Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis could go out there and collect six or seven rebounds like he did tonight, not the 17 he managed in his prime. I think the off-court stuff would be a problem. Sustaining his focus would be difficult.

Douglas Coupland

Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.

Bruce Babbitt

As deeply as gold or the grizzly bear, wild salmon infuse California's past, ... But through our collective will, today we help ensure that salmon swim on into our future. For they are not merely commodities, or emblems for a flag. Wild salmon are vital members of creation who enrich our landscapes, inspiring us through their upstream journey from sea to Sierra.

Jacob Lew

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

Right now we're looking at the collective sensibilities of a family product and working to define what it is. Everyone has their own opinion, and what you think would be in a family tier is probably different than what someone else does.

Provo is having a problem maintaining its buildings, because they are not collecting enough money to maintain them.

Our evidence is more consistent. We're trained to collect evidence, so they're probably getting better evidence than an emergency room where they don't collect the same type of evidence.

Operational efficiencies resulting from management interventions over several years, in terms of improved cost management, better quality of new business, more focused premium collection and more competitive investment performance in particular, are largely responsible for this incremental value-add for stakeholders,

Caitlin Moran

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

The museum has probably the finest collection of its kind in the country.

Theologians are collectors and tellers of tales; the better the theologian, the better the stories

Someone who is moving to a community can get a crime report or a school report, but with YourHub.com we are looking to collect stories people are writing about their community, their high school, their politicians, and integrate that content with the real estate platforms.

So, they'll be looking at two things, one, did the structure hold up? Did it fail in unpredictable ways? We also expect them to give us very important feedback on what data they need to collect in the future.

John Mayall

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

Collect 'em now and get an autograph. They'll be worth thousands once they win a Nobel!

There's been a huge shock to the collective consciousness. I hope people will be ready on the 24th to sample new shows. But they may not be.

There's been a huge shock to the collective consciousness,

All preliminary data and test samples collected near the spill site indicated that there was no immediate public health concern.

Paul Sereno

The most common thing we stumbled on is a very long-snouted and very large crocodile. We collected a 6-foot skull. The crocodile would have been about 50 feet long.

Gianni Versace

A lot of devore fabric, see-through. (It) is a kind of collection you can combine in a different way.

A major problem with spectrographs is that they collect only a small percentage of photons from the target light source, which means that they are only useful to search for distant planets when mounted on relatively large telescopes.

A lot of people just want to not lose money on the deal. They just want to cover their expenses. They rent it when they are not using it, and if they collect enough rent it's like having a free property.

They only married them so they could collect that money.

They have collected protest votes, and the votes of people who normally don't vote.

They have a lot of big bullets, we have more smaller mid-sized shots at scoring points. It's going to take a collective effort to have the kind of success we are hoping to have at this tournament.

Vincente Fox

This is the collective work of a long history of hopes and sacrifices, ... I will do my part in this collective work.

The wealth of information collected ... will lead to better hurricane forecast capabilities in the future.

Charles Camarda

This flight was an engineer's dream. We are collecting so much data. We are looking at several different types of sensors. We are doing things we never imagined we would be able to do.

It really dilutes the efforts of collective bargaining.

I truly feel like I'm in the presence of divinity. No other conservatory has a collection like this.

It's not just collecting data. It depends on brainpower. Anheuser-Busch is the smartest in figuring out how to use it.

Janica Kostelic

It's not possible not to think about the overall World Cup but I'm not focusing on it -- I'm just here to collect points.