Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Revere

I knew what they were after; that I had alarmed the country all the way up, that their boats were caught aground, and I should have 500 men there soon. One of them said they had 1500 coming; he seemed surprised and rode off into the road, and informed them who took me, they came down immediately on a full gallop.

I hope we split up fairly evenly ? I hope it's spread out some. I've seen a lot of the same boats in practice milling through the same water.

Tim O'Brien

No matter how wonderful the story, it has to move on something, and that is language. The words that I use, the pace, the rhythm and cadences all need to be there. If they're not there, the story is like a boat that just sits there and doesn't move on the ocean.

Mary Ford

It was one of our fears about what might happen to Luna. Of course he's been engaging in these risky interactions with boats for several years now.

It takes only five minutes from the box to the water, with no tools. I can put the boat together with my eyes closed.

It's wiped. We lost it all, ... They had boats up in trees like Christmas ornaments. It's like a different world.

It took us 3 1/2 hours by boat to get to some of those places, with no place to stay, no roads to get there. It's been like that since Day 1, and it hasn't improved much.

They both hit the water at the same time, dove and swam around the boat a couple laps. They set off to the east-southeast together.

They are graduates of maritime academies and they hold degrees in nautical science and maritime transportation, ... They've demonstrated proficiency and knowledge of the rules of the water, vessel navigation, naval architecture, vessel stability and loading, marine safety and boat handling.

They were very nice to us. Most of them just wanted water. One lady, Ms. Perkins, got in the boat with her purse, and she wouldn't get out. She was so happy.

They'll charge full boat whether it's a mutual fund, a stock or any kind of proprietary product.

There's half a day of education and half a day of fun. A senior might be figuring out the volume of the bumper boat pond, a kindergarten student might be counting the number of putts ... the kids obviously love it, and the educators like it because it gives a hands-on experience. There's a lot of things here that just lend themselves to that.

There's no question about Tremaine being the catalyst for our offense. He's going to have to be the steadying force on the field. We have guys who will have to be factors who haven't played a whole bunch. Tremaine is going to have to be the guy that, when things aren't going right, will steady the boat and exhibit the leadership qualities he possesses.

There's no difference in the economic climate that Chrysler faces than the one that Ford and GM face. All three of us are in an entirely different boat than transplant operators. All three have legacy costs. All three of us have made commitments to our work force and our retirees that haven't manifested themselves with the transplants.

There's no panic. We've kind of been in this boat before.

There's no one reason that you have to take someone's word on (a price), and there's no boat that you're missing.

There's only 12 teams still alive, and we're one of them. But now it's lose and you go home. We're in the same boat as everybody else.

We talk, we hang out, we're sort of in the same boat being rookies, so it's natural. It'll be nice to see if we can stay together for a few years to see what we can do.

We expected to do well, and I think we executed what we wanted to do. Our goals were similar to last weekend -- definitely finding that internal boat character.

This is two firsts for the city. It's the first marina within the city limits, and it's the first time the boat show has been able to expand and put boats in their natural habit, the water.

They really haven't had any strong breeze. These boats are capable of speeds in excess of 30 knots, so they have a lot up their sleeves.

Dorothy Height

We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

I have sailed on a lot of high performance boats during the last few years, so I am familiar with them. I have been following the race very closely and am excited to take on this new challenge. I will have to rely on the team to get my learning curve up as quickly as possible.

Jason Mitchell

In the past, when gas got real high, it helped us, ... People can't justify owning their own boat or driving from a long ways and hoping they catch fish.

If you talk to boatyards up and down the coast, they can't hire enough qualified people in good, well-paying jobs. People who are training boat builders, they can't fill their classes. There's something wrong there.

Freddy Adu

It helps to have someone in the same boat as you, ... There's a lot of pressure, so it helps to have someone who's also young and famous and has a lot of pressure to succeed. Plus it's easier because I don't have to worry about her motives.

If you have a big drop in the number of boats, that is going to be an effect, but specifically on the kinds of businesses that supply those boats with what they need to go fishing.

Dan Wilson

If you go down there in June at 10 o'clock at night there will be boats everywhere. It's amazing.

In the summer, there are buoys out there to stop boats from going any further.

I didn't see one boat out there. It definitely wasn't fishing weather.

How do we include recreational boats ? some 58 million in this country ? into our security regime without infringing upon the liberty of boaters?

How can you tell which is a real fishing boat and which is not from up in the sky at night?

Mariella Frostrup

I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.