Famous Quotes & Sayings

There aren't many rests in Jennifer's concerto. She's done her homework well and knows what works. But I have to be more like a long distance runner for this concerto, while orchestra playing is more like being a sprinter.

If this results in Mr. Quintana having to have a distance between himself and Paris Hilton, she's delighted. She doesn't wish to have anything to do with this man.

He has done some good things for us. We would like to see some more distance with his punting.

He has done some good things for us, ... We would like to see some more distance with his punting.

Rick Barnes

He did well going the distance because he did not even practice yesterday.

He is a tough kid, but he has a lot to learn about distance running. When he learns it, look out.

John Brady

He made them in a timely way. And certainly, I know he made two, and one of them was really a remarkable distance from where I was sitting.

He looked at it from about a 10-foot distance and said he just grazed it, so he didn't tell anyone. I don't think he was being malicious.

Rob Blake

We just have to hope we're in striking distance near the end (of the season).

Al Gore

The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to encourage a reflective frame of mind, a distance from the passions of the voters, and a capacity for deliberative consideration.

Charles K. Kao

The introduction of optical fiber systemswill revolutionize the communications network. The lowtransmission loss and the large bandwidth capability of the fibersystems allow signals to be transmitted for establishingcommunications contacts over large distances with few or noprovisions of intermediate amplification.

Charles Darwin

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory.

We won't be entered in any distance relays, nor any of the jumps.

Ayn Rand

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

Benjamin Cardozo

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

Ben Crenshaw

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

Ben E. King

One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

Carroll Quigley

One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.

Alain de Botton

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Adam Ross

'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty.

Megan threw 110-11 which is a good start for her. Christina did a good job. We were fifth as a team overall. We were hoping to do a little better but we didn't have much for distance runners today.

Of all four games on the trip, this was the one we needed to get some distance between us and this team. We've been winning, and we haven't been gaining any ground on these guys.

Dave Mustaine

Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.

Aaron Hill

Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.

Victor Hugo

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

She could be a lot of places right now, it could be a very big search area. We have found people before that have drifted quite a distance out here, places where you just wouldn't expect them to be, and it's never been surefire.

She has been a surprise in the middle distance and distance events.

She disappeared at a spot just a short distance from our home. We had no news whatsoever about her for nearly 20 years.

She maintains that sort of distance, and I think that's the kind of distance one needs to walk that line with that humor. So the script is informed on every level by it.

Archimedes

Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

Archimedes

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

Anthony Wayne

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

Barbara Mertz

Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.