Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom McCall

The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life.

Stephen Crane

If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees?

Thomas Carlyle

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

Steve McQueen

The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too.

Spider Robinson

And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.

Shaun White

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

Shaun White

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

Shaun White

When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.

Sun Tzu

Those who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances. Those who do not know the lay of the land cannot maneuver their forces. Those who do not use local guides cannot take advantage of the ground.

Sun Tzu

Without local guides, your enemy employs the land as a weapon against you.

Samuel Adams

If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

T. J. Thyne

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

T. Harv Eker

Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.

T. S. Eliot

[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

Sylvia Earle

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

Josiah Royce

Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.

Joseph Hume

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

Rahm Emanuel

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

As the media landscape changes, PR has to find new ways to pitch products.

We like where we landed on the bracket. Now we just have to go out and make the most of that opportunity.

We searched air, land and water until 1 a.m., then started back at 7 a.m..

Jakob Nielsen

You don't just want to just shoot them off into e-mail land.

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'

Pattie Boyd

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

To me its kind of morbid to kind of wait for the landowners to pass away just to go and steal the land again.

This will be challenging because it's the highest-altitude landing that NASA has ever attempted.

Bernie Sanders

I would like to see somebody who speaks for the underdog, for the people who don`t have this in healthcare benefits. So I would like to see a candidate who has the guts to opposition that America could be a land for all people, not just the land control by the super rich.

Twenty years ago, I didn't have a passion to do lighting. I started on stage, worked my way around and landed in lighting.

Water has taken away land that he could sell.

James Callaghan

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

Stephen Jay Gould

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.