Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

Having Shaun and Hudson and Matt anchor the team is very comforting. To have a setter that can get all the hitters going early in a match will be huge for us. We've got weapons this year, and we've just got to use them.

Having Kinard and Barry helps a lot. Kinard can score, and Barry anchors our defense. They've been playing a lot of basketball. They know how to play, and they know how to make plays.

He sees an explicit medium-term inflation target as an anchor for financial markets and a mechanism for Fed accountability.

It could end up being a different way of looking at anchor space.

It comes down to a simple bet we're making. It's a bet that India appreciates, as much as we do, that the two nations have the potential to be the anchors for stability and security in the world going into the 21st century.

John Galbraith

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

I think the chairs of the (Incline Vision) subcommittees are really the anchor people that can effectively communicate information back to their subgroups and that can clearly define what they need and what they have accomplished.

We're proposing a new model of housing, to replace 20,000 FEMA trailers in our communities with something akin to the Katrina Cottage. They're more livable and more in keeping with our coastal architecture. They're safer and can be anchored on elevated foundations.

He's figured out how we've wanted him to play all year, and that's anchor the middle and change shots and make it very difficult for people to shoot around the basket. He has been a factor now in the last few games defensively.

He was just coming into his own. He was really starting to hit, and he's been an equalizer defensively in center field. He's the anchor out in the outfield, so it's going to be a big loss.

Michael Redd

He was our anchor and played the best game I've seen him play in three years here. If we can get that type of performance every night, we'll be in great shape.

John Williams

If the anchor is facing the outside, people will play to that.

Carl Hiaasen

Welcome to the exciting world of hurricane journalism! While your highly paid colleagues on the anchor desk are broadcasting from the dry safety of a heavily fortified television studio, you and your camera crew will be out in the maw of the storm, risking your lives for no good reason.

We have counted on customers realizing they need big processors to anchor their Web serving e-commerce applications, and that anticipation appears to be paying off,

Meryl Streep

The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child. Will Ferrell is a man.

Ed Asner

yet the ratings kept going down. We finally figured it out; people don't dislike John, they're just tired of bad news. When they flip on the TV, they want to get AWAY from their problems, not hear about people getting thrown overboard tied to their boat anchor or working out so they can strangle innocent kids faster and better.

Eli Broad

This will hopefully be the anchor of a new biomedical corridor in the region, where the nation's most cutting-edge research is conducted by some of the brightest minds in science.

This was a great team win for us. We played well throughout the tournament so to pull it out today was fantastic. We were anchored by Rogers. He was excellent today.

We need to have anchors on every line on the field, from forward to back to goal; players that have the fitness and skills to help the team build play and have the mental and physical strength to ride through a game's tough moments. Coming away from the spring, we were pleased with the number of anchors that emerged.

Abbas Kiarostami

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Meg Whitman

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

When you have an anchor there, ... he can look under the covers of a story in a way an anchor can't from a studio.

Donna Brazile

I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

John Roberts

We had a discussion about the future. It became clear they were looking in a different direction as far as the main anchor goes.

We keep trying to find a kind of home for this. How do we anchor this?

Overall anchored speculative vacancy rates reached a low 2.9 percent in the first quarter, a 1.9 percent improvement from over last year. The valley's strong economic and population growth is creating a supply constrained market.

Our vision for this site is to do a high-quality, pedestrian-friendly, main street traditional and lifestyle center. It will be more of a destination. Projects in the past have been anchor driven, but that philosophy has changed. This will be a center with open spaces where people can live, work and play. Our experience is your anchor. We are not just going out for that anchor store.

Bill Vaughan

The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.

That area could anchor a very important development corridor stretching from Indianapolis Boulevard to Five Points.

Tommy Amaker

I think it would be helpful that we anchor it for a period of time. We could build up some kind of brand loyalty and recognition for where our tournament is located.

It is far too premature for us to even think about that. Charlie and Elizabeth will continue to anchor the broadcast.

Eric Schmidt

I was worried about how our line would handle Thief River Falls' huge line, but they played well. Nick anchors things on both sides of the ball for us. We'll run behind him when we have to have yards.