Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Vreeland

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.

Andy Wood

We want to take the black cloak off this field. We believe the art stops once the brush leaves the canvas, we treat this like manufacturing.

Bob Ross

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

Ray Yeakley

We are averaging as many as 15 brush fires a week. We can't always determine the exact cause, but the biggest offender is people flicking cigarette butts out of their cars.

Edwin Edwards

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

Lawrence Kasdan

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

Bobbi Brown

After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.

CeeLo Green

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

James Jones

When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh.

Rene Perez

We responded to the balcony accident and an auto-pedestrian accident around the same time - at about 3 a.m. Saturday. It was busy early Saturday.

Condoleezza Rice

Unfortunately, it came open at the wrong time. Obviously, I'm very busy as secretary of state, and I intend to continue to be secretary of state as long as the president of the United States will have me.

David Attenborough

Very few people in the history of biology could have seen as much of the actual things that I have, and the sad thing is that I do so little with it. I'm so busy gobbling it up that I don't sort of digest it.

Stephen Kenny

We face a particularly busy itinerary this year and it's important that we plan and pace ourselves for each challenge.

John Guthrie

We're extremely busy all the time. We've got six agents that work full-time doing these cases. They're on the road literally every day, in various parts of the state, conducting these investigations,

Dawn Keezer

We're expecting a very busy summer. But we don't have anything we can talk about yet.

Jim Crocker

We're extremely proud and excited to be partnered with NASA on this mission to Mars, adding to the fleet of spacecraft that are revealing the mysteries of our planetary neighbor. MRO has been performing extremely well over the past seven months and during this cruise stage and the team has been busy monitoring and calibrating many of the spacecraft systems and instruments as we prepare MRO for orbital insertion and its ultimate mission. The entire NASA, JPL and Lockheed Martin team is ready to perform this critical maneuver for MRO and we are looking forward to continuing this exciting voyage of space exploration and discovery.

Alan Arkin

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags - like a heavy lead

Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? . . . Or does it explode?

Mary Barretta

What's interesting about the questions though is you'll find that the ones that pop up that you don't know the answer to. For instance, what fuel does your dryer use. And it's funny, you say, 'I think it's gas but it could be electric,' and that's certainly something that you should know. So it's a learning process as well.

Tiger Woods

Unless it turns big-time downwind and the fairways dry out, no, you can't get there in two.

George Taylor

we experienced a very dry mid-winter last year, and that is something we never anticipated.

William Shakespeare

I would fain die a dry death.

Chris Cooper

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Chinua Achebe

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

Larry Brown

We've always cooked at the fire department to raise funds. We've probably cooked up a ton of barbecue. We decided let's do it competitively, and here we are,

Omar Sy

When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.

Rick Foster

Tom Scully sent an e-mail directing that we not respond to these requests and warning that the consequences of insubordination were extremely severe, ... I took that to mean that if I sent the responses, they would go ahead and fire me.

Gary Bongiovanni

Tom Petty kept his price very low compared to his contemporaries. Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire did, too, when they paired up for a tour, and it was very successful.

Doug Conaway

We're making an effort here to contain the fire. We've seen it from a couple of different places but we don't know the extent of it. The teams are in the process now of trying to fight that fire and get it under control.

Jeff Berry

We responded to a call on a sawdust fire in the wood column shop. The call came about 10:30 p.m.

Dan Glickman

We're spending today, depending upon which agency of government, significantly more money on fire preparedness and treatment than we were spending in 1993, ... I think the real issue is that we have a situation that has been unparalleled in the last 50 years right now, and that has to do with what I call 'the perfect storm' phenomenon of weather and fuel loads.

Bob Kies

We're sitting on the bench and we're screaming and screaming to be patient and we make one pass and we fire one up ? gosh, we had a four-point lead.

Brian Crowley

We?re going to throw him into the fire because he has a great arm.

