Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hines Ward

We started off fast. And for the most part, we made plays when we needed to make them, but we didn't convert third downs and were in too many third-and-long situations.

Bob Stoops

When we did protect him, we didn't convert our opportunities.

Dave Stephens

We got to the line 29 times, which is a real positive. But we only converted 17.

Bryant McGill

Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.

Sheila Nix

It seems like she is kind of a recent convert to being the fiscal watchdog.

William Murphy

It's fairly easy to see how you can convert the chromosomes from the macaque to the human.

Jim Ryan

They were converted to a larger-size tank but they just can't get it right. All of a sudden it starts cutting out.

Neil Stern

Forever 21 has the option to operate either a second format or convert those Gadzooks stores into its own brand,

Greg Knapp

It really starts with getting less third-and-long situations, and that's what we've gotten ourselves into early. Our short yardage has hurt us. We've missed on three third-and-ones and one third-and two. If you convert those, we're middle of the pack on third down. Now we've been great in short yardage (in the past). It hasn't been great to start out with, and we'll improve on that.

Richard Hendrix

We felt like even though we were down, the game was still ours. Even down to the last shot, we thought we'd cruise into the next round. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way.

Douglas Ward

As we've gotten larger and larger ships in the main resort cruise section, particularly in the U.S., what I've found is that people get tired of standing in lines and being highly structured, and then they start to think about smaller ships, and so they want to downsize.

Ed Conley

For instance you may have some people who have insurance and insurance is meeting their living expenses while they have been displaced. You have some people who may be looking at an option such as a cruise ship where all of their needs are going to be met. It is going to vary by family.

Judy Randall

They are giving the customer exactly what they want. What we have to do is to become a cruise ship on land.

Bob Hunter

This is where it gets tricky, especially for inexperienced travelers who are making long-range plans. It might be worth it for a really expensive cruise that is non-refundable, for instance. It depends on your risk quotient and health.

David Rodgers

People cruise around with their kids and their grandchildren - it's a family-type event.

Ella Maillart

No sooner had I left to cruise the Mediterranean than the following question preoccupied me: How far does one kill a journey by making it become real?

Doug McCuistion

After a six-month cruise and 300 million mile (480 million km) journey we're finally there. But the first thing we have to do is get into orbit. It's not an easy task.

Shaukat Aziz

The most recent example is successful test-firing of Babur cruise missile,

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Laurence Sterne

For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Xue Chongde

As I recall, we could have over a hundred adoptions within a month (at that time).

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

Josh Billings

I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else

Ziyi Zhang

The word 'world' for me is really hard. A hundred times later, I was able to say it.

Campbell Mercer

This is for a hundred years. It's going to be an old project. We're going to get through this just fine, and next year's going to be even better.

Chuck D.

We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies.

Kevin Keen

About 3 minutes left I took a timeout and I just told them that we have to get back to playing as a team. I think they took it to heart...they know what got us here and from that point on we took control.

Larry Davis

It's kind of a non-issue. If it were in his left side, it would've been more of an issue.

Robert Parker

They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed.

Jeffrey Lichtman

This case, what is left of it, is a limping wreck.

Kevin Wright

They stacked the line of scrimmage and then spied Darren. That left nobody on the quarterback. We'll take whatever people will give us.

Kilari Paul

They said 'You get on and go,' and they left him behind.

Pete Johnson

There was no sign of life from the devastation left by Katrina.

Jonathan Klein

There weren't that many options left that made sense for someone of Aaron's stature, ... a mutual decision.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury.

Audre Lorde

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Agnetha Faltskog

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Charles Lamb

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Calvin Trillin

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

Billy Sherwood

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.

Diego Della Valle

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Dennis Lehane

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Derek Fisher

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Dana Keeton

We're interviewing passengers and are not saying anything more until we're sure what happened.

Larry Black

When we arrived, the two passengers were walking around,

Billy Jones

It was too dark. The passengers couldn't see the stone-throwers' faces.

Author unknown

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Peter Kessler

Smugglers torture, rape and shoot their passengers if they complain. It's very dangerous.

Dave Adams

We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew.

Anthony Foxx

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

Roger Waters

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

Michael Jordan

I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%.

Ray LaHood

He's like a retired prince, ... He doesn't have to rush.

Jim Pattison

What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.

Billy Graham

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Sue Allen

We have a lot of retired women. We all keep pretty busy.

Shane Warne

I must have said it 14 000 times. I have retired and I have no aspirations to return.

Sacheen Littlefeather

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

Mike Wallace

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

John Zimmerman

There is no new requirement to sell any water

Craig Parsons

We've been able to sell more series than we had planned, but they take capital.

Dennis Miller

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

Mark Olson

It's expensive. If you're selling $2 corn, you can't make it.

Joseph Williams

They sell dope, they sell weed. They come down here and make the neighborhood look bad.

Jim Ford

It's about getting out there and selling it. I've been trying to go to all the parents' meetings.

Linda Jay

It's a real tribute in these times that we don't sell off harder.

Donald Young

This is the top team at Compaq selling at the highs,

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Rob Hartman

It's been several years since we've had this widespread of flooding, and we're not done.

Bryan Clifton

This has been going on now for several months. It has been going on for a while.

Ron Parks

They still have several things in their name.

Russ Cooper

This is a very sophisticated worm with several new twists

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Joe Gibbs

I should have said, 'Hey, we've got several things we're going to turn in and want to look at with them,' ... 'We see it one way, and we'll see how they see it.' That should have been my comments, but I went specifically . . . I went over some things there that you can't.

Karen Traviss

I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Paul Watson

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

Dan Harmon

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Christopher Marlowe

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

D. H. Lawrence

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

Dave Allen

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

Robert Anthony

When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

Tamora Pierce

Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

Susan Jeffers

A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Bill Maher

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Bill Bailey

Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'