Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Harrison

What is life that I must get teeth pulled? Brown Dog thought, sitting on a white pine stump beside the muddy creek with a swollen jaw for company.

We knew nobody expected us to win that game besides us, and our guys enjoy the challenge of proving everyone wrong.

We just have to slow him down as much as we can. We have to be there on the catch and make him do something else besides shoot the three.

Edward Rutherfurd

I myself was born beside a river - the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure and a deep sense of homecoming.

Ethel Percy Andrus

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Emma Bonino

We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region.

Erin Cummings

When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park.

Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.

Brian O'Driscoll

Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.

We communicate really well. I think that's been our foundation, besides love. It's communication and respect for each other.

Anthony Wayne

We are committed not only to stand beside Pakistan at this time of tragedy, but we're committed to working with and standing with Pakistan in the long run,

I'd love to go back, but I don't know how long we're going to be here, ... I miss my home and I miss my wife ... I want to be buried right beside her.

I do like that rope. I've always been a bit of acrobat. It's something fun besides doing the regular workouts. The cradle's just a natural thing for me. To execute the cradle, you have to have great upper-body strength. I've been working on that.

Spike Dykes

He and I will be at the game, but no, we won't be sitting on same side of the field, ... And besides my son, Sonny, is the co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach at Texas Tech.

Heather pitched a great game and besides really one (Plant) hit, nothing was hit very hard. It was a great way to get the playoffs started.

Trey Songz

Other brands I like besides Versace... Tom Ford makes incredible suits. I love the glasses as well. I have a plethora of Tom Ford shades. Who else do I like? Dolce & Gabbana, Dior Homme.

David Eckstein

The one thing I didn't want to do was get into any type of jumpiness, ... Any type of anything in my body besides just focus on the baseball. And it's pretty calming to step into at the plate in that situation. I have no idea, no reason why.

Coach Orr is a great role model. I wouldn't want to play for any other college coach besides him.

Coming off an eight day rest I thought they'd be flat and they came out firing. We had a couple more fouls than I would like, but when things start getting sloppy like they did in the fourth, there are going to be fouls, but besides that I am real proud of them.

Coming into this year nobody was really looking at us as a good team. I feel good about this team. It's just we're really untested as far as going into a big match like a conference or regional (tournament) besides Blake and Ted.

Mark Jackson

Any place besides Lakeland has proven to be a dismal failure. We are ready to compete.

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

I wanted to do a tour where people would look at something else beside architecture.

William Williams

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life.

The state doesn't match anything on anything or give you any financial incentive besides the tax break. And that's only on the state income tax.

Candace Bushnell

That's what's great about life, ... You don't have to keep doing things you did in your 30s. Besides it's not really a good look being in a club when you're 46 years old. The people in the clubs could be your children.

That's my number one goal besides anything else. It's been a while and we got a good team.

That game sold out immediately. The people in Puerto Rico will be beside themselves.

You see that woman lying in the road as that 20-ton fire truck pulls up beside her?

They sit down beside somebody who can play their part, somebody who is very interested in making a great musical performance, and then you bring in a great clinician and there's just a lot of good vibes.

Andrew Wilson

They're the best 3-10 team you're going to see in any league out there. And besides that, we've got too much at stake.

Jim Davis

This is a way to promote green technology and environmentally sound practices. This shows that Chevron has a number of different businesses besides our (oil) base.