Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Perlis

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Alice Munro

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Horace

Hatched in the same nest.

George W. Bush

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

Jack Hanna

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

Lee Kuan Yew

The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests.

Quentin Tarantino

Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions.

John Heywood

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

Ronald Reagan

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

Warren Christopher

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

Kelly Kaylor

We have boats for every budget here, everything from a kayak or canoe to a $1.6 million yacht.

Greg Rigamer

My boat got picked up and dropped on the other side of the wall. You should have seen it right afterward. Honestly, it was in a monstrous pile over there.

Marc Broussard

My brother called me yesterday to say he had to pick up our boat and go fish my cousin out of his house. I was just shedding more tears than I've shed in a long time.

Jim Worthing

Who knows. I heard yesterday that the shrimp boats are getting them. I don't know if it's true, but I used to hear that years ago, too.

Gary Sherman

Wildlife, septic systems, agriculture, boats and road run-off all contributed to the problem. The town has worked to try to get these things corrected.

Chris Neil

When the boat capsized, it had slowed. It was wallowing. It took on water.

Gil Brandt

You can have the talent at one level, but when you get to the next level, it just doesn't happen. It's like the young guy selling insurance. One year, he sells $6 million of life insurance, and then his bosses say, 'Wait until he really learns how to sell.' But then he's got a boat and a country-club membership, and all of a sudden, he's not as good. That's what happens with players.

Houssaye Houssaye

Whoever embarks with a woman embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats

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.

Chuck D.

maybe humans are just the pet alligators that Gd flushed down the toilet

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.

Bill Burns

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

Jack Hannah

The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

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.

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.

Richard Garnett

Even if the president wasn't up to it in alligators and his approval rating was 90 percent, John Roberts simply is the best guy for the chief justice's job. I think the thought of having John Roberts join him on the court kept the chief going despite his cancer. I think he's probably smiling about it now.

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.