Famous Quotes & Sayings

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Causey has no defense. He's an accountant, and he was right there at ground zero.

I make sure my jersey doesn't touch the ground because I'm superstitious and I put everything on my right side first, then my left side.

Edward Fitzgerald

Now the New Year reviving old Desires,/ The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,/ Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough/ Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

Ray Nagin

Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them -- that was the plan, man,

From what we were told from up top, Kirk's knee had hit the ground before the fumble. But we had so many breakdowns, that we're going to have to go back and watch it on tape.

Dionne Bromfield

If I'm naughty, I'm grounded for two weeks or Mum takes my phone and my laptop because she knows I can't live without them. Sometimes I'll say, 'Mum, do you just want to take my laptop?' because I can still use the Internet on my phone. But now she's going to read this and see what I've been doing.

Ground zero is Charlotte. With all the garages, all the drivers, it's, like, natural.

Brian Moynihan

This is a marathon in life. You can't be sprinting all the time or else you wear yourself out. You have to make sure you're taking care of yourself, keeping yourself grounded and not letting every little thing get you worked up.

Frances Wright

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

Annie Lennox

I love to make music and stay grounded.

Dudley Moore

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

David Levithan

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

Billy Wilder

I would worship the ground you walk on, Audrey, if you only lived in a better neighborhood.

Ground radar from time to time is subject to interference from outside sources. There's nothing wrong with the radar. There's nothing wrong with the relays. Planes aren't disappearing. There's still information on the screen.

Tanit Phoenix

I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

Paul Tagliabue

Having him involved in the process and having someone here on the ground day to day will be helpful.

Matt McGorry

For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it's a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn't look like you're watching someone do vaudeville. No offense to vaudeville.

He shifted ground but it was only minimal. It was not enough to warrant a suspension.

We're proud and happy about what we got off the ground in 2004. We've sent out a lot of mailings and we've been to a lot of meetings.

We've been well anticipating this program to get off the ground for some time.

We've got to keep winning, stay grounded and stay hungry.

He's a terrifc player, and I think he'll make up ground very quickly.

Manmohan Singh

We must find technical ways and means to resolve all outstanding issues between us in a reasonable, pragmatic manner cognizant of the ground realities,

Gary Moore

He wasn't a natural and Philip has worked hard to get him jumping. The ground was obviously the key to him today as he seems to love it soft.

Brian Kelly

I thought our first day went really well. We are at a point now where we are not going to take a step back just because we lost our quarterback from last year. We needed to hit the ground running and I was pleased with how these young quarterbacks prepared themselves.

He was wide the whole race around. That race was very good, and I don't think he liked the soft ground that day.

He had been knocked to the ground and had been kicked.

If it's something big, work yourself up to that. If it's a big change, you need to have laid some ground work.

Humphrey Bogart

If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Larry Johnson

He's got to take some tough medicine. He's just 10 years from retirement and starting at ground zero and he needs to live within a lower income.

I would have preferred the ground to be riding very fast, but I don't think it will be too much of an inconvenience if there is any more rain. I go there hopeful he can get into the places.

I was pointing to the ground and I knocked his mask out. That was unintentional and he knows it.