Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Christopher

The L.A. Trilogy is completely separate from my far-future space opera series, 'The Spider Wars,' which kicks off in March with 'The Burning Dark.' I like to write across different styles and genres - I love space opera and science fiction, but I also love crime and noir, so this is a great opportunity to have some fun with another genre mash-up.

As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk: A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone's counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We're the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.

Allowing the pass across two lines has been a fantastic change. For example, Steve Sullivan (of the Nashville Predators) had breakaway goals (in two recent games), and that never could have happened under the old rules because he was across center ice both times when the pass came.

a broader focus on winning developers across the entire platform, including client, server and services.

Peter Cullen

A comprehensive legislative approach to privacy that applies across the country would be part of the solution to give all consumers strong privacy and security protection, and allow everyone to realize the full potential that the Internet and technology can provide.

It sets the stage for other industries across the country, which are being hurt by imports.

It's a start. But, honestly, I believe to raise percentages of salaries in this county across the district, we would need more money.

It's a sign of optimism. It's a sign of a fire that is no longer running across the landscape.

It's a tough one to get ahead of the curve on. Because it seems like we have so many people generally across the community that are ill, that's what makes this tougher and more complex.

David Sze

A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.

John Ortberg

Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear the full image of God has had a way of sparking reform movements across the centuries.

A lot of people will want to live there because their children's grandparents live across the street at Sun City Carolina Lakes.

Shia LaBeouf

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport, ... Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in. But they don't know Francis' story, which is why the movie was made in the first place: To bring back this amazing tale so that people could be educated about how interesting it was. When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course. Francis was a caddy. He grew up across the street from the course, looked up to Harry Vardon (played by Stephen Dillane in the film), this five-time British Open champion but he was never allowed to play.

Americans have been bombarded by charitable requests as a result of the record-breaking number of devastating disasters which have affected families across the globe. While it is important that women secure their financial future for themselves and their families at home, it's also important for women to actively participate as members of our local and global families.

A lot of these folks don't have a great deal of political experience and very often they get off to a strong start, but their lack of experience shows over the course of the campaign. They make rookie mistakes, aren't careful in how they phrase their positions and don't come across in an appealing way to voters.

Greg Peterson

They moved the monkeys into the Myrick Park zoo, but the water in the moat froze during the night and the monkeys ran across the ice, climbed the fence and ran. Naturally, the first place they went was to the only house there ? my mother's.

Joe Black

They (Maryville High School) have playing and practice venues all across the city. For example, baseball will play at Maryville College soccer at John Sevier School, so we're really just all over. It becomes a real logistical nightmare for one person.

They played great perimeter defense. They were physical across the board, and they jammed the perimeter. The one weakness was in the post, and we saw Phil get 16.

Tim Cahill

They don't really have a long attention span. It's whatever happens across their eyesight is what they suddenly become interested in. So we tried to cash in on that. These are basically wild animals. They can be having a conversation with Adam one second and the next one just go completely animal crazy. So we try to have fun with that idea.

They don't know to slow down. Most of the time they shoot across the street, and they don't give and take that time it takes for the person on the hill to come down. They shoot across and it's bad.

This company is over 110 years old. In the past 10 years we have quadrupled in size, a lot of that growth by acquisition and expansion of our coverage area across other state borders,

For about 1 percent of the total of applicants across the country, the approval process may still take years.

The performance ranged from excellent or nearly so to very good. There was a very high level of performance across the board.

With this important acquisition, we now have more than 1,000 employees in the U.S. serving key global and mid-tier clients. Our message and values are hitting home across all markets and we are seeing a significant up tick in revenues and demand for our services. We are building on the double-digit revenue growth we experienced during the last three years, and have the strong base of skills and experience to fuel our global expansion.

Willa Ford

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

Tim Hunt

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

Didier Drogba

Unfortunately in the emotion of winning the game my comments have come across partly in the wrong way. I want to make clear that I don't dive.

Paul Campbell

The Gourmet Burger Kitchen business is performing strongly across its eight existing restaurants and our pipeline of new sites is developing well.

Al Sharpton

As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.

Shinzo Abe

When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.

We saw a lot higher levels of frustration. There's a lot more room for improvement across the board.

Nancy Keenan

Women in New Jersey and across the country should be very proud of Rep. Rothman for leading this bipartisan effort to provide commonsense, compassionate care to rape survivors in the emergency room. When it comes to solving serious problems like unintended pregnancy, Americans want answers from their elected officials, not silence. I stand proudly with Congressman Rothman in calling on Speaker Hastert to allow a vote on his legislation without further delays.

Michael Strahan

When I saw the date of the game, it was a little like, 'Whoa,' ... It kind of took you back. We'll go out here and hopefully give everybody in the city of New York and across the country something to be happy about and turn it into a celebration.