Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.

Mother Jones

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Correll Buckhalter

We just didn't execute, man. That's what it boils down to. It's difficult. It hurts, man. After we overcame a situation like Green Bay ... it hurts. There's no other way to describe it.

Merv Adams

We were going to start south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and go see every lighthouse on the Northern California and Oregon coast. That was our (goal). My wife has always been kind of a lighthouse nut.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Don't eat shrimp - it's one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that's caught, 10 or 20 pounds of other stuff is killed and dumped back overboard. It's the number one killer of juvenile sea turtles in Mexico. Two good sustainable seafood guides that I'd recommend are from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute.

Ronald Reagan

My belief has always been . . . that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government -- at point of bayonet if necessary -- to restore that individual's constitutional rights.

Jerry Parker

Most of the beachfront lots are taken up, and some have bought property on the bay side.

Drew Rosenhaus

Mike had been looking for a new contract and really had endured a lot of unfair criticism for holding out in Green Bay and a lot of people questioned his decision. He got the last laugh. In effect, he got traded and he got the new contact that he wanted. For those people that were knocking and ridiculing him for holding out and questioning his logic, he landed with the team that he was real excited about playing for and he landed a contract that he felt comfortable with and pays him like the elite corners in the league.

Mike Shanahan

It didn't seem to bother Steve Young when he went from Tampa Bay to San Francisco. The next place Steve goes will be Canton.

Richard J. Codey

We are keeping New Jersey one step, several steps, ahead of terrorism.

Kelley Heck

We're really pleased with the response and proud that New Jersey residents take so much pride in their state.

Lloyd Carr

Whoever wears that jersey has some big shoes to fill. And we're out there now trying to find him.

De'Shawn Singleton

I was scared at one point. There was one point where I was thinking about not even playing any more because if I go to Jersey City, I'm going to have to get a job.

Jon Corzine

I have a very optimistic view of where New Jersey can go, ... My opponent has presented a more negative view than is necessary.

Marty Turco

It always baffles me why they do these things. I've never made a save with my jersey before, but as long as we don't look too silly, it doesn't really matter to us.

Karl Rove

From a lot of places in New Jersey you could see the towers,

Chris Christie

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

Danny Granger

We still think (the series) is there to be won. We got one in Jersey earlier. We're still pretty confident.

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Zhang Xin

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

Lalah Hathaway

I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground,

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Mark Twain

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

Russell Johnson

We really feel we landed the right one.

Marquand Manuel

When Peter landed I was the first person he called. I've been on that side of the new Marvin regime so I understood everything he was going through. I just told him to let bygones be bygones. They're moving forward, so you have to move forward.

John Carver

Twenty years ago, I didn't have a passion to do lighting. I started on stage, worked my way around and landed in lighting.

David Eagleman

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Steve Burns

That was important because it set a legal precedent.

Pete Rose

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

Bryan Whitman

You can do something perfectly legal, but that is inconsistent with the policy or procedures of the department. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Bryan Whitman

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Sandy Close

We haven't been listening to legal immigrants. We've been taking their name in vain.

Ambrose Bierce

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will use all legal and constitutional means to retake power,

Laura Nichols

I think if the vice president thought he had other legal options open to him, we'd defer to his judgment.

Neil Cavuto

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!

Tom Ford

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Brian Anderson

He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Billy Bob Thornton

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

Kendra Wilkinson

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Terry Coleman

You all reported everything. All you got to do is look in the archives. I feel you all were probably too tough on me.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Upma Chawdhry

It has been indicated that this was reported late.

Carol Reed

That's ridiculous. We reported every contribution and every expenditure for the period.

Dante Pistone

Nothing was reported to us. It would be the trucking company's responsibility to do so.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

Carl Paladino

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

Barry Ritholtz

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

Pete Domenici

If we can find the offsets we'll go down to zero across-the- board,

David Allen

If you’re at zero backlog, it’s a whole lot easier to change priorities.

David Shuster

I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

David Miliband

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

David Korten

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

David Cross

I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids.

Dave Barry

Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT.