Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nigel Kneale

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

Nas

I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.

Mignon McLaughlin

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

The idea of turning it into public land is fabulous.

you will have the largest undeveloped piece of land in your laps.

And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

Their land would become more valuable with time.

Their land is their retirement plan. We don't want to pigeon-hole someone.

This is only the first step. Before we can land on the moon, we have to go around it,

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

This is a landmark day for Washington Mutual and for our industry,

Eric Holder

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

Peter Drucker

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

Max Nordau

The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.

Max Lucado

The Land of Promise is for those who simply remain to the end.

Max Eastman

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

A number of his paintings are made with charcoal. Kiefer shows not just destructive forces, but rejuvenation. The landscape is ravaged, but it will one day become very fertile.

Right now we have been managing them because they come to the landfill anyway. They are sent out for shredding, and that material is recycled.

Racial discrimination reared its ugly head. Landlords refused to show their properties to minorities.

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

The money from the land sale pays my mortgage. I know other people who are doing the same thing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do you know the land where the lemon-trees flower?

It rolled off the left side of the road and landed on its top.

It's not like they want to do this on virgin conservation land. This land was violated in 1952 when the parking lot was paved.

There will be more coming. There will be measures on land supply, since that's very vital to this tightening.

S. I. Hayakawa

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

Ron Paul

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

Roland Joffe

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

Susan George

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

Stewart Udall

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

Stewart Udall

A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

Stewart Udall

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

Stewart Udall

America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.