Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Bill Bryson

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Bill Bryson

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Beth Simone Noveck

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Bill Vaughan

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

Cody Irwin

That was the first time I've ever done distance running. Running 3.1 miles has massively helped with endurance.

Dave Sellon

That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range. He had a great day.

Ivan Seidenberg

We have an expanding position in the growth markets of the future ? wireless, data, broadband, long distance ? and we're executing extremely well in these areas,

Raymond Bonner

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

Tim Jones

The only reason they got three points was because of penalties, and we have to eliminate those.

Bobby Rush

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

Nathan Myhrvold

Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

Jim Oberweis

We will reduce or eliminate entirely those programs that are unnecessary and uneconomical.

Jim Hightower

Like us, Carencro is playing a lot of sophomores. They have great tradition and they're very talented. We'll have to eliminate our mistakes so we can give them a good game.

Susie Wiles

It doesn't eliminate access. What it eliminates is some level of convenience.

Jason Kidd

It doesn't matter if it's Game 1, Game 2, Game 3 or a Game 7, they're all important. We'll have to try to eliminate our mistakes and get ready for Game 4.

Jonathan Vilma

We couldn't find a way to eliminate the running game.

Ben Gordon

We have to step our games up; we have to find a way to win. We just have to find ways to play well and eliminate our mistakes.

Larry Harris

If anything with T.J. took him a while, we would not hesitate to use Mo as the starter.

Jim McLaughlin

He kicks very well. If the opportunity comes up, I would not hesitate to have him kick from 40 yards.

Dan Buron

Kevin got some playing time last week and did a nice job. Today, we didn't hesitate one moment to put him in when Jason had to come out. He responded the way we hoped he would. In other years, when our top rusher went down, we'd be in trouble. Today, we didn't miss a beat.

John Grisham

The Deep South has the friendliest people in the world. They will do anything for you. They also want to know what's going on and won't hesitate to ask questions.

Ibrahim Jaafari

If we find any truth in these claims, we will not hesitate to take up the matter with Iranian authorities,

Gordon Brown

If we did not get the result that we wanted, we would not hesitate to use our veto.

Bob Taft

If we hesitate to spend money, we will lose time, and we do not have time to lose.

Marty Turco

That's an instinct play that I won't ever hesitate to make.

John Dugan

We will be watching, and watching closely, and we will not hesitate to act,

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.