Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Tilly

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

Jennifer Weiner

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.

Jeff Miller

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores

Jean Pigozzi

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

Gemma Ward

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.

Gary Lineker

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

Fred Brooks

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.

Enya

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

Eoin Colfer

Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.” Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.” “Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Sigrid Undset

My school was co-educational and heavily committed to progressive educational ideas. It played an important role in shaping my character.

Andrew Warren

I am running full tilt. I have my papers filed in Harrisburg and I am technically qualified to be on the ballot. I am committed to this race with every ounce of energy in my body.

Bob Huggins

I am really excited about this opportunity. I don't know if I've ever been around nicer people. People more committed to doing things the right way and more committed to student-athletes.

Judy Jacobs

I am totally committed to this museum surviving. This should be a showcase for Nassau County. ... Veterans and volunteers worked hard on these planes. This is the history of Long Island, we have to make this succeed.

Genghis Khan

I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

Cory Hoehn

But we're committed to seeing the project through.

Charlie Bell

But we didn't play our best. We were not as focused, sharp as we'd been in our two previous games. We committed mental errors and didn't play with our usual fire and energy.

Scott Young

Huge. County championship. Oughtta be another big one.

Sandy Greenberg

The county needs to educate the public and come up with better recommendations for what types of trees should be planted.

Paul Mullen

It probably would be east of Ashland somewhere. It's going to be south of Highway 370 in Sarpy County -- north of I-680 in Douglas County.

Tom Tryon

They're not only getting the Calaveras County sales tax, we're paying to improve their roads for them,

Charles Martin

There's far greater demand now in Kent County for housing than there is current supply and that has driven the price up.

Mike McHugh

There's a lot of talent that leaves the county every day.

Ronda Storms

It's a terrible loss. I'm sorry Pat didn't do more to keep him. I think it creates a gaping, yawning hole in county leadership.

Ann Beard

It's a big election, with the 24-member County Commission. There's interest, especially in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th districts.

Chris Cauble

It's a county rival. Every time we've played, it's been a big game ? it goes back years and years and years. They've kinda owned us the last few outings, so it was a big win for us.

John Conley

We know it's a dynamic situation, but it's totally premature to talk about delays or postponement. Runners need to be prepared and dress for the weather.

Isaac Newton

If I saw further than other men, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Tim Cranton

This was a pretty astonishing number for us. We knew that it would be a high volume, but this was an even greater volume of spam than we had anticipated passing through one computer.

Richard Holbrooke

the U.N. is being tested in Kosovo as it has never been tested before, with responsibilities greater than ever before.

Theodore Dreiser

The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why.

Margaret Mead

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

Kin Hubbard

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

Michael Lewis

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

Michael Owen

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

Michael Parenti

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

Maya Lin

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

Matt Walsh

Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.

Meg Whitman

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Virat Kohli

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Woodrow Wilson

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

William Shatner

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

William J. Clinton

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

William J. Clinton

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

William J. Clinton

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.