Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Lineker

Fella’s a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele… Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar.

Galileo Galilei

In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.

Fred Funk

My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him.

Gary Larson

Even if today all the people they want to talk to are a short distance away, in the future that may not be the case.

easier to move, harder to find, more lethal, able to strike long distances in short times.

(Southern Wayne) traveled a great distance to come here and play us. So we wanted to give them as competitive a game as possible.

So that when you look from a distance you see glitter from all three sides, not just the top.

Isabella Bird

The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, 'The Devil's Elbow,' a man on foot can walk the distance in less than an hour which takes the steamer four hours to accomplish.

I wanted to be tested over the full championship distance and I felt fine in the later rounds.

Teams don't know he has NBA range. Ryan's got no limits for distance on his 3's.

I've only had two other guys in 28 years go that fast as freshmen. Our distance runners had a nice night. They are seeing progress from some of the hard work we have done.

That part of it may be tough for us, but his pedigree says he should handle the distance, and he trains like it, too. He'll gallop 2 1/2 miles and never get tired. What I'm really hoping is the distance will make him that much better.

That's not the way you distinguish someone's politics. It forces us to distance ourselves from him.

This turned out to be a logistical nightmare because of the distance of the destruction.

Thomas Hardy

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

They all contributed and we have put ourselves within striking distance heading into the final round, which was our goal.

We will study the order when it is issued, we will work vigorously to fulfill any remaining requirements and then we'll re-file to offer long distance in Michigan as well as four other states we serve.

William Collins

With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Pour'd thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul.

Juan Fernandez

The laser scanner measures the time it takes (to go) from the instrument to the wall. Then it computes the distance between the wall and the layers of paint.

I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.

I'm glad it just had the distance and I got it there. I'm still in a daze. It's unbelievable.

In many parts of Idaho, as in many rural States, there simply aren't enough dentists within reasonable distance of some communities.

John Chen

The offer is very rich, so it's likely J&J won't be able to come within striking distance of it.

Tapper played well when he had to play well. He made some point-blank saves in the second period and that helped us put some distance between us and them.

Sunday afternoons are a great time to get people to explore West Atlantic. There are new stores and restaurants all within walking distance of the library.

I want to see her finishing the race so that we can move farther later on. I don't think the distance is ideal. We want to run longer.

Chris Connelly

It's an ideal location, within driving distance of Washington, yet removed from the immediate area.

That (last season) strengthened him as a leader for the team and gave him a ton of confidence. He sees himself as a distance runner now. That's his identity.

Everybody was pumped up the first week. We had lots of volunteers in the beginning. Now the sense of dropping everything to come help is not as great as at the beginning. Volunteers are driving great distances and having to pay their own gas and tolls. I don't think it's our responsibility to give, give, give and not see motivation on the evacuees' level.

This is the most exciting innovation that long distance running has ever witnessed.

In the 5,000, distance medley and triple jump, we really had people step up. We didn't make any mistakes.

Jan Ullrich

In the Tour, it's important to use every opportunity to distance or eliminate adversaries and if there's a chance, I won't hesitate to attack.

Ron Wilson

I never would have thought he'd score the last goal from that distance with the goalie set. You're thinking, 'OK, just shoot it' and the goalie whiffed on it. That ended up being the difference.