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.

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.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.

Binyavanga Wainaina

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

Malcolm Deans

(Webb) blocked a shot and sent it back into the stands after play had already stopped on a personal foul. It was an accident; he didn't mean to do it. But the call on him really fired our crowd up, which got us going.

Cathy Rigby

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

Rebecca MacKinnon

Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.

Quint Davis

We had a lot of rooms blocked for months.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

Wesley Clark

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'

Viswanathan Anand

I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!

Constance Marie

Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.

Chris Carter

If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.'

Don Rickles

I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

Rob Bishop

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

Martin Lapointe

The overtime calls hurt the game. It's a big game, a big rivalry. the refs should let us play. I guess this is the new NHL. To lose a game on a cheap penalty is not the way to play hockey.

Constantin Brancusi

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Jason Baker

The police were worried by the size of the crowd we were attracting.

Bill James

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

Nayvadius Cash

The most fun moments are being on the stage and seeing how the crowd reacts to your music. The energy of the crowd that makes you just want to go in and keep doing it and be a part of this forever.

Emma McLaughlin

It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.

Erin O'Connor

With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing a character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icons, and it's no mean feat. It's quite an insular experience even though the crowd is in front of you and there's an expectation.

Mike Lorello

We played an inspired game that night. It's hard not to when you play in front of a crowd like that.

Vonda Shepard

We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.

Christina Kim

We did what we needed to do, ... And the crowd was great today, so much better than yesterday.

Tom Tucker

When they did this in the 18th century, it was fun and the purpose was to make the crowd have fun. ... If you didn't make the crowds happy, they wouldn't throw any money in your hat. 'Punch and Judy' hasn't lasted 300 and some years because it wasn't fun to watch.

Dianne Jacob

We are not going to let the shots that were fired today pierce the heart of this community, ... We will survive. And we will be stronger because of it.

Bill Hader

I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.

Mike Polz

We had a good day. Hopefully, we'll move on from there. I think our guys are really fired up and ready to go for every match. And now they know that they're just one match from the finals.

Frank Iero

Yeah, I have fired a gun and I loved it.

Carlo Ancelotti

We are just in a moment when things aren't going for us. On Tuesday we will be fired up for the return game with Lyon and the team will be quite different.

Al Horford

We were struggling on offense in the first half so I did whatever I had to do to get us going. I knew I had to get everyone fired up.

Mark Carmon

Thousands and thousands of rounds were fired here during training.

LeBron James

We're going to South Beach. It's on TNT. It's 8 o'clock. We'll be fired up. There's no reason we shouldn't play with intensity.

Dean Mason

We're going to gear up and make our lineup as strong as possible. It's always been a fun thing. It's more fun if you win, obviously. We know we're going to have some strong competition. It's always been a fun thing for us. We're going to get fired up for it and go as hard as we can.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Gary Bauer

The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.

John Anastos

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Nicole Scherzinger

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Dave Wannstedt

We probably know each other better from an offensive-defensive standpoint than a personal standpoint.

Lewis B. Smedes

The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.

Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Anna Kendrick

If I could play the ukulele like Zooey Deschanel, I would find my own personal M. Ward, and we would do a side album; but I don't, you know?

Judith Miller

voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations.

Richard G. Scott

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Colleen Hoover

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Lara Stone

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Chin Han

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

Christy Porter

We were sluggish. We couldn't make the shots fall.

Dereck Whittenburg

Three-point shots, that's why they're so dangerous. They get those three-point shots going, they can be tough to beat.

Andy Harmon

We never got in sync. Our shots weren't falling. We were out of sync offensively, and defensively, we had breakdowns.

Andres Nocioni

We need to think about no shots for Shaquille O'Neal. We need to stop O'Neal, but we need to stop the other guys, too.

Andres Nocioni

We need to think about no shots for Shaquille O'Neal.

Byron Scott

We got the shot we wanted. I think he (West) took one too many dribbles and got off-balance.

Adam Barrett

We haven't had a shot called on a game-winning shot all year. Those are tough to accept.

LaMarcus Aldridge

Those are shots I can make. They just didn't fall.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Margaret DiNinno

Right now that's where it stands to be.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Wendy Palmer

It stands for the big three in my life. God, me and family.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

William Maxwell

My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.

Richard Greenberg

I thought if I stopped writing, ... the world would explode.

Vijay Batra

We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers,

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.