Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Gaines

We want to provide a forum for people working within city and county governments to see what's new in the sustainable movement, and give them tools to achieve their goals of building sustainable projects in their own communities. We'll also have case studies and dialogue sessions where private developers can talk to local government officials about their concerns.

Mohammed Dahlan

We want to protect what we achieved at Camp David, we don't want to waste those discussions.

Karen Harris

We have seen a huge gain in our (Illinois Standards Achievement Test) scores just because of these kids who have role models and good behaviors skills. Overall the students have helped the whole building.

Jose Torres

What these guys are doing out there is something that maybe 1 or 2 percent of the extreme sports fanatics can actually achieve to get out there in 18-foot waves? It's crazy.

Howard Simon

What the Registered Traveler achieves is convenience for some but at the expense of security for all. It's a false sense of security.

John Robertson

What the president is effectively saying is that the economy will this year grow by over 35%, from a negative of 35% in the past seven years, which is not possible. You cannot achieve growth where there is no investment.

Travis Bradberry

When you're working hard and doing all you can to achieve your goals, anything that can give you an edge is powerful and will streamline your path to success.

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Jack O'Connell

The fact that more than half of our students have not yet achieved proficiency on the state's content standards, and that a wide achievement gap continues, shows how much work still needs to be done,

Larry Mowry

The real cold air gets here Friday afternoon and stays with us through the day Saturday and also into Sunday morning.

Helen McCrory

When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

Suzanne Collins

My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and I'd see footage from the war zone, and I would hear the word 'Vietnam,' and I would know my dad was over there, and it was a very frightening experience for me.

Sharon Salzberg

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

Tom Hodgkinson

Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon off seems like a fantastic luxury. Before long, you are opting for a four-day week. Then a four-day week becomes an intolerable demand on your time, so you find a way of moving to a three-day week.

Bill Cowher

We know better than that. Ahead is going to be there; you just worry about Houston. That's the only team we are worrying about. I'm not worrying about anything more than Sunday afternoon at one o'clock.

Dita Von Teese

I can't stand wearing the same clothes all day. It makes me insane. I like to dress for the afternoon and for dinner.

Stan Hey

The pleasures of afternoon tea run like a trickle of honey through English literature from Rupert Brooke's wistful lines on the Old Vicarage at Grantchester to Miss Marple, calmly dissecting a case over tea cakes at a seaside hotel.

Manish Jha

We've all had that Saturday afternoon commitment that kept us from the big game. We are positioning the service and our marketing around the idea that life will never get in the way of sports again.

Kurt Backes

When he drove (Woodall) over in that last period, I just felt tingles down my spine and I was looking forward to my match.

Steve Dixon

When he drove there, he went up to the house, spent 12, 13 minutes in the house when no one was home,

Zach Randolph

When I drove to the hole I couldn't really get off the ground. It's hurting really bad. I ain't got no lift, nothing.

Jimmy Johnson

When I drove by I was shocked to see the line so big, ... It's overwhelming.

Erica Cerra

I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, and jobs.

Orlando Dominguez

The person is fine, he just drove up to the scene.

Kate Mulgrew

When you turn 50, you realize that the better part of your life is past, ... Mothers usually don't get to spend five weeks with their 21-year-old son. We drove all over the place.

Mick Jagger

When we drove up, he was out front, scalping T-shirts and selling a few tickets,

Richard Kovalcheck

When we get the running game going, everything ... just gets in a rhythm. It doesn't even feel like we drove 80 yards down the field, it goes by so quick.

Carlos Fuentes

I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

C. S. Lewis

Am I lost or just less found?

Charles Caleb Colton

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Pat Robinson

We have residents here who have lost people. It's very sad.

Jasmine Guy

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Chris Cornell

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

David Castillo

When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.

Charlie Crist

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

David Suzuki

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Jared Bernstein

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

Chris Chocola

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chloe Bridges

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

Chinua Achebe

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Cheryl Strayed

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year. We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

Bruce Sterling

Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

Bob Riley

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Bill Walsh

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Bill Gates

I am results-oriented.

Kirstie Alley

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

Timothy Noah

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Milwaukee Brewers

much more well-rounded as a result of the trade.

Michael Collier

We're still in the preliminary stages of getting information.

Alan Rudolph

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Jon Sakoda

Worms that are traditionally targeting MSN will also target the Yahoo users,

Ashleigh Brilliant

To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.

Eileen Claussen

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.

Kevin Appier

I can't see your target because of the sun, so you'll have to tell me where it (the ball) goes.

Joe Cunningham

We probably could play him at first (base); he just wouldn't be a very big target to hit.

Jean Fernandez

I always said that we had a team to target the top five.

Nick Zito

He worked well and is on target for Tampa.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.