Famous Quotes & Sayings

Obviously, there are some very strong feelings here. The town board requested the state make a presentation to better see and hear the proposal. Please don't get argumentative.

Sue Johnson

Obviously, rebounding was a major issue. That possession where they got three or four (offensive) boards pretty much summed up the game.

People were standing around and photographing that, and photographing it fairly closely. There was cheering from the passengers on the boat and there were people shouting directions as to what things they wanted to see.

Bill Bryson

I am taking this very seriously and I am honored to be appointed. It's not every day that an immigrant more or less fresh off the boat gets invited to help run a national institution.

David Wallace

Because this is not a race all boats, regardless of their engine size can enter, the winner will be determined by the draw of the card and not how fast your boat can run.

My Dad used to draw boats all the time and I've found his drawings in my grandparents' attic. I found one picture he drew of hockey players.

Martin O'Malley

My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

My goal is to convince this Board to let the Corps stay, so we can stay and try to appease the local contractors, which is the right thing to do. If I can't do it, I fail and we leave.

Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

I don't think we saw this coming. I thought we were ready. But there are not many conferences who can boast a 12 seed as good as West Virginia. We approached this game like we were the underdog having lost to them, but maybe that wasn't the right way to do it.

If it's politics as usual driving their choice, they will choose to fragment the levee board in another patronage politics smokescreen.

If the community and board are comfortable with the perception that everything looks disrupted, being able to continue in the space we have at the middle school is of better educational value than trying to move 100 kids to one location and 80 kids to another location.

I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.

Jared Harris

I was stuck in boarding school when I was seven years old and I knew that the only way to get out was to go pass your exams, so I studied.

Terry Stotts

I was pleased with the way we played. Seattle's a dangerous team, the way they can put points on the board quickly, because they can create turnovers and their three-point shot is effective. It was good to get it -- we had a couple moments -- but to hang onto a double-digit lead for most of the game, it's good we kept that margin.

she saw a big boat coming close and she said, 'Whoop-dee-doo. I love a rocking boat.' 

Old tin toys, old radios. He has little soldiers, old board games, transistor radios, luggage, classic luggage. We have way more than what we could put in this studio so we could do this studio many times over with his collections.

Florence Henderson

I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation... I figure the good Lord will put me in the right place and hopefully I'll have the right clothes on. I think what we're going to do is bring the boat through the Panama Canal. My husband has always wanted to do that. So I think we'll do that and have the boat in Florida for the winter.

I hate that we ended up with 71 boats, but we did the right thing. I can understand why a lot of guys didn't want to go. We've got a lot of custom-built boats that cost several million dollars (and fishermen) who just didn't want to risk it in 11- to 14-foot seas forecast for later in the weekend.

Before, our (center) would post-up when (we were) ball-screening on the wing. Now, we're double-screening with no one on the block, so guys can really drive over the top or the baseline. The two big guys slowed us down. We're shooting and passing real well. Our defense has been OK, but the defensive boards are still a big, big concern.

How can you tell which is a real fishing boat and which is not from up in the sky at night?

Glen Davis

He's relentless on the boards and he has a high level of potential.

I don't think I would want to be the school board to say that.

I don't know if we're going to need to take on some debt or not. The board would prefer that we not.

Carl Everett

I don't know if it was just my turn. It just so happened my hit scored two runs. We put six runs on the board and not to be overlooked is our pitching.

I didn't feel the board should've moved so fast on these things.

I didn't see one boat out there. It definitely wasn't fishing weather.

I didn't know if I was going to play him again, but I just decided to draw something on the board to start the half, and I just put his name up there. He looked at me like -- and I said you're playing, aren't you? And he said yeah.

Most of the time, adults say they are just here to watch. I always offer to give them my helmet and my board. I know that if I get people on the hill, they'll be the ones holding the board over their heads at the bottom.

Mike requested a meeting with the full board of directors, and I was happy to oblige. Mike has not told me exactly what it is he wants to say, or what he expects out of the meeting, but it will be useful to hear his side of a story that has obviously stirred up so much emotion.

Mr. (Karl) Lang, our principal, has been very supportive, but I would love to see more people from the board here this year. It is so important for these students. It really teaches them a lot. They learn what it takes to put something like this together, and it helps them to learn to present. Some students have to moderate sessions as well.

Nodding the head does not row the boat