Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Bolick

The next step is to recognize that public schools all across urban America are in serious crisis, and we need to enlist every educator who can help the children, in both public and private schools.

Cynthia Lennon

The next day at college he followed me to the girls' loos (toilets) in the basement. When I came out he was waiting with a dark look on his face. Before I could speak he raised his arm and hit me across the face, knocking my head into the pipes that ran down the wall behind me.

Jack Kelly

The new synthetics, in a remarkably short time, displaced gunpowder from its 900-year-old niche as the world's only effective propellant, ... By the 1890s nations across Europe were rushing to switch to the improved powder.

The new store really caught on. During the 20s, they tell about hauling (train) carloads of flour, sugar and coal to the store, ... They'd bring 55-gallon barrels of kerosene from the railroad at Elmer. Sometimes, they'd sell a carload of flour a week. A lot of cowboys worked for the Waggoner Ranch just across the river.

You think you've got a guy down, and he throws it 40 yards across the field, and you have to run that far. It's kind of a pain in the butt. But it was smart by them. They needed to get into the end zone, and they were doing everything they could to do that. It was desperation. We'd do the same thing.

You tell me one receiver out there right now that's doing the things he's doing. There's some guys who are having good games, but I'm talking about somebody who can give you across the middle, the short yardage, and beat you deep at any time? And line up at punt return and be liable to break it? You name me one that's doing it.

Frank Press

The notion of graduate students as colleagues rather than students is a more modern notion, I think - across the country, in many different fields.

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The No. 1 priority with me is getting more people moving across the state on safer roads.

The officer started heading in the general direction the truck took off to, and came across a crash.

Brian Greene

The observations are spectacular and the conclusions are stunning. It shows that galaxies are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky.

The object is to standardize the test across the state, and the easiest way for the state to do that is to set guidelines for what kids can and can't do. It's as though you had all the fourth-graders in the state in the same room, taking the same test.

Hugh Johnson

The numbers across the board were pretty surprising. I would say that improvements in the leading indicators of the economy, like the employment and manufacturing numbers, is very encouraging and indicate that the economy is expanding and not contracting. It also suggests continued expansion into the first quarter.

That means that there are no simple, across-the-board solutions for addressing health disparities. Instead, solutions must be sensitive to the different patterns of health risk that emerge across population groups as adolescents enter young adulthood.

It was really good for our kids to get a snapshot of other competition across the state. We've come here for three years and this is one of our favorite meets for that reason.

It was a very positive and energetic gathering that produced new ideas and shared case studies with those across the country. It is in our mission statement to grow the game, and we're very focused on both growth and retention.

It was a very strong quarter across the company,

It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-colored clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare. There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,--sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more.

It was a truly exciting opportunity in that we were able to not only attract people from not just areas across the border but from around the United States. It's our hope we'll get to take this to a national stage . . . to another level.

Paul Tagliabue

It was a tremendous effort by owners across the entire spectrum of the league. Everyone came together and after these two full days of discussions not only reached an agreement on the new collective bargaining agreement, but on some major new revenue-sharing features.

It was a strong report across the board. Prices were strong, employment was strong. It seems to point to continued solid growth in the economy.

It was a solid number, really, across the board and a little revenue upside and strong gross margin.

It was a team win. It was a great confidence-builder, going across the bridge and coming back champs.

Chris Quinn

It was a surprise to us to see something like a boat blowing across the road because we didn't really see much wind here. But when we saw that trampoline coming across the lot, we knew it was pretty strong wind.

Larry Campbell

It's a victory that extends way beyond the borders of the Bitterroot Forest. It ensures the public will have meaningful input on Forest Service projects across the country.

It's a very strong rally and it's right across the board, with tech stocks leading the way, ... Clearly, the fall in oil prices sparked this, but it's also a short-term shift in sentiment.

Sundar Pichai

It's a world of multiple screens, smart displays, with tons of low-cost computing, with big sensors built into devices. At Google, we ask how to bring together something seamless and beautiful and intuitive across all these screens.

Chick Corea

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.

Rhona Mitra

It's a confusing heritage. I never know if I want to be running across the fields with no clothes on or sitting in the pub drinking Guinness.

It's a chance to connect students with different environmental groups across Kentucky.

It's a clear warning shot across the bow not to apply the regulation in nit-picking cases. Though the SEC says it wants more disclosure to investors, Regulation FD in fact chills corporate speech and puts executives in fear that a variation in verb tense or body language will lead to charges of a violation.

It's a big scope. There's a lot that comes across this desk.

Mike Bailey

It's a brand new team. Last year, we lived and died by the three. This year, we're bigger across the board. And we're more athletic. We'll be a lot more up-tempo, and we have a lot more guys who can post up.