Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Dayton

Minnesotans voted their preference today for leaders who will build bridges rather than moats.

Rob Morosi

Four bridges might not seem like a lot, but two of them are complete replacements.

Enrique Morones

Four thousand deaths is too many. Building walls is not the solution, but building bridges of communication is.

Dave Mustaine

Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!

Kris Kolluri

One of the most important priorities for me is to make sure all rails, roadways and bridges are secure.

Rick Mason

Because we have so many bridges in this state, most times the need for repairs is greater than the means we have to do it. Every year, we update the condition of each bridge to make sure the money is there for repairs.

Dayton Duncan

Tires were a constant problem, which was a direct result of the roads, ... They spent a lot of time trying to pull themselves out of what they called 'buffalo wallows,' soft patches of ground that turned into bogs when it was wet. ... They spent some time getting stuck in streams they tried to ford, there not being many bridges to use ... and they spent a lot of time in blacksmith's shops to get them fixed, or waiting for replacement parts from the Winton factory in Cleveland.

Flora Jackson

We plan to start with one program, Bridges for Newborns, and develop others as we go. We're depending on the generosity of the community for initial support.

Isambard K. Brunel

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Jim Schwartz

Let's say a prayer the injury isn't too severe. He was dominating inside. I don't know if I've seen a defensive tackle inside dominate the way he did today.

Chris Leshinski

Losing two defensive starters (to graduation), Nicole has really stepped up and helped us.

Ken Sheinberg

Leadership isn't phenomenal and now you're entering pre-announcement season, so people are worried. Volume hasn't been great, but trends are definitely in place ? technology is for sale and defensive issues are to buy.

Mark Brunell

Let's face it, those guys hold if they can get away with it and it's hard to hold a defensive end when you can't grab onto him.

John Whisenant

Mistakes, turnovers, that's part of our defensive intention. We hope to get more shots than them (64-52), limit their shots, make their shots harder and limit their assists.

Robert Pires

Maybe we should play in a more defensive manner,

A.J. Hawk

Obviously we're not big defensive ends who are going to get 15 to 18 sacks a year. We're not going to be a running back who's going to rush for 1,500 yards. It's a spot where there's three or four of them on the field. I guess you can justify not taking guys too high.

Dean Bellanti

Oconomowoc gave us a hard time down there earlier in the year and we expected another tough game tonight. It was kind of surprising. But that's what can happen when we play with that kind of defensive intensity.

Marcellus Wiley

My desire is to play as a pass-rushing defensive end on third down. If the opportunity to do that doesn't exist in Dallas, I don't want to be in Dallas.

Larry Parrish

We're not centering. We've been late on the fastballs and out in front of the off-speed pitches. We're stuck in the middle.

Steve Watkins

Making the team is not in the front of my mind at all. I just wanted to come in here and show them what I can do.

Dan Castellaneta

Lets just plop them in front of the TV. I was raised in front of the TV and I turned out TV

Mike Stapleton

Lower the front end. Try to keep him level. Watch the top of his head.

Helli Homburg

Mrs. Richardson insists on that. But there are a lot of changes. We will have a new front door. We are putting up shutters that will open out. We are going to make this place look like a chalet in the Alps. We say it is 'The Chalet' next to the White Horse Motel.

Dave Mills

Mountain View has a very strong team. They don't have the runners up front in the (girls') races but they have a really, really strong group. They would be the next logical one with Borah as well.

Orlando Cabrera

Moving up in the order, hitting in front of Garret and Vladdy, that has helped a lot -- seeing better pitches. That is the spot. There are a lot of things you can do.

Sergei Gonchar

Maybe we just didn't shoot enough in previous games on the power play. But with a guy like John LeClair in front of the net, he's a great guy to have there when you shoot, so we have to use him.

Lindsey Vonn

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Alexandra Adornetto

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

Douglas Adams

Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.

French Proverbs

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Mike Mastroianni

Making the playoffs last year is a huge part of our success this season. We played very well the second half of the season and managed to get in as the fourth-place team. I think that was really the beginning.

George Santayana

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Karen Coyle

Less than half of our households have a computer. Only a third of those log on. So most people see this as being mysterious technology.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Seventy-four points at the half - that's like being at the South Pole for us.

