Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Fowler

We have notions of blades that might be somewhat more powerful than what IBM will think about it.

John Cottreau

What the sub is going to start to do is locate things on GPS from stem to stern, then in other dives we're going to be hoping to find information on the damage to the hull, and potential for damage to propeller blades and to the rudder.

Julia Glass

Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles.

Elias Hicks

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

Tom Ward

Hockey is the original extreme sport. These guys are flying down the ice on steel blades going 30 mph and slapping pucks 100 mph.

Tim Dougherty

IBM will continue to bring new blades to market as our industry partners update their technology. This technology is still in its infancy, and there is much innovation yet to be created.

Jeff Lewis

The philosophy here at the plant is to fix something, or repair something, before it breaks. You don't want to have a situation where the turbine blades crack and the unit is down for a long, long time.

John James Audubon

The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops.

Seth Shostak

Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you'll be able to count the grass blades on the Superbowl field, an obvious lifestyle improvement.

Bob Groves

One year from now, in December of '06, unless there's a funding solution for more dedicated funds for transit statewide, we will literally run out of money. That's the situation we're in.

Brian Halla

Now that we have the months of December and January finished, we felt it necessary to factor those results into our earlier projections and issue this update.

Heather Ridout

New orders jumped sharply in the month. Manufacturing experienced moderate growth in December to end the year in positive territory.

Daniel Alfredsson

Obviously, it's going to get tougher, I think, in the second half because of the schedule and the Olympics. So, I think, right now, we're making the most of a good schedule for our team. I think we have only four road games in this month, and then December is tougher for us. But definitely after the Olympic break, we have a tougher schedule. But the way we're going now, I don't think we should slow down and we just have to keep pushing ourselves every night and keep trying to improve to be better.

Al Groh

we might be going till December without him, and I don't think about it. . . . The only time I have a discussion about it is when I'm talking with you guys.

Michael Linenberg

Given that the first half of December is a relatively quiet time for travel, Delta has been able to re-accommodate most of the passengers on other Delta flights.

Jason Chaffetz

From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.

O. Henry

From December 2002 until the end of 2004 it was pretty much laughed out of the room,

Kurt Eichenwald

A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

Robert Osborne

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

Kumail Nanjiani

When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.

Doug Smith

Let's spend the next four years working to polish the jewel that is Portsmouth. Let's go make great things happen.

Christopher Smith

Lots of drug sales, gang violence. We have had our house shot four times.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Losing your last three out of four games, well, it's incredible. I don't know where we go from here, but I think we need to have a gut check.

Bob Burke

Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.

Joyce Thompson

Last year we worked with three or four (volunteers) and that wasn't really enough because some had to do it in Midland.

James Jackson

Last year, we lost a lot of games by one, two, three, four points on a regular basis. This year, a lot of those losses we turned into wins.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Seventy four of the culprits were killed and four were wounded,

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Aaron Nida

She's only about 41/2 inches from the automatic.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Harry Stockman

Traveling will be very slippery and treacherous. We could have 3 to 6 inches of snow by the end of Friday.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Bill Ryan

We're inches away from getting (the leases) completed.

John Gresiak

We're going with about three to six inches for the area, maybe more on the lower end of that range.

Bill Renner

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

John Morse

None of these items should have come as a surprise to anyone.

Benjamin Tal

So I will not be surprised to see consumption of other items going down, like people taking less vacations, spending less on furniture, or any other items that are non-essential.

Kelly Callahan

We'll have a lot more items than we've had in the past, probably 15 different vehicles and all kinds of other things, from A to Z.

Hans Blix

There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament.

Pat Joyner

He'd order 40 to 50 of these items at a time.

Lindy Urso

Whatever they're looking for is not in there. He doesn't have any of those items any where. I'm not at all concerned. I know none of the items they were looking for are in Carlos' possession.

Robert Baird

We've been working on this for years, ... It's not going to be fail-proof. It's going to take some time to get items in order, but the system works well in the states that have it.

David Payne

Our plan is to use the items on one test and not on subsequent administrations of test.

Matthew Brown

We sell items on eBay. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

Isabella Rossellini

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

Madeline Albright

make the ledger slightly less out of balance.

Joseph Seamon

Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.

Robert Lang

Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car. It's just a big Western city.

Debbie Horne

Less than two weeks after her surgery, I took her to Target. She had her little yellow mask on.

James Hardway

Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.

Jacob Frenkel

Less rope is needed for two necks as the Government's noose tightens.

Swae Lee

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

Ryan MacCarthy

Scott and I can't be everywhere. But now we're trying to take that list to the world.

Mal Pancoast

Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem.

Bobby Anglin

Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine.

Bob Davidson

One of the things we try to do (is) have people that try to listen, ... As our people sat and listened to her story - we realized (her) situation.

Steve Hackett

One minute you're listening to ones idea of what they think you ought to be and then the next thing, you start listening to yourself.

Kamanda Ndama

Music is philosophy. Every chord, every word tells a story. If you listen you will know its meaning.

Heidi Klum

Maybe he listened to what we'd been telling him.

Phil Fontaine

No one wanted to pull the plug before. That tells me they are listening and they see us as an important issue.

Roger Hill

We did not find, at this stage, any sign of prohibited items.

Tom Condon

I don't think it's a loophole as much as a utilization of the rules. The rule is that anything not prohibited is allowed.

Capt. Moad

It's not a prohibited substance; it's a toxic weed. That's part of the problem.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

Michelle Clark

Seven Springs has snow, and they're making snow.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Mike Wilton

One trip probably would kill seven years of recruiting.

Moran Atias

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

W. Hull

Six of the seven have been contacted, and all are well.

Ansel Elgort

With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.

Ashley Giles

When you're seven wickets down, all sorts of things go through your head,

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

Hon Ip

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Steve Sobolewski

We have all the right tools on this team. No one can touch us.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Dee Hock

Only fools worship their tools

Charles Edwards

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Charles Lyell

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.