Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Moss

State and Homeland Security are still resolving if this will be a proximity or distance read.

Rob Parish

Our goal going down there was to be within striking distance of top (4A) team in the state.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

Becca Fitzpatrick

I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for me?" "I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

Bill Bryson

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Bill Bryson

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Bill Bryson

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Christopher White

Replica weapons have to be taken seriously, particularly replica explosives because explosives are the No. 1 threat to aviation.

Madeline Kahn

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

Cory Sullivan

I'd like to think we have a pretty explosive offense.

Chan Gailey

He is so much stronger than he was as a true freshman. He is extremely strong and explosive and powerful right now.

Jay Rasulo

Given the explosive growth of the global travel and tourism market, the United States could and should be doing even better.

J. Taylor

He's a very explosive player. I'd like to say he's nasty in the sense he's very aggressive, very physical. He goes 110 percent every play.

Sergio Robles

There is an explosive mix of methane gas and it is very dangerous.

Mark Zalewski

He hits the hole real fast and real hard, and he's a real tough runner. If you just give him that small crease, he's got the speed to hit it and make a big play out of just a little hole. He's a pretty explosive back.

Peter Cardillo

We had a very explosive rally yesterday, and gas prices are moving a little higher this morning.

Elie Wiesel

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Nancy Ford

Swapping merchandise and cashing in on your gift certificates.

Adlin Sinclair

Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.

Todd Whitaker

We need all our teachers to be as good as our 'good' teachers. Instead, we think programs are the problem or programs are the solution. The most valuable gift you can give yourself is confidence.

Andrew Young

I think there's just going to be an outpouring of gifts. People are good and hungry for an opportunity to do good.

Randy Waynick

January is a pretty strong month because of the gift cards.

Bob Sullivan

That was just an exceptional gift to help us pay someone's rent.

Erykah Badu

I was given a tremendous gift and a platform, and it is my responsibility to use my platform to do the work of the Most High.

Avery Johnson

I think I'm gifted to do what I'm doing, that this is what I'm here for.

Daniel Alfredsson

Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss.

Becca Fitzpatrick

There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

C. S. Lewis

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Skip Bertman

That would be something very special. It's already been a very special season.

Jimmy Calderwood

That was very disappointing on such a special day,

Chris Chelios

I think it's pretty special and he's having a blast.

O. Henry

I think he could be a very special player.

Avery Johnson

I still think this can be a special season, but right now we are sputtering.

Donald Trump

I think this wedding is one of the most special ones we've done.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Adrienne Rich

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?