Famous Quotes & Sayings

John M. Smith

We're kind of an Ellis Island type of setup.

Jim Lee

'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.

Keith Burns

This is the first time that Ellis will go to auction. And indeed, for the Hollywood prop houses, this is the end of an era.

David Souter

Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.

Beto O'Rourke

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.

James Gray

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

Ariel Sharon

I talked today to the secretary-general of the United Nations. I talked to every European leader about this issue,

Andrew Douglas

It is going to change, quite dramatically, the way European markets work.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is likely that the European partners and also others will work towards a second decision, and I also think that is sensible,

Brian Tempest

It is just a modest acquisition. It is part of our overall European strategy.

Grant McCasland

Like most Europeans do, he shoots those 15-footers all the time. He stays after practice and keeps shooting it. Seemed all that practice after games paid off.

Stefaan Rynck

If you want a single European market and you want goods to move efficiently, you have to invest in new infrastructure.

Goran Persson

The European Union sticks to the Kyoto Protocol and (will) go for a ratification process.

Mel Gibson

It's set before the Conquest, so there are no European faces, and we are using mostly indigenous people and actors from Mexico City,

Boris Diaw

It's pretty much the way I've been used. I'm a kind of European player. You've got to use me the right way.

Pam Rogers

It made more sense to come back in to Pearl Harbor to do the repairs than to try to do them out on the open water.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

Judy Estrin

We must not harbor the illusion of a killer application.

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.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Mandy Hotchkiss

I was just totally overwhelmed. Their whole island has been totally wiped out.

William Wordsworth

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

Richard Pryor

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

William Dampier

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Zora Neale Hurston

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

Rebecca Solnit

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

Rick Riordan

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

Clay Richards

I wouldn't be surprised if as many as 25 percent of New Jersey voters said they are supporting Kean because of his father's record, or because they like his father.

Marty Turco

It always baffles me why they do these things. I've never made a save with my jersey before, but as long as we don't look too silly, it doesn't really matter to us.

Richard Schiff

It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.

Tony Parker

If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god.

Mike Church

In my mind, it?s the Jersey series that got us going,

Dee McCann

I had my fingernails in his jersey and he stepped away. He's got a lot of speed and quickness, but he's not better than his brother.

John Tortorella

New Jersey must be a very disciplined team considering all the time we spent in their end zone.

Karl Rove

From a lot of places in New Jersey you could see the towers,

Jon Corzine

I have a very optimistic view of where New Jersey can go, ... My opponent has presented a more negative view than is necessary.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

John Rzeznik

All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.

Jason Dourisseau

It's going to be tough on Wednesday, I'm not going to lie. But I think we'll be ready to go.

Eric Anderson

As you say, ... the power lies with all the heterosexuals.

Marianne Williamson

My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It's not about accounting. It's about lies.

Susan Love

Breast cancer: Where we are and what lies ahead.

Paul Makin

He's already won all the mile races he needs.

Dennis DesRosiers

There is going to be lineup a mile long a mile wide for this plant. The winner will be the jurisdiction that will pay for it, pure and simple.

Tim Winship

I think it's pretty much inarguable that the value of frequent-flyer miles is on the decline.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Chris Rock

I (could) see these plots a mile away. And I was 7.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

William Least Heat-Moon

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Andy Grove

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

James Osborne

I ran about 60 miles a week over the summer and I'm putting in about 50 miles a week now. So when I start tapering toward the end season it should be interesting.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Jami Attenberg

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

Mia Sara

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

Ed Orgeron

I'm disappointed we lost, but I'm mostly disappointed in myself not getting the team ready to play,

Michael Isikoff

The news comes in code, and mostly the silences speak.

Chellie Pingree

It's mostly window dressing. I don't think this will pass the straight-face test.

Jim Fischer

It will start out mostly as rain, end up as snow at the tail end of it.

Hamadoun Toure

They are mostly unidentified combatants killed with machetes.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

David Filo

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

Frank Lampard

It was a big step towards winning it today. We got the result, we're nearly there.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

John Spillman

Between the three properties, we have nearly 1,400 rooms and suites.

Robert Kiyosaki

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

Rebecca West

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

Marcel Proust

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

Katie Aselton

I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.

John Bunyan

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

William Shakespeare

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.

Bobby Jindal

Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.

William Shakespeare

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Carol Ann Duffy

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Ross Perot

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Bob Woodward

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

John Catsimatidis

I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

Phil Esposito

I only see myself doing this in two places, New York and Boston.

Scott Westerfeld

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

Robert Parkes

You could take this place out and put it in New York City.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.

Fred Hartsfield

It's pretty amazing. York is all over the field.

Jacki Weaver

I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.

John Catsimatidis

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.