Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Walters

Katrina has blown that outreach away. This has become a powerful emotional issue - a national issue - that will severely limit Bush's future outreach efforts, because the victims in Louisiana and Mississippi have huge family networks scattered all over the country.

Casey Nicholaw

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.

Daniel Bruhl

When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.

Ron Bennett

Having worked in Nashville and then seeing the scope of this studio, I was blown away. It doesn't get much better than this!

Richard Taylor

Her home had damage, not flood water. She is west of the levee break. Her large family room roof had been pulled up and rainwater ran down the dry wall, and some of it fell onto the floor, making a mess. Her kitchen window was blown out and water got in that way,

Felix Sabates

It comes down to those 25 points. That's what it comes down to. You can say, 'Well we had blown engines.' But everybody else had blown engines. Everybody had wrecks. That's part of racing. The 25 points was not part of racing. The 25 points was robbery.

Rob Stutzman

I think some of this (criticism) is blown out of proportion. There's a lot they're very happy about as well.

Evan Harrison

Rob Thomas' Stripped performance is honest and pure, ... I was especially blown away by his interpretation of 'Borderline.'

Henry Lee

Pipelines can be blown up, and they are fairly easy to blow up. The day they did it, it would get headlines in all the papers. The problem is you would have it fixed in a matter of days.

Jack Baker

Joseph Sibley was one of the premier historical figures of the oil region and his influence extended worldwide.

Jim Tracy

He was adamant about doing everything to get back quickly. He's not 100 percent healthy. The running aspect, he might not be able to fully extend himself that way. Defensively, it isn't a problem.

Ed Cange

We talked all week about playing fundamentally sound. When you do that, it's hard for teams to make extended runs and come back on you.

Don Fehr

I think we will (have a tougher new policy). I don't think it will take an extended period of time.

Adrian Moss

I went into the Tournament thinking that each game could be my last, but these guys have extended my career.

Robert Molleda

The rains don't weaken as fast as the winds do. As far as the rains are concerned, they are going to extend over a large portion of the state.

Ralph A. Cram

Republicanism rapidly extended itself to all the governments of western Europe, but it could not maintain itself in its primal integrity.

Dave Girouard

It's become a way that people have gotten more out of their searches. We're extending that to the enterprise.

Brandon Ewing

It's good for any team in the conference, any team in the country, to get off to a start like that. It just gives you a lot of confidence. If we can start out 4-0, then that can extend to 5-0 and 6-0.

Honore de

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Joe Clark

He was a giant of a man, had an extraordinary impact on the country.

Jane Curtin

He's happy with the form. He's sort of the 'big giant narcissist,' and he's also a big giant drunk.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Wilkie Collins

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Michael Bergin

I never learned to ignore the hot lights and the giant fans. And it all seemed so ridiculous. Run in place. Look angry. Look at me like you love me.

Ramez Naam

In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.

James Hansen

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.

James Fallows

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Louv

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Willie Stargell

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

Lupe Fiasco

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

John Madden

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

Jim Otto

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

Bill Russell

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

Boomer Esiason

Randy Moss is not a leader. He doesn't deserve to be the captain of the Oakland Raiders. He's the one who said he wanted to be traded. He's not happy. His effort is lacking. That's a disgrace to the uniform. I don't care what uniform you have on.

Jerry Spinelli

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

Mark Owens

Rarely are they where they're supposed to be.

Roy Williams

I've rarely watched film of T.O. or Jerry,

Joaquin Phoenix

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

Brad Wright

These are the victims that we don't see, or rarely see,

James E. Rogers

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

Jane Lindskold

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

Frank Robinson

Very rarely now is (Schneider) going to get a rest.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Lex Turner

(The nuns) were probably harder. Everything was more strict then, regardless of what you're talking about.

Will Brown

They're going to play regardless of what the score is, and they'll probably play early.

Daryl Manning

There's a violation to have any sign in any homeowner's yard, regardless of what it says.

Edward Witten

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Dale Tallon

I'd like to see more of that. There's no accountability in some of these guys, but all of them are accountable. Everybody's trying to get to the root of this.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Romeo Santos

I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

Willie Dixon

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

Tullian Tchividjian

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Sara Gruen

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Vivian Stanshall

Fear is the root of all courage

Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is the root of everything.

Danielle Brown

There was one year in 1933 we actually had 21 storms. That's been the most in the Atlantic. However, it was before we started naming storms

Rick Gales

We're able to just make more trips during the day. It's the big storms that get us into overtime.

Michael Chertoff

We've got tropical storms and hurricanes brewing in the ocean.

Paul Moreno

Winter storms such as this are not unheard of but this one was severe.

Joe McCormick

We have to make sure that one or two storms are not going to wipe out the company." ()

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Rick Riordan

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

Woody Allen

[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

Noam Chomsky

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Steven Pinker

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

Theodore Zeldin

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

Margaret Drabble

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Melinda Gates

In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am."