Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Meehan

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

Tim Craft

We really got after them on defense. That allowed us to get off to such a quick start.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

John Battelle

At the Web 2.0 Conference a year ago, we gathered to discuss the implications of the Web becoming a platform. This year, we're taking it further, focusing not just on declaring the platform, but showing where the innovation is happening and what we might expect in the coming year, ... Web 2.0 attendees will be immediately plugged into the ecosystem of the new Internet and allowed to make connections vital to their business strategy.

A. N. Wilson

We should have played better early on, but we just weren't aggressive. We let them change our strategy, and we shouldn't have allowed that. We had a hard time being patient. We could have played a lot better.

Ghulam Qadir

We are a region with two masters. One is India and the other Pakistan. Each of them want to stick to their viewpoint and we are at the receiving end. In a calamity such as an earthquake we should be allowed to take our own decisions.

Bob DuPuy

We are very hopeful that ... Cuba will be allowed to participate on the terms that have been negotiated. It is critical that Cuba participates. Cuba is an important international program, the defending Olympic champion, and ought to be in the World Baseball Classic.

Johnny Roscoe

We did a good job of getting the early lead, but we didn't put Hartsville away and allowed them back in the game. Once they started making plays, they got on a roll.

Rashad Singleton

We did a good job in the second quarter, holding them to four points. This allowed us to climb back into the game. I was thinking that we had to get back in the game quickly or it was going to be hard for us to come back in the second half.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Jay Sparks

The whole first half they wanted me to tell them what to do based on our set plays. Outside of maybe one possession in the second half, we didn't run a set play. We just played basketball, and I thought that was good for us.

Rhys Ifans

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

Mario Batali

The whole concept of the supremacy of the family unit in the Italian culture... That's all based on the relation of the mom and the children and the bambino.

Richard May

The whole budget is based on the tobacco settlement and ... I think it is fair to say when you talk to people on the (Capitol) Hill that the tobacco settlement is dead.

Tony Domenech

This country is based on small businesses. You can't know what it's like to run a small business without owning one any more than you can know what it is to love a child without having one.

Yubaraj Ghimire

This emergency debate is based on political rivalry. They're playing power politics with the emergency.

Peter Lewis

That's when I discovered that we were misleading ourselves, and that we were making wrong decisions based on the numbers that we had contrived,

Steve Valdez

That time frame is based on our best estimates of being able to get the real estate, even if we have to do eminent domain. But who knows at this point in time?

Randy Sherman

I think that served as a lesson to them. Every thing ending up alright.

Marsha Blackburn

I think people have found it very interesting that those that enforce ObamaCare, those that wrote Obamacare, are not a part of ObamaCare.

Dax Shepard

You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.

David Adamson

It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They have some ordinances they don't enforce now.

Bobby Bowden

Yeah. I could hardly lose in that situation because Joe is showing the world it can be done. When everybody had given up on Joe, Joe showed it could be done. One play and he doesn't lose a game. I want to do the same thing. He enforced my thinking we can do it.

Robert Browning

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Paul Lee

Fishing is our main hobby and I think it is the only thing we are good at.

E. M. Forster

English literature is a flying fish.

Stephen Leacock

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Eugene Field

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Ty Burrell

I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.

Ted Williams

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

e. e. cummings

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Steve Jobs

Let's go invent tomorrow!

Regina Brett

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Rusty Schweickart

The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

Sophie Swetchine

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

Rumi

Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.

Ray Bradbury

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Billy Crystal

I'm married - I've caught my limit.

Ray Stevens

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

Stirling Moss

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

Marianne Williamson

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

Mac Thornberry

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I push myself to the limit.

George Eliot

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Bernard Accoyer

We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Erin Runnion

I don't think there's a way to prevent this,

Jesus Christ

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Chris Corrigan

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Larry Rothschild

Then we'll see if we can get him into some sort of games. It's time for him to progress a little bit.

Sheryl Sandberg

If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.

Leon Bourgeois

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.