Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Bean

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Alan Autry

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,

Alan Autry

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Alaina Huffman

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.

Fisher DeBerry

We also understand that standards have to be maintained. We have to move on with our preparations for this season, but we'll do all we can to help Marcus continue his education at another school.

Rob Judson

The outcome of the game is important for us to continue to play well. Sometimes seeding for a tournament can be deceptive.

Howard Johnson

The potential offensively is pretty good. If we can stay healthy and these guys continue to do what they did all spring, we'll be fine. We're going to be exciting at the top of the lineup.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Peter Cardillo

The perception is turning toward the fact that the economy is slowing and we can still continue to grow even if the economy grows at 5 percent.

Scott Kessler

The point is that Yahoo continues to invest very, very significantly in this area, and is doing good things, and will continue to do good things, which steps up the pressure.

Adam Ereli

Until and unless we can be sure the food we give is really going to those who need it, then we can't continue to provide aid.

Peter Kelly

Unprecedented levels of unfairly traded imports continue to flood our markets. We renew our request that the Administration fully enforce our nation's trade laws and support recently introduced legislation intended to restore a level playing field in steel trade matters.

Margaret Miller

We are proud to have him as our leader for the past 17 years and are honored to continue to have his participation and experience in our department.

Brad Dean

We grew because we offered more for your money. Today, everyone offers that, from cruise lines to casinos. ... Everybody is selling value for the money and packaging it with convenience. It's got to be more than simply price.

Richard Hendrix

We felt like even though we were down, the game was still ours. Even down to the last shot, we thought we'd cruise into the next round. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way.

James Graf

We are getting into the dangerous portion of the mission. The cruise has not been easy, but now we are starting to enter into the realm where we have lost two spacecraft in the last 15 years.

Douglas Ward

As we've gotten larger and larger ships in the main resort cruise section, particularly in the U.S., what I've found is that people get tired of standing in lines and being highly structured, and then they start to think about smaller ships, and so they want to downsize.

Ed Conley

For instance you may have some people who have insurance and insurance is meeting their living expenses while they have been displaced. You have some people who may be looking at an option such as a cruise ship where all of their needs are going to be met. It is going to vary by family.

Judy Randall

They are giving the customer exactly what they want. What we have to do is to become a cruise ship on land.

Randy Johnson

You don't want to lose your focus that you're going to cruise through it by any means. I was able to get some easy outs.

Bob Hunter

This is where it gets tricky, especially for inexperienced travelers who are making long-range plans. It might be worth it for a really expensive cruise that is non-refundable, for instance. It depends on your risk quotient and health.

David Rodgers

People cruise around with their kids and their grandchildren - it's a family-type event.

Alexis Faust

For an extra $100 million what are we going to get? The equivalent for four gem shows instead of one.

Ron Pollack

It's the equivalent of throwing a 10-foot rope to someone in a 40-foot hole.

Andy Ramirez

It's the equivalent of running a goal-line defense. It makes no sense at all.

George Campbell

It is really disappointing and that fine is the equivalent of three weeks wages for our total squad.

Donna White

Or it's the equivalent of going to the moon and back four times.

Rick Smolan

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

David Sherman

Something roughly equivalent in features could be worth more or less in a different setting,

Terry Lanni

I've said many times, what we are seeing now is the equivalent of last century's Industrial Revolution,

Robert Harris

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Al Michaels

As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game. And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my - the tonal quality, with getting excited.

Akhil Sharma

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Chris Carter

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Chris Colfer

Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

Chris Colfer

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

Chris Abani

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Chloe Sevigny

I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

Richard Flanagan

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

Jack Kilby

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

Kenny Harris

The site is rapidly taking shape. We're very excited.

Lynn Coady

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Scott McClellan

The United States is responding rapidly and robustly." ()

Lisa Ellis

Simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream rapidly and used up quickly.

Cecilia Zalkind

We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.

Joel Fuhrman

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

Anna Akana

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Paul Watson

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

Dan Harmon

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Christopher Marlowe

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

D. H. Lawrence

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

Dave Allen

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

Robert Anthony

When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it

Tony Hsieh

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

Tamora Pierce

Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Mike Kramer

It's been so long since we've won. We've got to get back on the winning track.

Chris Cooley

It's just tough, especially since it's the first week,

Rudy Rodriguez

A lot of firefighters had been there since Day One.

Donna Young

They have just killed us since about noon. It's been crazy.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Nikki Sixx

When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young.

Boris Diaw

We're small. That hasn't changed. We've been small all year.

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Ai Weiwei

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

With us being really thin at small forward, it's not good. But this time of year, that's usually when it happens.

Sandy Wilson

It's a small town remembering what it's like to be an American.

Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Steve Struss

For me, personally, it was the volume of evidence.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Johnny Thunders

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

Grazia Deledda

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

William Harvey

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Chaim Potok

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

Diana Gabaldon

This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?

Barbra Streisand

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Douglas Lee

It was a waste of money, and a waste of time.

Dexter Scott King

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Brad Lidge

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

Jane Yolen

If you love a waist, you waste a love.