Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

J. Hoover

We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.

Terry Kennedy

We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.

Asif Kapadia

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

Chris Meyer

When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Nell Newman

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

J. M. Roberts

We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Desiderius Erasmus

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Brennan Manning

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

Diane Neal

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Jennifer Schack

We're heading up to 76 degrees today, which is 6 degrees warmer than yesterday.

Jonathan Brown

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Jonathan Brown

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

George Porter

We are rewarded for work the very essence of which is that we were so impatient that we spent only a millionth of a second over an experiment.

Gilbert White

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

Gilbert White

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

Gilbert White

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

Gilbert White

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Gilbert White

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

William Kirby

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

Edward P. Jones

I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.

Otto Preminger

Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

John Pomfret

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.

Ed Generali

Fourteen years is a long time to wait for a payback.

Bill Brady

Fourteen months ago, I was zero in the polls. We think we're neck and neck with Judy right now.

Koichiro Matsuura

Fourteen member states have already started putting things in place, ... They have shown their readiness.

Julian Casablancas

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

Sandra Boynton

Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.

Johnny Williams

Probably fourteen to seventeen inches of snow up here on top. It's not like seven and it's been treacherous.

Lesley Nicol

When I heard I had gotten 'Downton Abbey,' I remember I was standing on a freezing cold street in Manchester where we were shooting the Manchester part of 'West is West.'

Randy Lascody

So if it doesn't quite get to freezing on Saturday, it will sure feel like it, even while wearing a jacket.

Vera Wang

I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

Greg Morgan

I would be really surprised to see any type of freezing weather.

Mark Mathias

There is potential for squeezes and prices to go up. But people won't be left freezing and unable to heat their homes.

Bill Cox

I'm sitting here in my office and it's freezing and we've got the heat on full blast.

Bob Stalker

We've had just about everything -- snow, sleet, freezing rain, even a thunderstorm.

Richard Ford

We can't get them all in the church. There were hundreds of people waiting outside. They come. They come from Lord knows where, rain or shine, freezing or warm.

Sam Shamburger

We had some freezes, but not the prolonged kind of freezing that would help with mosquito problems this spring.

Charlaine Harris

He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

Rich Zurek

Now with the new images, we're able to watch when the frost comes and goes and we can see that dunes are moving today and aren't just relics from times past.

Tim Krause

We shouldn't have a lot of frost in the ground so it may be a short period of time, may be only three weeks.

Paul Simon

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

Loren Eiseley

In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.

Tom Rathbun

The supervisors and FROST requested a meeting with us when we neared the end of the process.

James Dickey

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

Louisa May Alcott

Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.

Douglas Hamilton

A good frost is one of the things that really kicks it off,

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Linda Flohr

We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first half.

Kristy Curry

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

Jim Mott

We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better.

Robert Bates

We started off slow, ... but in the second half we really pulled away.

Dean Montzingo

We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers couldn't find the basket.

Jeff Carter

We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Daryl Kimball

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.