Paul Biancardi

Second half turnovers really did us in. I think that was the real difference.

David Wood

Mineral Wells picked it up in the second half and made it a much better game.

Christopher Thompson

Let them know they hold the key to the 22,000 jobs.

Jeff Reed

Second, I passed one of the numerous records he holds in the NFL. Gary's the most-respected kicker who's been through this league. It means a lot.

Ming-Na Wen

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

David Pickett

Much has been written about 'super mums', but there are many 'super dads', holding down jobs and doing work at home.

Angus MacKenzie

MOTOR TREND holds a distinctive place in the landscape of automotive journalism. It is a strong and influential publication that is poised for tremendous growth. It is the right time for Ira to take MOTOR TREND to the next level.

Mike Greene

McNabb was having his game, but we were holding him pretty good. And we just let it get away from us. That's just part of being a young team.

Unknown

May the joys of today Be those of tomorrow. The goblets of life Hold no dregs of sorrow.

Michael Shermer

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

Taylor Twellman

Obviously, we've missed Pat tremendously his play, the way he holds the play up. It's a pleasure playing with him, and hopefully we can do well together in the playoffs.

Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I work, so I'll say dinner, ... I have a job now.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I'm at work, so it'll have to be dinner. I have a job now.

Marc Warren

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

Gary Mickelson

legal obligation to do their job and are not part of this dispute.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Kelly Meek

Scotty knows our system so well, anyway. He is doing a super job playing within what he has.

Martin O'Malley

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

Jim Epperly

Sending a team to the free-throw line 43 times is not something you want to do.

Josh Blaisdell

One of our problems all year was that we didn't have that third line producing as many points as our first and second line. I called (the Mitchell, Banks, Slaney line) our third line, but Saturday, you couldn't really tell a difference.

Steve Ellis

New Line is kind of pushing the envelope.

H. Hart

When the offensive line is playing well, I don't think it really matters.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

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.

Basil Bunting

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

Elizabeth Edwards

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Edward Heath

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Cameron Smith

Give big props to the offensive line. I know without them and the rest of the team, I couldn't do it. They spring me open. They're a big part of my success.

Bill Self

If we didn't make those outside shots today, it would have been an ugly offensive game. You have got to make shots when teams do that.

Jabari Levey

I feel like I could be a first day pick. This is going to be a big year for offensive linemen.

Erik Smith

we had a problem with people posting offensive pictures.

Donny Burnett

We could have rebounded better today. We got out rebounded, especially on the offensive end. They had more second and third opportunities than we did first chances.

Edward Snowden

The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.

Clara Kassel

We've been able to run some offensive plays already.

Johnny Thomas

We have to find two offensive lineman to replace those guys. That's a priority.

Luke Babbitt

When your shots don't fall, you just have to go get offensive rebounds and keep working hard.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Chris Crutcher

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

Chris Crutcher

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

James Matthews

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.

Megan Smith

Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code.

Steve Frady

Obviously, you don't want to see a second collapse.

Kelli Johnson

We had better shot selection in the second half.

Yash Chopra

When I come to England, I feel as if I am in my second home.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Pavel Datsyuk

I can't play with one leg. I need a second leg, too.

Antawn Jamison

Gilbert told me going into the second half, 'You can't do anything if you don't let it ride,'? He shouldn't have to tell me that.

David Jarolim

If Bayern win at Bremen it is better for us as we want to keep second spot.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

Michelle Clark

Seven Springs has snow, and they're making snow.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Mike Wilton

One trip probably would kill seven years of recruiting.

Moran Atias

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

W. Hull

Six of the seven have been contacted, and all are well.

Ansel Elgort

With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.

Ashley Giles

When you're seven wickets down, all sorts of things go through your head,

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Bobby Petrino

No, no, we don't like having the bye week right after the opener,

Mike Holmgren

I was going to come out and wing it around. It had nothing to do with the week before.

Tom Chambers

I wish we could have been there a week before,

S. Walker

If we play like that every week we will win a lot of games.

Scott Collie

She will be out for at least a week ? anything after that is just speculation at this point.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Charlie Batch

I don't know. You just have to take it week by week, day by day at this point. All I can do is just be ready.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.