Famous Quotes & Sayings

It certainly surprises people that the governor and his wife and others would use that kind of language. It doesn't help him with Republican voters. He comes across as just another New York politician who doesn't share their values.

It comes from the trenches we put across the faults to look at the time of past earthquakes. It comes from satellite-based measurements ... that tell us how fast the plates are moving.

It didn't hit me until I was laying in bed that night with my family watching television, and it came across the bottom of the screen.

It indicates business was pretty solid and far beyond expectations. I think it's going to be a volume-driven business going forward. It's a pretty impressive showing looking at numbers across the board.

It implies that I, personally, am not terribly good at what I do, but it needs to be said. Across the system, you can't have a great group of faculty if you're the last pick.

It is a challenge to place a dollar value on the important work volunteers do for millions of charitable organizations and communities across the country. But this number can help put into perspective the enormous contributions provided by our nation's volunteers.

Mary Lambert

It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, 'What's up? I'm gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.' I don't feel like I'm a spokesperson. I just sing what my experience is.

It is a legislative trend across the world. China will definitely catch up with this trend, in spite of obstacles we are confronted with now.

It is a data collection exercise cutting across the whole country.

It is a collaboration to see how effective it is when we do this systematically. The aim is to roll all across Africa and get enough bed nets to cover every family and child.

I think the level of success within Honiara will affect the atmosphere across the rest of the Solomon Islands. But we will be capable of moving beyond the capital if that's necessary.

I think the key thing from a Microsoft perspective is that customers are looking to integrate applications inside their enterprises, customers are looking for vendors to provide solutions all the way across the stack.

I think the happiest thing that we came across was that it was the exact same situation but we handled it differently. It shows that we grew up and changed and I think that was the best feeling.

Angus King

I think that people have to reward those individuals who are prepared to work across the political aisle. I don't see any other way; if you don't talk to people with whom you disagree, you're never going to solve problems.

I thought he did a great job at Jefferson. They were always feisty as heck. It will not be the same coaching against Jefferson without Coach Simmonds across the sidelines. He did a great job of getting Jefferson on the map.

I think the grades are accurate, unfortunately. There are so many states that are smoke free - I think New Jersey got 'A's across the board - I think our grades are fair, as sad as that is.

Emmylou Harris

I think the frightening thing is when we lose our civility, which I think is happening across the board, and I find disturbing.

It is going to be an intense, but very exciting year across all our brands. We made strides in 2005 versus the significant losses in 2004 and we aim to continue our momentum in 2006.

It is good to see the regulator treating firms fairly across the board.

Nicola Sturgeon

Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.

David Roberts

I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.

I was doing quite a nervous poodle dance over it, ... I've seen coyotes play in it, rabbits go dashing across it and a whole family of moose. This is really an important piece of land. A lot of people got it, they understood that.

I was coming off the bench, so the puck came right across me. Long breakaways like that, you almost don't like having them. It gives you too much time to think. I think I was pretty fortunate, but I will definitely take it because the bounces have been few and far between for me this year. Special teams were obviously huge for us.

Max von Essen

I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn't know what I was doing.

We expect to see strong fourth-quarter performance across all of our businesses except America Online,

We expect to see a slowdown in house price inflation across the course of this year to virtual stagnation through the course of the second half of this year.

What more can I say that hasn't already been said. They are the hottest team in the league and are extremely talented and huge across the front line. They're good.

There is a huge interest in antique automobiles everywhere across the country, ... This is the only major antique automobile museum between Little Rock, Ark., and Dallas, Texas, and believe me we will get plenty of travelers and tourists stopping in Texarkana just to tour our museum.

The purpose of this demonstration is two-fold ... First, we want to provide a solution to travel demands connecting the two sides of our city that will reduce automobile traffic across our bridges. Secondly, we want to prove that such a solution can operate on electric, hybrid-electric, or even hydrogen fuel.

The purpose (of the rally) is to put across the mainstream Islamic viewpoint.

The purpose is to reduce the chance that somebody would be tempted to take an illegal or ill-advised shortcut across the railroad tracks.

We talked about the wind before the game. We told the girls that it would push balls across the net and we had to be ready for that from the far side. Kelsey did a great job in the net dealing with the wind.

We try to look at the games we are playing. Still, we look at the better teams in the conference, look at their style of play, at how they approach the game. We will come across everyone sooner or later. But conference is a time that is really fun. It's a little crazy. The scouting reports are so good. Everyone knows everything about everyone else. We know their plays, they know ours. But conference play is also fun, a lot of competition. It's what you live for, the competition. Go onto somebody else's court, come away with a victory. It's all fun.