Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.

Chipper Jones

I think he's a landslide winner. You're talking about a guy who plays Gold Glove defense, the best center fielder in the game, bar none. Everybody's just been waiting for him to turn the corner offensively, and now he's done that.

Aaron Rodgers

I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

Arlen Specter

I believe more precisely she took the position that the American Bar Association should not take a position on Roe, ... I'm sure that will be the subject of inquiry, and I would expect to go into that right at the start, to put on the record exactly what those facts are.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I don't want to make 'Chandni Bar 2.' I didn't think 'Fashion 2' will happen. If a film ends on a high note... makes the audience think and lingers in the end... that is needed.

John Remes

Having industry peers choose KARE 11 for such a high honor is gratifying for everyone at the station. But to have it happen consistently over the years sets the bar very high here and keeps it up there.

Mike Bryan

It hurts. It doesn't feel good to let your team down when you are staring down the barrel of giving yourself a two-set lead.

Richard Blumenthal

It is a historic win for Connecticut because it will bar a third casino and needless unfounded land claims,

Jeff Kasko

I think the decision to extend the deadline was made because they (the state) recognized that the bar was set a little high.

Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. But not any man is capable of being a good camper. So, murder and camping are not as similar as you might think.

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared

Ron Bonjean

Senator Kerry's comments used for campaign fund-raising purposes are simply over the top, extremely inappropriate and factually incorrect.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Ken Holland

We've got some more people at training camp we're looking at, but nobody major.

Victor Hugo

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

Robert Ellis

I figured there would be five to seven ride clear. We put a few distance problems in, but we also made it very delicate, so it took a lot of riding.

Rick Warren

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

Samuel Johnson

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

Sam Abell

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

William Hazlitt

Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.

Wendell Berry

The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.

Rudyard Kipling

If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, / Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, / And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Michael Simpson

In many parts of Idaho, as in many rural States, there simply aren't enough dentists within reasonable distance of some communities.

Dan Grunfeld

Points are points and different guys are going to score them different nights. The big thing is that we won.

R. Ingram

Poor tackling. We had guys in position. We've just got to make that play.

Sean Foley

My swim was fantastic. It's always refreshing after you get pushed in after a meet like that. I told the guys that they couldn't touch me unless we won the meet. So I don't know if they really wanted the trophy or if they just wanted to push me in.

David Thomas

Nick's awesome. He's such a nice guy. He's one of the hardest working guys on the team.

Brad Herndon

Nobody knows it all. I don't, hunters in Indiana don't, and none of the guys in Texas do. We've all got something to learn every year.

Eric Chavez

Nobody knew this year these guys were going to do as well as they've done,

Matt Hogan

On offense, we were being unselfish and I thought that was good. There's a lot of different guys out there that can score for us. Now, we just have to be smart and learn how to use them all.

Phillip Fulmer

On the penalties, you have to hope you have better control. The late hits on the quarterback were close. You want your guys to be aggressive.

Jeff Blair

Only with this team. These guys are unbelievable. We've got such a whole team here that it makes our job that much easier.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Debbi Fields

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Chuck Berry

They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

Annette Funicello

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

Danny Huston

Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride.

David Foster Wallace

....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

Confucius

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

Alice Miller

Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fan­tasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.

Alice Hamilton

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.