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below childlike grass imagine leaves perhaps pretend share sorts unlike
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. Mohsin Hamid
below earnings goal improvement increase operations per pleased results share though year
We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time. J. Hoover
below league level maybe players
We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that. Terry Kennedy
below brick days directly filming four looking minutes realised seen spent viewpoint
We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us. Asif Kapadia
below brothers cents contrast number obviously saw stark
When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday. Chris Meyer
below concentration level normal sentences strange
When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you. John Banville
below farmers forced guaranteed harvest invest lose prices production
When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops. Nell Newman
below blood irish living warm
We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California. J. M. Roberts
below danger happening knew living orleans sea
When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level. Joyce Foreman
curves losing
I definitely have curves. I dont intend on losing them. Camilla Luddington
curves desire easy
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. Alan Kay
curves tsa agents
I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh. Bill Maher
curves rocks interesting
Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them. Benjamin Hoff
curves body womens-bodies
I'm not a model - I have curves. I find things that accentuate my body, a woman's body, and I always wear things that I feel comfortable in. Demi Lovato
curves joy unendurable
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. Djuna Barnes
curves subjects learning-curve
There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about. Brad Gilbert
curves lines facts
It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.... Jan Morris
curve home instead last learning race rookie watching
Yesterday's race was a really big learning curve for me. I made a lot of rookie mistakes. Going home last night, I thought about a lot of things that I could change, and instead of looking, watching and learning today, I was actually racing. It was great. Jeremy McGrath
dealing might serving stop
We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose. Robert Randall
deal dime increase nickel offer recognizes table three wage
We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years. Dave Minshall
deal might ready supposed systems understand whatever
We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to. Jim Smith
dealing hierarchy might military properly
We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly. Michael Defensor
deal opportunity positives sanctions ten tournament understanding
The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress. Gene Smith
deal egyptian palate pleasures strangle whom
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
deal earn employees exemplary great hard hard-work honor proud represents salute share team work
We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them. Steve Perkins
deal later super
We started the deal and here they are 30-years later in the Super Bowl. Rolly Woolsey
deals people valuable
There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future. Craig Brown
ensure help whether
Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works, Gerhard Schroeder
ensure markets security
When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy, Tom Vilsack
ensure
You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory. James Larkin
ensure growth increase lives rural stable urban
Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve. Li Keqiang
ensures exercising improves levels morning time
Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long. Travis Bradberry
ensure pope visit
The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic, Fidel Castro
ensures frame freedom guarantee happiness hopeful individual laws maximum minimal social
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. John Updike
ensure fidelity smooth
Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition. Edward Johnson, III
ensure needed receive
It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential. Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
gasoline planned
We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel, Jeff Bell
gas impact prices reasonable sustained tourism
We're not anticipating any sustained impact on tourism as long as gas prices come down to a reasonable level. Brad Dean
gas good knew tempo
We knew they would give us a good game. We just wanted to keep the tempo up. They had a lot of gas left. Sylvia Hatchell
gasoline hostile market prices small
We've never been in a market like this, where gasoline prices are cheap. It's a world that's very hostile to small cars. Maryann Keller
gas growth industry natural support
There are opinions, no way that our natural gas industry do not support the growth and development of industry at home. Industry Idris
gasoline-prices government car
The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up. Alexandra Paul
gas since
Since 9/11, we have been monitoring gas prices. Steve Carter
gas last
She is come at last - at last - and all is gas and gaiters! Charles Dickens
gas impossible mission total
Mission Impossible 3 was actually a total gas for me. It was really fun. Frank Darabont
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him. Charles Caleb Colton
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!... Charles Dickens
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. Charles Dickens
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may. Charles Dickens
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
katrina second sending stuff supporting
We're sending stuff to Katrina through America's Second Harvest. We're supporting the network. Ron Hays
katrina learn wish
Like everyone, I wish Katrina would have never happened. But, you can learn a lot through experiences like this. Leigh Crawford
katrina second
We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita, Jack Reed
katrina label nobody willing window
There is a window where nobody will be willing to say 'no' to anything as long as it has a Katrina label on it. Maya MacGuineas
katrina prior run scenarios taken type
Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously. I. Stone
katrina people wake
Katrina should be enough to wake people up. Mary Fetchet
katrina produced seen storm worst
Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country, John Metz
katrina knocked
Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster. Kim Stewart
katrina large looking pile standing stones top
Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic. Peter Morris
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. Charles Caleb Colton
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed. Alan Perlis
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. Alan Perlis
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. Alan Perlis
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. Alan Perlis
learning
I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. Nolan Sotillo
learning thinking brain
I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active. Beverley Mitchell
national-security gross negligence
Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony. Bill O'Reilly
national number people playing team whenever
Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity? Lee Melchionni
national operating response
We were already operating under the National Response Plan. Russ Knocke
national sang
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral. Michael W. Smith
national persuaded reform trying unwilling
We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change, John Wilhelm
national spell
We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC. LenDale White
national spell
We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC. LenDale White
national people power russian traditions
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside. Vladimir Putin
national people realise
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. Kofi Annan
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
rates worse
This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen. Mark Langan
rates wants
Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase. John Kline
rates
Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility. Leon Black
rates
Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. Elizabeth Warren
rates
We don't know the rates of (reef) growth. Chris Perry
rates
Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen. Lawrence Yun
rates
It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up. Bill Gross
rates relatively uninsured
Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable. Charles Nelson
rates
Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June. Russ Jones
reliable states strategic united
The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines. Benigno Aquino III
reliable searching technology weather
We've been searching for reliable weather technology for some time. Keith Bromery
reliable rely
They are proven. They rely on reliable equipment. Ed Clair
services social
We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair, Dan Bailey
services six users version
We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that. Sundar Pichai
services
The financial services industry is a ward of the state. Timothy Noah
services
China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S. Jerry Yang
services web
We think Web services has a way to go yet. Bill Graham
services valuable
Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive. Alan Davidson
services windows
A lot of the Windows Live services are things that had already been in development by MSN, Matt Rosoff
services social
This is going to be a social services disaster. Tim Chapman
services three within
Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available. Pranab Mukherjee
utility
It's sport utility done in a dressed-up way, Ralph Lauren
water listening erratic
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. Charles Dickens
water wet
You can't get wet from the word 'water.' Alan Watts
water mind trying
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. Alan Watts
water should said
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 Miliband
water sirens kind
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. David Knopfler
water firsts looks
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
water flying trying
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
water long historical
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. Dave Barry
water gold batteries
I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.... David Stockman