Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Roach

Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need wind, lots of it, strong and unrelenting. Antarctica fits the bill.

Sam Abell

I would like to go to Antarctica. That's about all.

John Spencer

It's like flying past Antarctica and finding that it's warmer than the earth's equatorial regions. It's that strange.

Kate Atkinson

When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.

Charlie Hartwell

That's all dependent on the wind and weather. Life in Antarctica is controlled by those two things.

Paul Watson

Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?

Isabella Velicogna

Antarctica is Earth's largest reservoir of fresh water.

John Spencer

This is as astonishing as if we'd flown past Earth and found that Antarctica was warmer than the Sahara.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

Andy Greene

I wouldn't say it's pressure it's more like a controlled nervousness. We've had a good season so far, but that doesn't mean anything to us right now. It's a whole different season.

Walt Patynski

He controlled the top of the third. From the fourth through seventh innings, he was really on top of his game.

Marvin Harrison

He controlled the huddle and the team as if to say 'OK, now I'm here and we'll change. We have a new attitude,'

Jared Jeffries

He controlled the game. You could live with him getting 30 points, but what you don't want is 11 rebounds and 11 assists.

Teller

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.

Mark Atherton

I thought we controlled (the tempo) the whole game. We did a great job executing our game plan, we controlled the tempo and did a much better job on the board.

Nick Haynes

I thought we controlled most of the game. We definitely had the opportunities.

Keith Freeman

I thought we controlled game except for that four-minute stretch. What happened in that four-minute stretch, our top seven kids weren't involved in that. We have to get more young kids learning to play.

Tom Preissing

I think we had a big edge. It felt like we controlled the games for the most part right from the get-go.

Jody Conradt

I think that is pure speculation if we would have won with Tiffany in the game. But I do know that we are very dependent on her energy.

David Margolick

He takes hundreds of recent law graduates at their most vulnerable, dependent state and guides them, soothes them, suffers with them, flatters them, advises them, exhorts them, humors them and holds their hands over the last hurdle before they enter the practice of law.

John Bennett

He needs to feel like he can still drive, and I think it's pretty important to him not to be dependent on someone to drive him around all the time.

Jim Paine

I?m not totally dependent on the BlackBerry. I still do heavy e-mail work at night from a laptop.

Margaret D. Nadauld

I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I'm on his errand.

Dan Lipinski

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

Bruce Silverglade

The guidelines are dependent on enforcement, which makes them inherently weak.

George Eliot

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Per Petterson

The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can't do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Peter Fincham

I actually like being employed, even though my circumstances in life may be different now.

John Street

He just went to a place where he thought he would be able to be peaceful. It never occurred to me that he was on the verge of taking his own life or doing anything destructive of his life.

Tom Bass

He lived life to the fullest. It was just a little too short.

Graham Elliot

Weight is something I've battled all my life.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

William Wordsworth

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

William Sharp

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

William Shenstone

Written on a Window of an Inn,

William J. Clinton

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water.

William J. Clinton

We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.

Rebecca Pidgeon

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Richard Gere

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute.

Richard Kinder

A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.