Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Straw

What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.

Roy Johnson

It's so early in the fall term, if students want to continue their education this fall, we'll cover their tuition and help them keep moving ahead. That's the most concrete help - and hope - we can provide.

Ed Epping

It's definitely going to create different shortages of lumber and concrete and other materials. A lot of depends on how much they want to rebuild.

Karl Rove

The world is full of people who are discerning, and we need to recognize that concrete information told with honesty and specificity and integrity is important to the ultimate success in this conflict.

Dale Tallon

Things have been quiet. We're in the preliminary stages of a lot of conversations, but there's nothing concrete yet. I've been on the phone for two days, and people are just feeling everybody out. They're waiting for someone to make a deal.

Darin Strauss

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

Lee Wooten

The construction of a concrete dam can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to in excess of a million dollars to get the dam completely fixed up.

Mark Proctor

The manager hopes to have something concrete by Monday or Tuesday. We're looking at several players and we'll have something lined up soon but we're still looking.

Bill Sharpe

There may have been people who stumbled upon it when fishing or diving and rode a wave or two, but there is no concrete proof of it,

Ed Schroeder

In the long haul, you are looking at the rebirth of one of the historically successful industries of Pensacola . . . the fishing and diving industry.

Phil Nuytten

We should be there and diving . . . Saturday morning.

Li Hua

There is no similarity between diving and other sports. Every sports team has its own way to solve problems and you can not mix them up at any time.

Hannah Storm

I get to get paid to go scuba diving for four months in the Caribbean? Fine!

Chan Gailey

How about that speed down the sideline? Diving was more of an exclamation point to it.

Christopher McDougall

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Bill Engvall

I'd like to see the Amazon rainforests before they're all gone, and also the Galapagos - that's another one I'd like to do. I'd love to go diving in those areas. Basically, places, like, that are kind of going away, and I'd like to see them before they all become condos and high-rises.

Theo James

Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course.

Aaron Paul

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

Yanni

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

Ty Burrell

I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.

Samuel Johnson

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Rick Leard

In the long run, we're talking about an individual fishing quota, where the permit holder would have their own individual shares.

Henry Beard

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

Neko Case

I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.

Joe Brooks

Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

Mark Twain

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love.

Peter Greenaway

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Karen Osborne

This is identification at the polls, not proof of citizenship.

Andrew Wiles

Fermat said he had a proof.

Rick Rubin

For me the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

Marlene Dietrich

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

Mariska Hargitay

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

Mason Cooley

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

Elaine Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Vanna Bonta

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?