Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robyn Hitchcock

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

Andrew Lippman

AT&T-SBC has been putting up trial balloons for the past six months, giving policy makers the opportunity to shoot darts at it. There has been real little opposition that has been voiced from the administration.

Brad Buckman

They had balloons in the rafters, ready to go down after they won. To see their fans after that loss, it was pretty amazing. Of course, Oklahoma did the same thing to us last year on senior night.

Dianne Feinstein

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

David McCullough

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Bret Easton Ellis

We buy balloons, we let them go.

Mark Leno

We're an American Legion post, so we're emphasizing the red, white and blue. But we're also using lavender and silver balloons to acknowledge our connection with the community.

Harvey Pekar

I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It excited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions.

Michael Laine

For this one, the real critical test was making a string strong enough. We made a cable that was stationed by the balloons at a mile high for 6 hours?it was rock solid.

Pete Harpolis

The purpose of this testing is to cause defects to occur during testing before placing a cable back in service. It forces weak cables to fail during testing.

Peter Chernin

We are extremely pleased with Fox's results for the year, particularly at our cable and television station groups,

Dennis Lee

I think this will eat into its cable television revenues as early as the second half of the year.

Chris Murray

We can expect to see fewer deals and higher prices, just as we've seen with the mergers of cable companies.

Bob Woodward

Roger Ailes, former media guru for Bush's father, had a message. Rove told the president. It had to be confidential because Ailes, a flamboyant and irreverent media executive, was currently the head of Fox News Channel, the conservative-leaning television cable network that was enjoying high ratings. In that position, Ailes was not supposed to be giving political advice.

Richard Greenfield

Clearly if cable is regaining market share without cutting prices, that is a positive,

Shari Brill

Cable networks have gotten stronger in introducing original content.

Mike Paxton

Cable is not really growing at all. It's seeing roughly 15 to 20 percent growth in terms of upgrades to digital cable, but net total growth for the industry will probably be down 2 to 3 percent in 2004.

Patrick Comack

Cable companies will want to get into wireless and the only way to get into it is probably through Sprint Nextel. And Sprint Nextel has the leverage because the cable companies don't have distribution.

Edgar Chen

He is one of the most critical high-level insiders that the prosecution has been able to produce.

Joseph Stiglitz

Greenspan's irresponsible support of that tax cut was critical to its passage.

Tony Vecchio

Her loss will be felt not just here locally, but world-wide due to the critically endangered status of this species.

Tom Daschle

I think it's critical that we offer minimum wage limits to all these jobs,

Matt Fidler

What ETS is hoping to do is test vocabulary in a different way under the umbrella of 'testing critical thinking' without the use of antonyms and analogies.

Tom Peterson

We've got to let ourselves play well at critical times in the match. Sometimes, we didn't even get swings.

Jeff Raikes

Partners play a critical role in delivering solutions and applications to customers with the Microsoft Office System. The value of Solutions Competencies is that they enable Microsoft to deliver resources and training to partners that are meeting their customer needs. And for partners, the opportunity to highlight their expertise to customers is tremendous in the growing IW solution market.

Irwin Berger

Paul's considerable development experience, team leadership skills, and knowledge of scalable data and security management will significantly enhance our testing and trading infrastructure. As we continuously work to develop the next generation of alternative investments, Paul will ensure our critical real-time data systems meet our evolving needs.

Randy Carlyle

In playoffs and critical games, specialty teams are usually the difference-maker.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Paul Makin

He's already won all the mile races he needs.

Dennis DesRosiers

There is going to be lineup a mile long a mile wide for this plant. The winner will be the jurisdiction that will pay for it, pure and simple.

Tim Winship

I think it's pretty much inarguable that the value of frequent-flyer miles is on the decline.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Chris Rock

I (could) see these plots a mile away. And I was 7.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

William Least Heat-Moon

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Andy Grove

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

James Osborne

I ran about 60 miles a week over the summer and I'm putting in about 50 miles a week now. So when I start tapering toward the end season it should be interesting.

Bob Hughes

We try to keep it rock 'n' roll. Everybody's welcome.

Christopher Lee

We threw a lot of rock yesterday, and we're throwing more rock this afternoon.

Scott Bertoli

I thought Wednesday was rock bottom. Apparently, it can get worse.

Dick Bennett

I think Batista's the rock on that team.

Chris Blight

He's been a rock back there for us.

Troy Brown

I actually feel like a rock star. I feel like I'm important here.

Ed Stern

He was pivotal. He was sort of the rock of the Playhouse: organized, disciplined, always in control.

Rob Sheffield

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Tullian Tchividjian

Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

David Gray

I know his work can be extravagant, ... But the first track on 'Want One' is one of the most astonishing things that has come out in years. And I wanted to work with his scope. He has more than one string in his bow.

Jules Shear

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Aldous Huxley

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

Eddie Van Halen

I boil the strings so they stretch.

Tim Berners-Lee

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

Gary Zukav

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Cat Stevens

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Anton LaVey

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!

Sara Atuaia

He's become our go-to player. We need him to keep being strong up from.

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Richard P. Feynman

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

Richelle Mead

Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

William Whewell

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

Roger Goodell

HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.

Will Wright

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Wayne Dyer

Every obstacle is a test.

Rod Lurie

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

Michael Ramsey

The value of the testimony of such witnesses is about zero.

Dennis Ruedinger

They can test you in a lot of different ways.