Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Painter

When he makes good decisions, he is going to give us production. I think tonight he did a good job of that. He's got to be a guy who blocks shots, rebounds and is very active.

Rick Perlstein

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.

Amber Frey

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

Tom Greene

The program has made a gradual climb up the hill. And they've been the two building blocks of this program over the last four years.

A. S. Byatt

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

Barry Zito

We're having the bus stop five blocks away from the hotel, too. So they'll be walking the streets of Cleveland all pimped out.

B. R. Hayden

One of the stumbling blocks for a lot of people is tracking expenses for three months.

Jeff Nesbitt

She has been a great, great surprise. She led us in blocks and she hurt teams that focused too much on Jamie.

Jeanette Woods

She has to take two blocks of reading. That takes away time that she could be using to take another subject. They're counting the reading as a ninth-grade English. She's losing out on that English.

Jim Ramstad

When I had alcoholic blackouts, I literally could not remember what I did the preceding night,

Doug Liman

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Lawrence Vale

New Orleans was slowly sinking, literally and figuratively, well before Katrina.

Lorde

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

Scott Robinson

There are some people who get literally sick after 15 minutes.

Chuck Morton

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

Sabrina Carpenter

I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

Marshall Allman

I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze.

David Walliams

The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.

David Hockney

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

David Hume

There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.

David Brainerd

In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it. I perceived the men were in some measure afraid of me; and I discoursed something about sanctifying the sabbath, if possible to solemnize their minds: but when they were at a little distance, they again talked freely about secular affairs. Oh, I thought what a hell it would be, to live with such men to eternity!

David Brainerd

This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they're taxed. Then they go and get the cup of coffee, they're taxed....This goes on all day long. Tax, tax, tax.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

Barney Ross

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Barney Frank

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Channing Tatum

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Talulah Riley

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

Jandy Nelson

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Brent Scowcroft

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

Barbara Olson

What do I tell the pilots to do?

David Cooper

Since September 11 we have been continually challenged.

Jane D. Hull

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

Bob Taft

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.

Dick Cheney

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

Ali Khamenei

No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Donald Trump

We're going to renegotiate trade deals.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.