Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Bill Ryan

We're inches away from getting (the leases) completed.

Tony Couture

They're outstanding. They're just deadly. They pass the puck and skate well. You can't give them an inch because they'll take a mile and rip it right into the net.

Trent Reznor

I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Geoff Brown

An inch of rain and we split the $100,000 between the fans. It's the first time I've rooted for rain on opening day.

Steve Rucchin

It was the right call. Just inches away; what can you do?

Nick Park

You need to find things like having your actors move 2 inches in a day pretty exciting.

John Gresiak

We're going with about three to six inches for the area, maybe more on the lower end of that range.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Gary Chase

They (Framingham) are only three miles away. They aren't in our league, and we don't have to worry about running into them at all.

Alan Culpepper

You don't want the race to go without you, but you know you have 22 miles to go. It's a balance.

Tom Campbell

There was nobody else in the state who had to go 120 miles to play two sectional games. But that's the way it is.

Bob Mitchell

I travel between Miracle Mile and (West) Valencia Road often, and for many months, many signs go unlit.

Maurice Luque

They rescued about 240 people within a four-hour period of time within 5 square miles before they had to suspend operations at nightfall. There were about 500 people who still needed to be rescued.

Richard Rosenbaum

I try to get every mile out of it, ... If I could get 60 or 70 miles, I would.

Jim Haggerty

Back then I could run two miles in 13 minutes. Now I don't think I can run two miles.

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Charles Dickens

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

Alanis Morissette

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Alan J. Pakula

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Alan Jay Lerner

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

Al Sharpton

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

Al Pacino

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

Akshay Kumar

It's the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I'm always on break.

Chris Colfer

From this day on, I refuse to let anyone bring me to a point where I can't take a horrible situation and spin it into something beneficial. I will never let anyone make me feel anything I don't want to feel again or rob me of the passions that make me who I am.

Sean Bergenheim

You don't want to give the puck up. You'll do everything to get it back.

Bob Gilligan

Dennis has tremendous skills, and he can put the puck home. All we tell him is to keep it simple.

Brad Radke

Puck would've wanted us to go out and play.

Jaromir Jagr

It was very special for me. I had so much time to look around and put the puck where I wanted to.

Wayne Gretzky

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.

Brad Shaw

You need to do whatever you can do to make sure that puck doesn't go in the net.

Billy Crystal

Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries.

Brent Cardali

Everyone stepped up tonight and I was just trying to get the puck to the forwards like usual and they put it in.

Brian Gionta

There's no shortage of effort. We just need to get the puck in the net.

Beau Mirchoff

I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.

Bill Murray

So far, I've only sailed in the Caribbean. I've sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well. When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it's terrible and amazing stuff.

Carol Leifer

Women, stop buying the lingerie. Stop buying it right now. Oh, it's a big rip off. Oh my god, $18 bucks for panties this big? Come on, one trip through the dryer, and it's a frilly bookmark.

Bryan Adams

Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

Billy Mays

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine

Dennis Kucinich

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

Ed Westwick

This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I’m into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.

Bob Hope

There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.

Bill Gates

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

Joe Thornton

They skate so well. They're very quick, very skilled.

Casey FitzRandolph

As of yesterday, I wasn't sure if I would skate it. I've been sick.

Steve-O

I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasnt that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera.

Tony Hawk

Most of my friends are skaters or were skaters at one time, so they obviously relate.

Tony Hawk

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

Shaun White

I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.

Tom DeLonge

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

Jay Adams

You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.

Mike Richards

We need a place around here we can skate without getting a ticket for it.