Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Cabe

The most significant one included the one in Kershaw County. A large fire also burned in Hampton County, estimated to be over 450 acres. Eighty acres also burned in McCormick County, where some structures were threatened.

Robert Mullen

Is it always economical to shoot for maximum yield? Research has shown that it's not. It may take the same amount of nitrogen to reach 179 bushels per acre as it does to only reach 170 bushels per acre. It's impossible to determine at what point the nitrogen level is reached to where it is no longer a benefit to gain more yield without a nitrogen rate trial in every field.

Brian Thompson

This is one of the strongest auctions we've seen. It sold in the top end of the trading range for Class A (the most productive) soils. There is a good supply of Class A land that typically sells for $4,100 to $6,000 per acre depending on size, location and quality.

Kenneth Branagh

To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

Mark Wilson

Currently, the financial returns aren't that great, but at that rate a farmer with 1,000 acres of no-till could earn $1,000 annually for merely continuing his established practices.

Mark Ferrulo

And they don't need Florida's votes in the next election either. I cannot underestimate the importance of that. They want to lease millions of acres off Florida's coast.

Kevin Fay

At $1 million an acre (the going price for land), you are not going to buy a whole lot for that around here.

Bruce Hinchey

The other good thing about this is that (the project) is not on that 5- or 10-acre spacing like the Jonah Field ... We're talking 160 or 320 acres spacing, which is a lot more spread out.

F. Stone

This was born out of necessity, ... We wanted to have a certain size property and we only had so much land to work with. We realized we had to put the parking underground, so we came up with a plan and put it in place. When you look at the cost of an acre of land on the Strip, you need to make your best usage of that land.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

R. Robinson

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Jane Goodall

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Teresita Sy-Coson

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

Alanis Morissette

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

Tom Shales

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

America Ferrera

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Tim O'Brien

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Jeff Phillips

That's where the title came from. He still had things to say. It just wasn't in God's plan to say it in person.

David Wyss

After September, it was positive for most of the economy except for tourism. Things like car sales came back very quickly. GM and Ford got really scared about sales so they cut prices.

Paul Wolfowitz

The more Iraqis feel that they are in charge of their own country, the more rapidly we'll get away from this idea that we're there as an occupation force. We came as liberators. That's our mission.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Drew Richards

Coach has been hard on Sky about his defense, but tonight he came to play. Defense, rebounding, scoring when we needed it, Sky got it done.

Matthew Gipson

Coach gave us two days rest to get our legs back. We came in here crisp and ready to go.

Erika Quigley

Despite what happened in the past, we came in confident. We knew all year that they had to falter one of these games and this was the night.

Norv Turner

Denver is an outstanding football team. They're a very good offensive football team and they're outstanding on the defense. I think they're a complete football team. Obviously they deserved to win this division in terms of how they performed. I felt our guys came in here and fought and competed. We just weren't able to match the things they (Denver) were able to do.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rovenia Brock

The older relatives in your family hold the keys to the information you're looking for, so it's important to be sure you learn as much as you can from them before they're gone. But remember, medical conditions were often a source of shame to older relatives in certain ethnic and racial groups, so it may take some cajoling to get them to open up and share what they see as family secrets.

Bible Bible

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

Rodrigo Rato

oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.

Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Jerry Colangelo

I've spoken with Shawn some time ago and he certainly indicated he wanted to be a part of this thing. He's the kind of individual and player who personifies what you want to represent you.

Sophie McShera

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

Dan Hendricks

The state veterinarian made a note of it and put him on the injured list. It was just a mild little thing and not a problem at all. It won't cost him any time.

John Loyd

It would indicate that it (IT) was an exemplary department. If you look at all of the cost figures, the (Gartner) report shows that we did better than the average, that our costs were lower, that we produced more per person, that it was an operation to emulate, not destroy.

Tony Kanaan

That's how I planned my race. It could have cost me, but I think in the long term that's what helped me win the race.

Charles Bradford

You would think that with their costs going up and prices going up, you wouldn't make much more money or would do a little worse, ... But in reality, there has been a very, very strong correlation: The higher the scrap goes, the more money they make. It just means the market is better overall.

Brian Spears

You spend money to save money. People want to reduce their living costs overall and feel better about the environment.

Todd Rundgren

I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello - he's a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music.

Jim McDonald

The fact is, we are going to get it done sooner and it will cost customers less.

Rick Ford

When it was tied, we didn't do what you have to do to win a game like this. We were impatient and we forced the issue and it cost us the game.

Elif Safak

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Eleanor Roosevelt

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Pattie Boyd

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

Aldo Leopold

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.

Aldo Leopold

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...

Aldo Leopold

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Andrew Young

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

Anthony de Mello

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

David Chang

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Andy Stanley

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

Jim Lowe

In the Wal-Mart parking lot, they had a regular city.

Tony Marino

I just wish people would go with the flow. I mean, a parking meter is like a restaurant table: We have to turn these things over.

Ted Forrest

It's better than parking in the parking lot. This way, you just pull right up to the curb, pick up your people and go.

Loren Smith

People are going to have to find parking on the streets or the municipal lot.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Ramonce Taylor

The way we're planning for Teddy Ginn, I don't think he's going to get away from our defense.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Steve Harris

We're having this process stuffed down our throats. Nothing about this plan is acceptable.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Liaquat Baluch

The results are totally managed, planned and rigged.

Turhan Douglas

We were planning to win. We trained just like we would if we were going to the playoffs.

Rep. Chalk

My whole view is that we can't legitimately look at property tax reform if we don't look at all these things.

Carlos Gutierrez

Theft of intellectual property is not tolerated and will not be tolerated.

Bill Swanson

Each property seems to be independent of the other.

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

John Magnie

We realized we really do better when when we're all together.

Courtney Lewis

We realized that we had to be the leaders.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

Guy Lajeunesse

At one of the mosques, two rocks, about the size of two baseballs, were tossed through a window which was shattered.

Anne Sexton

To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

Robert Anton Wilson

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence....

John Sayles

The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container.

Erma Bombeck

In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

George W. Bush

I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

Jacqueline King

That's a whole other universe of people, and unfortunately we don't know the size of that group.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Charles Kettering

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

LaMarr Woodley

You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.