Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trading performance across the last six months has been solid despite weakness in the UK carbonated soft drinks market.

Trading is strong across the Group, demonstrating the broad base of the company's activities and the benefits of our long-term investment strategy,

'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.

James Hill

This study provides strong evidence that it is not enough just to encourage our children to be physically active; we must make sure that they have safe places to be active. Our best hope of reducing childhood obesity is to create healthy communities, and many places across the country want to do that.

This strong performance reflects higher export prices across almost 80 per cent of all minerals and energy commodities exported, along with increased export volumes for over two thirds.

This state taxes too much, spends unwisely, lacks accountability and is simply not focused on enhancing economic opportunities for all its citizens. Eliot is speaking to these and other issues with passion and vigor. That's why people across the state have been eager to express their support for his campaign.

This spread, with a sort of shock wave spreading across the country, shows up in the number of towns affected.

You look at the enthusiasm across all winter sports and the results they're getting -- I think all the teams and kids believe in themselves in a way they never have in this country before.

Bo Ryan

You look at some coaching staffs across the country,

John Glenn

You don't need a walker up here and you don't need to worry about osteoporosis or a cane or anything like that, because you just float across the room,

Lamar Alexander

Today's announcement is very good news for families and communities across West Tennessee as they recover and rebuild following the tragic storms that struck this weekend.

James Young

Today my son is across the street running around and playing baseball with the South Brandon Little League. I remember almost nine years ago what a scary time that was. You don't forget.

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.

Today was really a solid performance by our program. Boise State has a quality lineup so to win across the board was meaningful for us. Now we have a big test tomorrow against Fresno State.

Marlon Wayans

I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.

Orhan Pamuk

I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

Olly Murs

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.

Gordon Smith

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.

Tom Brokaw

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.

Tad Williams

Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.

William Bell

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times.

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.

When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

Vint Cerf

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

Ving Rhames

You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them.

Aaron Patzer

At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.

Ben Affleck

What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.

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.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don't want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan.

Tim Armstrong

I think, from a standpoint of editorial, you know, AOL historically has played in a very deep way across many different verticals in the content space. Huffington Post adds a very large new dimension to that.