Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Thune

Chuck Swindoll is somebody who I've read a lot over the years and have used his curriculum when I've taught Sunday school classes.

Mick Ralphs

One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.

Gene Orza

Seattle will not want for a personal argument, I'll tell you that much. The weather might not be optimal, but we know (CEO) Howard (Lincoln) and Chuck are big supporters of international baseball.

Gene Orza

Seattle will not want for a personal argument, I'll tell you that much, ... The weather might not be optimal, but we know (CEO) Howard (Lincoln) and Chuck are big supporters of international baseball.

Vik Muniz

The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

Brian Celio

Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris.

Mark Batty

The question for Chuck Prince is, Can he grow the bank?

Chuck Norris

When God said "Let there be light" Chuck Norris said "Say Please.

Tamara Tunie

Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.

Clarice Lispector

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

Robert Hickey

Most people either fell to the floor, dove to the floor, people were screaming,

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.

Steven Monaco

Hold a dove to tight and you'll kill it, hold it to loose and it'll fly away.

Loren Smith

I thought that was the highlight of the meet and I was not expecting that, but she dove great and it's a high score for a girl to go that on six dives on the three-meter.

Loren Smith

I was very happy with how the men dove this weekend, especially after we just got done with the training trip.

Gabriel Jafet

The market was very nervous in the last minutes as (the tech-heavy U.S.) Nasdaq dove sharply. It was pure Nasdaq influence - nothing else.

Jose Theodore

It was an open net and I just dove and he hit me right in the middle of the face, ... I think we were lucky on that play.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

Charles Spurgeon

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Barney Frank

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

Benjamin Walker

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

Charles M. Schulz

Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes... We now have very secure dishes!

Tiger Woods

Unless it turns big-time downwind and the fairways dry out, no, you can't get there in two.

Baltasar Gracian

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

George Taylor

we experienced a very dry mid-winter last year, and that is something we never anticipated.

James Driscoll

The (placement of) pins are a lot easier on Thursday. And when the greens dry out, as they should this week, it's only going to get harder.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

Trent Yawney

We want them to experience what it's like to be in that situation. This has been a hard year for everyone -- not just the kids, but everybody off the ice who are trying so hard to make this thing work.

David Burns

We want to treat everybody the same, ... provide the same level of service whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon.

Alan Henderson

We want to thank everybody who helped us,

Jamie Varley

We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.

Alexis Karel

We want to show everybody we belong. Our record doesn't matter. All those losses prepared us for this.

Larry Glass

We want to see something that's going to be a win-win for everybody and not just for one segment of the population.

Michael Strahan

I've always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that huddle jumping up and down, telling guys, 'Hey, get it going. Let's go.' Firing everybody up. So I'm part relaxation therapist and part Red Bull.

Greg Biffle

Until about 20 (laps) to go, and then everybody is going to be racing for that million and a half dollars.

Jarvis Herring

We've always been known as a soft program, a finesse program -- all about speed, whatever. We're just trying to go out and show everybody this isn't the Gators that you're used to looking at. We're trying to show them that we're really tough and that we're really going to go out and play.

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.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.

Dave Barry

I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

David Stockman

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries....