Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tsunamis are only a foot or two in height because they are so long. They only get huge when they hit shallow water and begin to back-up on themselves.

Bill Gross

To the extent that they're at the beginning of their cycle, much as we were 12 months ago, that suggests a negative outlook for their bonds.

Chuck Hagel

Trust and confidence in the United States has been seriously eroded. The United States should begin drawing down forces in Iraq next year.

Victor Hugo

To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother

Bernie Leadon

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

Brian Ferneyhough

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.

Imre Kertesz

When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

Joseph Prince

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.

Saina Nehwal

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

Jim Riley

When our programs began succeeding, that's when he began complaining about us. I really do think it's a business competitive and a sibling competitive issue.

Joel Robuchon

When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

When moose attack, they knock a person over and begin stomping on them.

We will do it as time allows, but we definitely want it in place before the beginning of the next school year.

We would love to be in Fogelman, in our own city with our own fans for the entire season, but we are thankful to Texas A&M for giving us the opportunity to begin our season at their place. Playing here is the best-case scenario for us. We've been here for nearly two months and this has become our second home.

We would like to express our strong support for preserving the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine and our concerns regarding several federal governmental policies and practices that have begun to seriously erode these fundamental rights.

We would begin construction shortly after that. Hopes are we can have it up by March or April.

John Sexton

There came a moment after literally weeks of conversation, ... that both Myles and I began to see a framework... It brought us to a point where there was really a victory without defeat.

There has never been this kind of mobilization in the immigrant community ever. They have kicked the sleeping giant. It's the beginning of a massive immigrant civil rights struggle.

There is a clash between growth needs and the park ethic to preserve land in perpetuity for future generations. It's beginning to look like the inalienable right to enjoy natural resources isn't so inalienable.

There is a beginning bridge class on Thursdays at 9 a.m.. It goes for six or eight weeks. Call the center to see if there is any space available.

When Coach Weber put 'St. Louis' on the chalkboard at the beginning of the year, ... so did we.

Michael Morpurgo

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.

Chris Wood

Whenever I got out of college I wanted to be a head coach in the Springdale School District. For me, I'm fulfilling dreams and goals. This is one of my goals. To be able to do that in this district and build a program from the very beginning is exciting for me.

We said from the beginning that we would revisit the layoffs in three to six months.

We said from the beginning that this was a frivolous lawsuit. Today's ruling confirms that fact.

We said from the beginning of the season that there were several guys that would step up and give us good minutes and good production, but that it was going to be a process. I think they've come on and accomplished much of what we had in mind.

Garry Beers

We said at the beginning we didn't want a Michael Hutchence look-alike or sound-alike.

Alex Smith

We said at the beginning of the season we wanted to be NFC South champions, and I don't know how many people outside the locker room really believed that. But once we stepped on that field the first day in training camp, nobody here doubted what we could do.

We're no longer content simply to manage the crisis, we're beginning to end the disgrace.

Corey Brewer

We're national champions. Everyone said at the beginning of the season that we were going to the NIT. Well, I don't think this is the NIT.