Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

Chellie Pingree

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.

Tyler Smith

We are excavating the site. We hope to have the sales center open in three weeks.

Bernard Bailey

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

Felipe Alou

Finley is going to play even if everybody is healthy, and he is going to play center field when he plays.

Mitra Ishaya

Financially it was putting a great strain on the resources of the center itself, supporting teachers in other centers.

Tom Cody

Finally, L.A. will have a center that's worthy of the city.

Howie Mandel

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

Diane Paulus

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

Robert Franek

New College is a very specific kind of school that offers a small, private school feel at a state college price. It is an uncommon place and could be just the right place for the right student.

Matt Jackson

Ontario college students are frustrated and furious this evening that their post-secondary education is being disrupted by a province-wide faculty strike.

Pope Benedict

On March 24 I will hold a consistory, for which I will nominate the new members of the College of Cardinals.

Alan Cohen

I am sad. It's like seeing my oldest son go off to college. I know he is ready for the world, but I still worry.

Mike Preston

But this decision is not a good trend for a college town. There should be some opportunity for those under 21 to socialize and dance.

Bob Stoops

But there are other parts of what we do here as college students and on a college team that also need to be fulfilled.

Michael Adams

But generally, I'd say we're a microcosm of the college prep kids in the state. I think the current representation is fine.

Brian Boland

Baylor has been tested. They have enjoyed tremendous college success.

Harvey Leeds

Imagine graduating and your job is to hang out on college campuses, where people who work for you are getting people excited about music. I said, 'You're going to pay me to do that?' It was the greatest job, never having to grow up.

Bill Cowher

I've been waiting a long time to do this. This is yours, man. This is special group of coaches, a special group of players and I was a small part.

Ira Zuckerman

You're one person and I could have a group of loans that will go to that bank.

Joe Tiller

My initial take on this group is that it's my second-best staff. It may prove to be the best.

Todd Wilkinson

My first task is how we can win the Group A bracket.

Reg Alcock

one of a group that jumps around looking for a hot spot so they can slander people without substantial evidence. It's disgraceful.

Alok Sinha

It is a terrorist attack. It has all the characteristics of a terrorist attack. We are not sure about the group involved.

Tom Ridge

It is as reliable a source, group of sources that we've ever seen before.

John Harris

Japan's group mentality leads people to travel in predictable waves. So the secret of a happy, stress-free life in Japan is to do everything 'wrong.

Miles White

Jeff has made significant contributions to our Pharmaceutical Products Group and we wish him well in his new endeavors.

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Douglas Adams

The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

Douglas Adams

[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something — but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.

Donald Knuth

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

Donald Knuth

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

Dale Murphy

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

Craig Newmark

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

Daniel Craig

It doesn't matter whether you have the happiest upbringing... the young Joe Scot had the most dysfunctional family there could be but it's still a family and it's a really good, strong family. But in spite of that he runs away from home. I relate to all of those things very directly. I hit 40 this year but I still think about being a teenager and hopefully I will for the rest of my life. They are important years.

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

Henry David Thoreau

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

Henry David Thoreau

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

Henry David Thoreau

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

Henry David Thoreau

Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

Henry David Thoreau

The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.

Henry David Thoreau

Tis now the twenty-third of march, And this warm sun takes out the starch Of winter's pinafore - Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks A health to spring, and while it sips It faintly smacks a myriad lips.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

Gretel Ehrlich

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.