Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob McKenzie

Just the traffic volumes. It's something our bridge inspectors are taking a look at.

Mark Marshall

Hanalei Bridge is always a major concern during heavy rains. Whenever the water reaches a certain level there, it needs to be closed.

Robert Anderson

Harry Bridges was very famous in his day. And Connie had given him favorable coverage.

Judith Regan

Her story will bridge the gap that people feel exists between the cultures she has lived in.

Bob Harrington

He's always been an oriental garden admirer. We used part of the money then to replace the old bridge that used to be there.

William J. Clinton

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

William J. Clinton

It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

Warren Buffett

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety...

Warren Buffett

In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

Stacy Stewart

Katrina could reach category-one hurricane strength before the center reaches the southeastern coast of Florida.

Glenn Patton

He is still interested in an international research center. It would be a national research center with a lot of national funding. He's had some connections with the Homeland Security Department, by which he will end up with some real major federal grants for homeland security research.

Bill Brown

What we have here is the first, and probably only, thematic science center in the world. It's quite sophisticated.

Steve Johnson

Having the same power without going overboard with the power is essential, ... Running power to the center of a data center can get kind of pricey, particularly with a tight budget.

John Beilein

He's getting there, ... It's going to take a lot of hard work. Our hope is that Kevin will be able to outrun and out-condition the centers we play against. He's going to play a lot of minutes if he can do that.

Brian Dunlap

Our meet centered on the medley and running it fast. That time gives us a chance. We'll see if it sticks.

Rob Rickell

Our new designs represent the first major change in constant-velocity joint (CVJ) technology in more than 70 years. Teamwork played a major role in the development process. Engineering groups working together at company research centers in Germany, Mexico, Spain and the USA were able to develop production-ready components in less than three years.

David Wimhurst

Our mission was to verify that the voting centers the electoral council had selected physically existed. It had never been our job to determine the location of voting centers.

Willie Bloomquist

In my job, I'll play wherever they want. I can play in center if they want. It's just tough that this happened to Jeremy. He was having a nice spring.

Carla Thomas

I think it is an exceptional movie with a very diverse cast. I'm glad that Hollywood can open its mind to different types of films.

J. August Richards

What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

Peter Diamandis

In one sense, the X Prize has already succeeded. We've sparked a diverse set of vehicles that are being tested and built. Secondly, we've got people excited about this market place.

Ken Bernstein

Clearly, these are not the grandiose architectural wonders one would liken to European cathedrals or ornate movie palaces. But they are in many ways just as reflective of our region's unique and diverse architectural history.

Josh Parker

I hope they don't get sold for exorbitant amounts of money, so it can be a fairly diverse group of people.

Thomas Harris

The way, I think, to make that happen is for the (Oktoberfest) leadership team to invite groups and people into the planning. (They'd) open the door to people from those diverse backgrounds.

O. J. Simpson

This is such a diverse group, you get over the differences.

Craig King

This is one of the most diverse portfolios of new properties we've sold in years.

Tom Grzymala

You're not going to have a diverse portfolio. You won't be able to ride the market swings.

Shakira

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

Tim Jackson

I think you put the combination of those three elements together and you've got a real premiere festival,

Michael Chertoff

We are extremely pleased with the response of every element of the federal government (and) all of our federal partners have made to this terrible tragedy,

Matthew Lewis

I think actors tend to be in their element when they are pushed out of their comfort zone.

Megan Smith

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

Tim Whitehead

It had every element of a great play from a great player.

Floyd Reese

It has always been a key element for us. We have never wavered from Day One. It's always been at the top of our list.

Tom O'Neil

It has all the elements that the Globe voters like. It has an important social message. It has A-list stars. It's part of the public debate.

Bruce Nudell

I think that there was an element of tiredness with all the recalls.

Michael Allweiss

I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've been able to prevent from being explored in the past. It's very meaningful.

Bob Scully

I thought that getting into finance would be a good way to explore many industries.

R. Robinson

We may explore the universe and find ourselves, or we may explore ourselves and find the universe. It matters not which of these paths we choose.

James Sensenbrenner

We have to be forward-looking in how we explore space,

Pat Metheny

I like to explore the full gamut of possibilities ... as many possibilities as possible. With David's saxophone in the mix we have a full palette to work from. With the four of us together on stage, watch out.

Kim Fisher

The green truck ran the red light and hit the white explorer. Then, the explorer flipped.

Michael W. Smith

The atoll was poorly explored with only about 35 fish species known previously. Including the new species we found in total about 200 species of fish.

Sasha Roiz

It's been a lot of fun from script to script to get inside the mythology of 'Grimm.' We've been given a lot of freedom to explore the mythology as well as the backstories and interpersonal connections of the characters.

Timothy Lord

That Internet Explorer does not have tabs is puzzling to me because users who try them seem to like them a lot.

Rick Sweet

He keeps hitting gaps and running, and he's 30-plus (actually 32) years old. He's the one who told me, 'I guess I'm just getting old.' But it's hard on you with all that running, especially as hot as it is.

Bob Gray

That is too long to walk. You can't have any gaps in the street.

Jon Oringer

There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into.

Noam Chomsky

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

Dwyane Wade

It's all about being aggressive. I saw a lot of gaps tonight.

David Zuniga

We're still lacking that big hit to knock in those big runs. We're not striking out every time, but we are still looking for the gaps and I think we might just be trying too hard for it.

Charles Adams

You peel the back of the tape off, so when you go around the door, it seals those gaps off.

Michael Greco

There are some significant gaps in people's knowledge,

Kevin Breslin

I think that the groups do get things done around here.

David Sedaris

Underneath my window, there were huge groups of people running in the streets. They tried to overturn a car. So the woman opened her window and tried to throw water on them. So then they threw rocks up and tried to smash her windows. It was very exciting.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

John Lennon

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

Troy Diels

A lot of groups come through middle school with high expectations. They'll have to maintain their skills and get better at the same time. People will be gunning for them each time out so they have to come to play. People remember middle school (success) so you have to keep getting better and I think they will.

Jim Sullivan

There were more groups that made records and didn't make it than there were groups that made it. So you can imagine the work that we did.

Vance Havner

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

William Carey

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Alan Hevesi

Part of our mission in this project is to restore some of that confidence, ... But, that's going to take some pain.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Ellen G. White

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

John Ellsworth

I want to make sure his mission is finished.

Dave Winker

It's nice to have this part of the mission done. It's been a long week.

Sam Altman

It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.

Richard Power

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Richard Dawkins

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

Richelle Mead

Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

Ronnie Dunn

In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Richard Powers

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Samuel Wilson

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.