Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Philbrick

Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

Neil Marshall

So much of 'Doomsday' is taken from the early 'Mad Max' films.

We did some good things early on. We hit and run, we stole some bases. We did some good things offensively to put ourselves in a good position.

We didn't play well. It's too early in the season to be flat the way we were.

We didn't play very well. We had been moving guys over and getting hits with runners in scoring position. We had a lot of opportunities. We have to be better with two strikes. We're not doing the things we did earlier in the year. We have some people hurt and we've played a lot of different people. We're out of sync. We have to find a way to play better.

We are headed for a Katrina-induced soft patch, but I would not interpret this as the early warning of a recession.

We are having a typical fire season - it's just a few weeks earlier than normal.

Gary Pruitt

We are having a good fourth quarter, which has led us to raise our estimates of full-year earnings for 1999.

We are going to zero down on this very early and put an end to this menace.

Bob Bryan

We got on them really early and I was hitting my wide serve really well on the ad-court. It went well the whole time.

How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?

We didn't do a good job early on of communicating, and we just couldn't get into the flow of things.

Lyle Lovett

My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing.

William Garrison

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch- and I will be heard!

Willie Nelson

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

Anne Graham Lotz

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.

Ann Voskamp

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

Arnold Palmer

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

Al Jarreau

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.

We're likely to see large upward revision to earlier data, so it'll be harder for January to show a big gain.

We're late in the economic cycle. We're slowing down or at least -- I won't say going into recession but we're slowing down -- and we've got some troubles overseas with Asia. These aren't huge ones, but these could slow earnings growth to about 5 percent for the S&P 500.

We still have two weeks of earnings warnings ahead.

We still had a game after the first half. But our offense early in the second half (wasn't good). That was the key to the game because they (scored a lot).

Terry Crews

We still expect our greatest earnings growth during the second and third quarters. The fourth quarter is expected to be a loss, but it will not be as large of a loss as last year.

Kate Warne

This would be the wrong stage to be suddenly raising rates a lot because the reaction to the earlier rate increases just hasn't occurred yet.

This would be earnings enhancing from the start.

The question always presents itself: How formidable are the challengers? Early measures show them leading by very narrow margins, and the preferences are party based. It's way too early to say whether the challengers will be formidable.

The prospects for tech did not suddenly deteriorate. In fact, tech earnings have been very good.

The prosecutor and I have seldom, if at all, experienced an investigation being potentially ruined at such an early stage.

Matt Mullenweg

The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.

Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away

Traditionally, we've been fast starters. We hit a lull early this season. We recovered from that and we've have been playing pretty good baseball.