Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Abdoulaye Wade

Some people are living right in water, others are camping outside. Tackling that is more important than elections,

Wayne Peters

Our ultimate goal is to become a place where we can educate young families about the excitement of camping and how much fun it is to stay in Wisconsin for vacation.

David Berry

Our camping picked up after the trail opened and I expect this will increase that even more.

Rob Stevens

I think there's going to be a great demand for the group camping sites.

Bill Richards

I do a lot of camping and kayaking, a lot of outdoor things. But climbing a mountain is something I've never done.

Trey Clark

He loved camping, we had gone camping the Wednesday before it happened.

Michael Turner

We took our little girl camping in the Middle Fork this weekend. How much better can you do for your family than that?

Trey Gowdy

October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.

Casper Dien

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.

Councilman Lopez

Our own people are going to other cities because we can't provide our own fields.

Jenny Williams

Our New York office, ... went to all the major music cities and said, 'Do you want to show us?' Cleveland got the most petitions and raised the most money.

Susan Williams

Sports as economic development has been a good deal for Indianapolis. It's now become a critical economic measure for our city, which we have to retain. Lots of cities are looking at this and want what we have.

Giovanni Peri

Our work shows that cities with more diversity -- more immigrants -- in the work force exhibit higher productivity for the American-born employees.

Laura Bush

Out of this rubble is going to come some good, ... Out of this devastation is going to come new cities and new hope.

Jim Bennett

Pinellas is probably a huge headache because you have 24 cities and the county that they have to negotiate with.

Barry McGee

That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.

Billy Corgan

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

Bethany McLean

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Carrie Underwood

Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

Aron Ralston

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.

O. Winston

I feel like I'm playing better every game, ... I'm not up and down; ever since the start of the season, I've been climbing up. That's why I'm excited. We're going into these last five games, it's the meat of our schedule, it's all ACC opponents and I think I can play better football than I have been.

Russ Anderson

From where we're standing to the house was about ten feet. I'd say nine or ten feet of debris. 'Cause we were climbing close to the knot on that tree up there.

Marat Safin

I'm ambitious. I better start climbing back up there, because otherwise I will not get into tournaments. People will not take me as serious. It's very important to show everybody I still know how to play tennis and I'm still fighting.

Barry Bonds

I have so much on my shoulders, so much weight on my back. Constantly climbing that hill is getting a lot harder and harder by the day. But I'm going to climb it, no matter what.

Chris Neal

It could be a very hazardous job. You are going up and down ladders all day and sometimes climbing on places that are still damaged. It's very unfortunate. Our hearts go out to him and his family.

Jamie Martin

I think you're going to start seeing a new team. You're going to start seeing a team that's climbing back up again.

Marty Heires

Our self-checkout options do offer customers a convenient option. They may see a line of two or three people at the checkout register, and they can slip in and use the self-checkout devices to get in and out easily and quickly.

Liz Neporent

We live in such a convenient world that we have to go out of our way to create movement.

Hitoshi Murayama

That was a convenient picture of what we thought everything was made of. The more recent realization is that it's not the case.

Dick Vermeil

He knows the offense and he lives in town. He's convenient and a smart guy.

Rubin Carter

It is a challenge. I spoke about things being uncomfortable sometimes. It's not always going to be a situation where it's going to be convenient for you.

Jim Bell

Golfers are creatures of habit. We want to make it convenient for them to stop in and spend their money.

Ann Sims

I have immediate plans to pursue a doctoral degree in education. That will be more convenient if I'm back on the other side of the mountains.

Joy Bauer

Men have a tendency to grab whatever's convenient and also gravitate to whatever they grew up on.

Kevin Burns

One hundred percent of them said they liked it, they thought it was convenient and they said they'd use it again.

Scott Ostler

Play it straight, come out with the simple truth: He was abducted by space aliens, taken aboard their flying saucer and subjected to various probes.

Kyle Williams

We need something normal. Helicopters flying over the stadium is not normal.

Samantha Perez

I was able to fly in a plane for the first time and see a snow flurry.

Robbie Grinestaff

I was just trying to hit it hard somewhere. I know they wanted a fly ball, but once I got two strikes on me I just wanted to put it in play.

