Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Mays

Plastic keychain anchors like these can break too easily. It's better to use either heavy straps or metal L brackets.

Bill Vaughan

The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.

Eric Schmidt

I was worried about how our line would handle Thief River Falls' huge line, but they played well. Nick anchors things on both sides of the ball for us. We'll run behind him when we have to have yards.

Norman Hui

It doesn't look good. If the cell just anchors there, we might see something like last week.

S. Walker

Found some good anchors and I went over the edge. They lowered me down to him.

Joseph Biden

It comes down to a simple bet we're making. It's a bet that India appreciates, as much as we do, that the two nations have the potential to be the anchors for stability and security in the world going into the 21st century.

Ed Hickey

Having Kinard and Barry helps a lot. Kinard can score, and Barry anchors our defense. They've been playing a lot of basketball. They know how to play, and they know how to make plays.

Mike Lewis

I don't want to armchair quarterback, but I didn't feel she did a very strong job that day when we turned to our anchors in a national crisis.

Bill Daley

One of his ideas was we needed to turn Olympia back to the waterfront. Another idea was that we needed to have things happening downtown. One of the main anchors of that was The Washington Center.

Nancy Evans

I have an elderly congregation. For some people, to even get out of a chair is a major effort, and they deserve credit. If they do armchair aerobics, for every 20 minutes they get one mile.

P. Wodehouse

She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

David Bowie

An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

Scott Anderson

Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.

Harry Anderson

In most cases, we're talking about sleeping in an armchair for the night.

Greg Ambrosius

This is the old armchair quarterback theory. Everybody thinks they can be a better coach, a better general manager, a better owner.

Elizabeth McCracken

I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me.

John Jay

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair -- why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

Greg Ambrosius

It's the old armchair quarterback theory, that a fan can be a better coach, better owner than the guy in the owner's box. This gives you an opportunity to prove you know football better than the pros.

Charles Keating

Regarding the differences between playing in various mediums, television and theatre, one's job is to tell the story.

Bobby Cox

Reitsma can do the job, we know that.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Joe Torre

Stepping up is one thing, getting the job done is another.

Jim Christian

Some of my friends said I was taking the Kent job at the worst possible time. They said all I could do was go down.

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Roy Roberts

Our whole line did a nice job of moving people around.

Michelle Sommers

Right now negotiations remain civil. We want to keep it that way. We want to get the job done.

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Steve Gibson

Our wines are doing quite well in national and international competitions.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

Bill Daly

We now have a national product we can sell in United States, ... When you're perceived as a regional sport, you can't sell national sponsorship agreements.

Edward Collins

We need a backstop of a national catastrophe fund,

Chris Bosh

I think it's (the national team selection) a little bigger.

Tanya Chaplin

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Curtis Sumpter

I think of it all the time. I think we could be national champions. But even with us not out there, I still think we can be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Jason Garey

I think it turned out pretty well for me.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Tom Lochner

Has it turned the world upside down? Probably not.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Madeline Albright

He has to be turned over. We want to see him in The Hague,

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...