Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivor Heerden

Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list.

Firman Gani

This was not from explosive materials, but from chemicals at the laboratory, maybe mixed with gas.

Michael Shannon

Children are being exposed to large amounts of pesticides daily throughout their diet -- cumulatively, over the first 5, 10, 15, 20 years of their lives, when they are trying to have their brains, their kidneys, and their liver become perfectly functioning organs, ... These chemicals can interrupt this process.

Jo Handelsman

If there are all these different kinds of bacteria, there must be all kinds of chemicals that they're making.

Mark Ruffalo

The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

Dick Durbin

The combination of lax security and deadly chemicals is a toxic mix. Illinois has more facilities that store extremely hazardous material than any other state, with over 100,000 pounds of hazardous substance stored in over 600 facilities.

Fred Pinkney

The fish are clearly exposed to cancer-causing agents, and at this point, we really don't know what chemicals are responsible. We suspect it's from (polluted) runoff.

Hunter S. Thompson

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

David Cole

It's sort of a critical ingredient. It's like when you mix eight or 10 chemicals and nothing happens. Then you drop this in and all of a sudden, boom, you get an explosion.

Mike Easley

These floods are going to be worse than anticipated yesterday.

Inez Fung

It's one thing to say when it's going to rain, but how do we know when there's going to be a flood? We're still not good at predicting floods or droughts, but we hope that's just one out of many things our model can help us predict.

Rick Barry

We know what it's like to go through something like this, with the Hurricane Ivan floods last year,

Susan Wilson

During the floods of '93 and '95, there were opportunities that surfaced where we could improve the integrity of the levee.

Pat Buchanan

The Mississippi River is like immigration--it's enormously nourishing . . . but if it floods its banks, it can become a problem. And that is what's happened here.

Gordon Sinclair

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

Ed Silliere

Some of those refineries in Texas, they're at sea level. It's a table top, it floods every easily.

Danielle Brown

We've had floods before, ... but nothing like this where houses sat in water for two, three weeks.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Paul Maholm

Just something that happens at this time of year.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Richard Thompson

I take notes all the time, too. You know, something terrible happens to you, and you think, "Bastards. I'm going to write a song about that." And then you do.

Mel Thomas

It can be a little more difficult. You want to say that it's not but I think that we'll be ready. It's a championship. We want to win a championship and Rutgers just happens to be -- I mean, West Virginia just happens to be the opponent.

Jose Guillen

He can say whatever he wants. We'll see what happens Wednesday.

Jay Reiff

He is ultimately responsible for everything that happens in that office. Things are going right and he's getting a lot done.

Brian Finneran

He's a big player in this league, and when his contract's up, it's going to be interesting to see what happens with that guy.

Conchita Martinez

I think it's crazy, it happens all the time.

Mark Wood

Just something to get her to open up and not be so shy.

Rich Harris

I think it is an open question whether they would want them released while there are two investigations ongoing.

Bonnie Raitt

He used to let me open for him and he tuned my guitar.

James Cotton

Greg and I just have this special connection. When he is open down low, he will say 'Yes!' and I will give him the ball.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Jamie Rains

Hayley was on fire. They had to get out on her, and that really opened things up for other people.

Rob Spear

I think it's going to open up. Would you be interested?

Brian Roberts

I think, without a setback, I don't see why I won't be ready for Opening Day. I haven't really put that much thought into Tuesday yet.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Rob Brown

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

Richard Dawkins

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

Rebecca West

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Rick Riordan

It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

Reinhold Messner

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Will Eisner

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Richard Rohr

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

William Ralph Inge

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Lara Stone

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

John Laird

I just think I was sent up here to vote,

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Errol Morris

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

Jim Thome

There are so many. We could sit here all night.

Randy Cunneyworth

He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.

Steve Alford

He's going to sit out this weekend. It's kind of a wait?and?see.

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

Ashley Giles

It is a lot worse sitting up there than it was in the middle,

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

Shelley Berman

When he was sitting with you, would he be witty? No,

David Francis

I think what we can say is we're watching the situation carefully.

William Gilmore Simms

Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

Valerie Jarrett

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

Willa Cather

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

Vincent Van Gogh

There is peace even in the storm

William Gurnall

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

Walter Scott

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

Winston Churchill

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.

John Silvia

If you get a storm like this every 20 years,

Dan Sharp

I haven't experienced a storm like this in a long time.