Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Collins

I want my mind to be a sail, susceptible to any breezethat might be blowing across the lake of consciousness.

William Collins

I want my mind to be a sail, susceptible to any breeze that might be blowing across the lake of consciousness.

John le Carre

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

Tamara Ecclestone

I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.

is the worst scenario because what makes you really angry is when you run across friends who said they just didn't have time to vote.

Randy Alcorn

I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.

Terry Zwigoff

I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across how I see the world in hopes that it can change the way other people see the world, hopefully for the better.

It used to be significantly less to go across the river (to Clark County), and that is not the case anymore. It is quite obvious that the greater metropolitan area has started to equalize.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

Charles Schumer

The vote is a shot across the bow in terms of the Justice Department and how it conducts itself, in terms of upcoming Supreme Court nominations, and the push-and-pull within the Bush administration. Will it be bipartisan or will it be pulled to the right?

James Thurber

The vivid images that are coming across the television are really destroying his image as a leader.

The urban heat-island effect does help to create thunderstorms. But mostly downstream from a city. Rainfall maps across Texas show slightly higher precipitation amounts downstream of most Texas cities, but it's more noticeable with cities the size of Dallas-Fort Worth.

The venue has proven to be an excellent opportunity for CATA members to meet face-to-face with industry vendors and to gain market intelligence on industry trends and patterns. We are promoting the event across Canada to our multi-sector membership.

They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this year caused great demand across the country. Manufacturers are producing them as fast as possible.

It looks like the tech rally has had a little hiccup and it will take markets lower tomorrow across the world.

It looks like another day of (the U.S. dollar versus the Canadian dollar) remaining pressured as the U.S. dollar continues to lose ground across the board.

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.

Although our business levels remain ahead of last year, overall volumes for the quarter are projected to come in below our expectations across all of our asset-based business units. In addition to general competitive pressure, some of our large retail customers have made significant inventory adjustments in the quarter, which have impacted our business levels.

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.