Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Walters

Katrina has blown that outreach away. This has become a powerful emotional issue - a national issue - that will severely limit Bush's future outreach efforts, because the victims in Louisiana and Mississippi have huge family networks scattered all over the country.

Casey Nicholaw

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.

George H. W. Bush

Has the place blown up since he's been here?

Susanna Moore

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.

Daniel Bruhl

When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.

Ron Bennett

Having worked in Nashville and then seeing the scope of this studio, I was blown away. It doesn't get much better than this!

Richard Taylor

Her home had damage, not flood water. She is west of the levee break. Her large family room roof had been pulled up and rainwater ran down the dry wall, and some of it fell onto the floor, making a mess. Her kitchen window was blown out and water got in that way,

Felix Sabates

It comes down to those 25 points. That's what it comes down to. You can say, 'Well we had blown engines.' But everybody else had blown engines. Everybody had wrecks. That's part of racing. The 25 points was not part of racing. The 25 points was robbery.

Mike Malaise

I think the indictments put this on the national news. But in terms of what the effect is on the race, I think sometimes that gets blown out of proportion. Ethics was already a question in this race.

Jackie Cooper

Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.

Ignacio Bunye

has to deal with the legislature and other branches of government.

Ty Law

He went to two branches within 10 to 15 minutes of each other and took me for about 20 grand. It was an hour and a half from where I'm from. I'd never been to the branches in my life. He had a forged driver's license from Ohio. He got me.

Ziggy Marley

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

Sam Brownback

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

Gustav Krupp

I pledged to him unrestrained support in his Government in its exceedingly difficult task from all branches and organizations of Economy.

Bryan Sykes

If you didn't have that genealogical information, you wouldn't have the first idea about those two branches or where they come from.

Bruce Cain

In public esteem, the judges are the most highly rated of the three branches of government.

Phyllis Wise

If you don't have fundamental biology, all the branches are going to whither.

Luol Deng

Kirk carried us. I had some good looks in the fourth quarter, but the whole game I struggled. But I thought Kirk stepped up, and we followed him.

Tom Neises

Kevin really carried us through stretches of the season when we had people out. He is a team leader. He is a great model on and off the court.

Roy H. Williams

James and Dee didn't seem to be too carried away or too emotional out there. They were just businesslike, and they got their team into what they wanted to do.

Rob Carter

It carried me a long ways in life. It really did. It opened up a lot of doors. It got my college paid for. I was then able to take out loans and go to law school, become a lawyer and earn a good living.

Bob Bolen

He was a hard worker at Woodrow, and it's carried over to his coaching, I think he's doing a great job. He was a tremendous player and always a joy to be around. He's always been a great kid, he was a great kid growing up, now he's a great young man.

Aaron Mattox

He was big down the stretch. He's carried us lately. I couldn't be more proud of his effort all the way around. He's improved big time and not just at shooting, but his defense and going to the rack and rebounding.

Ben Wallace

He carried us tonight. He's been like that all season.

Kirk Hinrich

He carried us throughout the game, making big shots and big plays.

Todd Galloway

He carried us the whole game. That's just letting people know how great of a player he is. We just have to come to play with him.

Mark Dinger

I would say it is a declining number of chain installers because of the popularity of the SUV. We have seen a real drop in the number of people (applying for permits).

John Carrico

What we found was that there were other grocery store chains who had the same need.

Tim Purpura

I think you'd have to chain him down to keep him from starting.

Patrick Ho

We suspect that initiatives within its manufacturing operations and a more streamlined supply chain are just part of the reasons for the improved margin profile.

Anthony Chan

I think a seasonal factor is part of the issue here, but you can't discount it all. Look at what is happening with chain store sales. They've been pretty weak. Some of it (weak retail employment) is real.

Scott Burns

I think a lot of the problems they've been having with?supply chain bottlenecks?look like they've kind of worked their way through the system.

Pat Roberts

I think ultimately you have to go right up the chain to the secretary of defense or to the civilian leadership of the military,

Voltaire

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Saxby Chambliss

He's going to be grilled pretty good about what happened, how it happened and how far up the chain it looks like it went.

Aaron Johnson

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Pat Murphy

Kevin Fields really gave us a spark. When you have three guys hitting double figures, you've got a good chance (to win).

Buck Showalter

Kevin made good pitches when he had to, but it took a lot out of him. It was a tribute to him that he was able to get through it for five innings and give us a chance there.

Alan Moller

Know what the weather forecast is. Watch your favorite TV station, listen to the weather radio, and you've got to be in a day when there might be thunderstorms and they're probably going to tell you whether or not there's a chance they're going to be severe.

Jon Corzine

Kids have places to play. This is a city that's on the move. It has a chance to have a real vital future, and I think it's degrading when you talk about people playing on roofs,

Jeff Boogaart

Jacob is a good, young kid. He's got a chance to be real good for us. ...He needs to get a little tougher, and little more physical, but he does a good job with the ball.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

Jeriamy Jackson

Kenny, he's going to work harder than anyone. As for Matt, nobody's going to intimidate him despite giving up nearly 35 pounds in his weight class.

