Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Doug Kelly

A rainbow is a full circle of light centered around the point opposite the sun, but grounded we can only see the arc above the horizon. You can only see a rainbow with your back to the sun.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Ann Davis

Anything from grass to bushes to wildflowers will grow in the earth above the houses about the second year after building,

Joseph Suhayda

Anything above a couple of feet per second is extremely difficult to wade in. To operate a boat in anything close to 10 to 15 feet per second is extremely difficult. Being in (that kind of) water is tantamount to being dead.

David Bailey

Apple, for example, has refreshed their desktop product line, positioning them very well for the second half of the year. Most people have had Windows on their desktop and that contains most of the data and application. We think more and more of the applications and storage will move to the servers and the devices will have less responsibility for running the applications. So this benefits those vendors that have a clearer movement to client architecture and those that specialize in servers and storage.

Joe Sakic

Ted is the right man for the job. He's the architect of the deal and he knows the CBA inside-out. I think this just a minority group of disgruntled players.

Gregory Colbert

The works themselves can't be separate from the architecture or the music or the films. When you walk into the building, you're literally inside the work of art itself.

Linda Cox

We tried to bring in both the architecture and the wrought-iron. We wanted a look of restrained, quiet opulence.

Mike Tuss

We didn't want to imitate the architecture that was 100 years old. We wanted something that says it was done in the early part of the 21st century.

Thom Mayne

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

Michael Kaplan

Bruce Goff was an eclectic mid-century architect who did kind of oddball things.

Mary McDonnell

Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the arc of the show. Looking at how intuitive and instinctive Eddie and I play, that is the sort of thing that leads into sexual chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if it emerged.

Dan Gilroy

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

Chellie Pingree

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.

Carla Bley

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

Green Day

TrŽ: I told my dad "Yeah Im going to be a drummer" and he said "well you can if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time youre standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance". And I did all that just like bam you know?

Robert Clarke

We didn't know what to do, ... I mean we had never been to victory circle and we didn't know the procedure. Looking back, that was pretty funny.

Anais Nin

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Rita Ora

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Taslima Nasrin

I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

Matthew Arnold

Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.

Max de Pree

No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety.

Jarrod Kerr

A rate hike is now 50-50 in May and fully priced by June.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Mark Murray

Technically, this is simply what's called the 'answer' to the complaint. So it is not Microsoft's full response and all the company's legal arguments.

Jennifer Granholm

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Rowan D. Williams

I shall want to know more about how you will come to have a full share in the good things of this country.

Peter Coleman

This is still a significant injury, but one that with rehabilitation Troy will be able to fully recover from.

Carl Cornwell

We're guilty judge, and we take full responsibility for these (four) offenses.

Candace Cameron Bure

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

Kelly Overton

Being a mom kind of grounded me in a way. Your body takes on a whole new meaning.

Dr. Trucco

This is the first time that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Cam Newton

I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

bell hooks

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

Craig Kilborn

It's not a big part, ... I wheel in an ultrasound machine and say to Taylor's gynecologist, 'If you have a problem with it, just give it a light tap on the side.' Then they hand me a urine sample, and I put it up to the light and say 'Hmm, looks pretty healthy, but I'll check.'

Richard G. Scott

Knowledge carefully recorded is knowledge available in time of need. Spiritually sensitive information should be kept in a sacred place that communicates to the Lord how you treasure it. This practice enhances the likelihood of receiving further light.

Brent Weeks

Light cannot be chained.

Brent Weeks

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

Billy Collins

But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

Barry Goldwater

We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

Ross Mayfield

SAP really does the opposite of what we do.

Joe Girardi

The Yankees, usually they have one of the 25-man roster they're not sure who they're taking. We have like two that we know we're taking. It's about as opposite as it can be.

Archibald MacLeish

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Daniel Handler

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

Dan Barker

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

Edmund Burke

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Eckhart Tolle

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Ronald Reagan

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Pat Robertson

a vote (on the Supreme Court) that reflects his point of view.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Wayne Fischer

At some point in time you must ask, 'how much is enough?

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Erik Hanson

The strong point of our team is defense.

Jon Brion

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

Craig Swartout

The most quiet 20 points I've ever seen.

Amos Lee

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

Anne Robinson

I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

Ricky Nelson

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

Maya Angelou

Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.

Mariah Carey

After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

Jim Gaffigan

Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line?

Roald Dahl

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.