Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Roach

Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need wind, lots of it, strong and unrelenting. Antarctica fits the bill.

Sam Abell

I would like to go to Antarctica. That's about all.

John Spencer

It's like flying past Antarctica and finding that it's warmer than the earth's equatorial regions. It's that strange.

Kate Atkinson

When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.

Charlie Hartwell

That's all dependent on the wind and weather. Life in Antarctica is controlled by those two things.

Paul Watson

Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?

Isabella Velicogna

Antarctica is Earth's largest reservoir of fresh water.

John Spencer

This is as astonishing as if we'd flown past Earth and found that Antarctica was warmer than the Sahara.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

Lord Byron

I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.

Veronica Roth

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

Samuel Johnson

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

George Bancroft

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Lester Cole

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Luc de Clapiers

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

Orson Welles

I drag my myth around with me.

Ashton Youboty

Not too many 6-5 guys are that fast. Their speed is deceptive. I've watched one player, (it seemed) he gained two steps every 5 yards.

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

W. Hull

Keep it out of the middle of the field, take it up the sidelines as far as you can and then shoot it at the net and hope it goes in off someone.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Steve Hammond

I think it's a first step. As far as we're concerned, we'd go for a three-buck limit.

Asa Hutchinson

I think it is very disappointing. Whenever you talk about the justice system, politics should be as far as imaginable from the outcome.

Zach Malvik

I think in the back of our minds we thought it was possible. That's just all of us being competitors and never saying we can't do it. I do think it's a surprise to all of us that we made it this far and accomplished our goal.

Mike Holmgren

He wants to be far enough away that he can't grab a player and start coaching.

Dennis Felton

He can shoot and pass and handle the ball. But what's been impressive so far has been his feel for the game, his poise, his instincts, his level of composure. You don't see that always with freshman.

Mike Bethea

He knows he has a lot to learn as far as football techniques and he is looking forward to that.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

Craig Alexander

It is one of the hardest things to forecast. So, get used to it.

Kyle Williams

I don't know who's No. 2. There are 10 to 15 teams as talented as each other, and it's all about who's going to work the hardest to get there.

Mike Caciari

He has always been the hardest worker on the team. He always wants to be better.

Yogi Berra

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

Brian Lane

In the second mile, you have to push yourself the hardest to pick up your pace. That's where you want to put in a surge because it's a mental game.

Ren Zamora

I hope Nokia can stabilize its selling prices. That's the hardest point because if volume does slow down and they're still at these levels, Nokia could be in trouble.

Philip Hoffman

The last thing I wanted to do was mimic him. I wanted to get his essence. It was the hardest thing I ever did on film.

Stella McCartney

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

Mandy Hotchkiss

I was just totally overwhelmed. Their whole island has been totally wiped out.

William Wordsworth

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

Richard Pryor

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

William Dampier

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Zora Neale Hurston

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

Rebecca Solnit

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

Rick Riordan

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

Andrew Tan

I swim every other day. That's my exercise.

Richard P. Feynman

We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

Ryan Lochte

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Ryan Lochte

You'd be amazed at what I can do. Did you know I can swim?

Ronda Rousey

After I did the swimsuit issuе, I knew that I wanted to do it again.

Travis Barker

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

Woody Harrelson

I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.

Woodrow Wilson

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

William Saroyan

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

Matt McGorry

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.

Sanjay Gupta

When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid.

William Hung

I have had no professional training.

Warren Cuccurullo

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.

Vladimir Kramnik

Chess is a matter of daily training.

Wentworth Miller

I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

Werner Herzog

The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.

Ryan Reynolds

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

Van Jones

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.