Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brown

That's a lengthy process. A lot of the fire is high up on the hill, and it's hard to get water in there.... The dry mop-up, it's breaking up the organic matter on top of the ground. We're mixing it with the soil. You kind of dig up some dirt and mix up and help put out the embers.

Aaron Peirsol

Coming off the Olympics and breaking the world record, it's been pretty spectacular. I'm happy with my season.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.

People should feel uncomfortable about breaking the law. If we have a policy that is demonstrated to be consistent, many people will get the message and decide that remaining here in the United States illegally isn't worth the price that they have to pay.

Operating in one community doesn't lend itself to a big TV buy. You get a broad reach, but it's cluttered. The challenge is breaking through...intercepting consumers where they shop or are entertained communicates that we are a local company investing to give them more TV and broadband choice.

Hannah Storm

Are you slow to get information? You said you just learned about the convention center. There's 25,000 people there; reports of dead bodies, rapes, fights breaking out.

Every American has the right to a peaceful protest and everyone has the right to express their views without breaking the law. Freedom of speech is obviously supported by the president and this White House. As far as our national security programs, those are built and funded to preserve and protect those freedoms.

England are lying in wait for us and we will build towards that game through our performances in the autumn. This is not a team that is breaking up. I think we can improve.

Robert Gottlieb

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.

Especially at this level, one play can definitely change a game. Sammie Jo ended up coming up big for us by just sliding hard into home and breaking up the double play. I thought Michelle Kinney gave us some big at-bats throughout the game and Ragan just went out there and dominated for the second-straight day.

Even before the hurricane there was no slack in the refining system, ... Now it's at breaking point. Those refineries will take months to come back online.

Every time we hear about a new field that's infested, it's breaking our hearts.

Sometimes numbers speak louder than words. These numbers aren't breaking a whisper.

Senator Kerry

Ronald Reagan's love of country was infectious. Even when he was breaking Democrats' hearts, he did so with a smile and in the spirit of honest and open debate.

Rationally, people understand what is happening, but the team and job they love is breaking up. Their grief is about loss - losing a team, an environment, a secure income.

Roger Bannister

Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.

Current record breaking low mortgage rates are keeping demand for housing strong, even as the overall economy stumbles sluggishly into the first part of the new year.

The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

This decision strikes at the heart of democracy. Elected politicians should only be able to be removed by the voters or for breaking the law.

They told me that (Homolka) was not breaking any conditions by being with him because he did not have a criminal file for violent cases.

They studied it. You can't manipulate a law unless you know how it works. And they were in the process of manipulating it, well past the point of breaking it, when we caught them.

Michael Barrett

You're taught to run at him every time. I panicked and threw the ball. I looked up and saw Rollins breaking and I threw the ball.

Marty Schottenheimer

You've only got 10 fingers to stick in the dike. Is there a breaking point that pushes you over the edge? . . . Where's the limit?

Tom Tancredo

You should never ever, ever reward people for breaking the law.

You're not ever going to see me start putting my head down. I'm going to do whatever I have to do to get out of it. I'm going to throw whatever pitch is working that day. If I have to throw 75 breaking balls, then that's what it's gonna be. My demeanor is that you can knock me down, but you know I'm not going to stay down.

Pauline Hanson

This is breaking my heart. I love this country with a passion, but since the Tampa and 9/11 we've gone from a position of international respect in relation to race and human rights to a laughing stock.

Steve Thomas

They got police escorts coming in here, breaking in houses and taking the stuff.

They are really molding well together. They showed no sign of breaking down today.

There was nothing wrong with this team, we just broke down, ... We had some guys that left early, but the organization fixed it. But we started breaking down.

It's just frustrating. I don't want to have to hear, 'Here we go. The guy's getting older and the body's breaking down. I knew he couldn't do it again.' But, hopefully, in two weeks, I'll be ready to go.

It's just reached a breaking point at this juncture.

Ned Yost

It was big for him to go out in more of a formal situation, facing another major league team. He didn't throw any breaking balls. His second inning was much better than the first. He got in the swing of things.