Barney Ross

When we came back into Pearl it was pitch dark, and we could see the fires from the Arizona and the other ships still burning in the harbor.

Mitch Miller

We're focusing on responding to small fires once they've been reported to make sure these small fires don't turn into large fires and further tax our resources.

Graham Fountain

We're hoping to consolidate (the fires) and certainly the perimeter edges of those fires before the temperatures peak back into the 40s later in the week.

Mark Rosenker

The potential consequences of these fires can be catastrophic.

Ray Yeakley

We are averaging as many as 15 brush fires a week. We can't always determine the exact cause, but the biggest offender is people flicking cigarette butts out of their cars.

John Whiting

With three fires in a matter of hours, we knew the case had to be treated as a priority. Our patrol officers went into the complex and spoke with everyone they could. They gathered a lot of information.

Justin Dombrowski

With the winds we have today (30-35 mph in Boulder County), you could have fires that could outrace fire trucks trying to chase it. You could have fires that move so fast, you can't get out of the way on time. You could start not just losing a home, but home after home after home.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.

Matt Mathes

We desperately need to bring the ecosystem back into balance. The smaller trees in that area act as ladders to take fires into the taller Sequoias.

Rick Segal

When we were there, our influence on where things were going was dramatically higher because of the lack of an open-source community, standards bodies, and the inability of developers at-large to communicate. Those days are so over, it's frightening.

Hugh Johnson

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.

Kathy Bates

The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Richard Lee

What we're having here isn't a demand constraint. It's a situation that nobody predicted. The No. 1 problem is construction costs and lack of skilled labor.

Richard Cripps

What this does is it keeps buyers away. It's a lack of buyers. And they would prefer some certainty.

Kirby Sundheim

What they might lack in skills they make up for in heart. They each keep on coming back against tough opponents and want to learn to get better. Both Sean and Brady have great stamina and are beginning to bob and weave and counter punch much better. Sometimes you can take a kid like Brady who has natural talent and move him up to take on fighters with a little more experience.

Bob Parker

When we got feedback from other airports about how well their lots were working, there seemed to be a correlation between success and proximity to the terminal. Those airports which reported a lack of success had lots further from the terminal.

James Gray

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

Russell Crowe

What holds South Sydney back can be attributed to lack of funding, but it also is possibly attributed to too many cooks spoil the broth.

Tony Haynes

We've averaged 20-plus wins a year for the last five years, five straight NCAA tournaments. Kids graduate. Hey, that's a successful program.

Jim Grant

We've asked departments in the last two years to trim back and be as frugal as possible so we'd have the dollars to provide the services we need to provide.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

Casey Rabach

We've always seemed to be able to overcome, and the last two weeks it just wasn't happening. It was disappointing, because we know we're better than that.

Jamie Dixon

We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. Oftentimes, your smaller players are your better players. Last year, our bigger guys were our better players.

Jerry Sloan

We've always had a rule in the last second or so: get next to your man. We weren't even close to the guy.

Jim Hendry

We've always had a lot of respect for him. He pitched so well against us for Houston. He went out there last year with some discomfort and gutted out his starts in Boston. He's a winning-type guy. He's a winning pitcher who, when he's out there, he wins you games.

Philip Goodhart

We've always had a broader cultural coverage, particularly in the last three or four years We have short stories in every issue. We have more of an interior life. Perhaps the mistake was not to make more noise about that in the earlier issues.

Katie Cook

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

Ken Macha

When we were trying to pick a fifth starter back in camp, it was between Saarloos and Etherton, and we weren't quite sure which way we were leaning. So we went to Kendall, and he was adamant about Saarloos. That's what clinched it.

Kyle Whittingham

When we went to 12 games, everybody kind of went into panic mode because scheduling a game is not quite as easy as you might think. Usually, these games are scheduled five, six, seven years in advance.

