Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn McLaughlin

We want to take these meetings across the city to get as many people involved as possible. We are trying to build a coalition behind this.

Robert Kirby

We want to stimulate demand for physics and encourage young people across the UK to study it whatever their financial or social background.

Luke Bracey

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

Louis Stokes

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

Michael Specter

Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.

David Heim

The performance ranged from excellent or nearly so to very good. There was a very high level of performance across the board.

Jackie Vaughn

The percentage is reduced each year, until after five years the fire department is able to continue on with paid staffing with it's own funding. At a time when volunteer fire departments across the nation are struggling to obtain new volunteers, this cut really hurts. It means fire departments will have to look to the public for even more support.

Tim Ruskell

The people who step across the line and get the job done deserve the credit. They enjoy playing with each other, they have each other's back, and they've really bought into the team concept. You drive down a road and see a road crew, two of them are working and the rest are leaning on their shovels? I lean on a shovel.

Joe Horn

We appreciate it. We welcome it. We love the people across the nation who have poured out their hearts to us. We love you with all of our hearts and we're going to do what we have to do to win football games. We love everybody in the world who has supported this effort and those who sat and watched TV and wanted to support us financially but couldn't.

Travis Wright

We started passing well. We played defense a little better, we started getting blocks outside and we were serving a little tougher ourselves.

Terri McColloch

We still missed too many serves and we played a little sloppy in games one and two. We played better in games three and four and there were streaks where our blocks were real good." ()

Andy Bitto

We have to get better technically in all phases. Sustaining our blocks (running game), pass blocking, being more efficient passing, getting a better pass rush, tackling ...

Nicholas Kristof

Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.

Gregg Williams

Whether you call it a low-grade separation or a contusion, he practiced every day. He won't get treatment for it. He blocks out pain. He plays through it. It's a testament to his toughness as a football player.

Kent Perkins

We're spread out over two blocks and there's lots of fun things. Some families make this a family reunion event. It's a feel-good kind of thing. There's something for everybody.

John Marshall

To our knowledge, the current study is the first to identify a molecular mechanism that blocks both retrieval and reconsolidation of any type of memory. While much remains to be understood concerning the cellular processes underlying the effects of ERK in drug-stimulus associations and other types of learning and memory, the present findings offer hope for treating cue-elicited relapse in addicts.

Rick Perlstein

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.

Amber Frey

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

Karl Rove

The outcome of that debate will shape the course of human events,

Gary Shaw

When you've been going to places for 35 years, of course you think about it being your last time. Each track meet has something you remember.

Lexi Thompson

I'm not a huge shopper. I love looking good - obviously, on the golf course I like looking sharp, that's for sure. I'm just not into knowing brands.

Jack Ferguson

When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They packed him up and tossed him out. If they had just paid him, he probably would have just gone his way.

Carol Nelson

Whether or not (the WASL) has demonstrated its effectiveness yet, I think it's still too new to rate, ... But it's important to stay the course and not lower standards, and let the tool do its work.

Juli Inkster

We've always got a good field here, and the course and the facilities are great. We've all enjoyed the experience here. I think it's great that they're trying to work it out to stay.

Katie Featherston

I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!

Max Gartner

Whenever racers ski a course for the first time, the strategy is to focus on the line and to take the first run as an opportunity to evaluate how the mountain reacts.

Kate Mulgrew

We would very much like to work together again. And we've talked about it for years. For some reason it's been elusive. She would take a movie idea to a network and I would not be available. And of course Voyager happened and it's just been - it's not been in the cards. But I'd give my eye-teeth to work with her.

Austen Arnaud

We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, and we kind of got sucked into that. We were forcing things. We need to do a better job of sticking to our stuff and doing what we want to do.

Arthur Eddington

Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.

Jim Hall

When the name is a punch line in a Saturday Night Live skit, you got problems, ... I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Cheech Marin

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

Steven Landry

We are looking for a co-star that has a real passion for Dodge, Dodge trucks and HEMI engines.

Gary Swenson

Newton and Fort Dodge will be good. I think everyone will be OK.

Brody Jenner

If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.

Vin Scully

I would think that right now the mound at Dodger Stadium is the lonliest place in the world.

George Murphy

Just like those innovations, the 2007 Dodge Nitro will reinvigorate its segment, the mid-size sport-utility market.

Dave Barry

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

David Swanson

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

Nick Pisca

We started driving around together as soon as we got our licenses. We love to drive.

Elbert Hatchett

This sudden jump turned her driving experience upside down and her whole world upside down. She lost the most precious thing there was to her. Her intoxication had nothing to do with that.

Mike Wittner

When you step back and put it all together, it's nice timing. It's a New Year's reminder of the geo-political factors that are driving the market higher.

Carl Edwards

It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate.

Tracy Harris

When you run with those girls every day, you can't help but get better and that is what is driving them.

Bob Krueger

We want everyone to get home safely who may be impaired from driving for any reason.

Ryanne Floyd

When we were first driving through the town, I was at a loss for words. It looked like the hurricane had just come through the day before we got there. I can not even imagine what it looked like six months ago.

Alan Hansen

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

David Guetta

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

Bryan Ferry

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

Caroline B. Cooney

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

C. Northcote Parkinson

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Bill Masse

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

David Holden

We are a five member board...we had no discussion,

Ron Gardenhire

We're in a pennant race here, ... We're doing everything we can to win. And five runs in two innings, we can't do that.

Irwin Redlener

We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not going to be ready.

David Grant

We started five minutes after (Kline) lost. It's something you reel in right then. You start helping him refocus. You don't talk too much about the match he just lost but about what we're going to do in the future. You have to be there to help him.

Felipe Alou

We spent five months losing series. That's what has us five games back - not the loss tonight.

Lukas Rosol

I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.

Lewis Hallam

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Erick Dampier

We're not going to make excuses. You put five players on the court, regardless of who's hurt. Obviously, we have enough talent to win.

Terry Stralow

We also sponsor four or five softball teams which helps us during the summer months.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Jeff Burton

We're going 200 mph. We're not thinking about being safe or we wouldn't be going 200 miles an hour.

Bruce Robinson

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

Rose George

Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters.

Paul Levitz

Most of us never got more than 100 miles from our houses. That the school pulled this together is astounding.

Mike Heimerdinger

We're about a million miles away after (Monday) night.

Bruce Donald

Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.

Ivor Heerden

We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't have any idea of.

Bob Burns

No one here cared. It's all the (people) 60 to 80 miles up the river...Trojan was probably one of the safest things we had around here.

Peter Edwards

The other, the Klingensmith's cat, he'd shot and buried,

Mitchell Davis

We started out well, and we made them take shots that we wanted them to. But Trinity's very good. And we just couldn't make any shots.

Scott Wilson

We struggled offensively all night. The shots just rolled off the rim.

Joevan Catron

We started off really sluggish. That shot got us going and started us rolling.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

Mariusz Czerkawski

We have to get more traffic, simple plays, with more pucks on the net. Simple shots can work sometimes.

Dick Davey

We're making shots and that's something that we haven't been able to do this year.

Ned Yost

We're going to give this a shot, and a shot is not one day.

Keegan Bradley

Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.

Bryan Clay

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Bam Margera

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

Anthony Trollope

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have six weeks to go, ... With your help, we can make it happen.

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

Ahna O'Reilly

When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Charles Fourier

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Charles Spurgeon

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Chris Christie

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

David Sedaris

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

David Morrissey

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

William Shakespeare

Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!

Betty Who

I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!

Diego Della Valle

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

Dick Costolo

Twitter is a global town square.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!