Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Filner

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

Amy Vanderbilt

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

Michael Klare

Palestinians will point across the road to an Israeli settlement where they see a swimming pool being filled and they point to their own community where there's barely any water at all -- and they'll express a great deal of anger about it.

Neal Stephenson

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

We didn't quit. The girls pushed across three runs late and avoided a blowout.

Kevin Johnson

Today we are enhancing the leadership team and structure across the division to ensure we have the right organization to support our technology vision.

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.

The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country.

Togolese want to celebrate this victory. So the whole government has decided to declare Monday, October 10 as a paid holiday across the whole country,

We are seeing continued growth in precision civilian applications such surveying, precision agriculture, infrastructure monitoring, geodesy, as well as volcano and earthquake research. More specifically at the Department of Transportation where I work, we are expanding our applications across the entire U.S. transportation infrastructure,

We are a country that understands the people of other countries, and understands that we have a common agenda across the board with many different countries -- so (it's) a very people-to-people style,

We're not saying stay home, but if you do drive, expect to come across a downed power line, expect to come across a downed tree limb. Stay off the cell phone. Stay alert.

We are pleased that we can help the City of Barre, one of our largest customers, with this exciting project. In light of the challenges we face in finding new generation to satisfy Vermont's future energy needs, it is important to find new and cost-effective ways to generate electricity. We are interested in learning from the Barre study whether there are other opportunities across Vermont to harness electricity from potential micro-hydro sites.

We are optimistic about the ongoing strength of the economy in 2006, but remain mindful of the challenges associated with moving record volume across our system.

We are only now starting to hear indications of increased pricing power, but they're still anecdotal and we don't see it across the board.

We are on course to field viable Democrats in seats across the state. Our goal is to challenge Republicans in every district and we believe we are on course to do it.

H. Rap Brown

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

Yanni

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

Imelda May

In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

Ian Anderson

I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

Irving Stone

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

Isabella Bird

The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north, its passes alone reaching an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet; while to the south, across a gravelly descent and the Indus Valley, rise great red ranges dominated by snow-peaks exceeding 21,000 feet in altitude.

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

Gale Harold

If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

Ken Thompson

We're especially pleased with solid fee income growth across the board, ... We see no signs of credit deterioration on the horizon.

Richard Powers

We're entering a whole new era now. America has suffered a terrorist attack of historic proportions, and now we're going to go after the perpetrators. Cyberattacks may be inevitable... Physical and cyberattacks in conjunction could cause panic across a whole economic sector.

Curtis Sliwa

We were friends and he knows what I went through with this shooting. I'm just happy I don't have to see him the next two days because there's no way I'd be able to sit across from him tomorrow.

Today's survey results confirm Toronto's status as a top-tier festival for international business and deal-making, ... International buyers clearly recognize Toronto as one of the world's premiere festivals to discover and buy the best cinema from across the globe.

Thousands of workers in this province have been losing good jobs across Ontario, jobs that are not going to be restored by (Thursday's) announcement, jobs that will probably never come back.

Travel across the state and meet alums and that's the one thing people have talked about is the history of that spot,

Johann Lamont

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

Using them can also strengthen the body through a range of motions by working across a number of different planes and through different directions. You can bend, twist and lean with them far more effectively to target muscles specific to different sports.