Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Carlson

I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.

Nicholas Sparks

without music he felt aimless and adrift.

Paul Light

It's a rare moment when you get a housecleaning like this. It could presage a strong turnaround for an agency that's been adrift for years if not decades.

Bill Bailey

There's a wonderful sadness and poignancy about those Finnish films. They have people adrift at the mercy of fate. They're heartwarming. I also find them funny. I suppose that makes me an optimist.

Rick Parry

We've been 30 points adrift of the champions for the last two seasons, and although there are still three games to play, it's clear for everyone we're a lot closer now.

Warren Brown

These stars literally are castaways. They have been thrown out of their home galaxy and set adrift in an ocean of intergalactic space.

Greg Smith

The crew have been transferred to the police launch Fearless and the yacht has been left adrift and the emergency beacon will continue to flash until it's picked up by whoever.

Bat for Lashes

I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.

Colin Firth

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Sarah Mesuch

I'm happy we tied for the league, but I don't think today was the way we wanted to win it. Beacon gave us a run. Let me tell you, they'll be a force in sectionals. They're playing very good basketball.

James Goldston

The key is retaining the essential DNA of the show. Nightline is a beacon for smart, intelligent journalism and must remain so,

Cheryle Jackson

The horrific sacrifice Emmett Till and his mother made is something no family should have to make, no child or parent. But that sacrifice has also served as a beacon to the country for tolerance and acceptance.

David Brown

The best you can say is that the German economy remains in dire straits and under duress and as far as what it means for policy... it's a beacon call to the ECB to cut rates,

Bill Fischer

The Beacon board, employees and management want to cooperate fully and the door is wide open.

Thomas Menino

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

John Cornyn

Throughout his years on the nation's high court, Chief Justice Rehnquist stood as a beacon of judicial restraint and reverence for the Constitution and the institution of the Supreme Court. I believe Judge Roberts will follow the lead of his mentor, and guide our nation's highest court by those same principles and devotion to the rule of law for all,

Bill Twardy

This is the first time we've won the Beacon tournament. There's always a lot of good competition, a great field (16 schools). In 9 of 15 weight classes we placed in the top four. We have kids who can place, we have a lot of depth, and the entire team racks up points. I'm very pleased, this is the best team we've had since 1998, and possibly the best ever.

John Bunting

I was looking at the scoreboard all night, ... You can really get mesmerized by that thing. It goes on and the fireworks continue to go off (after each score). I thought at one point they might run out of fireworks. That's a big number and, basically, I'm numb at this point.

J. Hoover

Kids have a tendency to rest on what they do well and it's human nature to continue to work on the things that you do well. But this summer, I saw him working on the things that he needs to work on to be effective at the next level. I have no doubt that he'll contribute as a freshman. He's highly competitive and he knows what he'll have to do to compete.

Patterson Hood

I write a lot of songs (about the South) and will continue to, but we wanted to do a record that wasn't so specific in the geography. We're from the South, but that's not all we can do.

Tom Davis

Keeping our staff intact enables us to continue to recruit as well as teach.

Charlotte Ronson

Just watching the people on the streets of N.Y. is inspiring; there are so many styles and unique points of view. Fashion is very much inspired by the streets, has always been, and I'm sure it will continue to do so.

Lofa Tatupu

Just that success only comes one way -- that's through hard work. Just continue to try to improve on getting better and it'll happen.

Dave Wannstedt

Joe's a good player for us and Joe will continue to be a good player for us, but we need to threaten people,

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Daniel Chan

Job prospects will continue to improve. Job security has increased and this will lead people to spend more.

Bobby DeBerry

It is going to be a good match. Pueblo has a pretty stout crew this year.

Brendan Gaughan

We've gone through a transition (changing crew chiefs) ... so it has been successful when you take all the factors we had to put in of rebuilding this organization.

Joyce Farrell

We look for them to be a very competitive team, ... Like us, they have a veteran crew with six or seven returning letter-winners. It should be a very exciting match.

Dennis Conner

If you want to talk about luck, we're normally sailing where it's 600 meters (2,000 feet) deep ... The good news is no one was hurt. The crew hardly got wet.

Dan Ronayne

If you look at CREW you see nothing more than a shill for the Democratic Party.

John Quinn

Being from the northeast, I've known Ricky Craven for years and look forward to being his crew chief. This is a great opportunity for me to move into this position with an organization like Roush. The team has so much potential and with 10 races remaining there is plenty of time to win a few races yet this season.

Roy Conli

I remember telling the 'Tangled' crew about grimace moments: how when you watch a movie that you worked on and you think, 'Ah, I wish we could have done that scene better,' or, 'I wish that we'd had the time or the money to fix that particular story problem.'

John Glenn

I know there's a lot of interest in this, ... But I'm here to be a working crew member, training as a working crew member, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.

