Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

William Cavendish

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Barack Obama

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.

F. Sionil Jose

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

Antoine Halff

We have an economy that has shown signs of slowing. With energy prices at extremely high levels -- and now moving above those levels -- this is kind of a double whammy,

Igor Luksic

I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.

Darell Hammond

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

Berkeley Breathed

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Bertrand Russell

The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.

Robert Rodriguez

The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D

Illeana Douglas

The Adventures of Pluto Nash, by the time it came out, it was completely different from what we had signed up for. I don't know what happened.

Rachel Platten

The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.

Ryan Short

The Adventure Club is about good music, regardless if it's local or not. I'd like to think he'd play our songs even if we were from Mexico, so it's nice for him to recognize us.

Maurice Maeterlinck

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Ilham Patu

The patient is a suspected bird flu case. He had a history of contact with live and dead chickens.

Catullus

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

Bill Vaughan

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

Stephen Hegarty

That would include responding to outbreaks of disease. It doesn't specifically refer to bird flu. The purpose of this plan is to provide an outline of how we proceed. In the past, we never really considered these massive events that could knock down a school system.

Peter Dawson

The 18th hole will present a birdie opportunity but as a dog-leg hole with out-of-bounds ever present it will also be a hole for potential disaster.

Tim Griffin

We can't look at just the side-to-side movement, ... but in terms of the combined side-to-side and forward movement, penguins conserved up to 80 percent of the mechanical energy required for walking. This was quite high, because other measurements for humans and other birds have found that they recovered only up to 70 percent of the mechanical energy.

Vijay Kumar

We have undertaken an extensive clean up of the poultry farms now that the birds are gone. We hope to complete this exercise over the next three days.

Cathy Maret

We have a first case of bird flu. It's H5. The virus type has to be confirmed in the (European Union) reference lab.

Cathy Maret

We have a first case of bird flu. It's H5.

Ralph W. Sockman

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

Jon Heacock

That was too many carries this early in the season. He was getting tired in the second half. We've got to be smarter about how we do that this week.

Michael Strahan

We have that every year so it's no big deal. Everybody's a professional, nobody's an idiot. We all know each other. We're all friends. We get on the field and it's competitive and it's the same way in practice. It's part of football. I don't think it carries over into the game, and I don't think anybody's trying to hurt anybody.

Scott Adams

Tyler Phillips will also get more carries this week. He has made some big chunks of yards this season when given the chance.

Plato

Time carries off all things; wouldst thou exchange - Name, looks, nature, luck? Just give time full range

Phil Hardberger

We're not as strong in the media market as we could be because San Antonio sits off by itself, it's not in the middle of a metropolitan area. I know (with) the National League, that carries a lot of water.

Lauren Enns

Most of the items come from toy dealers. One of those dealers is from Atchison. He carries everything and gives me really good prices as well.

Joe Seroogy

I think Jim left us the gathering spot, the heart of the community. And I think his family carries on that tradition in a manner that makes him proud.

Hugh Johnson

I think everybody knew this before, but this kind of takes it from the back page and moves it to the front page, ... He certainly carries a lot of weight in the market.

Bill Vaughan

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

Bill Vaughan

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Kevin Renbarger

We have had great teams and individuals play at Oak Hill. These kids get to go down in history with those guys as a part of Eagle basketball. They got to do it with a win at home on senior night.

William Shakespeare

But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

Sean Payton

I worked with Joe at the Eagles and the one thing you can say is that his players always excel.

Dusty Rhodes

He said, 'I'm flying off like an eagle off the top rope. I'm going to fly like a bird. I'm flying like an eagle, Terry ... and when you go down, 1-2-3, they're going to shower me with flowers.

Jeff Landy

He needed a place to practice so someone from those two families told him to come to Mt. Pleasant. They showered at the armory on Eagle Street and stayed at the National Hotel on Main Street.

I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary.

Chip Kelly

I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.

Joe Hopkins

The pilots were normally willing to fly those trips.

Jim Brooks

The pilots that were flying with him saw him eject.

Kenji Johjima

That was the one situation we didn't want to see. I went to the mound because Jarrod was flying open and his pitches were sailing.

Paul Gallagher

I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it.

John Young

We've learned a great deal. And that's why you fly a test flight, so you can learn.

Keith Bulluck

Michael Vick, I'd rather watch him. Getting the 'Michael Vick Experience' in the preseason, the second preseason game, that wouldn't be high on my wish list. But we're going to get out there, fly around, have a good time and make some plays on defense.

Dutch Proverb

It is better to hold one swallow in your hand, then ten flying in the air.

James Roberts

I'm so excited, ... I was flying before I ever got on that plane.

Kyle Williams

We need something normal. Helicopters flying over the stadium is not normal.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Kurt Barnard

The 5.7 percent projection is not too much out of line, but it is at the higher end of projections,

Richard Doherty

That was higher than we thought they might have gone.

Chris Grisanti

That will surprise the Street and lead to a higher stock price.

Tisha Hill

We need to knock down some shots. We need to take smarter and higher percentage shots.

Eric Graaf

Today's surprise is not enough to warrant a substantially higher valuation.

Bill Carter

You'll look like you have lead weights strapped to your feet, ... The higher the heel, the more shape you're going to get to your calf.

Saddam Hussein

Will the performance of one who has sat an examination and passed it be higher and better, or lower and lesser?

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Kyle Kannenberg

I was trying to get up and soar like Mike. But I'm not too tall, so it didn't work well.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas,

Joe McCormick

We have to make sure that one or two storms are not going to wipe out the company." ()

Paul Moreno

Winter storms such as this are not unheard of but this one was severe.

Gina Morioka

I wouldn't have thought that at all, seriously, because you would think storm water and sewage water -- that's two different things.

Vicente Fox

Fortunately, the storm has passed, and now we can get to work,

Charlotte Bronte

I soon forgot storm in music.

Charles Caleb Colton

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Bill Johnson

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

Athenaeus

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Carrie Underwood

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Bethenny Frankel

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Ron Zarrella

We could even wind up No. 2 in July.

William Shakespeare

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

William Shakespeare

Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge

E. F. Schumacher

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

E. F. Schumacher

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

Dogen

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

Arsenio Hall

If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.

Caitlin Kittredge

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

Carlos Santana

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Aaron Sorkin

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

Chris Carmack

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

China Mieville

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!