Famous Quotes & Sayings

The CAW, given the context, has done very well. The boat is afloat and upright after going through the rapids. They wanted to protect their members.

The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do the work they've been contracted to perform.

The immigrant workforce is still keeping the housing market afloat to some extent.

Jerry Stackhouse

They did a good job on him early, but as the game went on we found ways to get him some shots. Josh Howard kept us afloat and then Dirk was huge in the second half and down the stretch.

As you know, we have been struggling recently to keep our non-profit symphony orchestra afloat in the midst of a changing community and cultural environment. Symphony operational costs have risen and our donations and sponsorships are down sharply.

The markets are not that strong, it's the banks that are keeping things afloat on the day.

Bobby Cox

They're all great, ... This one is up there though because it was different. We've done it with young guys before. But we stayed afloat the entire year and never lost too much ground to anybody.

I've often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat

This is probably the best documentary about the whole corporate malfeasance. I'm sure all the money lost by the people in Park City over the whole Enron thing would keep the film series afloat for years.

Julian Casablancas

That's nice of you to say. We're sort of staying afloat despite not fitting into . . . the corporate rules of commercial success. Somehow we've arrived somewhere cool despite not knowing where the ship was going to pop out after the storm.

There is a ship afloat without a captain,

We knew if we did fall through the ice, the boat would stay afloat and we could hang on to it.

Tamar Jacoby

Farming, construction, food processing, those businesses can't stay afloat without those workers.

The Treasury can't have it both ways. They can't expect us to pay higher tax, fuel and utility bills while keeping the economy afloat by shopping in the high street.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What was he doing, the great god Pan, / Down in the reeds by the river? / Spreading ruin and scattering ban, / Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, / And breaking the golden lilies afloat / With the dragon-fly on the river.

The crews of the new ships can help do some of the work that's required to keep the ship afloat and to deal with the damage to the hull,

John Caudwell

'Titania' is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on 'Titania.'

Allison Scagliotti

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.

I have never experienced any weather that rough in the size of the boat that I was in. I could not control the boat. I did the best I could for about 10 to 11 hours to keep it afloat until we were evacuated. Everyone was seasick. Everyone had a loss of energy. It took a lot of persuasion on my part to get people into their survival suits, but the bottom line is we survived.

I think he's still concerned to keep the stock market afloat and to hold down bond yields. He's going to be more inclined to talk the markets up rather than down.

He (Brown) is a man with grandiose schemes, no doubt attracted by the glamour of sporting clubs, but he has been prepared to use dishonesty to keep these afloat by ignoring the rules of business.

D. H. Lawrence

I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

Ali Larter

I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.

Luis Sojo

We've been quiet offensively and today we came through when we needed it. It's not a secret that our fine pitching has kept us afloat in this tournament.