Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Boswell

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.

Scott Bosse

The only time the dams are efficient at producing energy is during the spring runoff months. We can't simply flip a switch and release water that isn't there.

Paul Johnston

We have a study under way called the Lower Snake River Study. It is looking at three options. One is essentially to do nothing, the second is to significantly improve the dams to make them more fish friendly and the third is breaching the dams, ... These three options are still very much on the table.

Kurt Schaefer

I think it's logical. Most of the federally-regulated dams tend to be fairly large dams that pose significant risk if there is a failure.

John Doolittle

Dams are politically incorrect, even though levees are inherently unstable.

Scott Bosse

That means spilling water over the dams from spring until fall, 24 hours a day, as opposed to using turbines.

Gina McCarthy

It is the wettest month in 104 years. It was 16 inches of rain, we have had 7 dams break, though there was no significant loss of property in those events.

Glen Spain

At some point (the administration) is going to have to face up to the dams. The science leads to the dams and the law leads to the dams.

Eoin Colfer

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

Harrison Wadsworth

The Perkins program is one of the most efficient ways to use federal resources -- schools partly match federal capital, and all the money is recycled into loans for future generations. Students need Perkins more than ever.

Kathy Shepard

We are proud of our team members who, in a prompt and efficient manner, extinguished the smoke.

Luis von Ahn

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

Harry S Truman

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Adrian Smith

When you're used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world - it's fascinating.

Mac Thornberry

We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

Jim Bolla

When we get the ball, we're not as efficient because we're tired and often take the first shot. We're playing into our opponents' hands.

Michael Robinson

We're going to have to play very efficient and mistake-free to be able to hang in there with those guys.

Sean Farnel

We're extremely efficient and we do tremendous things in that shop. We have phenomenal through-put. The output would make it look like it's four or five times its size.

Alan Rickman

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

Greg Todd

We know being a successful private school that we're under a watchful eye. We were very willing and open for the investigation. They spent a lot of time and energy looking at us, and we felt good about the investigation.

Jeff Neal

Ultimately we don't know how much this plan will raise energy prices.

C. Wright Mills

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

David Menlow

We are looking for the energy sector to be the odds on favorite for market leadership that could reawaken the sleeping IPO giant.

Tyler Brand

We stressed in the locker room before the game that we wanted to come out with energy and intensity, and we didn't do that right at the start. But I was happy with us extending our lead and making that run.

Flip Saunders

When you watch film, you see we're maybe not getting to spots quick enough. Or there are some things where we lack the energy that I know when we get rest that we have. So we'll see.

Gretchen Rubin

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Edward Hopper

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

Judy Greer

'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.

Larry Eustachy

Kyle is kind of the flip side of what's been going on with Travis. He hasn't practiced well lately.

Trent Rollins

I was disappointed with that. We're on top of the guy and then all of a sudden we flipped to our back and we're pinned within seconds. I don't know how that happened.

Al Austin

We lost out by a flip of the coin. This time that's not going to happen.

Mack Brown

He flipped the switch and took over our team. It's fun to have a mature guy who's not (just) surviving at quarterback. He's getting better every play.

Mike Smith

He flipped his palate real bad, you can hear it. He made a loud, roaring noise.

Joe Dumars

Our guys just need to focus on the game and who they are playing against. Flip Saunders and I will make sure our guys know that we just want them to concentrate on the game and nothing else.

Mark Lakeman

Most problems are simply missed opportunities. The flip side of every problem is a solution.

Ramon Hernandez

It doesn't matter who we play now, ... we got the confidence. I think this woke our team up, to flip a game like that.

Oliver Kahn

I am relaxed about the situation now. If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Marlon Wayans

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

Kate O'Mara

I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

Garry Garner

We've been producing those since at least 1969.

Scott Davis

You're not producing them to eat; you're producing them to breed.

Ed Schafer

You're not producing a whole lot of children.

Damian Lewis

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Randy Lascody

This time of year, these fronts are ineffective in producing a lot of rain.

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Bill Hayden

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Bruce Springsteen

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Anita Allen

I can't release that information. We can't give out anything about salaries or bonuses.

Jim Calhoun

I thought at first when he released it, it was going to be good, but it wasn't.

Trevor Manuel

It is something that we should be able to release very very soon.

Jack Sheehan

He was immediately released to his place of employment.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Charles Dudley Warner

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

Charles Dickens

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.

Charles Caleb Colton

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Charles Dickens

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

Charles Dickens

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

Charles Spurgeon

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

David Koechner

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

Chris Liddell

I switch on and off very easily; I'm inherently lucky in that sense. I sleep well.

Ozzie Guillen

I switched my mind, ... It worked for us.

Steve Squyres

It is a big step. We've really switched gears.

Kelsey Chow

I wish I could read minds. It's a dangerous superpower, so I'd wish for it to come with a switch where I could turn it off if I wanted to. You'd learn a lot about people, that's for sure!

Jeff Hickok

When that flipped, that was a nine-point switch in our favor.

Tom Libby

If they were to switch back to incentives, frankly, it would undermine everything they've done.

Mohamed ElBaradei

It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.

Randy Johnson

It's not something that's like a switch on my back, like I'm the Energizer bunny, like there's a switch I can turn on and turn off,

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

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.

Don Cheadle

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

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.