Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Cook

Unless you've got a heavy-duty blower, the easiest way to collect leaves is to rake them onto a big plastic tarp. Then you can drag them wherever they need to go.

I would like to see this resolved so we're all under the same umbrella. No matter what, we'll continue to work together, but I still think we need to have some collective voice.

Most everybody who can has been a volunteer somewhere in town for some period of time. Like everybody else, we collected donations immediately after.

Jon Polito

Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.

We haven't seen one penny yet. At the end of March, we get the tax collection for January.

We have a fine collection of children's books.

We've known for some time we can't collect until then. We're a little surprised they're just finding this out.

Steve Johnson

Wada (World Anti-Doping Agency) and the US Anti-Doping Agency, they've all defined a process for collecting samples, managing samples, testing the samples, identifying the people who are involved,

Steve Johnson

WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, they've all defined a process for collecting samples, managing samples, testing the samples, identifying the people who are involved,

Rosecrans Baldwin

In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.

Paul Mellon

In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.

While a good portion of the money collected goes to the custodial parents to help in raising their kids,

Marc Fleury

We are throwing our collective hats in the ring - no pun intended - to be the super company for independent open source development.

We have a very unique fruit cone and seed collection that we're trying to increase. We do consulting work for commercial companies, such as spice companies, when they can't identify in-house. Occasionally there are some odd seeds.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

Bud Selig

The only response I received from the union is that they were in the process of talking to their players and collecting their feedback. Unfortunately, that was more than five months ago.

Clive Barker

The problem is they have played too many home matches already without collecting enough points. I also forewarned them that they may need to go into the market for a couple of players,

Jim Holt

Those are the same sandbags our garbage collectors will probably be picking up this week.

Scott Hatteberg

Those are shoes that one guy can't fill, and I know it's not me. I'm thrilled to be over where he played. You can't replace him - it'll be a collective effort.

Richard's collection is truly runway-ready. We hope our customers will enjoy our new look just as much as we do.

People want to do something practical, more than just send a check, which we realize is often the most practical thing to do. But it just seems so impersonal. People want to make connections and feel like they're part of something larger than themselves, so getting involved in collecting provisions, tools, toys or whatever, gives us a sense that we are really helping.

Sydney Pollack

On the one hand, the businessman in me understands it. But the lover of movies in me wants desperately to hang on to the movie house as a collective experience with the audience.

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time.

Rebecca Solnit

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

Juliana Hatfield

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

I saw a need for students to get back to a normal life as possible. I thought, you know, I could get out there and collect them, help them get back on their feet.

Matt Reeves

I remember watching the Blu-ray, and also when they first released it on DVD in the collection of all three movies of 'The Godfather,' and seeing all of those scenes that they cut out, and there wasn't a single one of them that I wished they had kept it, but they were the most exciting thing to watch anyway.

Our kicking strategy is also a collective thing. There are a number of individuals that can perform that role.

Our hope is that this public and private initiative will encourage a deeper collective understanding of the genetic factors of disease for major new therapeutic advances.

Steven Holl

My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.

Gerry Adams

My own view is that we should seek to go back into the talks at the earliest possible opportunity. But that is not a decision for me alone. We are a collective leadership. We will consult.

Matt and I are more intense, Ramin is the calm, collected one, the technical and graphic genius. All of us are entrepreneurial and work great together. We each offer something different and important to the task at hand. We have been able to utilize technology to make a virtual work force - Ramin works and lives in Ottawa.

Harmony Korine

I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.