Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Stone

Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission.

Dan Hooks

The point-spread, you know, I don't enjoy that, but I thought our kids played really well. In that last quarter, we had our backup players out there so we weren't trying to run up the score. But I was really proud of our football team, especially our defense in the second-half.

Jeff Bower

My biggest concern is we didn't establish a backup coming out of spring drills. To win a championship, you better be good at quarterback, including the back up.

Aaron Rodgers

It'd be nice to get a couple warmup throws, but I went out there cold-turkey. And that's what a backup needs to do - be ready at any time. On this team, with Brett Favre in charge, that doesn't happen much, but if I am the No. 2 guy, I'll definitely be ready.

Marty Booker

I stretched and tried to do whatever I could to get in there. It's always nice to have a good backup quarterback that can come in and make plays for you.

Paul Edwards

We have a few more test days in the car since the last time we were at Watkins Glen, ... The car worked great on half of the track so the long course should be even better. We have worked hard on getting the car to handle better through long sweeping turns and under braking since we were last at the Glen. I hope that we can backup our first win there from July

Dick Vermeil

We'll know (Saturday) morning, see where he is. Could be a backup role or anything like that. Right now, Larry (Johnson) is prepared to play.

Ted Thompson

You'd like to have three or four deep at each position, and a Pro Bowl player on the first team and a backup Pro Bowl player on the second team and so forth. It's just, there's not that many; the good Lord didn't make that many good tackles in the world.

Denny Brighton

To have a backup win the division is pretty good. Everybody did a good job today.

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

William McDonough

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

Whitey Ford

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Venus Williams

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Doug Beard

The people at the Bradley Center have been tremendous to work with. Our event management experience certainly comes into play.

Brendon Urie

I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.

Big Sean

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Don Yaeger

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Vince Gilligan

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Judith Butler

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Wole Soyinka

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

Glenn Dickman

We could have sold that property and made a lot of money, selling it to some distribution center that would just mean a lot of trucks going in and out.

Mike Ford

I suspect that the whale that approached thought he was a harbor seal splashing.

Saddam Hussein

I don't harbor any hatred toward any of you,

Philippe Petit

I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

Judy Estrin

We must not harbor the illusion of a killer application.

Iman Iman

All of you know the neighborhoods that harbor terrorists, the tribes that have terrorists and those that don't,

Jamie Gorelick

We will have a cyber-equivalent of Pearl Harbor at some time, and we do not want to wait for that wake-up call.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Jill Lepore

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

Stacy Schiff

You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.

Coco Chanel

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Aberjhani

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Confucius

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

Karl Marx

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

Grace Kelly

A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Noam Chomsky

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Jerry Della Femina

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

Michael Bay

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

Steven Smith

We don't feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Steve Smith

We do not feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

George Stroumboulopoulos

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Dave Huber

That was ugly. I was waiting for the ugly duckling to turn into the swan, but it never happened.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Tom Price

I think Jaguar can turn it around, but right now it's tough. If I had only a Jaguar store, it would be very, very tough.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.