Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Peterson

I've never had a bug problem before the pine beetle problem on my trees.

Jeremy Robinson

When I was ten years old, I saw a big, fat beetle get squished. I don't recall the circumstances, but that's not important. It's the result that stuck with me. The beetle's thick, viscous insides so closely resembled a crushed blueberry that, to this day, I can't eat raw blueberries without feeling nauseous.

Bob Simpson

The premier struck his MLA committee on the pine beetle in the fall of 2001, and that committee deemed the infestation a catastrophic event that demanded immediate attention. Here we are in the fall of 2005 and the Campbell Liberals are just beginning to implement a plan.

Mort Walker

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

Rick Newton

It's not going to end the mountain pine beetle epidemic by any means.

Ferdinand Piech

The new Beetle cannot deny its origin and the magic of its shape, ... We believe the new Beetle is not just another car.

Jeff Berino

Summit County had a wildfire problem before the beetle, we certainly have a significant problem with the beetle right now and we're going to have one after the beetle disappears.

Lapo Elkann

The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.

John B. S. Haldane

God has an inordinate fondness for beetles.

Jamie Sandison

The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.

Jeff Green

We're monitoring the situation closely and staying in touch with our suppliers.

Jim Hall

We're going to run approximately 10 flight tests, ... A couple of those will try to replicate as closely as possible TWA 800.

Angus Campbell

We'll be focusing very closely on earnings today. There is concern that companies are not pulling out the earnings expected, so the real test for shares will come from company releases this week.

Randy DeHoff

We're hopeful and excited, and we'll work closely with them to make sure it will work.

Jiao Yang

Through an extensive collection of views from residents, we selected 10 projects that are closely related to their lives.

John Barrett

We let them get belligerent and antagonistic. ... As closely as we can, we try to replicate what a real meeting is like.

Thomas Jensen

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Mike Hayes

It's just indicative of how closely people are watching.

Frank Haith

We knew we were getting crushed on the boards. They overwhelmed us on the glass. He took ownership of that.

Daryl Dickey

They know just because one guy is starting now, that doesn't mean the other is not going to have his opportunity later. Starting is going to be a very big thing for somebody and it's going to be a great opportunity. We don't want the other person to be crushed because he's not.

Sonny Jackson

They met two men who were paid $50 for the vehicle. It had no hood and it had been stripped. They took it to the crusher and it was crushed on Dec. 28.

Harvey Staver

They probably deserved to win that game more than us. We should've crushed their pitching, but we didn't. I think we just played to their level.

Marcelo Balboa

As a player I was always labeled as Rambo or the guy who crushed people at the back, ... You never really knew how the media thought of you. The fact that they voted me in on the first time, it's a real honor.

Wade Mackey

Offensively the first game we just crushed the ball.

Mark Ross

the ones that I saw had their heads crushed in and deep slashes.

Bruce Bochy

Sometimes it's better off not executing, I guess. Johnson, I mean, he crushed that ball. That's huge at that point. It gave us a comfortable lead, because we were trying to let them back in.

Mark Ross

The women that we'd been told would be escorted back had been killed on the spot, ... It looks like one was raped prior to being killed. The ones that I saw had their heads crushed in and deep slashes.

Maxim Gorky

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

O.J. Mayo

That could be right. (Kansas State) could be a possibility. At the same time, we don't want to go to a raw program.

George Ferguson

The approach, in fairness, should be to re-negotiate the contract, so that we don't end up with raw sewage from Sumas in the Sumas River again,

P. D. James

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

Benjamin Graham

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Jonas Jennings

He reminded me of myself in college; just raw, raw talent,

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach. He's a raw talent.

Fred Goss

We're not trying to be blue. But we're pretty frank, we're pretty raw and we're pretty real.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.

Bill Rodgers

Don't worry, every one slows over time and I recall running slower at 43 than at 40.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Don McLean

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

Ambrose Bierce

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

Anna Akhmatova

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

Thomas Bauer

I don't recall him saying those words, no.

Mike Wagers

I don't recall any hush-hush, whisper-whisper going on.

Gene Taylor

I was there ? and I didn't recall seeing you there,

Jerry Jones

I can recall this chattering sound of her teeth.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Bob Riley

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Bill Gates

I am results-oriented.

Wu Dawei

This is the most important result since the six-party talks started more than two years ago.

David McDonald

The result didn't really have any big surprise.

Mirek Porosa

It was a total domination. We outplayed them with every volleyball skill and the results speak for themselves.

Clint Hurdle

As a player, I was a quick-fix type guy, ... I wanted it now. The society we live in wants everything now. We're results-oriented. Well, I've come to understand that results are just that. And sometimes they come in their own time.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Aaron Boone

Yeah, I think I knew. I saw the sign and the announcers.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Benjamin Franklin

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Belle Boyd

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

Barbra Streisand

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Spalding Gray

To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

Petra Haden

I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"

Sherry Argov

When a woman acts as though she’s capable of everything, she gets stuck doing everything.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Don Blalock

I said 'who is he?' I was stuck thereafter.

LaSheena Brown

That was something new. They were able to get that lob in, but we stuck it out.

Herb Caen

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

Hugh Hopper

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

Denis Norden

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Brandon Schnittker

We're not going to win the Big Ten championship the way we're playing.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Charles Coody

They told me in the tent there I'd probably get Most Improved.

Hugh Johnson

They tend to be like sheep. They are followers. It's called piling on in football, and I think it's the equivalent. It's unprecedented.

John MacArthur

There was a tense atmosphere, ... When the end came, it was very abrupt.