Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wal-Mart has experienced lots of disasters because they have stores and distribution centers in Florida, and they've figured out how to do it.

Stephen Hawking

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.

Steven Millhauser

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.

Curt Smith

We need to be open-minded about what the center could be, and we need to understand what it can't be.

When we lifted off, you could just feel the release, not only watching the vehicle leave the pad, but just the release that the folks had in the center here. It was just incredible.

When we think about economic loss and insured loss, there are few events that rival Katrina. The World Trade Center disaster is one.

David Allen

We will consolidate our existing Dallas headquarters and Plano contact center into a single convenient location with room for expansion, lowering our facility costs.

We wanted to get the center up and running for college spring break. And our first group here this week is from Concordia College in Minnesota.

Tom Rath

We had some people in that delegation who were very close to -- and great fans of -- Senator McCain. And they were front and center when he came, and I think that that was totally appropriate after his run four years ago.

Tyler Smith

We are excavating the site. We hope to have the sales center open in three weeks.

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

Felipe Alou

Finley is going to play even if everybody is healthy, and he is going to play center field when he plays.

Financially it was putting a great strain on the resources of the center itself, supporting teachers in other centers.

Finally, L.A. will have a center that's worthy of the city.

Dan Rosensweig

Facebook is the social graph with the organizing principle around your friends and your social life. LinkedIn is the professional graph, organized around you, your job, your industry, your title and your function. At Chegg, we are building a student graph centered around you, as a student.

Chip Conley

When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.

Bruce Wilkinson

Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

Action Bronson

I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

This will be totally unique to any other center in South Florida, ... It'll be the hub of programming countywide. There will be a great emphasis on the space and the way it looks, but also all the programming we intend to do, including technology for children, teens and adults. In my view, it'll really pull it all together. It will be a great steppingstone for the future.

Ron Clarke

The parking lots of the hotels around Jackson were jammed with various vehicles - power companies, county ambulances, relief trucks like ours, FEMA vehicles, fire and rescue trucks. FEMA was controlling all of the hotel rooms. It was kind of exciting, being at the center of the relief effort.

There are long faces here in the control center and around the site. Everybody was so looking forward to flying today.

The reason is, it's a joint study and from a logistics and practical standpoint, it does not make sense to have only one trauma center participating.

Gary Matthews

The opportunity was there for me and I've always felt I could perform well given that situation, ... I'm always looking to get better and there are things I want to improve on going into next season. But I think I've shown that I can handle center field.

There is something unique about a tree in the center of a downtown that gives it a Christmas atmosphere.

Kathy Johnson

There could be other centers in the same position she's in right now.

We've heard the parish is wiped out, totally wiped out. Its hospitals, schools, homes and civic center are all under water.

We will open the detention center and see how many prisoners we receive from the Tribal Court before we decide whether to take contract inmates from other areas.

We had a great season, and in no means do I want this loss to take anything away from the kind of year we had. It's always tough to see the season come to an end. But I'll take this every year. Having the season end at the Kohl Center is pretty special.

We've never seen anything like it. It literally covered one end of the shopping center to the other and in some instances, 10 inches deep.

This team has a center and a forward. That team had four guards and a forward or five guards.

This was by far the hardest deployment I've ever experienced. The World Trade Center was hard but it (the destruction) was in one spot. The devastation here is so immense. It's all over.

This vision for the Freedom Center should be a tribute, a celebration of those men and women who through the course of history have moved us forward in our march to freedom.