Richard Lucas

Joe was hired a long time ago, did a good job and stuck around. Despite all the changes, he's still the same. He still thinks he's a pre-law student.

Susanna Moore

Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.

Jose Serrano

I think it says something about Freddy that, despite his ups and downs in this race, he has stayed dignified, animated, and charismatic.

Bill Gray

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Russ Yarworth

He's a very tough worker. Mentally, he's tough, despite what he might tell you. He's got a good feel for the water.

Byron Calame

I have had unusual difficulty getting a better explanation for readers, despite the paper's repeated pledges of greater transparency.

Eric Mason

had a distant and past friendship, but that was more than a year ago.

Hilary Clinton

place him on the distant shores of American jurisprudence.

Edward Kennedy

in what now seems a very different and distant time.

Kathy Freudenberg

The Haitian and Mexican kids are very distant -- they don't know each other's culture. We try to promote harmony.

Greg Wittrock

After the performance there's a performer and then there's the audience, and there's a sense of separateness. In this interactive theater I don't feel that separateness. I don't feel distant from people, I feel closer, it feels good.

Kara Swisher

It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.

James Norton

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

Nostradamus

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

Louise Leakey

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

Adam Brody

I was like Nemo, Ryan. I found my way HOME.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Adam Barrett

Katie's done that all year for us. She stepped up and found a way to get to the hoop.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Maelle Ricker

I talked to him yesterday and found out what happened. Hopefully I've got a game plan to not have that happen to me.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Randy Monroe

He can score, and he found ways to score tonight.

Antwan Peek

He just made plays. He has led them to 14 straight wins (now 15), so he found openings. We're going to have to go in, watch film and find out (what went wrong).

Barclay Radebaugh

He just has a lot of poise with the ball. He found open people, and he's very tough to keep in front of you. I like the way he plays.

Charles Kingsley

He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Mark Hagen

He is really talented. He just needs to work on pinning the other team inside the hash.

Matt Baker

He's a big, punishing back who can get you those yards inside the red zone, and especially inside the 10.

Bruiser Flint

He's a big kid who can score inside and outside and can rebound the ball. He can post you up. That's the tough thing about him.

Luke Reigel

He's been playing well all year. Kentucky Wesleyan was probably the smallest team we'll play, so we pounded it inside to him.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Robert Cabana

I think we're all going to be pumped up when we actually go inside the space station.

Wolfgang Nowak

I think that Merkel has solved the principal unsolvable problems inside her own party. The problem for her now is the Social Democrats.

Stacy Stewart

I wouldn't be surprised if much of the island is under water. It's just a speck on the map.

Fred Glass

Just like Kings Island has to have a new ride every year or so, we need to have a new thing.

Mitchell Pally

I think it's essential. In the past 10 years, where people live and where people work on Long Island has changed.

Mandy Hotchkiss

I was just totally overwhelmed. Their whole island has been totally wiped out.

William Wordsworth

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

Riccardo Muti

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

Richard Pryor

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

William Dampier

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Vito Fossella

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

Vince Green

When they say plants are closing, they're going elsewhere. And it's not just China; it's Tennessee, Texas, more business-friendly states.

Jerry Baker

They can take their students out and not just talk about it in a classroom, they can go out and actually work with the plants and the shrubs and the trees.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Paul Anderson

We never thought or suspected that these plants would have a problem. Somebody should be doing time for this; that's the way I look at it.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Charles Baudelaire

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

Mike Hayes

The seeds germinated, but as it leafed, it died, ... You'd come back a day later, and it would be dead.

E. B. White

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

Deepak Chopra

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

Martha Washington

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Federico Garcia Lorca

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

Anthony Chan

I think the seeds are in place for a soft landing.

Henry David Thoreau

I have great faith in a seed.

Sylvia Hatchell

I don't think the other No. 1 seeds are having to do this.

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Lynn Margulis

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Bill Nye

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Jasmine Guy

We are a complex species to observe

Barry Schuler

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Bill Bryson

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Randolph Morris

It wasn't a pretty game, but it's not about how pretty you look, it's about surviving and winning.

Michael Scott

You are not living, you are surviving.

Richard M. Nixon

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

Jules Verne

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Pat Conroy

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

Pat Conroy

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Prem Rawat

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Bayard Taylor

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

Austin O'Malley

Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

Moshe Sharett

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Zayn Malik

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”

Zhu Rongji

Free Tibet before free trade.

Vladimir Putin

I hope that there will be no particular need for us to attract external funding. It is worth noting that despite the fact the turnover is smaller now we are still maintaining a trade surplus.

Bonnie Summers

You can see what the drug trade has done to this area.

William Cowper

Doing good, disinterested good, is not our trade.

Dallas Drake

That's part of it as you get older, and unrestricted. No offense, I'd trade all of us, too.

John Kasich

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

Lucy Liu

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.