Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

William J. Clinton

It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

Warren Buffett

In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

Warren Rudman

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

Neal Shusterman

Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.

Narendra Modi

The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.

Harvey Mackay

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Harvey Mackay

Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.

Harvey Mackay

Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.

Charles Francis Richter

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

Charles Francis Richter

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

Bill Gates

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Alan Lightman

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.

Andy Borowitz

Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.

Dorothy Thompson

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

Douglas William Jerrold

If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.

Sonny Bono

It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

Philip Emeagwali

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

David Walliams

All human life can be found in an airport.

Carol Leifer

Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

Caitlin Moran

I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?

Donald Trump

In my opinion, we've spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people [on the Middle East] that frankly, if they were there and if we could've spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all of the other problems; our airports and all of the other problems we've had, we would've been a lot better off.

Tom Hodgkinson

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

Shaun White

I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.

Lisa Snowdon

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.