Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill White

I look toward Ormond Beach and all I see is fire on the horizon. The flames are leaping up over everything -- trees, buildings, everything. I'm just numb.

Bill White

I look toward Ormond Beach and all I see is fire on the horizon, ... The flames are leaping up over everything -- trees, buildings, everything. I'm just numb.

I had read the day's post, which said, 'rain dying out later,' ... When I went down to the beach it wasn't raining and the water wasn't breaking on the Sound and it seemed OK.

If I owned him, I wouldn't own him. I'd be on the beach in Barbados.

From a tourism point of view, we need to maintain a healthy beach that promotes our tourism industry.

Chris Noth

From what I've heard about Israel and its sites, landscape, beaches and historical and religious heritage, it is a wonderful place to visit. I told my friends that I'm going to Israel because I'm a New Yorker, and a New Yorker goes to Israel.

If an employee is at the beach but is preoccupied with work and reaching for the phone, it defeats the whole purpose of getting away.

For these negotiations to go forward, we felt the commission needs to delegate one of its own to negotiate. I think we owe that to the citizens of Palm Beach County and the state of Florida.

Shaquille O'Neal

For this incident, I don't want to be credited as an individual who does police work. I want to be credited as a Miami Beach police officer.

Alex Jones

The Hubbell space telescope, it's first year up after they fixed it, categorized and counted 500 billion galaxies in any one photograph field of view of dark matter. That's like grains of sand at the beach and you've just got a handful. It's massive amounts. I'm sure that of all of the galaxies, and I'm sure the universe is teeming with life.

Gold Beach looked better than they did the first two games.

Ben Nelson

I suspect it would relieve some of the pressure on Bonita Beach Road,

It could have the unintended consequence of making it harder to actually catch those who commit sexual offenses because they won't have ties to the community. They'll be like a shark biting someone close to the beach and disappearing into the ocean.

Michael Brown

this was not people choosing to stay in their beach homes.

Scott Skiles

We try to keep it reasonable. It's not necessarily that we don't trust our guys. We don't trust other people. We want to keep our guys out of situations where something (negative) can happen. I sort of look at it that, if you want to come to South Beach and have some fun, you have the money to do it in the summertime. Now is not the time for that.

Paul Tracy

We took our lunch break to sneak down the beach and see the waves.

When Howard Beach occurred -- and it was white on black -- everyone was upset. This is similar. Somehow because this was black on white, people think it is different. No, it isn't.

Huge volumes of sand have been wiped off the beach. The beach has had a dramatic vertical elevation change. It wiped the beach flat.

I also come from a tourist beach community that kind of knows to cover things up for the sake of tourists, so I'm a little wary for that reason, too.

Half of our bullpen drives pickup trucks, ... They go hunting. They don't go to South Beach on their off days.

He would always talk about the beach raids in the Philippines and the Solomons. He'd tell how they would drop off the Marines, then go back later to pick them up. Sometimes the Marines would be there, and other times they would be met by the Japanese.

He flagged down the Miami Beach officer on duty there, and the officer was able to apprehend the subject.

He looked like the king of muscle beach and he was a surfer. But he had vision. He believed that for a city to be great, it had to have a great newspaper.

He made it clear when he decided to come to Miami Beach that he didn't want to just be a poster boy for photo ops, he wanted to get down and dirty and do the job. He's here to conduct investigations and to make arrests.

Dayton Moore

He'll probably go to (Class A) Myrtle Beach and he'll be evaluated accordingly. The next step would be Mississippi. It's possible he could get there this year. The competition (in A-ball) will tell us.

Strom Thurmond

I did not risk my life on the beaches of Normandy to come back to this country and sit idly by while a bunch of hack politicians whittles away your heritage and mine.

Bruno Junqueira

I feel pretty good. I've been doing some long runs, last week in Fontana. I'm racing at a really good pace, but I'm not expecting any results from Long Beach yet.

I did a presentation in West Palm Beach back in 2001 and I just got glazed looks. Now we go and do this and they're eating it up. The industry has come a long way in all of these issues.

Given the importance of the election and the fact that the present margin is approximately 300 votes in the state, I believe the people of Palm Beach County have entrusted us with the power to voice their right to participate in their government.

Frank Pallone

Given the damage that just one oil spill or wrecked rig could do to shore communities that are heavily dependent on clean beach and ocean environments, it seems to me that undoing coastal moratoria is simply not worth it,

From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

Dave Barry

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

Carl Sagan

The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.