Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Slocum

As if to make up for lost time, she seemed to touch only the high places. Under a sudden shock and strain her rigging began to give out.

At the time of the shooting they were engaged in casual conversation, they were not engaged in any verbal confrontation, any argument, anything like that ... she pulled a gun out and began firing.

'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.

(Courtney) would always make the comment to me that she could play up there. I think it was at that point she began to realize how much potential she had.

Gary Williams

We did a great job early ? especially with our defense. We got the big lead but then we began to get a little sloppy.

We went to a modified schedule with Jaws in September, and that means it's open for nighttime events and busier seasons, like the holidays. But shortly after that, our guests began to tell us they missed the attraction, and we realized Jaws is an important part of the Universal experience.

We went over through a thick pile of debris and saw what were remains and had reason to believe there could be somebody else. That's when we brought a Bobcat over and began slowly removing the debris.

Gloria Naylor

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

Patrick White

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Shonda Rhimes

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

We got a lot stronger, faster, and worked very hard in the off season, and then as the season began it took a little time, but we slowly came together as a team. I think the biggest difference is that we have done good for playing for each other instead of playing for ourselves.

We were one and done (in the district) last year, and we wouldn't let these guys forget. We felt like once we got by the first game we had a shot to advance. Then things just began to fall into place.

Through the darkness I began to see a light;Radiating a sweet melody, like wind on a kite.

To keep it out is anti-education. ... You can't just tell children that they come from monkeys and to forget all about any other theory for how life began and the incredible design of the universe and the human body.

We know that file sharing began around the same time that our losses began.

Witnesses stated the Toyota began to pull out and then paused then drove into the path of the bus.

The other grandmother began crying, because that was her best friend.

The record lows in mortgage interest rates naturally drew buyers into the market, with many more jumping in when interest rates began to rise,

The rules were suspended, the bill was introduced and the lobbyists began pressuring legislators. The deregulation steamroller crushed everything in its path, including senior citizens, low-income people, as well as conservation and consumer groups.

The roof was being worked on and the fire began on the roof. That's what we know.

Dav Pilkey

It was there in the hall that I began drawing Captain Underpants, ... Soon I was making my own comic books about him.

It was a challenging quarter for Micron Electronics. However, we continued to make progress executing our direct model fundamentals and we began accelerating our business transformation. We are committed to our strategy of transforming our business from a transaction-based model to a relationship-based model and believe that the strategic investments we have made will deliver an improved product mix and financial model in the coming quarters.

It was about a little more want; a little more desire; and a little more heart. .... (The way we began the game) we're better than that -- we will be better than that.

These second-quarter results continue the favorable trend in industry conditions that we began to see earlier this year, ... We will be divesting or closing operations that no longer meet the company's financial or strategic objectives.

Roman Coppola

The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn't have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it's up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more.

The shares are down obviously on the New York Times article. That's the only news that came out before the stock began to fall,

Stephen Frears

These were women who did not make a habit of taking their clothes off in public before they began performing at the Windmill. I suppose we could view all of this as politically incorrect, but the truth is that what happened at the Windmill brought many people together as a means of escaping the tragedy that was surrounding them.

Doug Aitken

The 'Station to Station' film has been fascinating to create. It feels as though it made itself in a way, and after awhile, the film told us what it needed and began to sculpt itself.

The skinhead phenomena originally was not tied to hatred and bigotry when it began in England.

J. Taylor

I shouted, 'What are you doing here?' He was surprised since I had came up behind him and he began walking away, muttering that he was looking for his dog.

Mark Billingham

I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.