Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

...I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp. (February 10, 1982)

Gene Kranz

In 1960, ... the Cape looked like an oil field, with towering structures, dirt, and asphalt roads newly carved out of the palmetto scrub. The alligators were reluctantly surrendering to the onslaught of newly arrived civilization. If you didn't have a good sense of direction, you were in trouble.

Jimmy Williams

This has been on everybody's mind. From where did they leave their car parked because it's probably going to be underwater because of the flood to alligators in your house.

Bill Burns

The best line of defense for humans and alligators is to just let the alligator have distance,

Chester Moore

There are definitely a lot of gators here, ... The more freshwater a marsh has, then the more alligators you will find there because food will be more abundant.

Joy Hill

We were moving toward making it more of a recreational opportunity than a commercial one. Now there really aren't any shortages of alligators -- we're well past the endangered species time, so we're ready to expand.

Dwayne Johnson

I carried her out on my back in the flood. There were people screaming, crying. I saw alligators eating dead bodies. When we tried to get on a bus, they put all the tourists on first and pushed the locals out of the way like we were dirt.

James Swanson

We saw dead alligators. We saw four of them, belly up. If the alligators can't survive in their own waters, you know it was bad.

Ron Williams

Just within the few seconds we had arrived and carried Taylor to the car, he had deteriorated rapidly. By the time we had arrived at the hospital, Taylor had completely lost his vision and was choking and unable to breathe on his own. I was pounding on his chest to help keep him breathing.

Robert Parker

Joan and I separated in 1982 and reunited in 1984, at which time we had arrived at the conclusion that it probably wasn't a good idea for us to share the same living space twenty-four hours a day.

Johnny Depp

Grilling Tim on the set was how I prepared for the part of Victor, ... I feel lucky that these parts arrived in front of me.

Christine Sinclair

I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

J. Taylor

I don't blame them for organizing. If I was a newly arrived immigrant in this country, because we are all at one point or another immigrants, I would be upset with the rhetoric being thrown around in response to their hard work and efforts in this country.

Silvio Berlusconi

He is already in Italy. I think he arrived overnight.

Bob Capener

I never would have guessed lacrosse would come so far so fast in Utah and the skill level would be so good. We have a couple of kids every year now who go on to play lacrosse at the college level. Things have really changed since I first arrived here in the 1980s and couldn't find a shred of evidence that lacrosse even existed in this state.

Helen Fielding

I recently bought a house in L.A., and I was so pleased with myself. I thought I had arrived and I was going to be glamorous and live in Hollywood and it was going to be marvelous. Cut to six weeks later. The first time it rained the ceiling collapsed,

Caron Butler

I'm just happy because this is such a great situation for me and my family, ... I know a good fit when I see one and from the time I arrived here in Washington, the organization has made me and my family feel so welcome. I'm excited about knowing that my future will be with this team.

Gary Jobson

The conditions encountered so far have been rather reasonable. Past history tells us the Cape Horn leg is the toughest because it takes the fleet the furthest into the southern ocean.

Mink Stole

Still on the lookout for experience, in the summer of '67 I hitched a ride to Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod, with a friend with a stolen Mustang.

Cindy Russell

Cynthia's violin is beautiful. Her father is a trustee on the Cape Symphony Orchestra board, so we know her work very well and it's beautiful.

Jim Lee

Superman is the hardest character to draw. There are a couple of things that make him difficult. He's got a very simple costume and doesn't have the long cape like Batman. He's not a character that is necessarily always in shadow, and he doesn't have a mask.

Chris Miller

It's time for RFK Jr. to lead the Cape and islands towards a clean energy revolution. It's about a vision for healthy oceans, not the view from the Kennedy compound.

Halle Berry

I've worn this cape for two movies now and I never flew.

Michael Gross

So far it's only a handful of people, maybe half a dozen, who we're dealing with now and they're exclusively from the Cape region,

John F. Kennedy

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

Heidi Dallin

The last time we did this concert (in Cape Ann) was for an outreach program, but we never did a public performance. The fact that we're doing it for the public this time is really exciting.

Sally Drucker

He carved so many of them that the house used to look like a Cracker Barrel.

Bruce DiVaccaro

I gave it a try, but I didn't do very well. Most people don't on their first one. I carved a mallard; at least, it was supposed to be a mallard.

Bruce DiVaccaro

I never thought I had my own style before, until I carved that bird.

Arab Proverb

Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone

Bill Cowher

These guys were so resilient. We're proud to be the team of the '70s, but we've carved our own little niche with this group right here.

Sam Hodder

This is land that, left to its own devices, would very likely be carved up into development lots.

Jaclyn Smith

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

Rufus Sewell

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

Jeff Melvoin

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Walter Robb

I would say it was about a month ago and I had an offer in my pocket and I was ready to sell. If I had not been able to find a good parent team, I would have sold. Then we had a meeting with Carolina.

Mike Robinson

Jose looked like he was in state placer form. He's wrestling really well.

James Bond

He just stayed there . . . no one looked at him to see if he was okay.

Elian Gonzalez

He just looked so relaxed and so calm, it's just something I ... have been thinking about since that day.

Jennifer Byrd

He just looked like he was sleeping, honestly.

Danny Aiello

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

Wayne Allen

Have we ever looked at something like that?

Jim Murphy

He's a special kid. He's someone to be looked at down the road.

Mike Price

He's just running around a little bit. He looked good, though.

Jeff Mittie

I thought for our first practice we looked solid,

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Van Jones

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

Rodney Dangerfield

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .

Pamela White

The high-oleic oils are not very well received by the consumer.

Lamar S. Smith

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

Rudi Giuliani

It may look like the worst is over, and in many ways it is, but the roads will be very slippery and very dangerous, particularly during the night,

Kevin Smith

the wind is polishing the roads to glaze in about 20 minutes.

Steve Davies

I wouldn't want to be out on the rural roads tonight up there.

Wanda Hartman

I didn't schedule any new roads for paving. There's nothing scheduled for maintenance sealing either. They all need it. Where do you start?

Don Allen

I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. Highway) 124 had not occurred.

Jan Egeland

We need helicopters because the roads are gone,