Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

I most remember the Black faculty lunches he would host while working as the faculty assistant for affirmative action. It was the only place on campus you could regularly meet colleagues from across the various departments and hear about issues that affected our community.

John Negroponte

If I were to choose one single watchword of this strategy, it's 'integration,' and I think that the whole thrust of this strategy is to drive toward the best possible integration of our intelligence efforts across the board.

Mo Ibrahim

Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

In law, in general, there is an obligation and duty to maintain and preserve evidence if you have reason to know that litigation could ensue. That doesn't mean you have to wait to the day the complaint comes across the threshold.

Juliet Rylance

In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.

In a nutshell, it was a disappointing quarter. Across the board, the numbers just failed to meet expectations.

Al Groh

In a lot of ways, it's the most inexperienced team that we've had. We have certain positions that are rich in experience, but, across the board, it's the most inexperienced team that we've had. Not just on the front line, but at some spots all the way through.

Michael Scott

In a lot of the areas, it's not like you fly into the big city and take a taxicab to the local church or whatever. They have to trek to the middle of a jungle or across the desert on a camel. There is a fair amount rigorous effort to get where they are going.

In all you're seeing sort of a mixed reaction out there. The oil data was good because of the distillates, but you're still seeing oil prices higher because of demand. And we're seeing a lot of volatility across the board.

In a party tent poised somewhere between romance and avarice, an auctioneer hammered out the sale of the first of the costly baubles that were scattered as love tokens across the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

Christopher Cross

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

I know we come across looking like the bad guys, but we're looking for a safer way to get a funeral procession from Point A to Point B without getting somebody hurt or killed, ... I think everybody is motivated to see things fixed, and I do believe we're going to be able to come up with some workable protocol.

I knew that Charlie was a real good guitar player, and I ran across Ralph somewhere, and he's a real likable guy. I really wanted to get into a workable band.

Michael O'Brien

I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable - what astonished me and continues to astonish me is the intense controversy that erupted very early on among Christians themselves, in all the churches. It cuts across every denominational line.

Jessye Norman

I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you take it for granted. Of course your parents love you. Of course Mrs. Hubert across the street loves you and your godmother loves you and your grandparents love you.

I like the concept. Bear has lagged its peers in terms of international expansion. Having a joint venture with a large bank in China with commercial relationships across Asia would probably be viewed positively by investors.

James Boyd

I'm going to be nervous going to places at night, now, but I'll know that I'm not going across the street when people holler at me!

I'm embarrassed for our state. We're not only finding a way to prey upon our own citizens but we're finding a way to prey upon citizens across the border.

I'm not going to claim, 'We're not having any picks, but we're a great secondary,' ... No. We need to create turnovers. But I don't care how many balls you catch, if you're getting toasted up the sidelines or beat on comebacks or beat across the middle, that turnover won't help you win the game.

I'm not going to call it robust but we're seeing manufacturing hiring across the board. We have a unit that focuses on the blue collar side and it's been on a roll for three or four years now.

Michael Fitzpatrick

I'm expecting builds across the board. Imports should continue to arrive at a high rate, which will raise crude stocks, and refineries continue to return, which should do the same for the products.

Chauncey Billups

I'm excited to have the USA across my chest. I'm glad they thought I was capable enough to regain our dominance. So I am proud of that, and I am definitely looking forward to it.

I met a man across the street, he's in a wheelchair and he patrols the neighborhood, yeah, and I met another lady across the alley and yeah, I want to meet them all.

Sonny Perdue

I'm extremely pleased with the progress that our minority students are making, ... They are outstripping the gains made across the United States by a greater margin than even our student population as a whole. That bodes well for our state.

I'm really proud of them. I've never seen a team step up so much in every event. Across the board we got personal records, everybody doing just a little bit more than we expected. We blew the second place team, Longwood, out of the gym by 20 points. That kind of point spread is shocking.

Mark Morris

I'm really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific instead of looking across the Atlantic.

Mark Duffy

I just asked for our players to give a full out effort, and told them they'd be able to walk away with their heads held high if they did that. And the effort was there for all three periods from everyone right across the board. This was a big, big game for us.

Candice S. Miller

I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

Chris Knight

I learned from working around the working man, ... I worked around people who had a hard time. A whole lot of my inspiration just came off of growing up around a small town and the things we did. I used to talk a lot with my grandparents about those things. I read lots of books. Every little thing came across as inspiring.

I learned that in juniors. It's more of a respect thing. A guy goes to battle for you, and you just kind of help him out, pick his stuff up and bring it over to him instead of shooting across the ice.

I hope we learned a lesson after we got slapped across the face. When you let momentum get away from you, it's hard to get it back and you can't rest until you get back on the bus.