Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvester Stallone

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

Tom Kelly

Every time there is a robbery at one of our branches we try to figure out what happened and why the numbers go up ... most of us are left scratching our heads.

Courts have often been taken as branches of the government and judges viewed as civil servants who have to follow orders from superiors.

Cutting off lower branches on shrubs can open up a previously unused piece of real estate.

Trevor Wright

Customers will therefore be able to purchase $100, $200, $500 and $1000 denominations of airtime at six (6) JN Money Transfer branches in the UK. This makes it easier for Jamaicans vacationing in the UK and for those residing there, to top-up their credit while doing other transactions like sending remittances.

We've had a lot of branches falling, ... We could hear them falling on the roof.

It was very difficult at times. The workers were forced to pull back from some roads as high winds were causing trees and branches to fall.

Harriet Miers

The wisdom of those who drafted our Constitution and conceived our nation as functioning with three strong and independent branches has proven truly remarkable.

Sadie Jones

We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

Pete Carroll

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

Robert Fortune

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

Sam Brownback

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Herman Melville

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

George W. Bush

I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment.

Henry Mayhew

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

Henning Mankell

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather's farm; the branches woven in grandmother's basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit.

Everybody is fine in my home, so I'm thankful for that, ... A couple tree branches and stuff, which is normal for hurricanes. They had a power outage, but nothing serious.

Christopher Hitchens

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

Frank Zappa

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Collectively, Fort Wayne branches have had some of the longest transaction times in Indiana.

By midyear, we'll have in the neighborhood of 25 branches running Win 2000,

All of the branches will end up getting a makeover in their general circulation area.

Michel Hazanavicius

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

James Madison

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

John Engler

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

Gustav Mahler

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

Eric Burdon

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

Ron Wyden

They just have great cards. They've got all three branches of government. They've got the bully pulpit.

Richard King

There's three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, the judicial. In Pittsburgh, that court was all three.

John Pople

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

Ziggy Marley

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.