Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Sensenbrenner

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

Becky Ault

We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.

Randy Miller

Any flooding is an issue, ... We?re just thankful we were able to recover from the flooding we?ve had.

Ron Shindoll

Normally, we wouldn't have problems with street flooding until we get 1½ to 2 inches of rain.

Bob Riley

The primary threat posed by Hurricane Katrina is going to be flooding from storm surge, so those being evacuated just need to make sure they reach higher ground.

Joe Thomas

Flooding is the big killer when it comes to hurricanes.

Don Gibson

Flooding is addressed in permits, water quality is addressed in permits, stability... just some of the things I've heard here tonight.

Zhu Rongji

even more severe flooding than that in 1998.

Tom Warner

We want to give people a heads up. The potential is there for heavy flooding rains.

Jamie Smith

We predict the heaviest rain on south-facing slopes.

American Society

We had the heaviest traffic we've ever witnessed on the trade show floors.

Bob Beauprez

The heaviest of stones has been lifted from atop the Iraqi people. An epic, murderous tyrant no longer threatens his own people, nor the world.

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Doug Gay

We are looking into it. There was something that did transpire out there.

Dave Rose

We are looking into installing them because of a rise in vandalism and graffiti at the schools during off hours.

Charles Dickens

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

Charles Caleb Colton

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Charles Dickens

But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.

Charles Dickens

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.

Charles Dickens

The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.

Charles Dickens

The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.

Alan Watts

The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

Alan Moore

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

Al Hirschfeld

You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

J. K. Rowling

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Thomas Friedman

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Spencer Johnson

Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.

Spencer Johnson

It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

John Wooden

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Chris Hughes

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

Garth Stein

Yet for every peak there is a valley.