Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.

Isabella Bird

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

Isabella Bird

The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.

Giles Foden

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

Yani Tseng

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

Clay Shirky

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

John Remington

The pilots would argue they're free to strike, and the airline would argue they legally couldn't. It's unclear. But the pilots are satisfied they could legally strike. And if they can't, they may do it anyway.

Niki Lauda

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

Xun Zi

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Ruth Luban

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,

Chris Oynes

The overall damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas development in this history of the Gulf of Mexico.

John C. Calhoun

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to continue, that it will speedily be too late, if not to save ourselves, to save the Union.

John C. Calhoun

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

Richard Lamm

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.

Deborah White

The approaching hurricane season reminds us of the utter devastation that Hurricane Ivan caused when it hit the Louisiana coast last year.

Yuri Urbanovich

The antiterrorist operation was poorly coordinated, and the question remains open whether many of the deaths were caused by Russian forces' use of indiscriminate weapons such as tank cannons and flame-throwers.

Nancy Anderson

That was incredibly misleading to our consumers, and it caused them to be alarmed about things they shouldn't be alarmed about.

Gerard Burg

The path of Rita really spared most of the damage to refineries that was the concern. There's still a lot of pressure on the market, particularly due to tight capacity.

Bradley A. Blakeman

We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.

Andre Agassi

The alternative is me not being at my best, me being out there in the situation where I can do more damage to myself and not be part of more tournaments, ... I'm trying to negotiate a career, how I'm going to go about my profession. Making the wrong decision is going to have big ramifications for me at this stage.

Charles Gibson

The American people have seen so much damage they are saturated. There may not have been much incentive for people to get down to these little towns. But for the people down here who are totally devastated, they feel left out and ignored, as if their story hasn't been told.

Charles Gibson

The American people have seen so much damage they are saturated.

Richard Moore

We could not be more relieved this morning. It seems, for whatever reason, the winds did not do as much damage as expected.

Erik Skabelund

We'll periodically be going to sneak out and fix things, but rehab is probably going to be minimal. It'll be years before we get the damage from this winter fixed.

Hisashi Hieda

We will seek compensatory damages at any cost.

George Burgess

We're very, very fortunate to have been spared as much as we were. While there has been flooding, it's isolated, and the damage is very minimal.

Jerry Costello

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

Bill Gates

Microsoft, as we have been throughout the case, is very open to the idea of settlement. We don't think extensive litigation and the resources that involves are really good for anyone. We will see if that's a possibility,

RC Buford

I think (the summer) has been protracted, but I don't think it's been all that much different from other summers that have had extensive player movement.

Dave Howard

John Rocker is requiring extensive police presence in the ballpark.

Rachel Scott

We do have very extensive surveillance capabilities at the plant.

Paul Powers

Because of the extensive damage, there are many isolated outages that take more time to restore.

Rubin Carter

I have mandated to our staff to get out and meet coaches. They need to see our logo. They need to know that we are out doing extensive evaluations on their players academically and athletically. FAMU will be visible.

Ed Pinckney

He wasn't winded at all. He looked really good. Definitely, NBA shape is different, but he had extensive weight room work. He's always working out. He's going to be 50 years old and not gain an ounce of fat. He's a freak.

Kristanna Loken

I did extensive training and through that worked with a nutritionist, so I put on about 15 pounds of muscle mass.

Tony Stewart

We brushed the wall, and that shoved the fender in.

Woody Allen

Some guy hit my fender and I said "be fruitful and multiply" but not in those words

Johnny Rivers

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

Jim Collins

It (the collision) was a solid impact to them on the fender on the passenger side of the car.

Imelda May

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Dave Davis

That was the introduction. I'd never heard of Matt, and I'm sure he'd never heard of us.

Dwyane Wade

That was the first time I've heard that, so it was good.

Luis Fonsi

That was the first song I heard from another writer when we first started to listen to outside songs,

Ricky Nelson

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music- I didn't look the same.

Mary Harris

We hadn't heard about any for a while and then, all of a sudden, two in one week.

Chip Gramke

We wanted to make sure all of the quotes we've heard from him are accurate. We hoped that they weren't but I think that he proved they probably were.

Hans Davidsson

virtually a living recording of the musical sounds heard hundreds of years ago.

Yani Tseng

So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

Barbara Kerr

The ($3 billion) should be paid back, and then we talk about programs. Hit and miss is not the way it should be done.

Gwen Stefani

That was it. Suddenly you hit puberty, and it's like, you know, thrift stores! I just started deconstructing everything from thrift stores.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Joe Girardi

That was the kind of player I had to be. I had to do the little things to win, and they have to do a lot of them. They have to hit and run, they have to steal, they have to squeeze some,

Carolyn Brown

That would hit the majority of our members. Most would be in the 25 (employees-and-under) range.

John Krawczyk

That would be a big hit to the budget.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last one I hit. I want to hit one in my 50s.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last home run I hit, and I hope I hit one when I'm 50.

Jeff Gordon

We know that after Richmond (the 26th race) comes, we've got to be in the top-10 and when we are, we'd better be set on 'kill' to go out there and lead laps and win races.

Charlotte Bronte

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

Ransom Antoine

When we were up by 10, I thought we had it, but we couldn't get it together. We had the mental lapse that we normally have.

Jay Christie

We really have to chock this one up to a lapse in procedures.

Ben Gordon

We can't come out and have all these lapses. If they get two, at worst we're going into overtime. It was just a mental lapse on our part.

Kyle Busch

With about 40 laps to go, it's time to race and time to get after it and that's what I was doing. If I did something and aggravated Stewart, well, I'm sorry.

Michael Andretti

I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.

Clint Bowyer

That should help. In 250 laps I can learn where to pass, where to get runs, just learn how to pass.

Christian Silk

Fernando was also very productive in the laps he was able to run.

C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C. S. Lewis

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Bette Davis

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Bill Bowerman

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Bertrand Russell

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Bertrand Russell

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Jimmy Austin

We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Tom Lochner

Has it turned the world upside down? Probably not.

Madeline Albright

He has to be turned over. We want to see him in The Hague,

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

John Erwin

We'll do whatever we can do to assist,

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Gary Brown

Whatever we can do for the kids, it's worth it.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.