Famous Quotes & Sayings

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...

Trudi Canavan

The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Richard Rohr

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

Garret Anderson

In years past, we had a balance of guys who swing the bat and take walks. This team was a little more free-swinging and you're going to go through phases like that where everybody is not hitting at one time. That's reality.

Andrew P. Harris

In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.

Jay Nixon

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.

Alan Greenspan

The Federal Reserve has responded to the balance of market forces by gradually raising the federal funds rate over the past year, ... Certainly, to have done otherwise -- to have held the federal funds rate at last year's level even as credit demands and market interest rates rose -- would have required an inappropriately inflationary expansion of liquidity.

Stewart Schwartz

You could use the Transfer of Density Rights tool to balance mixed-use and open space.

John Hawkes

You couldn't miss him, he was just a natural with balance and maturity,