Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have seen a marked increase in the number of Atlantic hurricanes, starting in 1995. This year, things have come together just right, with warm sea surface temperatures and favorable upper-level winds.

Dawn Staley

We have aspirations of becoming a contender for a national championship, but you have to take really small steps and winning the Atlantic 10 championship is one way of taking those steps. But you have to use it and go further and further in the NCAA tournament.

Mark Twain

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

We want them to be regular customers of Atlantic City before slot machines come into Pennsylvania.

Michael Specter

There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.

Michael Shannon

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.

Donald Trump

We stuck when Wynn left town and ran like a little rabbit out of town, ... and I stuck and we went through some rough times in Atlantic City 'cause Atlantic City was not doing the kind of business it's doing now.

Wow, it was a big win, an enormous win. They have some big wins and are a perennial Atlantic 10 contender. It's a huge win for us on the road.

When I got the call, it was a one-second decision. The opportunity to open a restaurant at Caesars in Atlantic City was an honor and a compliment. And for a restaurant geek like myself, you can't turn down an opportunity like that.

The register serves as a baseline for understanding the biodiversity of this renowned and heavily exploited region of the Atlantic Ocean.

Stephen Harper

Minister MacKay, as you all know, has deep roots in Atlantic Canada and is very familiar with PEI and its provincial government. He will serve Islanders well in our new cabinet.

Vaclav Havel

Mr. President, for the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization there's no doubt in my mind that it was personal leadership that made this historic development possible.

Maureen has been a strong proponent of Atlantic City for years. We know she'll bring her valuable experience and vast body of knowledge to our team in promoting the city and our efforts in supporting the Atlantic City Convention Center and Boardwalk Hall.

The only ones we exempted were the rich moneybags in Atlantic City.

United didn't miss a beat when Atlantic pulled 80 jets right out from under them.

We're going to come very close to reaching or exceeding Atlantic City. These aren't going to be cut-and-paste barges like we had in the past,

We extended our track record for double-digit earnings growth to a fourth consecutive year even while integrating Bell Atlantic and Nynex following our merger,

Robert Reich

Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages.

People would prefer to come to Atlantic City.

Michael Perry

I believe we'll be one of the top teams in the league. Some people have us seventh or eighth. One picked us last. I don't think that guy knew what he was talking about. The Atlantic Sun is a much tougher league than other people realize.

Terry Teachout

I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.'

Dusty Rhodes

I feel like we have a good schedule. It's a tough schedule, maybe one of the toughest in the country, but that's what we wanted. We are working to set a standard for our players and you do that by playing the best teams out there. It also helps the conference out. The tougher our schedule, the better we will look in the RPI and that helps the Atlantic Sun.

Charles Williams

I don't care how much lip service they give you about it, there is this culture in Atlantic Beach that believes this nonsense is OK.

Bobby Rahal

I came up here for my first Formula Atlantic race in October of 1974 and watched that car win the race, and I thought, 'Man, there is nothing better than that,' ... I dreamed that when I got to Formula One I could drive a car like that.

Calvin Ayre

Online poker has served as a learning platform for many players who have now started to take part in poker tournaments in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and elsewhere. The online poker rooms are less intimidating for many new players and serve as a stepping stone for their move to land-based poker rooms.

Gabe Kaplan

I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

We let Robinson, who I think is having a wonderful, wonderful year and who I think is the most improved player in the Atlantic 10, loose in the first half. That was the only defensive slipup we had.

Percy Sledge

I never knew much about business. But I've been made happy. The TV and commercials have been very fortunate for me and my career. And Atlantic Records has always been wonderful to me. I don't think I could have chosen a better record company.

Peter Davison

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Donald Trump

One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.

The opening of the Erie Canal to New York in 1825 stimulated other cities on the Atlantic seaboard to put themselves into closer commercial touch with the West.

We think there's tremendous market potential. For people that may like to gamble but don't like to go to Atlantic City, there's not a lot of product available in the East.

We've created a horrible playing field for the people of Atlantic City.