Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Branagh

To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

Donnie Miller

One thing that has changed is the price of land. You try to go out and buy some farmland, and no one's wanting to sell the little tracts of 80 or 100 acres that people have always wanted.

Frank Turner

Now try to separate that in your mind from a person who owns hundreds of acres of land, and is now extending a water main through that tract, and still hasn't really thought out exactly the project he's going to build. Why would the extension of that utility vest development rights at that time?

Zac Goldsmith

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

Cathy Johnson

The 6,015 acres in question constitute only three one-hundredths of 1 percent of the land in the state of Maine. There are literally millions of acres adjacent to Baxter State Park where hunting can, will and should continue.

David Bernstein

Will they be bad owners? Will they simply flip this property over to developers? ... One hundred and twenty-seven acres in the center of Pinellas County is worth a fortune.

Richard Freeman

When it comes to horses, we need lots of acres and not many horses, but with these acres it would seem to be too small for the task at hand.

Larry Lewis

The high years for Utah County were back in 2001, when there was 56,000 acres of grasshoppers and in 2004 when there was 124,000 acres of crickets.

Delta Burke

One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Brian Tracy

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

Billie Joe Armstrong

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

Cal Roadhouse

When the kids first walked into the locker room on the first day of practice, they said their goal was to win the state championship. Anything less and they weren't going to be satisfied.

Arjun Rampal

The most important thing is to figure out Your goal in life. If Your intentions and methods are correct, there is no way You will not achieve it.

Eckhart Tolle

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Ron Wilson

We're 3-0 and scored 15 goals since we picked up Thornton. It's kind of nice, the things you were hoping would happen with the trade have.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

John McKinley

Ultimately, you get to a point where you want to take the next hill. I really wanted to get back to a role in a technology organization.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Don Young

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Hillary Clinton

There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Jim Colborn

He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and respected.

Kenneth Williams

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

Catherine Opie

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Al Franken

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

Al Franken

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.