Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck D.

A downtown is the center of a community, the pulse, ... When it dies, your town dies. I want my kids to experience something different from Wal-Mart and strip malls.

Stacy Stewart

So, until the 2006 season begins, unless Zeta somehow makes an unlikely miracle comeback, this is the National Hurricane Center signing off for 2005. Finally.

Tim Griffin

So when the penguin takes a step, its center of mass is low, so when he stops coming up over his leg, the mass moves to the side, ... And it's high now, and as it starts rocking backward, it starts falling to the side, it's also falling forward.

John Shannon

Right now, the weather is somewhat questionable at the Kennedy Space Center all three days.

W. H. Murray

Sam was a one-person chamber of commerce, a visitor's center and a cheerleading squad all wrapped into one.

Bob Carpenter

The school is no longer the center of social life. Kids are either working to help their families or hanging on the street corner.

Ronald Miller

The same things that work at St. Clair High School won't work somewhere else. (International Center President Willard Daggett) is not coming and selling a template that every school should be using.

Phil Condit

The role of the new, leaner corporate center will be to seek new growth opportunities around the globe.

Ben Braun

I've seen Jones go from center to forward to guard.

Kirk Douglas

Because I love you, I will be checking up on you, ... You have honored me and I thank all of you.

Cliff Floyd

I don't have to do anything. Nothing. Just follow up with her and watch what I eat and drink a lot of water. There are little things you have going on that you have to monitor. I'm just happy we can move on and that we were able to get a hold of this, as far as checking myself. I'm relieved.

Judy White

If the rain keeps up like this, we might have some more people checking in.

Brendan Witt

The more time and space he has, the more he can make plays. You have to take that away from him, try to shut him down. But he's really good. It's also going to take a whole checking line and four or five guys doing their jobs.

Bill White

It seems to me he should have been doing it the last three years. Now is a little late to start checking on his evidence.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period.

Simon Helberg

We're going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, 'We should do it at home,' and I said, 'Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital... so if you want to come along, come along.

John Burnside

There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.

David Price

And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.

Raymond Remy

What this means is housing is not falling off a cliff like everyone says, it's doing fine, and what this means is the market should listen to what Federal Reserve officials are saying and that is the market is doing fine.

Seth Godin

Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

Joe Falconer

Basically, we all love Colorado. It's all about camaraderie and telling a lie about how big a cliff you jumped off of.

David Henderson

Like people who have swerved over a cliff on a dangerous road, we feel obligated to petition for a hazard sign to protect others.

Greg Gorbatenko

Wireless companies spent a boatload of money to prevent churn from happening and pricing per minute dropped significantly, ... Prices fell off a cliff and haven't regained.

Terry Venables

I had mixed feelings - like watching my mother in law drive over a cliff in your car.

Mark Vaile

The negotiations are really now on the edge of a cliff and it will take a concerted effort to get the round back on track,

Sara Barker

We'll sit in a canoe, quietly, and we'll watch that hole until just after dark. Hoping, hoping that just maybe it's the ivory bill.

Pat Hurst

I saw after nine holes (Creamer) was 6 up. She's our rookie, and she was unbelievable.

Tuesday Weld

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

Carlton Fisk

I'm a six-handicap but those two holes scare me every time,

O. Singh

I'm just not playing well enough to win on Sunday. There are too many mistakes. I play two or three holes that really put me down. That's what's been happening.

Seve Ballesteros

I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I hole it.

O. Singh

The first hole played downwind. No. 4 played downwind . . . and 11 played downwind.

Stuart Appleby

You can't run away from the pack if you aren't running away from it. Running away would be six shots up with six holes to play. That would be pretty much a run away. There is a lot of golf, 25% of the tournament still left out there.

M. Wolfe

They've left this hole open for so long that there's an increasingly legitimate market for these pirate products,

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Sharon Anderson

Did they ever look at why the hours weren't used?

Gregory Olsen

We did antigravity training in weightless chambers, tested for space suit leaks. We spent nearly six hours a day at a time inside the shuttle, training.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Ted Dever

The union was notified of the company's intent to relocate 130,000 hours of machining work to Singapore.

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Tana French

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

Ronald Reagan

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Kendall Jenner

I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

Kenneth Blackwell

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Cardinal Richelieu

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Charles Churchill

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

Dennis Prager

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

Dennis Prager

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

Edmund Spenser

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought

Alexander Pope

And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

Dylan Thomas

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Douglas Adams

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

Duke Ellington

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

Dolly Parton

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.