Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis MacNeice

We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.

Jamie Hyneman

One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.

Heywood Broun

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground

Stephen Jay Gould

I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.

Rick Riordan

Thanks for everything.” “As you wish,” the captain said. If axes could frown, I’m sure he would have. “Stay sharp,” Carter told him.

Chris Richardson

I would take the coking coal settlement as the first swallow of winter.

Robert Rupp

It could be that it's the quickest response to coal reform in the state's history.

Jack Straw

Lack of political progress in solving the linked problems of security, infrastructure and the political process are undermining the consent of the Iraqi people to the coalition presence and providing fertile ground for extremists and terrorists,

Bruce Nilles

Whatever problem we are trying to fix, a lot of it is attributable to coal plants.

Kjell Bondevik

I will present my request to resign for the coalition government,

E. P. Thompson

There is a movement being initiated by the smoke-free gurus in Madison for a smoke-free Wisconsin in 2007. They're urging counties and coalitions to educate the public, so for now, that's where the majority of our effort will come.

Ben Lieberman

In Montana, West Virginia, and the rest of the United States, coal is definitely the electricity source of the foreseeable future.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I know the pain of having to deal with terrorism. And that's why, after 9-11, I was one of the first to join the international coalition to fight terrorism.

Jay Rockefeller

Everyone knows that coal mining is very dangerous, but you go into it every day thinking it's going to be all right.

Allen Sinai

I suspect that on Fed decisions, the president has been very much influenced by Mr. Greenspan. Greenspan and Cheney go back.

Lee Humphrey

I think it kind of lifted our team up and we fed off his energy.

Kim Maher

I think it got to the point where we just got fed up. It was a gut check.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Karon Bradley

He didn't look too stressed about it, so we just kind of fed off him. I talked with him a little bit. I knew.

John Lonski

He didn't give the impression that the Fed is panicking.

Gary Sheffield

The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.

Richard Cripps

This was a good, constructive quarter. The market overcame two problem areas: the Fed raising interest rates and high oil prices.

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Joseph Beninati

There are such very few large-scale opportunities in Greenwich.

Aaron Rodgers

The only thing it means to me is my good pre-season didn't go unnoticed. I've still got to get better each day. My goal is to be No. 1. Obviously, it's not going to happen for a few years.

Jiang Zemin

I was invited by President Clinton, ... So it will be up to the United States to handle these events.

Bengie Molina

He kept saying he was sore, he was sore. He couldn't do another pitch. He couldn't handle it.

Wayne Lawson

He knows he scares people. You get the impression he knows how to handle them.

Quincy Jones

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

Paul Hackett

What you have to like is how he handled the situation, how he handled the team, his calmness, how he ran the team,

Todd Shipley

He's a big, strong kid who can handle the pounding an inside runner is going to take.

Garrett Gomez

He's a grinder. I was very impressed with the way he handled everything.

Dan Peitz

Going a mile, I didn't know if we could handle everything. Our horse wants to run farther.

Sidney Crosby

Going through two years of junior, it taught me a lot about myself, how I can handle it, ... You have to worry about hockey. Handle stuff outside of that when you need to, but just worry about hockey. That's what I learned.

Calvin Peete

If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

Anna Sui

When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone.

George Herbert

The Mill gets by going.

Nicholas Kristof

In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas!

Doris Wilson

The mines on television have all these pipes and tubes in them. They never had anything like that back then. I don?t think they?re anything like they used to be.

Lauren Oliver

She was mine before she was yours.

Peter Shaffer

You have your words, and I have mine.

Paul Theroux

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

Sophocles

A friend in word is never friend of mine.

Patricia Briggs

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

Jim Parks

My father-in-law used to work in the mines years ago and my youngest son is presently working out here on second shift.

Robert Robinson

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Josh Sharpless

I was a lot calmer and relaxed this time. I didn't feel like everything was going 1,000 mph. It just seemed like a normal game. I didn't have the butterflies this time around. I just went out and pitched.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Clive Woodward

We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,

Vincent Farrell

I think technology stocks are in for a correction, but it's a perfectly normal correction. This is a seasonably weak period of time.

Michael Steele

I don't know that much about the club, the membership, nor do I care, quite frankly, because I don't play golf.

Billy Donovan

He got back to playing the way he normally does.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Stevie Wonder

is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,