Famous Quotes & Sayings

I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

We need the capital for a crusher and a refinery, that's what it boils down to.

Peter Jacobsen

Winning tournaments is all great, these guys have all won tournaments. But what it boils down to is having the opportunity to walk the fairways with your heroes, with the true champions of the game.

The anticipation is just boiling over. They're chomping at the bit.

It simply boils down to the fact that they got a hit when they needed it and we got a base-on-balls.

Benjamin Franklin

The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot, the flies come out.

Joanna Lumley

I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances.

If the world gets the idea that this is the end of Fed tightening, the stock market will probably like that and you will have higher stock averages. What it boils down to, in terms of the economy, is the standard of living for wage earners is significantly higher. For (George W.) Bush, he has to neutralize that and for (Al) Gore, he has to figure out how to capitalize on that.

If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.

Steven Sinofsky

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.

I had to buy my own soap and starch. The clothes were so dirty I had to boil them before I could wash them.

The whole thing boils down to parental responsibility.

Mario Cuomo

If you were Merlin and you had taken a young boy with a fragile build and dipped him into the cauldron of boiling juices from lizards' insides and produced a knight with the biggest, broadest sword ever seen, you wouldn't have a better miracle than Giuliani produced by 9-11,

In fact, that isn't smoke, it's steam. Once you have your sap, you boil it down for hours to make the syrup. When the sap is running, we boil all night. If you tramp into the woods to a sugar shack, by tradition, you are offered a taste.

Michelle Wie

I guess what it boils down to is that the women who are eligible to actually qualify have their own agenda, and trying to get to the 36-hole qualifying probably isn't very high on their list,

Tom Bergeron

I think, number one, it has to be funny, ... We genuinely like and respect each other for what we cumulatively bring to the party. I think ultimately it boils down to the chemistry of the people involved.

Zach Duke

For me, it all boils down to the first inning. I walk a guy and then I made a mistake. It ends up being the difference in the game. It's very frustrating for me personally.

Jim Burns

The old farmer's rule is the sap you collected, you boil it that day.

W. S. Gilbert

Something lingering with boiling oil in it, I fancy.

Willie Randolph

It's just a matter of going through the pains of learning how to play winning baseball, ... That's really what it boils down to.

You never know what to expect in your first year. It all boils down to your players. They performed and did a great job. We had some nice ballplayers and some kids that have a chance to move up in the organization.

Avery Johnson

They scored, we didn't (down the stretch). They got stops, we didn't. That's what it boils down to.

There really was no reason to drop him into a pot of boiling water when we can drop him in and warm it up gently. Guy will grab on to where we are and where we're going and what is needed quickly.

They present a big challenge for us, but it's not so much what they're going to do as what we do. Really, it just boils down to execution, staying on blocks, giving the runners a consistent chance to have lanes, and things like that. We have to finish blocks.

The thought of the laws are great, but the enforcement value of them is pretty thin and it's really going to boil back to the parents.

Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you

This is just a reminder of what's out there. It boils down to if the officers use good judgment or not in deciding to shoot or not to shoot.

Everybody knows what it takes to win and everybody would sacrifice scoring 20 points a game to be on a winning team, to be on a championship team. I think that's what it all boils down to.

The big issue facing any school is very simple. It boils down to one word - excellence.

It's not too hard to be the underdog. We'd love to be sitting on the top, but we're confident we can compete. It just boils down to us executing our game plan.

Malcolm Gladwell

It's the boiling point. It's the moment when the line starts to shoot straight upwards.

It's live and unrehearsed. There's no telling what could happen. Pots could boil over, things could flame a little. But I've been working in different kitchens for years, so I'm positive we'll have fun with it.

Don Kelly

It's more than just hot, it's boiling over in some areas.