Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Martin

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life

Leah's one of the most consistent beam workers we've ever had. That will make her mad enough to come out and really want to hit it next week.

Since both the external beam and the seed radiation yield similar results -- and occasionally they are used together -- for most men the choice boils down to convenience: Do you want an invasive treatment that is done in about an hour, or a noninvasive treatment that takes seven weeks.

She could do things on beam that I had no name for. As a third-year coach, I had visions of grandeur, thoughts of state championships dancing before me. I couldn't wait to work with someone at that level.

We're a better team than what we performed tonight. We finished with a little energy on beam and did very well.

Last week we missed seven of the last twelve routines of the day between beam and floor. I know that the people who missed want another shot.

Whoever hits their routines will take it. I still say the beam will determine it.

Julie finished similar to how she did last year at the championships, where she was bumped from the finals at the end. She's just been solid for us on beam all season long and I thought her vault was the best vault she's ever done.

That was huge for Tiffany. She was 4-for-4. She's been struggling a bit on the beam and taking a few fouls in the floor exercise, so it was really nice to see her come through.

Mark Stevenson

Having Karen in the gym has been such a huge plus for us because she is so good at the choreography and dance and the look of the routines on beam and floor. She is a also a Level 10 judge, so she is able to tell the girls what the judges look for and where certain deductions come.

Walther Bothe

Our arrangement therefore consisted of two needle counters, past the common front wall of which, without touching it, swept a beam of X-rays.

Really it has to do with the angle. In winter, the sun is low on the horizon and the sun's beam is at a lower angle. It has to go through more of the atmosphere. Even in the middle of summer at sunrise it doesn't feel as hot on your skin as at the middle of the day.

Michael Servetus

I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.

Bill Clinton

I am going to focus like a laser beam on this economy.

We're looking solid in everything else, but in gymnastics the beam is the make or break event. South Burlington stayed on beam more than us and deserved the overall win. But we showed that when we stay on the beam we will be tough to beat.

We stayed on. It was neat to see (Team I) go six for six. But I'd like us to be more solid. Beam is very capable of being our highest event score.

Robert Herrick

Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast: Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Center placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam A strawberry shows half drowned in cream?

Vanessa Ferrari

I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!

A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.

Today was great. I felt really good and was proud of my teammates. They really pulled through today. We did what we needed to do and got what we wanted. But I still need to work on my beam routine, but everything else was OK.

We really started off (strong). Beam was great for (the JV), too.

We're really strong on beam and floor. We love starting or finishing on them. With beam, we kind of look at like we're getting the stress out of the way right away, and we can enjoy the rest of the meet.

I felt like we had a slow start on our first two events tonight. The scores were tight and vault was still our weak event. I was happy with how we performed on floor and beam. We scored a season high on beam and it was nice to finish the meet strong. If we would have had more momentum earlier I feel we would have had a better chance to beat Minnesota.

Jack McDevitt

One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

We wanna focus like a laser beam on these next six (games). We want to take care of our home games and find a way (to win) on the road and keep going after that state tournament berth. That?s what we set out to do.

Suzanne Yoculan

To have Courtney be the national beam champion is something I'm personally proud of. You have to be perfect to be the beam champion.

Pieter Zeeman

A beam of compound light is no longer reflected by the lined surface in the ordinary way; instead each special kind of light follows its own path.

Nastia Liukin

I tried a little too hard on my beam mount. It was a little nerve-racking falling so early in the routine, but I had to come back and hit (it). That fall was just a fluke.

That means the acoustical beam has to be smaller.

That's the first time Danielle hit beam all year. It was definitely a good routine. She had no falls, and it was the right time to do it.

It wasn't one of our greatest meets. We fell all over the beam and had plenty of wobbles.

(The beam) is the make or break event. If you don't stay on, nobody's going anywhere. We've really been focusing on whatever it takes to stay on the beam. They were really big beam scores. We have to be realistic when we go to sectionals; I don't know if we'll see those scores again.

Lynda Barry

Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.