Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toni Atkins

We need something in place as a cushion to help with these programs that require front-loaded funding,

Paul Pierce

That was the difference in the game. They gave the starters a cushion at the start of the fourth quarter. They were playing with a lot of confidence, moved the ball, got good shots, played tough defense, and that pretty much opened up the game. So the starters got back in and put it away.

John Hotard

There is an extremely large cushion of safety out there.

Colin Doyle

Had we scored one goal, it probably would have given us the cushion we needed.

Donna Proctor

Mentally it always helps tremendously to get the jump right away. Of course, that helps the pitcher out too, knowing that she has a little cushion to work with.

Ray Brown

Last year we had to really try to disguise it because we were limited in what we could do down the field, and there was no cushion for the receiver there.

Gloria Arroyo

I think we have a comfortable cushion to push worthwhile legislation.

Cory Schneider

Those goals were huge, especially Aiello?s first goal of the year. We were kind of on our heels, and he gave us the two-goal cushion again.

Tony Wingen

We don't have the cushion any more. We had it ... then we lost it.

Tom Wagner

I think practically all of these easements into the lake are not easements. They're not marked as easements; you wouldn't know they're easements; they're not usable.

Vern Lorsung

I don't know of any lake that has been on the impaired waters list that has been taken off.

Rick Ott

Lakes with low populations use secondary sites. That is how they maintain their small populations.

Nick Nuttall

Lakes are the lifeblood of millions and millions of Africans,

Rob Francis

Lake Placid clogged the middle and they were always around the puck. They played pretty well and battled all game.

Mike Royer

Lake Oswego is a good, physical team. They're sort of like Pendleton in that respect.

Scott Williams

Lake Howell's philosophy is if you go up and down with them, they're going to find a way to score 80 points. As we evaluated with what we do well, doing that we probably couldn't find a way to score 81.

Richard Willis

Lake Hopatcong was the place to be back then. It was a place to get meals and a room by the day or the week.

James Crowe

Here, at the top of Lake Joseph, it's called Billionaires Row.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Jev stroked his chin. "Do I look like a summer fling?

Becca Fitzpatrick

She looked up, her face pink as a Christmas ham. “You ever try chasing down a car?” she gasped. “I’ll one-up you. I gave Scott my hot dog and asked if he’d go to Summer Solstice with me.” “What does the hot dog have to do with anything?” “I said he’d be a wiener if he didn’t go with me.” Vee wheezed laughter. “I’d have run harder had I known I’d get to see you call him a wiener.

Barry Lopez

Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.

Carrie Brownstein

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Carl Sagan

Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans...

Carl Sagan

We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game; none of them lasts for ever. Your own life, or your bands, or even your species - might be owed to a restless few, drawn by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands, and new worlds.

Bill Bryson

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

Bill Bryson

Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad--old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings--every bit of it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

Behati Prinsloo

I eat healthy and stay active and drink plenty of water.

Bill Engvall

I've never read a kayak manual, but I'm pretty sure page one says 'Use in water.'

Cecil Beaton

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Bethany Hamilton

I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

Benjamin Rush

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Bill Burr

I never wanted to spend a month away from my life. One time I was out on the road for three weeks in a row and I when I came back someone had broken into my apartment and the water had evaporated from the toilet.

James Oliveira

He didn't wipe the water off the doors.

Deke Thompson

I already know I'm about to be a waterfall of tears.