Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Steinhardt

The pattern in which photons are blocked or not blocked had never really been computed. In the laboratory, we were able to construct a device that was effectively like doing a computer simulation to see the patterns of transmission.

David Malpass

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

Dev Hynes

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

Colum McCann

I'm very boring, really: I live on the Upper East Side, a block from the park. I have three kids. I go for a jog around the park every day with my dog.

Taiye Selasi

That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

Mikko Hypponen

We have listed URLs that we are recommending systems administrators block. We don't recommend blocking the whole domain, as 99 percent of the pages on these free Austrian and German domains are OK. You should just block the problem URLs.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

Bill Nelson

We had a punt blocked and that was pretty disappointing. But they didn't score on it.

Yayoi Kusama

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience.

Janelle Monae

I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.'

Nguyen Giap

When we recall the past, we can wish for a brighter future of relations between the two countries,

William Cullen Bryant

Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stoodIn brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

William Cullen Bryant

Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

Philip Seymour Hoffman

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

Neil Tennant

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

Jerry Slocum

We definitely are not short on heart, but sometimes we don't play very bright and tonight was one of them.

Nancy Astor

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Bob Seger

I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together.

Curt Fredrickson

We played pretty darn good defense all night long. You hold a team to nearly 20 points under their average, you've got to be doing some things right.

Bill McArthur

You know, from the outside, this is a darn impressive spacecraft.

Rick Bell

We had to press them because they are so darn big and their big men are so well-coached.

Rosemary Dillard

Yes, I'm glad this part is over. I think the jury had a hard thing to do. I think the jury did a darn good job. I think the FBI was excellent.

Joe Barton

You've done not a darn thing except to obfuscate and not obey the subpoenas of this committee,

Dennis Koester

When you get to that super-sectional, the two teams that get there are good. And if you're going to win the darn state, you've got to play who is in your way anyway.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Webb Simpson

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Valerie June

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Chuck Palahniuk

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Constance Marie

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Evangeline Lilly

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

Ellie Goulding

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Dave Jones

The points target at the start of the season was 52 points because that we felt was the safety mark.

John Grahame

The past six games, I felt pretty well. I think everybody's intensity has picked up. I think mine has.

Yani Tseng

So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

Bill Baker

We played okay. We had 15 hits and we had an eight-run second inning.

Stephen Hall

We played a little more intense in the second half, and hit some 3-pointers. But in the first half, we were just having fun.

Danny Smith

We played a big physical team. They couldn't play us (man-to-man), so they had to play zone. We hit 10 threes in the game.

Kevin Froud

We proceeded to quit scoring. We were getting shots in the lane, but we weren't hitting them. We weren't playing with our head, but we made the plays in the end that we needed to.

Willy Taveras

We practice that a lot, ... But that ball, not many people can hit it there.

Brian Smith

We opened up that third quarter pretty much on fire. When we're hitting 3s, we're pretty tough to stop.

Tippi Hedren

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.

Tyler Farr

Just because you've got a hit doesn't mean you've made it.

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Daddy Yankee

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

Glenn Beck

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

Jason Bloom

We prepared well for Robert Morris and knew what we were going to face.

Tyrone Hayes

I knew Tim Pastoor. I knew Sherry Ford. I knew many of the individuals who would follow me around. I knew who they were. I knew they had access to my email.

Bob Newhart

I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.

Adriana Lima

Actually, I never really thought I would be a model. I never knew a lot about fashion and magazines, and I never paid attention to it. I was a young girl, though.

Ben Barnes

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

Paul Anka

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

Sevyn Streeter

I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been able to be a songwriter first.

David Chang

Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though.

Nicky Hilton

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

Garrett Jones

When the winds picked up, they'd go right through you.

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Christy Romano

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

Paul Harvey

Now you know the rest of the story.

Scott Adkins

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

Andrew Klink

We are going to win the rest of our games.

Peter O'Toole

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Ludwig von Mises

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

Tassos Papadopoulos

We are satisfied with the terms. The rest is procedural.

Lee Humphrey

We've got some time to rest up. I think we'll be fine.

Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Bernard Davis

We pretty much know they're going to run the ball,

Ramon Serna

When a star falls, there is a run in the night's stocking.

Vivica A. Fox

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

Cate Blanchett

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

Leonard Lauder

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

Joan Rivers

A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'

Mike Jones

When they are on their best, any running back can go in there and do their thing.

Eric Schmidt

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

Bill Hader

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Maisie Williams

When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.

Hiroyuki Sanada

I was very comfortable on the set of 'Lost'. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the 'Lost' episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Lamar Butler

We watched them say those comments. It hurt.

Billy Laird

We watched film and had a workout in the weight room. I don't like to do it, but we're going to have to do it two more times.

Sidney Crosby

I watched 'Mighty Ducks.' 'Slapshot' when I was a little older.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.