Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Enderle

These kinds of affinity programs, like credit cards with your favorite sports team, were popular for a while.

Kyle MacLachlan

I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.

Ken Ramberg

A lot of employers with computer jobs are looking for psychology and music majors. Students majoring in those two areas often show an affinity for computer sciences.

Julie Ask

Apple sells hardware and software. They don't have an existing subscriber base like cable companies, and they don't have content like ESPN that people have an affinity to.

Jim Brickman

I've probably played (in Utah) more than anywhere. There's always been an affinity for piano and melody in Utah. People kind of got to know me there, and I've come back so many times. It's always been a great place to perform.

Rupert Evans

When I was 15, I went on a cricket tour of Zimbabwe with my school. My defining memory of it was stroking a semi-tame lioness at a game reserve. I grew up on a farm, so I felt I had an affinity with animals, and when it put a paw out, I thought I'd connected with it. But its claws came out and nicked my leg. Then I did the most stupid thing: I ran.

Peter Davies

We use their affinity for ice as a tool to purify the protein.

Monique Roffey

Born on an island, I could swim before I could walk, thrown many times into swimming pools and warm transparent Caribbean waters: sink or swim, that was my first lesson. While I'm not a natural athlete, I'm still a strong swimmer and feel a great affinity with the sea.

Neil Thompson

There's a great affinity with Bali for many people.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Jeffrey Kluger

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Carlo Rubbia

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

Steve Rebholz

We lost that game in the past, so basically, most of this team, with the exception of one starter, was back and on a mission to get back to Stony Brook not only to be there but to be in it. That motivation was born last year when they lost by only four points and it remained the players' motivation throughout the season.

Kim Yuna

I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

John Beilein

I don't have any experience in this area. I've only had one child born during the season, but we were traveling on vans then.

Michael W. Smith

If you can go deep the whole Caribbean is poorly known. Going deeper is a world of surprises.

Valerie Hudson

Purchasing a suite at Point Grace means not only owning a piece of Caribbean paradise, but also owners have the opportunity to be a part of an established property with high-levels of service.

Gary Weiss

Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.

Peter Abrahams

In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.

Chris Hadfield

When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.

Brian Major

We're trying to get the word out. Together with the Caribbean Tourism Organization, we're notifying travel agents.

Christopher Bellew

The reason why we're seeing stronger numbers is this new storm coming in the Caribbean which could cause disruptions to the crude oil facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Omar Vizquel

I'm pretty sure he can do it just because of his natural talent,

Nancy Wake

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

James Altucher

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

Lynn Margulis

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Barbara Ryan

You've got to give product away in Africa, ... There's a natural arbitrage where the prices get pressure around the world.

Epictetus

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

Robyn Davidson

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Richard P. Feynman

We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

Ryan Lochte

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Will Ferrell

I'm a really good swimmer.

Rick Riordan

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Sam Walton

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Nate Parker

If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

Ogden Nash

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

Ovid

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

Will Ferrell

I'm a really good swimmer.

Richard P. Feynman

We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

Ryan Lochte

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Rick Riordan

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Julia Mancuso

I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

Mark Twain

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

Maria Menounos

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

Mark Warkentin

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

Mark Bittman

Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

Lea Michele

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

Sim Osborn

I had these toys in my house, I've thrown them out, and told everyone I know.

Jim Edmonds

It kind of bounced off pretty hard, so I didn't really know. I didn't want to get thrown out.

Mark Connor

He probably would have thrown more, but I told him to stop.

David Beckham

I don't think we could have thrown any more at them.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Carlo Ratti

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Heath Lane

We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.