry Jorde

This has struck a nerve. Thousands of them.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Josh Radnor

It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define such a thing, surely dwells as much in the concrete and taxi cabs as it does in the rivers, lakes, and mountains. Grace, I realized, is neither time nor place dependent. All we need is the right soundtrack.

Bear Grylls

Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.

Audre Lorde

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

Denzel Washington

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

Denzel Washington

I read a ton of scripts. I read a lot of scripts, and you read one, and first of all, you felt like you read it in 14 minutes, because you're turning the pages so fast you can't wait to see what's going to happen.

Denis Waitley

THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.

Diego Maradona

I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available all the time!

Alexandra Roach

I cant wait until Im able to afford really posh bags.

Alexandre Dumas

Wait, and hope" (The Count of Monte Cristo)