Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert White

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

Takumi Tsunoda

The output figure was below expectations, but it doesn't change our view that the underlying expansionary trend continues.

Brian Kernighan

Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.

Dennis Christopher

I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

Rep. Joyner

We need to increase the salaries of our teachers because we're $6,000 below the national average. And that just will not cut it.

John Spinello

Today the flows have changed. We did see some selling this morning of the back end of the Treasury market and perhaps that's just a little disappointment that the stock market didn't go further below 10,000.

Charles Baudelaire

To lepers and to outcasts thou dost show - that passion is the paradise below

Deanna Anderson

We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there.

Kris McKoin

We've looked at some studies from out West, and typically schools that fall below 100 students don't stay open.

Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Bertrand Russell

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Jeremy Sweet

We were stationed in Pascagoula, Miss., which is about as far southeast as you can go. It was hot, hot, hot - nearly 100 degrees - and very humid every day.

Christopher Hill

The problem is you talk to one side and get one view and you talk to the other side and you get a view 180 degrees to the opposite.

Jeff Francoeur

If it weren't for Phillip Wellman I wouldn't be here right now. He's the one who got me going, taught me about patience at the plate and who showed me how to work. You'd go out there some afternoons in Pearl and it would seem like 180 degrees in that cage, but that's what it takes.

Ted Leland

I can't imagine taking another job in sports, ... I have no interest in professional athletics. Pacific happens to be a place I have two degrees from and I think I can help.

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Gilbert White

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

Gilbert White

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

Gilbert White

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

Gilbert White

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Gilbert White

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

William Kirby

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

William Kirby

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

George Porter

We are rewarded for work the very essence of which is that we were so impatient that we spent only a millionth of a second over an experiment.

Frederick Sanger

From 1944 to 1951 I held a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research, and since 1951 I have been on the staff of the Medical Research Council.

John Pomfret

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.

Ed Generali

Fourteen years is a long time to wait for a payback.

Bill Brady

Fourteen months ago, I was zero in the polls. We think we're neck and neck with Judy right now.

Koichiro Matsuura

Fourteen member states have already started putting things in place, ... They have shown their readiness.

Edward P. Jones

I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.

Otto Preminger

Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

Julian Casablancas

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

Sandra Boynton

Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.

Gore Vidal

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

Bob Stalker

We've had just about everything -- snow, sleet, freezing rain, even a thunderstorm.

Richard Ford

We can't get them all in the church. There were hundreds of people waiting outside. They come. They come from Lord knows where, rain or shine, freezing or warm.

Bill Cox

I'm sitting here in my office and it's freezing and we've got the heat on full blast.

Greg Morgan

I would be really surprised to see any type of freezing weather.

Vera Wang

I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

Randy Lascody

So if it doesn't quite get to freezing on Saturday, it will sure feel like it, even while wearing a jacket.

Lesley Nicol

When I heard I had gotten 'Downton Abbey,' I remember I was standing on a freezing cold street in Manchester where we were shooting the Manchester part of 'West is West.'

Julie Holcombe

It's unusual to see freezing weather in March.

Mark Mathias

There is potential for squeezes and prices to go up. But people won't be left freezing and unable to heat their homes.

Charlaine Harris

He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

Rich Zurek

Now with the new images, we're able to watch when the frost comes and goes and we can see that dunes are moving today and aren't just relics from times past.

Tim Krause

We shouldn't have a lot of frost in the ground so it may be a short period of time, may be only three weeks.

Paul Simon

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

James Dickey

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

Tom Rathbun

The supervisors and FROST requested a meeting with us when we neared the end of the process.

Douglas Hamilton

A good frost is one of the things that really kicks it off,

Louisa May Alcott

Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.

Loren Eiseley

In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.

Art Russell

The PC stocks should do well in the second half of this year.

Anirvan Banerji

The outlook for the second half is shakier -- but we do not see any sign of recession here.

David Remnick

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Bill Budge

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

Danielle Chaisson

The 3s at the start of the second half put us in a big hole. We made some sloppy passes and they capitalized.

Matt Gibson

That was the key to the whole game. We had a six-point lead in the first half and a four-point lead in the second half. (The Knights) got their leads because they rebound.

Mark Cuban

That was the worst half of officiating I've ever seen. That was terrible, and I want it on the record I said that at halftime, no matter what the outcome.

Chip Taylor

That was the thing we talked about early, was taking that away. In the second half I thought we did a better job, but it was too late.

Mark Belenski

That woke us up. We did not play well in the first half of the Hoban game.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.