Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eartha Kitt

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

Zac Goldsmith

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

Cathy Johnson

The 6,015 acres in question constitute only three one-hundredths of 1 percent of the land in the state of Maine. There are literally millions of acres adjacent to Baxter State Park where hunting can, will and should continue.

Ted Stevens

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is 19 million acres, ... The area set aside for oil and gas exploration is 1.5 million acres. Because of advances in technology, only 2,000 acres of that will be needed for production.

Dale Schuler

We could eventually lose so many acres that the U.S. could lose markets and its standing as a reliable supplier.

Ray Gilmer

We have thousands of acres of crop loss. This is a freeze that left its mark.

Ben Johnson

We've got speculators calling us -- mostly from California and the Northeast -- who say, 'We'll just send crews out there and start building hundreds of homes,' There's a lot of interest in securing a hundred to a thousand acres of land.

Dan Ware

We've lost numerous other structures, five vehicles and tens of thousands of acres of land.

Suzanne Roy

We're talking about 1,100 deer in 90,000 acres of land. We just don't think the overpopulation problem is so severe that it requires this response.

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Will Rothhaar

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

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.

Nina Bawden

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

Peter Schmitt

That would be obscene. That is not what the people of this county intended when they elected 10 Democrats. ... The Democrats should be in charge.

Heather Danenhower

That was the trend. Marion County hired its first paid firefighter in 1979.

Campbell Mercer

We can't imagine Mr. Spinks wanting to do anything that could be as potentially harmful to Ohio County culture and history as this. If we do receive official notice, then we will respond at that time.

Carl Goldberg

We'll probably look first in southern Bergen County for a suitable site for the Jets. We'll talk to the mayors first and see what sort of land mass is available. I'm sure some communities would be quite enthused about that idea.

Jeff Pollick

We have three dual meets before the Allegheny County tournament. That would give Nathan a shot to reach 100 wins in the finals, if he wrestles five times at the county tournament. It would be great if it works out that way.

A. Hodge

We've gotten a lot accomplished and helped the county quite a bit,

Kent Williams

We've had good luck in the county with the wind farm we have right now ... By and large I think the greatest percentage of our population has been very supportive of the project.

E. P. Thompson

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County . We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

Mark Lakeman

Most problems are simply missed opportunities. The flip side of every problem is a solution.

Ramon Hernandez

It doesn't matter who we play now, ... we got the confidence. I think this woke our team up, to flip a game like that.

Paul Maechtle

We were just gonna really run it out, and (Hart) stepped back and flipped a long one.

Walt Disney

You know, you're just not supposed to be hitting a flip wedge into that hole,

Howard Bloom

New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.

Jim Kaat

On the flip side, he's going to make the guys toe the line and play the game the right way. It will be professionally run. There won't be anything left to chance. Joe will have everything covered.

Raymond Devine

Basically, she just flipped out. She was under a lot of pressure, I guess, and whatever happened, she just snapped.

Barry Zito

Basically, I had to grab it and side flip it. I was trying to grab it with two hands and stop my momentum. In retrospect, I should have taken my glove off and used my right hand. Plays didn't go our way.

Mack Brown

He flipped the switch and took over our team. It's fun to have a mature guy who's not (just) surviving at quarterback. He's getting better every play.

Vikram Seth

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Evel Knievel

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

Kyle Brown

That would have been meant a lot. Seven hundred and one yards, that's a lot. That's something special. Just think if we don't make some of the mistakes that we did.

Jan Eliasson

We have worked through the families, the travel agencies. We've sent ... up to a hundred people to go through the hospitals.

Octavio Paz

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Mario Andretti

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Samuel Butler

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Holly Black

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

Dennis Flynn

We talked about this a hundred times ... how do you stop a V-bed?

Mike Allen

Most homeowners, if not all homeowners, should have experienced some reduction in their property taxes.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Charles Abrams

We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable and well thought out and well financed.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Peter Berg

We were simply brushed off by MAF officials.

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Martin Sheen

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Stan Grimes

We've got some wagons that are worth between $400,000 and $500,000.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Henry S. Haskins

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.