Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Molligan

Our normal watering restrictions were put in place during the severe water shortage of the early 1990s. But over time we have discovered that to water more than twice a week is wasteful and does no more good for the vegetation. So what once were water-shortage restrictions are now regular and in-place year round.

Brian Baker

Some of our test families didn't think they had a problem and just used the reporting feature, but they discovered they had a real problem.

Jasmine Tookes

I was actually discovered while at a showroom appointment and was immediately sent over to an agency in L.A. I was about 15 years old at that time.

Stanley Hauerwas

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Jerry Only

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

Donald Byrd

I discovered that you can actually do it in about seven minutes.

John Burdett

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.

Cynthia Lennon

I discovered that John's temper could be frightening,

Mark Fabiani

Our position was and is that if we have an opportunity to explore other options in the county, then we'll do so.

Denis Leary

Rescue Me' will explore the lives of firefighters through their relationships with each other, their families and their bookies.

Burt Rutan

Mankind does need to move away from where we are to explore somewhere else.

Carla Martin

I will go over this with you. The issue of, did we ever explore the scenario of flying planes into buildings.

Julie Kavner

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

Linda Hamilton

I think it would be irresponsible of the town not to explore it.

Jack Kenny

I feel that I accomplished what I set out to do: A solid family drama, with lots of humor, that honestly explored the lives of the Webster family. Good, flawed people who loved each other no matter what.

Robert Brown

Gigadibs the literary man, / Who played with spoons, explored his plate's design, / And ranged the olive stones about its edge.

Sam Perlozzo

I would say that we'll explore something. I don't know if we have something in mind.

Alfredo Alonso

Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it.

Hilary Rosen

Our list represents many different genres throughout all parts of the 20th century. And our hope is that each song will help tell a very different story,

Mike Dirnt

I think that statement is reflective of where he is in life, and an opinion. I don't think any musical genre will ever be dead, as long as someone has passion about what they're doing in it.

George Romero

I think people that love the genre giggle at it. I don't get grossed out, I giggle.

Noah Taylor

I have been working on this project trying to record a little record a month just at home in a different genre for each one,

Monie Love

I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here.

Kathy Najimy

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

Tom Selleck

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

Sheila E.

My genre of music is very eclectic. I might play some Latin jazz, or just go into a spontaneous jazz thing. That's the thing about coming to one of my performances. Not every show is the same.

Bethenny Frankel

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

David Wright

I won't say it's World Series or bust. We haven't been to the playoffs since 2000. We have to take those small steps before we take that giant leap.

David Arquette

I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky.

Barry Bonds

I feel great. I'm just doing what the Giants tell me right now. I don't want to make any predictions about the future, but I feel like I'm getting closer. The swelling is pretty stable.

Wellington Mara

Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table.

H. Hunt

Giant slalom is one of our strongest disciplines on the men's side and we had expectations to be on the podium today.

Honore de

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Jane Curtin

He's happy with the form. He's sort of the 'big giant narcissist,' and he's also a big giant drunk.

Joe Clark

He was a giant of a man, had an extraordinary impact on the country.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Robert Murray

What I look at is, the way the town makes revenue in the guise of protecting environment, ... It sounds like a money-making machine for them ... They're thinking green, as in money.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

Robert Schmuhl

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Jeff Smith

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Mike Birbiglia

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

Brenda Dam

Our precious Danielle was taken by a monster thinking only of self-gratification.

Butch Wynegar

I look for him to have a monster year.

Hernan Valdivia

He's going to be a monster in league.

Edward Atorino

For Tribune, on a long-term basis, it's terrific. While in the short term there's a lot of dilution, ultimately this will be a monster success.

Matthew Murphy

I was scared then - the monster was in my belly.

Ozzie Guillen

I always say, don't let the monster wake up.

Michael Schwartz

She is nowhere near the monster everyone has made her out to be.

Evangeline Lilly

It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.

Cormac McCarthy

There is no greater monster than reason.

Bret Easton Ellis

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Jordan Foreman

I mean, it won't really sink in for a while.

Kirsten Prout

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

J. Taylor

It was sentimental and exciting. It was starting to sink in. I wanted to slow things down a bit.

Michael Strahan

They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.

Ivan Turgenev

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Lorrie Moore

It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

Johannes Tauler

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Robyn Davidson

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Hal Joseph

We are just scratching the surface right now.

Gary Hume

The surface is all you get of me.

William Williams

My surface is myself.Under whichto witness, youth isburied. Roots?Everybody has roots.

David Lynch

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

Sean Badding

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

Tom Kleckner

There's three types of mines, and what we have in Texas is surface mining.

Bill Cowher

It may have been more that we're working out on a different surface than what we usually work on in Pittsburgh.

Ivan Pavlov

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Nikki Sixx

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

Brian Russell

I think the interceptions have a lot to do with the underneath coverage,

Lykke Li

My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core.

Emmy Rossum

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

Donna Karan

I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top.

Henry Selick

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

Rod Smith

It uses PHP all underneath the covers. Everything is PHP.

Jim Ratcliffe

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

Kazimierz Krzowski

The probability that there are still victims underneath is very, very low.

Phil Kessel

I don't have to worry about it right now. I'm just going to go out there and play and whatever happens, happens.

Jon Lovitz

There are some actors who say, 'What do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want,' and that's all they do, ... I kind of go to the other extreme. I say, 'I have an idea. Can I try something?'

Keke Palmer

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He's a very, very important part of whatever we do. We want Melo with us for a long time.

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Gary Brown

Whatever we can do for the kids, it's worth it.

Sherry Scarberry

Someone has to be there with him 24/7, whether it be me or Robbie.

Scott McCallum

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.