Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Branagh

To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

Donnie Miller

One thing that has changed is the price of land. You try to go out and buy some farmland, and no one's wanting to sell the little tracts of 80 or 100 acres that people have always wanted.

Frank Turner

Now try to separate that in your mind from a person who owns hundreds of acres of land, and is now extending a water main through that tract, and still hasn't really thought out exactly the project he's going to build. Why would the extension of that utility vest development rights at that time?

Zac Goldsmith

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

Cathy Johnson

The 6,015 acres in question constitute only three one-hundredths of 1 percent of the land in the state of Maine. There are literally millions of acres adjacent to Baxter State Park where hunting can, will and should continue.

David Bernstein

Will they be bad owners? Will they simply flip this property over to developers? ... One hundred and twenty-seven acres in the center of Pinellas County is worth a fortune.

Richard Freeman

When it comes to horses, we need lots of acres and not many horses, but with these acres it would seem to be too small for the task at hand.

Larry Lewis

The high years for Utah County were back in 2001, when there was 56,000 acres of grasshoppers and in 2004 when there was 124,000 acres of crickets.

Delta Burke

One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Mike Redmond

I've played through it, but it just got to the point where that was it. I couldn't basically run. I feel good about doing everything I could. I battled through a majority of the season, especially the last two weeks.

Steve Silverthorn

The whole idea is to basically beat the pass to where it's going. You have to have an idea, you wanna know at all times where everybody on the ice is.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

Jesse Hathaway

The whole basis for Odyssey Interactive was basically a product of brainstorming at Donkey coffee. We literally sat around a coffee table shooting ideas off of one another.

Al Brown

That's what makes her so difficult to defend now. That's why she's put up the numbers she's put up this year. Before, she was basically a back-to-the-basket, low-post player. Now she's versatile enough to come outside, too.

Joe Main

That's normally issued to mine operators that basically thumb their nose to the law, these unwarrantable failure violations.

Alice Meynell

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

T. J. Miller

GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!!.... is how I climax.

Melissa Sweet

Some bears sit in great big chairs, great big chairs for great big bears.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Mike Cammalleri

He goes to the net hard when he gets in front. It's like he sees red, you know? He bears down and makes sure the puck ends up in the back of the net.

Walter Raleigh

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

Kunal Kapoor

The fund got whipsawed, ... There was some real underperformance here. Part of it was the manager, but Merrill Lynch bears some of the responsibility.

Dawud Walid

The Holocaust bears lessons for us all, and we should all express concern when similar events occur.

Gabriel Jafet

Everyone is waiting for Wednesday, and it looks like the futures market bears have used the wait-and-see mood to sell a bit and play downwards.

Jeff Allen

I can't even get in to watch it. I have been wanting to. But, it's a closed debate.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Ed Bailey

We may have actually closed it early than it needed to be, but we picked a date that we knew would not be interrupted. We planned events all the way through to the end with a large plan for the last run up to the closing.

Bo Ryan

It's kind of like the free throws we've given up. We've lost a couple games because (against) Michigan and Northwestern, they (didn't) miss a free throw down the stretch. We just closed out (a victory) the same way.

Jonathan Powell

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

Robert Pitofsky

This order is intended to ensure that this new medium, characterized by openness, diversity and freedom, will not be closed down as a result of this merger.

Dean Dimke

There were some nice financial opportunities for us moving to the wedge. But it's a very fluid process. I don't view it as a closed episode.

Simon Armitage

It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Robbie Reiser

We tested in Martinsville back in the spring but still didn't quite get the setup right for the first race. We've addressed that issue and hopefully will be better this weekend.

Kenoy Kennedy

We just try to do what we can to win the game. We can only do our part and hopefully the offense will do theirs, but we didn't win the game.

May Sarton

when I am working I immediately feel hopeful.

James Keller

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

James Keller

Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

Marianne Williamson

If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.

Michel de Montaigne

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

George W. Bush

I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

Gina Gershon

Size counts. That's all.

Tracy Adams

I could still use some more size on this team but we'll work with what we have.

Jaime Contreras

Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.

Shaukat Aziz

This truly encapsulates China's world view in this century,

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.