Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dai Junliang

Regional borderline uncertainties had long existed in China, resulting in many regional disputes. In previous Chinese atlas, 70 to 80 percent of the borderlines were marked in broken lines as an expedient to blur the border controversy.

Tim Sampson

It is not OK to blur the distinction.

Robin Lanier

I think that ultimately the Internet and the brick-and-mortars will be very synergistic, ... It is only a matter of time that Internet companies open stores. We have seen catalogers open stores, like J. Crew. The lines will blur and the Internet will just be one more store.

Gary Hall

I was thirsty all the time, I was urinating frequently and I had blurred vision.

Grant Achatz

My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.

Lisa Brown

It is a disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms range from blurred vision, blindness, numbness and tingling, paralysis and cognitive issues. It's not a fatal disease but it is devastating.

Wilfred Owen

Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's disc.Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.But may thy heart-beat kiss it, night and day,Until the name grow blurred and fade away.

Annika Sorenstam

Last year was a blur with all I was going through (off the course) and sometimes I don't know how I managed to stay focused when I was inside the ropes,

Neal Asher

When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull.

Kim Intino

I think that those people who might have been on the borderline are going to come back I think you'll have a renewed sense of being able to move forward.

Amani Toomer

He's gotten me with a few cheap shots. His hits tend to be either late or borderline shots.

Derek Jeter

He did a great job. He just kind of teased the strike zone, throwing borderline pitches and making you chase them. It shows you that if you have good pitching, it stops good hitting.

Alan Trammel

He fell behind, and we swung at a borderline pitch.

Kaskade

I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

Eric Chavez

We're doing something pretty special. We've been good the last couple years. But this is borderline spectacular.

Bong Joon-ho

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.

Jim Cooper

The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.

Derek Jeter

We hadn't seen him before, but he mixed it up pretty well. He was teasing the strike zone. He'd throw some borderline pitches up and then change it on us. We really couldn't get anything going.

Jimmy Rollins

Records are meant to be broken and it's good to have an opportunity to chase them. But I'm more focused on how we do as a team.

Dick Anderson

Records are made to be broken and one of these days someone will do it, ... I hope it never happens in my lifetime, but it is certainly possible.

Dan Jones

Real Madrid's top spot represents a remarkable transformation in the club's revenue generating capacity. It has broken the mold.

Stanley Hauerwas

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence.

Jenny Wieland

People know that they can call us no matter what. Whether you've been robbed or had your car broken into, people are victimized by that.

Richard Davies

Some of these post-bubble things make sense. The real question as a buyer is whether there is so much broken glass there it's not worth the effort.

Michael Green

Our clients look out their window and their neighbors are on the ground with guns to their heads. The next thing they know, their door gets broken open.

Irish Proverb

Many a man's nose was broken by his mouth.

Jack Warner

Most records get broken by small margins. This was a no-doubter.

Jay McIntosh

Our research shows that the Indian population tends to spend more and save less versus Chinese consumers who save up to 40 percent of their income.

John Lehman

Our recommendations are not a Chinese menu, ... They are a whole system. If all of the important elements are not adopted, it makes it very difficult for the others to succeed.

Brian Kemp

Part of why we were able to get this deal done was because they really want American families traveling in China. They're infatuated with American culture. And with the Olympics being held in Beijing, the Chinese tourism officials need to show that they're open for business.

Eric Schmidt

Our No 1 goal here by far is to serve Chinese users, who want useful information on the Internet.

Jiang Zemin

steadily expand its opening-up program in terms of commodity and service trade, and create a level playing field for a fair and transparent competition between Chinese and overseas enterprises.

Gil Perry

Our target is low-to-medium volume while Chinese manufacturers are interested in high-volume products.

Mark White

People who listen to the music for the music and are adventurous in their playing tend to dig it, those who have a narrower perspective don't.

Bubba Thornton

We'll also have the Chinese and a team from either Jamaica or the Bahamas. This meet ranks with a lot of meets in Europe. What better place to take a test?

Ralph Cossa

I think there's some understanding that if we back off for now, the Chinese will make some movement on currency.

Douglas Kmiec

Suddenly, a blockage that had existed for at least 50 years was removed. What the Reagan administration was able to do was recover the original understanding of the religion clauses. Neutrality toward religion does not mean secularity. It means evenhandedness.

Kate Ford

That was a different kind of movie that existed in a different time,

Mike McCarthy

I worked at a place that followed a system where the quarterback was taught to take the sack rather than force the throw. That's kind of an old-school theory, but it has existed in this game.

Jennifer Connelly

I think it's a different type of horror film than has existed before,

Phil Dixon

The only misgiving that I think has existed is that this is on the fast track.

S. Jay Olshansky

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

Fred Seibert

Everything about 'Adventure Time' is the purest form of kid's play. A kid does not live in the Land of Ooo. That is one of the wonderful things about the show; it doesn't pretend to be real. That was the great thing about 'Pee Wee's Playhouse'; it existed in a world completely outside any reality a kid recognized.

Box Brown

When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn't see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn't want us to see.

Jim Lovell

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Troy Newman

The president seems to do what is politically expedient, versus what is morally correct. Therefore, if we make it politically expedient for him to do the moral thing, that's what he'll do.

Don Cherry

We always trained together because the training is so intense, ... Hindsight is 20-20 - maybe that wasn't the expedient thing for me to do. I thought I was doing a good thing, offering my services.

Karl Shapiro

But this invites the occult mind, Cancels our physics with a sneer, And spatters all we knew of denouement,Across the expedient and wicked stones.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Lindy Ruff

I think that we're getting there, ... Those are two lines that could stick for a while.

Andrew Friedman

I thought it went well. I thought it was important to keep the lines of communications open.

Steve Tyndal

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Gabe Whittaker

We marked up better in the midfield today.

Jennifer Black

Much of the stores were actually marked down by a hefty 50%.

Nicholas Winton

Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

Julian Callow

They are marked by different traditions and they have a stronger Anglo-Saxon background.

Richard Thompson

They've got it marked where the rock piles are, where you're not supposed to get in with a boat. Otherwise, it's a real nice place to come.

Ryan Lawrence

That's his role. He makes sure we keep our shape and people stay marked up.

Dan Popowics

They have marked time by working off the (buyout price) premium and some of the uncertainty.

Van Allen

The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Neil Baldwin

Our revenues are down about 20 percent from prior years.

E. Hicks

Over 90 percent of phones really do not really have vulnerability.

John Bradley

Over 60 percent of runners are from Utah,

Robert Straus

Right now, tech stocks are about 20 percent undervalued. While I wouldn't be surprised if some profit-taking took place, we still see a lot of upside.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

James Thrash

That's what it was, 75 percent of the offense?

Roger Clemens

I was pitching 100 percent at this time of year regardless.

Giulio Andreotti

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Michael Giles

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.

Yikyung Park

In general, most previous studies have been inconsistent.

Kathy Raymond

We've transformed what was a very regional type of tournament into a world event.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

B. F. Skinner

We have a lot of regional qualifiers. We've been there before but now we want to get them to state.

Alex North

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.