Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Johnson

She collapsed at school and was taken to the hospital, ... That's how we found out she had asthma. It hit us by surprise.

Mary Manin Morrissey

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

Mike Wallace

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

Tim Marshall

We're not seeing the widespread damage you would expect with a warning like that. Addison got whacked pretty good. I'm not sure whether the storm just collapsed over them. We've got a lot of trees and wires down.

Tony Ruivivar

He collapsed at the end of our show, and was still singing on the ground; we had to take the microphone away from him.

Dr. Roberts

He responds to stimuli and that's good. He's still critically ill, in intensive care, he suffered a collapsed lung.

Conrad Black

The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon.

P. J. O'Rourke

No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

Michael Chertoff

but other parts of the system have nearly collapsed under the weight of numbers.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

Carolyn Porco

We have never seen anything like this before. There are spiral structures in the rings, there are gravity and density waves, but they are completely different things,

Randy Russell

To be affordable, we need higher density (of buildings), and people don't want that.

Sunni Brown

Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.

Mark Brown

If we can finance the parking garage, we can have greater density of development.

Ernie Cox

We can't make this work by transferring density from someplace else. We just can't do it.

Ernie Cox

We need the increase in density to make the development a reality. We can't make it work without transferring density.

Dwight Kroll

Land is at a premium in the area. We're going to be seeing a trend in these higher density developments.

William Frey

I think low density is the attraction. People would rather make a long commute and have a big yard and a big house.

Janice Sutton

She had more than people who lived very well in elegant homes.

Virginia Hey

I like the beach and would also love to learn golf because I think it is rather elegant for an older lady.

Edward Abbey

We are kindred all of us, ... killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, the trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails, all of them, all of us.

Christian Cota

Usually all I care about is how elegant or over-the-top the pieces are, it's nice to really get to understand what the customer wants and needs as opposed to just focusing on the aesthetic.

David Pottruck

My leaving Schwab was on less than elegant terms, ... What is really humbling is to have time to reflect on what you've done and what you could have done better.

Chris Hadfield

I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.

Tawnya Gurney

I don't view it as an elegant place. It's a nice building, but it's mainly a home.

Amy Bloom

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

Alber Elbaz

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

Alan Ball

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Al Oerter

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Al Seckel

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

Chogyam Trungpa

The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

Chip Conley

What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?

Dave Chappelle

You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

David Guterson

Fiction is socially meaningful.

Dave Barry

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

David Suchet

I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.