Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Viswanathan Anand

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Benjamin Franklin

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Jeff Morris

The advantages of heavy crude processing and upgrade of the bottoms via high-valued asphalt sales fit our core strategy and our business model well.

Michael Budman

We have an extremely scalable and robust e-commerce solution that allows us to take advantage of the global reach in support of the U.S. Olympic Team.

Joe King

We have an advantage over other communities. At the conceptual level, can we do something with the plant?

Dieter Zetsche

We have an advantage by announcing this turnaround plan that we are already in the midst of implementing. Every bit of it has been discussed and agreed upon by the unions. I have a very high degree of confidence we will be able to deliver on all parts of the turnaround plan.

Chuck Todd

We can't ignore initial Democrat polling, which shows Ken Lucas already ahead of Geoff Davis. And the GOP brand is getting killed right now in the Cincinnati media market, which might offset the automatic GOP advantage this district gives to Davis.

Bill Bryson

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Bill Bryson

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Bill Bryson

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Beth Simone Noveck

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Bill Vaughan

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

Cody Irwin

That was the first time I've ever done distance running. Running 3.1 miles has massively helped with endurance.

Dave Sellon

That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range. He had a great day.

Ivan Seidenberg

We have an expanding position in the growth markets of the future ? wireless, data, broadband, long distance ? and we're executing extremely well in these areas,

Raymond Bonner

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

Rick Warren

My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

John Ortberg

Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.

Richard Menicke

I had intended to race three in the varsity race.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Ted Lavit

He never has, never intended to and never did.

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Bill Vaughan

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.