Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I hope the United States can make joint efforts with us in safeguarding China-U.S. relations and the peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits.

I hope that residents of Aberdeen and surrounding areas will come watch South Dakota's best competition of swimmers and see what competitive swimming is about. People across the state are excited to compete in Aberdeen's new pool.

I love to play Texas hold 'em. I've found it's such a craze across the nation that I thought it would be a great way to raise money for our nonprofit organizations.

Rove McManus

I love doing the show and hopefully that passion comes across on screen as well. I just enjoy myself every time I am out there.

T. E. Lawrence

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars.

Michael Huff

I love making plays. Whether it's hitting somebody across the middle, getting a 'pick' and going back scoring, or blocking a kick. Whatever it takes to help a team, that's what I'll do.

Michael Leunig

I must warn you right here and now that I am a 'wet leftie,' a 'leftist' and also a member of the 'bleeding heart liberal left.' I had no say in it whatsoever. I woke up one morning, and these things were tattooed across my forehead.

The journey of Marco Polo is the hero's journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to.

The jobs situation is still not resolved. Across several industries, inventories are rising, and we're seeing that consumers are trading down. That's an indicator that people are not beset with worries but they are turning cautious.

The jobs number was a blowout. It was strong across the board.

John Battelle

The largest issue with search is that we learned about it when the web was young, when the universe was 'complete' - the entire web was searchable! Now our digital lives are utterly fractured - in apps, in walled gardens like Facebook, across clunky interfaces like those in automobiles or Comcast cable boxes.

The largest carriers have raised rates each and every month this year. Instead of increasing across the board they have been increasing rates for one plan one month and another the next month.

The large amount of drugs that are freely coming and going across the northern border in our county is mind boggling. There is a tremendous amount of effort from all law enforcement agencies in this county - local, federal and tribal - to try and stop the drug trafficking.

The last thing you want is to terminate an employee for violating your data policy and they don't even know you have one. Or they know about the policy but it has not been enforced across the board.

The field event guys did pretty well across the board from throws to jumps.

The Canadian dollar is seen as a commodity currency and metal prices have been going up across the board, commodity prices are up.

The first few years it was to the point of giving tickets away. This year we are working hard to divide up tickets across our four business units.

The first Nickelodeon generation of kids grew up in a video democracy where the words broadcast and cable meant nothing, and great characters and stories meant everything. This next generation of kids is platform agnostic. We already are programming to kids on 15 different platforms and we're excited to be expanding our tradition of strong content development to reach across broadband, digital and wireless screens that have become a daily part of their lives. Kids are the first adapters of the digital age and we are going to fully integrate our brand into that space with great character and story-driven content that will be developed specifically for the products they are accessing.

The emerging field of mobile search is strategically important and crucial to delivering on our vision for Windows Live of providing a seamless and rich information experience for individuals and businesses across devices.

Anthony Marra

The idea that fiction can capture the stories that fall through the cracks of history informed 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,' which progresses across the two Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s.

The market dropped to levels that were pretty attractive to buy at. There is interest across the board ... The volumes were pretty high.

The main thing that I wanted to get across to both of them is to not feel compelled to force things, because the important thing for both of them to realize is that we have two very special Major League players here. We have to find playing time for both because they really kind of complement one another.

Phil Garner

The umpire said he went to his mouth. It was a bad call. It was a mistaken call. It's unfortunate that the game, in my opinion, turned on that. You don't know what's going to happen, but it takes it out of the players hands. He did not go to his mouth. He was sweating profusely on his face. He wiped his eyebrow (and came) across his nose and caught it on his face. It was a bad call, plain and simple.

You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do it.