Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Duke

We know we'll need some additional schools. It doesn't happen quickly.

Michael Brewer

Ultimately the people will have to decide which programs they would like to sponsor with additional revenue, ... Any additional revenue source will be at the option of the citizen. IF they feel any additional area is needed, then its their decision whether to fund it.

George Vasic

The potential for additional gains for stocks is limited given that we've had such a good run-up. We've been telling people to pare back a bit and reduce equity holdings.

Tim Hardaway

The post-game concert series is a tremendous additional entertainment feature for Florida Pit Bulls games,

Anita Steeves

We appreciate that the DPUC had responded to some of the concerns we had expressed about the draft decision. This additional revenue will defray some but not all of our increasing operational costs.

Dean Breest

We appreciate Judge Gropper giving the parties additional time to work out their differences.

Steve Simon

We are always striving to enhance the overall experience of spectators at the Pacific Life Open. The addition of the Tennis! Link service will give fans an extra viewing dimension on the Stadium court while keeping them informed of results as they happen.

Michelle Abraham

We are seeing a more pronounced dichotomy between full-featured boxes that are used by pay-TV providers to offer other services in addition to satellite TV reception and basic boxes for TV reception only. Advanced features include hard drives for DVR services, multiple tuners, more connectivity options, and high-definition decoding for receiving HD signals.

Jan Kostner

We are proud to have such an extraordinary addition to Illinois' cultural tourism offerings. The museum does a remarkable job of immersing visitors into the rich history of our country and one of its most respected leaders.

Wells Gulledge

We knew they were going to be an inside-out team. When you start 7-1, 6-10 and 6-9 players and have a 6-7 guy on the wing, we knew their offense would be predicated on going to the inside. We tried to push them outside and when we got them out there, we were like a bunch of little gnats on a carcass.

Harvey Starbuck

We knew they had a good team coming in with a bunch of of good individuals. It was an ugly win, but we'll take it and try to fix the things that hurt us.

Scarlett Johansson

Uh, Disneyland Drive right on the entrance to the 5 Freeway . . . actually we pulled off to the side but, unfortunately, we have a bunch of paparazzi cars also following us.

Darin Green

We still missed bunch of little lay-ups inside and that's about the third game in a row we've done that. If we can start putting those together, I think our game will be complete.

Fred Goss

Where I come from and where Nick comes from, there are a lot of divorces. People are giving it a second go-around on a bunch of different levels.

Ted Schroeder

We've got a whole bunch of select that are more tender than a whole bunch of choice.

Rick Ball

We've got a lot to learn, but we'll certainly take this group. They're a great bunch of girls.

Rick Kobe

We've won a ton of championships, sent a handful of kids to Olympic trials and a bunch of kids to the U.S. Open meet every year. This year should not be an exception.

Carlos Castaneda

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

Denis Leary

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

Erika Christensen

Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional.

Kent Beck

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

Vicky Groat

We had a very intense match on Monday (in the Hanover-Horton Invitational) so it was kind of nice not to have that tonight.

Elijah Wood

Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

Elyse Stoller

She's really intense, but she pushes us to do our best. Our practices are really intense but fun.

Wendy Ward

She and her caddy take it to a very intense level. It's in her character. As much as I'd like to play the way she's playing right now, that's just not the way I'm wired.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Avicenna

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

William Shakespeare

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Mike Utley

The problem with lightning is, it kills 10 percent of the people it strikes. The 90 percent that live wish they didn't.

Jack Straw

The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent,

Billie Joe Armstrong

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Harry Harrison

So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.

Charles Caleb Colton

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Bill Johnson

You only have control over the storms you are able to have peace in.

Bill Johnson

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

Athenaeus

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Antonin Artaud

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

Deepak Chopra

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

Arthur Golden

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

Bernard Baruch

Financial storm definitely passed.

Cedric Richmond

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

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

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

Diane Setterfield

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter

David Suzuki

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

Benjamin Graham

Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

Billy Herman

Boston has two seasons: August and winter.