Troy Aikman

I know Tony was disappointed in himself and Philippe (Lopez, the crew chief) was disappointed in himself. To me, I like that. I walked away saying not bad, a top 25 finish, but the fact that those guys expected more of themselves, that's encouraging.

Mitt Romney

just wouldn't be tenable on more than an emergency basis.

Mark Noll

I think it's an excellent opportunity to help out, ... It's also going to be a learning experience. This is the largest mobilization of emergency personnel we've ever seen.

Tony Butler

We're probably looking at short term, that's from now until January. But there are also emergency loans which start from one month and can be extended to three so they are a possibility as well.

Clifford Galey

We've got to keep our emergency vehicles going.

Les Miller

I think we're in an emergency situation right now,

Jerry Kilgore

I'd be right in the middle of it. You just got to be on the ground immediately, with all your emergency response people.

Jane Farmer

We can do emergency shelter, we have to put them up in hotels, and then we have to take them out of county. We put her in a hotel, and she goes home the next day.

Jim Compton

In the future, the federal government needs to give us guidelines if this is such a national emergency so that I can work that in my plans.

Patrick Collins

I probably have as many meetings about pandemic influenza as I've ever had on anything else in emergency management.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Veronica Roth

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing

Keith Barry

TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended!

Nicole Scherzinger

It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.

Mikhail Bulgakov

the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless

Patrick Rothfuss

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Pope John Paul II

You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!

Peter Travers

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

Larry Johnson

I just heard it and saw a big flash from the building.

Tom Hank

I'll be damned if I can turn this flash off, Howard.

James Rosenquist

I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!

Brian McConnell

I?m not really that flashy of a player, ... But I push hard and play defense." ()

Russ Guffey

We had some moments and we has some flashes. But flashes are not going to get it in a rivalry game.

Drew Neitzel

It's disappointing. We showed flashes and signs this year of what type of team we can be, a top-five team. Other times, we looked bad, just inconsistent. But we got a new season now. We got to forget about this and just try to win some games.

Philip Gonsalves

A lot of the places that would normally get flash flooding are at the higher elevations, and since it's so cold, it's snowing.

Holly Veloso

They're very methodical in their training. He wants to keep them steady so they don't flash out.

Andrew Norwood

It's very clear, NAND flash saved the DRAM industry from a major collapse. 2005 was not a good year for the DRAM industry, but it could have been a lot worse.

John Hanson

All we're launching is a 1/2-ton. We're going to have a 1/2-ton vehicle that will tow more than 10,000 pounds. That will be quite a statement.

R. Ingram

a submarine presence able to launch Tomahawk missiles.

Supachai Panitchpakdi

It is unclear whether a round of international trade talks can be launched in 2001, so it wouldn't be right to set a timetable for launching the round now.

Tommy Lee

It's awesome, dude. You can launch a wiener in there.

Michael Kostelnik

We have scheduled the 15th of May as our targeted launch date,

Mark Rein

Do you when the PS3 launch is? Neither do we. So the question of whether we're a launch title or not is unanswerable because we don't know if the PS3 will be out before we're done or not.

George Peterson

It wouldn't be unexpected that those products wouldn't launch as strongly as otherwise.

Teresa Parker

I've never been on a launch monitor. You have to be prepared.

Chip Ganassi

You're talking about a launch pad for his career,

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

Raymond Duncan

I think it's unfortunate that the thing most people are going to remember is how he left the district. I think it's unfortunate for the district, and I think it's unfortunate for him.

Janet Reno

I went down and tried my best, only to be told via television after I had left that, If you want the boy, you're going to have to take him by force.

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Billy Tubbs

There are several teams that could step up and win it all. Northwestern was picked to win it, and they (the Demons) have been pretty impressive, but some other teams have been impressive, too.

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Mark Valley

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

Nicole Vaidisova

In the second set, I picked it up very fast, just dictating play, so she didn't get any rhythm,

Dwight Gooden

if police had picked you up, we wouldn't be talking right now.

Ruslan Fedotenko

I'm not going to say I picked the corner, was going for top shelf and all that. I'm trying to be honest.

Richard McCann

We suspended the meeting, ... Karen called the police to have him removed from the meeting.

Michael Sata

I have got my very own cadres in uniform (police).

Russell Brand

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

William S. Burroughs

I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.

William S. Burroughs

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Rebekah Brooks

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

Robert Reich

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

W. S. Gilbert

A policeman's lot is not a happy one

Van Jones

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Lindy Ruff

He just doesn't feel right. Until we get him through that, he won't be skating.

Chrissie Fit

I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

Saku Koivu

We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Kathy Bennett

I always wanted to know what was wrong. They could never find anything wrong with her until this.

Stephen Dodd

I am just more focussed. He had got me not to give in, to keep going until the last,

London Fletcher

I really didn't know if I was going to be able to play until right before the game,

Craig Roberts

I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.