Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rep. Reece

We want our boat industry to stay strong and viable ... because it brings a lot of sales tax dollars to Hall County.

Brad Schaefer

We were at a boat show at the Qwest Center and I tried it and liked it.

Mark Brown

When I drive over the hill on my way home from work I can look out over my marina and the whole ocean. I know that in five minutes I'm going to be in my shorts and T-shirt on the back of my boat enjoying a scotch on the rocks. I feel like I'm on vacation every day,

Terri Gorman

We used to throw it in a boat because it was the only thing that had a trailer for us to pull.

Paul DeGroot

This will probably be a major downer for the 2006 holiday season, a big time for PC purchases. It's hard to imagine a lot of customers purchasing a new PC but missing the Vista boat by a month.

Pamela Wilson

We are hearing that boats are considering not doing USVI drop-off or pickup. That revenue could be lost.

Pamela Wilson

We are hearing that boats are considering not doing USVI drop-off or pickup, ... That revenue could be lost.

John Hyatt

We did everything we could to keep the boat relatively upright. We kept trying to drive forward.

Sean Dolan

We started running the numbers to see what we could cut, but we really didn't have to change much, ... I had friends in the same boat who were one payment from losing their house.

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Jane Austen

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Jennifer Schack

We're heading up to 76 degrees today, which is 6 degrees warmer than yesterday.

Brad Rehak

This winter has been several degrees warmer than usual. Normally, we would predict highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Desiderius Erasmus

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

Charles Babbage

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Samuel Barnett

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.

Ivy Lee

We don't have high school graduates teaching our kids.

Jim Davis

That allows our graduates to hit the ground running.

Dolly Parton

I'll never graduate from collagen.

David Berg

This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

Gifford Pinchot

It means that the market for our graduates is getting much, much better.

John Calipari

I second the motion. His record is spotless. He graduates every kid. He doesn't look at other women. He doesn't smoke.

Ralph Holmes

It's Stonewall Jackson High School graduates helping the middle school. We want to help the middle school and help the West Side become the ?best side' again.

Larry Williams

This past year over 300 graduates went to work for P.A.M. Trucking, ... Over 300 graduates went to work for USA Trucking and over 100 went to work for Star Transportation.

Monica LeMoine

What the school hoped to do for these kids was to hold them accountable for their actions, which they'd never really had before.

Tyler Brand

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

Dan Nobbs

When it was hit, I knew it was going to be trouble. I saw it leave the infield, I knew it was gone. So it was one of those things, especially on a 0-2 count, you want something that is he going to nibble at and not really get a hold of.

Norm Bruemmer

We're just stronger in singles. We couldn't hold Elliott back anymore.

Francis Frank

We are going to hold the province to that now.

Lindsey Williams

We are holding out that something might develop. We are remaining hopeful that we can come up with a resolution prior to the 31st.

Janis Joplin

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Carl Forti

We have no knowledge who they are, no affiliation.

Ralph Boyd

We have no knowledge of who they are and who they represent, and we have no relationship to that organization in any way, shape, or form,

Agnes Repplier

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

Agnes Repplier

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

Charles Wagner

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Dave Barry

The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'

Catherine Bell

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

January Jones

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

Chesty Puller

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

Chesty Puller

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

Chesty Puller

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

Chesty Puller

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

Kurt Vonnegut

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

Bruce Springsteen

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

Justin Long

We really worked on our interoperability, which can only strengthen maritime security in the region.

Scott Hoyt

The purchase will make us stronger in all segments, especially maritime communications.

George Orwell

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

Horatio Nelson

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Kevin McGrath

We all have to live within the rules.

Dennis Wharton

We would like to know what's going to get us in trouble and what's not. We'll play by the rules. Just tell us what the rules are.

John Tory

There has been a subversion or violation of the rules, intentional or not.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Jared Zabransky

When you see a big safety back there, it's more of a threatening presence.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Dianne Feinstein

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

David Shore

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

Jane Austen

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Chris Christie

We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Alan Stern

We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

Alan Turing

These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

Alan Turing

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Alan Shepard

Why don't you light that candle ?

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Bernard Laporte

Our success comes from stability.

Klaus Kleinfeld

It comes down to the long-term stability of this corporation,

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation.

Darcy Regier

A year ago we were just trying to survive. Now we have a sense of stability and direction.

Valentino Rossi

For sure tomorrow will be difficult. We are still struggling with stability and grip.

Frances Newton

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.

Ben Howland

He's righted them with stability and direction. He's done an outstanding job.

Jean-Claude Juncker

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

Elizabeth Smart

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!