Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing - Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Jonathan Richman

I visited Lou Reed in New York a few times before I went away. I visited them a few times when I was still living at home- took the train down. I hung out with the Velvet Underground a bit, slept on their manager's couch but it was Steve Selznick not Danny Fields.

Richard Fixaris

She smelled the smoke, called 911, and went in and saw the couch was in flames. He was on the couch.

Larry Woolsey

Maybe we can get some couch potatoes in the outdoors.

Colin Angle

My Roomba's name is Roswell. There is the moment when you are sitting on the couch and Roomba turns itself on and goes out and starts working. You really appreciate it because it works hard for you, and it deserves some kind of recognition.

Julia Davis

It's hard to get started. Hard because you want to lay on the couch and be lazy.

Ken Williams

It's too long a wait. But I'd rather wait till Saturday than next Feb. 15. I've been there before, sitting on the couch watching this all happen (for other teams). It's not a good feeling.

Pam Tambini

It's good to be back. When I was sick, I still watched the games. That wasn't fun, watching from the couch when I knew I could be playing.

Grant Heslov

We've been friends for 25 years, and he slept on my couch when he couldn't get a job. I loaned him $100 (56 pounds) so he could get his first set of head shots, so it's particularly gratifying, truly, for me to see him rise.

Chuck Jordan

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

Daniel Kerr

Now I've got 3 feet of water, so I can't plant.

Ben Crenshaw

But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

Charles Kennedy

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

Richard G. Scott

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

Bruce Campbell

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

Edward Abbey

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

E. B. White

Don't put your feet on the table, ... You know better.

Philip Gonsalves

Don't tell anybody, but by Monday you could play in the snow in the mountains. We could see a foot, maybe more, places like Palomar Mountain. The higher elevations could get about three feet of snow by Sunday evening.

Robby Ginepri

I served well and hit well off the ground and won the big points at the right time,

Michael Friedman

We have done as much as we can to get to a resolution with a mayor who doesn't want a resolution. We have got to take the moral high ground and stay united. If we don't, we are going to be destroyed.

Stephen F. Lynch

To have no one on the ground is just inexcusable, sir.

Kazimierz Krzowski

There is a low possibility that people are still trapped under there. The parts of the structure that are not lying on the ground are a threat.

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

John Conway

Ground zero is Charlotte. With all the garages, all the drivers, it's, like, natural.

Humphrey Bogart

If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Larry Johnson

He's got to take some tough medicine. He's just 10 years from retirement and starting at ground zero and he needs to live within a lower income.

Wangari Maathai

If they had resources, they would not be killing each other over grazing ground and water.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

Marissa Cook

I can?t look at state yet. It?s not here. I have to concentrate on playing my game.

Jaromir Jagr

Hopefully, I can keep playing like this in the Olympics. And hopefully, I can be even better for the Rangers after the break.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

John Steinbeck

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

Scott Young

I was sitting over there and all of a sudden bam, bam, bam.

Rosa Parks

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

Jill Clayburgh

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Sandy Alderson

I don't think I'll be sitting with Walt this week,

M. Thompson

I don't want to sound selfish, but I'm tired of sitting around.

M. Wolfe

He was just sitting here three weeks ago.

Chris Barnes

He got tired of sitting on the bench.

Paul Jensen

Rain, sleet, snow or strike, we'll get to work.

Boris Pasternak

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

Chris Proulx

There's no snow and it's not -20 C, so it's actually pretty cool.

George R. R. Martin

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.

George R. R. Martin

I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever

George Bernard Shaw

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

Bethenny Frankel

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.

Henry David Thoreau

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

Leonard Maltin

If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.