Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mindy Hall

We would save up our money, then we'd ride our bikes to the hardware store and buy nails.

Jill Krutick

Most people who want bikes are not able to find Harley-Davidson bikes -- the kind they want -- if they have a specific color or model they're looking for. In general, demand far exceeds supply.

Todd Bailey

We had nothing but black kids on bikes with acorns.

Charlie Fehrenbach

When I turned the key on, I was so nervous. I didn't know whether I turned it on or not. Then I didn't know how to start it because it didn't have a push button like your conventional bikes do.

David Byrne

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.

Reggie Brown

When you?re pushing and you?re pedaling for like two hours straight, it really helps your wind and your endurance, ... And you might not think about it, but you get a good upper body workout, too, because you?re just holding yourself up the whole time you?re pedaling. A lot of people who don?t ride bikes regularly, when they get off, their upper body is sore. They?re not used to holding themselves up for that long of a period of time.

Steve Dunn

I looked over at the new elementary school and saw all the bikes out there, and none of them were locked up.

Nick Brown

More than one third of bikes on the road are in the name of their original keepers and only 40 per cent have had more than two keepers.

David Abercrombie

From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rain (Saturday) night. I would have anticipated more accidents.

Al Ries

The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.

Chloe Sevigny

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

Caitlin Rose

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

Louis Navellier

Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.

Jim Delgado

The point is to demonstrate what a day without us would be like. Without us buying clothes, without us purchasing gasoline, without us buying food. . . . We have taken many steps forward, now is not the time to take steps back.

Charles White

We've all been conditioned to say, 'lower interest rates, higher stock prices, better buying opportunity,'

Firas Askari

We are seeing a little retraction. Some people took profits by selling the Canadian dollar and buying euros.

H. Hunt

We're in a process now of replenishing. We had coming up on a week's worth of buying in one day,

Nick Raich

Where people make a mistake is that they think high-quality companies will translate into high quality stocks, and that often is not the case. With a popular company, you get high expectations and that can push things up so that the stock is not worth buying for awhile.

Mark Johnson

I don't know any curriculum in which we can't use this.

Alfie Kohn

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

Amy Peloff

I think what makes it unique is the emphasis that is given by the program to the idea of the students as scholars. A lot of our curriculum is driven by student interest and by the interactions that students have with the faculty and staff.

Jenna Berk

I think that everybody would gain a sense that literature is important, it's one of the reasons why we're alive. There's eating, sleeping, survival stuff, but I think that you really can't survive without literature, without poetry. It's a joy of life, which is funny to say when your curriculum includes Hemingway. It makes you go out in the world in a different way and look for beauty, a different way of expressing yourself.

Seth Lipshie

He helped refocus the curriculum at the high school. And he is mentoring other teachers in the district.

Adam Braun

There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

Paul Armstrong

With a curriculum like Brown's that stresses student-faculty interaction, we needed a lot more faculty than we had,

Tom Thayer

This year since gas is so expensive most of the curriculum series can tour to the schools.

Carol Lear

Just because you went to school and to back-to-school night doesn't mean you know . . . the appropriate set of curriculum for a science course.

Nancy Long

We want them to have moms and dads and normal families.

Thomas Gibson

When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.

Joseph Califano

The fact that so many dads are AWOL (absent) in their teens' lives increases the teens' risk of substance abuse,

Tom Vilsack

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.

Casey Wilson

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

Anna Chlumsky

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

Louise Nurding

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

Roy Knight

I think our moms and dads were ready to get back in the routine, and the kids were just great they seemed delighted to be back.

Steve Schirripa

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

Charles Dickens

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.

Charles Soule

Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesnt.

Buddy Hackett

If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

Camille Paglia

The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind.

Cale Yarborough

Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

Billy Joel

Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

Betty White

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Chris Colfer

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,

Nayvadius Cash

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Carlos Mesa

I have reached a limit in my work.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

Charles M. Schwab

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Charles Gounod

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

Don MacDonald

When you, the consumer, look for a brand, you want it to simplify your purchase and come from someone you trust.

Susan Klein

Make sure when you purchase your ticket, you know what you're really getting.

Quintilian

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.

Rebecca Fuller

We purchased one lesson. And that's all he needed.

Janine Turner

The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

Brian Major

That's a big purchase for us. That's great.

John Andrews

I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Rod Page

He's probably the smallest individual, other than the consumer.

Bob Newhart

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Dave Russell

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.

Owen Schmitt

We have just as much speed as they do.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Aldous Huxley

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Franz Grillparzer

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Carol Alt

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

Douglas Coupland

I've got 911 on speed dial.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Bernie Mac

I've been in training for stardom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Deena Kastor

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Bill Nye

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernard Lagat

You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training.

Bill Wilkinson

We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don't want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to that message.

Charles Spurgeon

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

Beth Moore

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

Edna Ferber

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

Bob Dylan

Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

Billy Corgan

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Brendan Fraser

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

Brandon Sanderson

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

Abraham Verghese

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Anita Desai

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.