Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

Douglas Porter

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

John Eade

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

Bruce Schneider

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Nancy Bell

It can seem so complicated, but to me it's really not all that complicated, ... There are certain areas we would never want to see developed.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

It can carry a nuclear warhead and it allows the regime to reach areas in far distances,

Graeme Smith

He (Clark) was unbelievable. He got the ball in the right areas and got it to go both ways.

Maurice Luque

Having an engine dedicated to the valley is a step in the right direction so other units may remain in their respective areas for proper coverage.

Nancy Carter

I think it's an outstanding reinforcement of our intention to make this one of the safest areas in Charlotte.

John Buckingham

I want to send my handkerchiefs down to George Steinbrenner. I want to put the cover on the coffin of the curse.

Rachel Zoe

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

John Anderson

It's a start. We need to go on a roll of four or five wins to get back in it. We've had enough nails driven in our coffin lately. Now they're trying to drive in spikes.

Elizabeth McCracken

An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

Steven Tyler

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

Sherman Alexie

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

Bible Bible

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Lori Alexander

She's going to be vital to us. She kept us in games last year, and she should have had more wins. But we just couldn't give it to her. Our problem was that we couldn't put the nail in the coffin because we couldn't score enough runs.

Ernest Hemingway

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

Charles Dickens

Half a crown in the bill, if you look at the waiter.

Virgil

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.

Mark Waugh

I have to say, however, that I can't see any team wrestling the world crown from Australia. They play just too well.

David Cole

The electronics part of Delphi really is one of its crown jewels.

Tom Johnson

The difficult part is I love Crown Point. It was the first place I ever lived, including where I grew up, where I really felt like I was at home,

Wendy Larry

Not only are we defending the crown for ourselves, we're going to try to play at home for our fans because they've been so, so supportive and they've traveled everywhere we've gone.

Quique Flores

It's our obligation to delay as long as possible Barca being crowned champions.

John Bennett

The voter turnout has been low and getting lower. All too often there aren't any candidates, and to run a citywide race effectively takes a lot of money and effort. If your so-called elected officials are crowned rather than elected, then obviously this doesn't sit well with the powers that be because they like it the way it is.

William Butler Yeats

Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh

Geno Auriemma

It just kind of disappears out of nowhere. There'll be five possessions where you'll think, 'Holy cow, that's an unbelievable play!' And then it just disappears.

Tim Samuelson

This kind of drawing was in a lot of Sullivan and Adler buildings, and once Wright leaves their offices, this kind of ornament disappears altogether, but reappears in Wright's independent projects. So this is probably his design.

Lao Tzu

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Iain Sinclair

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

Carl Hiaasen

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

Joe Gibbs

Keeping a team healthy is a huge deal,

Henry Chan

I think it's a healthy correction, some valuations got a little high.

Felipe Alou

He seemed to be healthier today, his legs and everything. He said he needed work and threw 52 pitches.

Karl Dorrell

He's healthy enough, he's throwing the ball, he's getting his timing back,

Bob Filner

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

Jacques Rogge

We support that (tests). The reason for the tests is to protect the health of the athletes. These are health tests, they are not doping tests.

Francis Gannon

I think it was a very healthy thing that we saw this week, ... It was a valuation correction, not a fundamental correction.

J. Horton

It is important to help the troops stay healthy as they help others,

William Dietz

I'd like to think this shows women are leading the way in recognizing obesity as a health threat.

Rex Stout

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

Robert Ringer

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

Sarah Shahi

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

Warren Buffett

If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.

Ludwig van Beethoven

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Lord Chesterfield

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Eva Green

All my jewelry has stories.

Paul Bowles

The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.

Kendall Jenner

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

Mitchell Baker

What we have is 95 percent there and what we are doing at the moment is actually polishing.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Alan Pardew

We're playing with a real exuberance. We were very strong individually at the back and at the moment I am very pleased.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Joshua Lederberg

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Janet Ray

He was sweet from that moment on. I don't understand what happened.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Virginia Woolf

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Sebastien Bourdais

I was a little disappointed that they nailed me during the winter.

Tom Renney

He nailed the big one. The question was, can he rise to the big game? And he did.

William Maxwell

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

Sania Mirza

I love salon days to pamper myself, do my nails.

Jonathan Swift

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

Colin McAdie

It's better not to nail it down too precisely. Over the next day or so we'll have a better idea.

Robert Mitchell

It was kind of a nail biter throughout, ... What you saw here was the result of a lot of work on the part of a lot of people, and it all paid off just perfect.

Rachel Caine

I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They’re quite an excellent mnemonic device.

Julie Garwood

She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure. "Oh, God." "Nay, lass. Connor.