Ken Hamlin

I was just pumped up. Guys were making plays. You could tell guys were flying around and really trying to get it done.

Scott Brison

I think there's too much testosterone flying around that caucus,

Kenji Johjima

That was the one situation we didn't want to see. I went to the mound because Jarrod was flying open and his pitches were sailing.

Wayne Gandy

Like I tell everybody, ... if you have to get on a plane and fly anywhere, you're not at home.

David Howell

It doesn't worry me that I fly under the radar over here,

Rob Leavitt

Our regional is not one of the strongest around, but it's always nice to win and get through that again.

George Clooney

O'Reilly actually said some nice things about the movie,

John Cusack

Partial Insomniac. Nice Person. Sometimes Brooding. ... Partially inspired. Nice Idea. Sometimes Boring.

Joel Cormier

Paul really played nice in net. He made some big saves.

Michael Haynes

Payne is an outstanding shot blocker, ... She has a nice touch around the basket.

Charles Anderson

Sure would be nice to have some school officials here.

Brian Lempola

Staples-Motley has a number of outstanding athletes. We also had a nice meet. I'm very pleased with our season so far.

Bradley Starks

Some of the drills were kind of crazy. They were new to me, but when I got used to them they were alright. The people down there were very nice and helpful.

Jacqueline Salame

Someone called from New Hampshire, and he wasn't nice in his rhetoric.

Gordon McDougall

That was particularly disappointing. You couldn't get a nicer person than Keith Wright but the time comes when enough is enough.

Cheryl Cole

I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.

Fisher Stevens

But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

George Shelley

We have sailboats, birds, pixies. They're decorative. They're a nicer look for your bottles.

Scott Somers

I'm not adhering to an ideology. I just want a nicer city.

Bryan Ferry

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Craig Biggio

It would have been nicer if it was off someone else, I can tell you that, ... But we'll take the win any way we can get it.

Jimmy Rollins

It would have been a lot nicer if we had won it.

Arsene Wenger

We do not buy superstars. We make them.

Carlos Delfino

That was tough. Those are two superstars and they are very different players. But it was good. I like to have that challenge.

Chrissie Fit

I'm super girly and like to wear skirts and dresses all the time.

John LeClair

He's going to be a superstar in this league.

Susan Jackson

I don't think it will be super quick.

Odalis Perez

For us, it's big. Because it's like the World Cup. It's like a Super Bowl. It's crazy.

Yeng Guiao

There are no ready-made superstars in this team.

Blaise Pascal

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

Celia Green

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Josh Radnor

It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define such a thing, surely dwells as much in the concrete and taxi cabs as it does in the rivers, lakes, and mountains. Grace, I realized, is neither time nor place dependent. All we need is the right soundtrack.

Ashley Tisdale

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.

Celine Dion

It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.

Barbara Kingsolver

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

Dennis Prager

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have an how early they can retire and be supported by the state.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Conan O'Brien

People are saying that Rick Perry is really tough because he has executed over 200 people. And that was just while he was on vacation in Florida.

Annie Dillard

People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.

Daniel Kahneman

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period...

Debbie Ford

Fulfilling your vision for the best year of your life requires thought and introspection. It is not much different than planning an awesome vacation. It takes time, discussion, planning, decision making, and an array of other skills.

Virginia Johnson

We need a new home, and we want to make it a ?green? building, ... We want to walk the walk.

Cecelia Ahern

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.

Jerry Bailey

I want to walk away in one piece.

Jerry Stone

That was kind of like walking in a dream.

Kathleen Farrell

I thought I was going to just walk in and walk out.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Pamela Dixon

He walked in just like us and walked out like a high-powered attorney.

Greg Darnell

If they walked up to me today, I wouldn't know them.

Bible Bible

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Jung

The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire

Dave Mattson

If they keep this up for years they are going to completely wipe out winter tourism.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Carroll Quigley

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Atom Egoyan

One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville. ... It's just specific streets and specific angles. I think that's what's always kind of shocking about some cities: they are really about intersections.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Alfred Stieglitz

My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.