Roger Hansen

When I was over there, I was quite surprised with how fast they adjusted because of their flexibility and their feet. I never saw a kid in pro ball with bad feet or bad hands. If you've got that, you can adjust from there.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

Courtney Barnett

When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

Adrian Benepe

When I was a child growing up in the city, you never saw hawks. It's now quite common to see large birds of prey in New York City.

Harlan Watson

We're getting very close. I'm quite confident we will have a successful outcome.

Pat Robertson

We're getting tons of calls from people not quite knowing what to do,

Jessie McCartney

We're going to take this whole weekend certainly as a positive. I think as a whole we learned quite a bit and we're just building right now, taking each game as a building block.

Richard Jefferson

We are getting there. You can't do it over one season. It takes a few seasons to get it done. He is in his prime, I am coming into mine. So it can really carry over.

John Connolly

With the injuries that we have in the back three at the moment it was important that we brought in a player of quality and experience and Salesi Finau fits that bill exactly. He has performed consistently well for Llanelli over the past seven seasons and he is looking forward to getting out there on Saturday.

H. Hunt

We're extremely disappointed for Caroline who had been having one of her best seasons ever. But we will have a strong team in women's downhill.

Chuck Armstrong

We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

John Snow

We started three seasons ago with Monday Night Football. We thought it might be a catchy attraction to get guys who don't regularly go to church.

Steve Alford

We appreciate the hard work and efforts that Rich and Greg have extended on behalf of this program over the past seven years. With 46 wins in the last two seasons and six straight winning seasons, they have contributed to a lot of the successes we have enjoyed. In my long?term commitment toward the future, I wanted to move Brian to director of basketball operations and felt these moves were necessary for the continued progress of the program.

Chan Gailey

We appreciate the contributions of David Wilson and Tommie Robinson the last four years. They have been a big part of four winning seasons and four bowl games.

Mark Urman

There is no question that films that we would have considered viable just a few seasons ago are too risky to undertake these days, ... Small films are smaller than ever and titles that would have done decently a few years back would almost certainly be doomed to abject failure these days.

John Carr

We've always said controllers are like runways -- it takes three to five years to make a good one,

Jamie Dixon

We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. Oftentimes, your smaller players are your better players. Last year, our bigger guys were our better players.

Philip Goodhart

We've always had a broader cultural coverage, particularly in the last three or four years We have short stories in every issue. We have more of an interior life. Perhaps the mistake was not to make more noise about that in the earlier issues.

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Ozzie Guillen

When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.

Arron Afflalo

When we were down nine, it became a kind of desperation time for us. But three minutes is a long time.

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

Jason Peters

When I was little I'd design these dresses and show them to my family. There'd always be three or four or five (designs) on the fridge.

Justina Machado

When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.

Debra Gill

We've always been the kind of people who like to help others. Now, it has been just one thing after another, but we know there are people still doing worse than we are.

Alex Pareene

We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.

Cindy Sheehan

We're going to do what we do all the time: gather together in peace. We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East; the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts.

Garry Houston

What a day. I was a bit disgusted coming off the 17th, but the lob wedge on the last spun back nicely and went in. There is no way I can play worse tomorrow than I did today. I felt like an eight-year-old again.

Charles Barron

What he did in New Orleans -- I mean, that's worse than what Bull Connor did in his entire career as a racist in the South. Look at these neighborhoods before Katrina hit. Bush made that community what it is. Katrina did the rest, in partnership with Bush, to deliver the final blow.

John Triplett

We found out we won't have Marianne and that her eye has gotten worse since she got here.

Kriss Costa

We believe this year will be worse because the virus is already established. Last year, Sacramento was hit hard, and now Santa Clara County has the most infected birds in the state so far.

Carl Neill

What's really driving us here is continued concern about how much damage has been done by either Rita or Katrina. It looks like things are a little worse than originally assumed, and things aren't coming back on line as quickly as thought.

Todd Hays

Unfortunately it didn't go as I'd hoped. But fortunately I know there's a lot worse things in life than not finishing the Olympic Games with a medal.