Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Cornelius

We've made it much more costly and risky to come and go crossing the border, and because of that we make it more likely (undocumented immigrants) will spend a longer time in the U.S. and settle permanently here.

Philippe Petit

For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says 'no,' but since this is a project that comes from me and not a commission, I have to find the money, plan the logistics, etcetera.

J. J. Johnson

We have a long laundry list of questions for him to answer. We fully expect to have a hearing on Global Crossing this fall.

Robin Anderson

We're crossing our fingers. We've got to hope this won't become a ghost town.

Rob Glaser

We have some hard problems to solve: The applications are quite complex, the delivery systems can be difficult to master, and the applications that were once the domain of high-end users are now crossing over to the mass market. But I have no doubts that we and others (content delivery companies) will be up to the task.

Tasnim Aslam

Because of the widespread devastation the information about crossing procedures took some time to trickle down.

Akira Sasaki

I had wanted to perform strongly and pump my fist after crossing the finish line. I feel greater than my last second-place finish because this time making it to the podium was a much more vivid target.

Karen Turner

He was going door-to-door looking for school crossing guards and went to my in-laws' house, ... They said they were too old, but told him to see me.

Jimmy Rollins

He looked like Ricky Williams crossing the goal line, ... He had nothing left. It was a good time for an oxygen tank.

Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

Nancy Gibbs

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Adam Scott

That would finish off the year, and I'd be pretty happy.

Joe Godinho

That was the third time he had to wrestle his kid in the last three weeks. It was a tighter match, but Kevin finished strong.

Chris Johnson

That was the first thing that hit me. I knew I had to find a place to try and finish my senior year, so I'd have a chance.

Jeong Jang

That was the first long putt today. Good finish going into tomorrow.

Lauren Bechtold

That was something that's exceptional to be able to hear. To finish with all of these girls, it was incredible.

Brian Curran

That was a huge goal. Samy had a great all-around game and that was a nice way for him to finish it off.

John Ellinger

We have two games left, we need to win an away game. We want to win, we don't want to finish the season with 12 straight losses.

Craig Grau

The alternative is getting into fist fights. Even hot words are better than fist fights.

Curtis Jones

He seemed kind of ticked-off. His fists were doubled, clenched down by his side.

James Snyder

I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.

Kiesza

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

George Foreman

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

Andy Roddick

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

Steven Chercover

I wasn't surprised by this, ... This keeps Willamette's fist to the fire.

Chris Harper

No one is more than a sum total of his life experiences. Mr. Wilson is the son of a strict disciplinarian who ruled his home with an iron fist as well.

John Cross

My fists get clenched, my muscles get tight, I'm getting hot.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Richard Daley

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

F. Sionil Jose

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Joe Hogan

We can see what's going on with greater specificity. The need for biopsies will be reduced.

Marlon Wayans

People don't understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a script, to put together the story, the characters. When everyone laughs simultaneously, there's no greater feeling.

Terry Kerr

We've done a number of other searches, not specifically related to this, but because of a greater student awareness.

Ken Kendrick

Just because Randy wants something doesn't mean it's going to happen. We want to respect his interests, but our greater responsibility is not to him but to our team.

Hermann Oberth

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

Yochai Benkler

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Carrie Fisher

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Kenny Jackett

That was as well as we've played this year - particularly the first 45 minutes. The performance was excellent.

Fabio Capello

We could have used a performance like that on our side.

Mark Morris

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

Richard Lewis

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Dave Ramsey

You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

Gary Pearson

We told them, 'You need to get this pumped out now,' and they were not willing to do that 'now.

Mike DeWine

He was real upbeat and very, very positive. He was trying to pump everyone up.

Billy Corgan

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

William Empson

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

Ryan Diggs

We were all pumped up at the start of overtime. I thought we had the momentum. I was never nervous.

Adrian Rogers

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

Jason Caron

I was kind of pumped to play today. I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all week.

Jason Caron

I was kind of pumped to play today, ... I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all week.

Gloria Estefan

I strongly feel that we are all connected,

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

Jim Doyle

I feel very strongly that that's not where we should be going with this,

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Brad Cashman

I don't feel as strongly as I did before on that. Basically, I shouldn't have made that comment.

Lloyd Church

I feel strongly he'll be able to play somewhere.

Endriartono Sutarto

We strongly suggest that he does not do that,

Michael Buckley

We're a strongly capitalised bank, after this loss, by international standards,

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

David Hume

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

Janice Dickinson

I have a very vivid imagination.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

Brian De Palma

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

J. K. Rowling

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

H. G. Wells

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Mike Pence

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

Ernst Mach

A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

Kirk Hoza

A vivid picture. One of the worst things I have seen.