Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Dumars

Who are we going to get that, if something does happen to Chauncey, is going to lead us to a championship? You're up the creek without a paddle anyway.

Darlene Norman

I think people who visit parks want up-to-date facilities. If they don't find that, they go someplace else. That, I think, is why I am seeing more people going to Prairie Creek Park.

Catherine Johnson

Plum Creek totally failed to listen to Maine people. What we have today is the same development in essentially the same places.

Sasha Alexander

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked.

William Bailey

He was driving up the little creek toward Rural Ridge when he got stuck again,

Dave Hall

He had about 300 gallons of fuel on board. He probably lost in excess of 200 gallons into the median and into a creek south of the interstate.

William Mitchell

I can't do anything about the water at the No. 3 tee, ... It's because the water level at the creek is higher than the groundwater and you can't drain wetlands.

Pat Connors

The creek is under assault. The township has done a good job. It's an ongoing project to make sure the creek isn't threatened.

Elizabeth Ward

The creek is kind of a dumping ground. I guess people don't feel a lot of ownership for it.

E. W. Howe

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

Scott Reed

The Pelosi-Durbin announcement was like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody heard it.

Bill Hader

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

Cecelia Ahern

Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.

Cecelia Ahern

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

Cecelia Ahern

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

Cecelia Ahern

This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

Cecelia Ahern

I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

Larry Moore

When we get some rain, we're going to have a lot more trees fall.

Ron Williams

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Angela King

Trees can't do their thing unless they are in the right spot.

David Brown

It went through trees before it got into the city.

Bob Ross

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.

Jason Rogers

I like the trees here a lot more than other areas.

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.

Larry Hawkins

This beautiful, established canopy of trees is just gone. It's just firewood.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Kwame Brown

Actually, it was a little weaker than when I was here.

J. I. Packer

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

Glenn Wilson

This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,

Russ Rader

I don't think their use is widespread enough yet to study.

Brian Lovejoy

It's going to be a soaking rain. It's going to be a widespread rain.