Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Johnston

We have a study under way called the Lower Snake River Study. It is looking at three options. One is essentially to do nothing, the second is to significantly improve the dams to make them more fish friendly and the third is breaching the dams, ... These three options are still very much on the table.

Kurt Schaefer

I think it's logical. Most of the federally-regulated dams tend to be fairly large dams that pose significant risk if there is a failure.

Leonard Boswell

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.

John Doolittle

Dams are politically incorrect, even though levees are inherently unstable.

Scott Bosse

That means spilling water over the dams from spring until fall, 24 hours a day, as opposed to using turbines.

Maria Callas

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Glen Spain

At some point (the administration) is going to have to face up to the dams. The science leads to the dams and the law leads to the dams.

Gina McCarthy

It is the wettest month in 104 years. It was 16 inches of rain, we have had 7 dams break, though there was no significant loss of property in those events.

Eoin Colfer

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Don Jones

We've gotten a fairly good response. I'd be hesitant to say what percentage.

Peter Jurasik

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

A.J. Allmendinger

I thought my TV performance actually went fairly well.

Prentice Stabler

We aren't going to have any races we think won't be close. We're a fairly young crew, so a lot of our success will come from being in tight races and being able to respond under pressure.

Russ Paulsen

We haven't had great depth, but we've had some quality kids in the lighter weights, and we're fairly solid in the upper weights.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Bonnie Tyler

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Scott Nelson

We have also seen large operations that think hosted model makes more sense.

Robert Owen

We have very large classrooms, ... And we're already under-resourced ... the school is overwhelmingly poor.

Uday Bhaskar

I don't think it poses a security threat.

Scott Ritter

has not been demonstrated to pose a threat worthy of war at this time.

Sebastien Loeb

It's completely stupid. They should have stopped the rally there and then. Marcus didn't even pose the question, he stopped. For me, it was the same.

Stephen Flynn

Does this pose a national-security risk? I think that's pushing the envelope.

Jim Amormino

They are very unstable in salt water. They do pose a threat to the divers, any swimmers, any boaters in the area.

Arlo Elkins

This is one of the better teams we've ever had. Every team poses a threat to us, but I think this is going to be a very successful season for us.

Park Chan-wook

The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.

Rick Riordan

Poseidon can come in too! We will eat you both! Seafood!

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

York Chow

We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Beth Walters

We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.

Ron Eldard

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.