Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the mid-'60s, I quit school and wandered across the country, hitchhiked back and forth a few times, and ended up in hippie times, in the street in Toronto, in Yorkville.

Jim Nelson

In the old days, you caught a gaze across a room, started talking, developed a crush, went steady, broke up, got back together, etc., ... That progression doesn't exist anymore. In fact, I have no idea what the progression is these days.

Robert Nelson

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction.

In the Rhode Island case, there were no identified victims, and that type of litigation -and the rapid spread of that type of litigation against businesses all across the country by attorneys general -makes Attorney General McMaster very uncomfortable.

Inter-group contact and positive relationships across the generations seem to be an important mechanism for combating ageist stereotypes,

Interpol is a law enforcement-type organization. Clearly, the United States government works in a collaborative way with nations across the globe.

Internet stocks have enjoyed a strong run-up recently while traditional technology stocks have fared less well. Managers are voicing their bullishness across all styles of growth - large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap - and this sentiment has clearly found its way into the technology sector.

In several cases, I'm convinced the financial and personal help these producers have received from other farmers and farm organizations across the country made the difference between giving agriculture another go and just giving up.

In semiconductors, growth is expected to be broad-based across nearly all product categories.

I ran across him in some of the key things that RAMAC was working on: consolidation of government, EMS (emergency medical services), joint fire stations, sewer and water,

J. J. Johnson

If you think about how Northgate and North Seattle Community College face each other across the freeway, it's a very beneficial market for Northgate to tap with restaurants.

If you take cyclists, runners, cross-country skiers, swimmers and all kinds of endurance athletes across the board, the people who are abusing EPO might number in the lows 100s. Compare that to the thousands of people for whom the drug has been a lifesaving application.

Harold Ford, Jr.

If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?

If you're working in a high-crime neighborhood, and you see a person on a street corner hitching his belt up in a way that he would if he were concealing a handgun, you would want to examine that situation more closely. Or if you were patrolling a known drug-sales zone at three in the morning and saw somebody on their cell phone, you would want to look into that. But if you get to the fifth or sixth situation, and everybody that you have come across to this point has been black, you're going to second-guess yourself.

Scott Kim

If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.

Tupac Shakur

If you walked by a street and as you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that.

Herb Kelleher

Inevitably, as we grow bigger across the rest of the country, and Dallas remains the same size, we might have to begin casting about for a place that's more efficient to operate.

In addition to higher industry oil and gas prices, Phillips continued to benefit from cost reductions and strong operations across all business segments,

In addition to hands-on technology and product marketing expertise, Dave brings important relationships across the technology industry.

Brad Ausmus

In a game like this you certainly want to win, because the guy behind you in the standings is staring at you across the field.

In a flat world where institutional, cultural and national barriers are fast disappearing and where instant communication around the clock is bringing people together in unprecedented ways, the infrastructure of GEM4 will be an engine that drives collaborations across disciplinary boundaries with potential for sweeping societal impact on a global scale.

Deborah Hutton

In 2005, cancer may still be the disease that cannot speak its name, but it is also the great leveller - cutting across divisions of class, income, status and success - and, sadly, so ubiquitous that few people's lives are untouched by it. Almost without exception, those we approached gave their time and reminiscences not only with great open-heartedness but with touching concern for my own welfare.

Matthew Brown

In 2004, just 54% of contractors were predicting their earnings to rise, while 20% were predicting a fall in earnings, compared to only 3% now. For the last few years public sector IT spending has been a substitute for subdued spending in the private sector - but 2006 is set to be a year of strong growth across the board.

In addition, during the quarter we have taken significant actions to strengthen our management team by adding A.R. Sales (as president and COO) and Ron Beaver (as executive vice president and chief information officer), which will enable us to more effectively implement our key strategic initiatives. These actions, together with numerous other actions that are being implemented across the company, position us well to take advantage of the improving industry trends.

In a blink of an eye, that bullet ripped across his spinal cord and changed this kid's life.

I guess it's sort of this naive character that I play. I also do a velociraptor, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. I like writing a good joke. I like being able to use my physical-ness, like facial expressions and stuff to really take home a joke and get it across - especially like in Tiffin.

If there was discontent before and the holidays are another opportunity to face one another across the table and be disappointed again, that will only reinforce the idea about divorce.

Helen Clark

It helps with film project development, finance across boundaries and takes advantage of film makers' skills and infrastructure in both countries.

It held up very well across the board. Electronics did very well with the recovery in global demand.

It has been the higher-end market that has been driving up the average and median prices of all homes for the past 18 to 24 months, so if that starts to cool, we might start seeing an adjustment across the board.

I tend to leave them a buck. These guys have my drink ready when I'm walking across the street. ... We've established a relationship.

Gary Bettman

I think our guys are consistently well attired and represent this game spectacularly across the country.

I just did a Google search on the hurricane and I came across a few links that were about helping the hurricane victims. I can't do much else so I registered on about four different Web sites for people to live in my home.