Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Kesey

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

Mark Twain

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Publilius Syrus

Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.

That's a set play where (Exter) comes off a double screen. We had perfect timing and he drilled it (from the corner as he was fouled).

Paula White

It was a moment [when I had found God] that so transformed my life. And I say this is so corny, but it was like the grass was green, the sky was blue. And I can't begin to articulate - as much as they say I'm a wordsmith - what really happened.

Joseph Hume

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.

John Constable

Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and pictures that he had no objection to part with the corn, but not with the field that grew it.

The day labor corner is not as disconnected from society as people think. It's seen as a shadow economy, but that's really not the case.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

John Malkovich

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

About 60 percent of our corn that goes for export moves down the Mississippi river and that's shut down.

It's a startling level of operating earnings growth and it's happening really before the higher ethanol and high-fructose corn syrup prices really go into effect. I'm just taken back (by) how sustainable these earnings levels are.

Kellan Lutz

A lot of girls in L.A. just stand in the corner wondering 'Who's gonna talk to me? Who am I gonna diss?'

Jim Jordan

They don't grow a lot of corn in New York or New Jersey. It's going to be a very profitable situation. Kansas is obviously pretty well positioned.

They tried to corner me before I left and make me tell them. Jonathan Bender tried to give me some ideas. But he's 7 feet tall. A lot of the stuff he can do, I can't.

It's tough to give up to 5-6 corner kicks in a row.

Mike Williams

It's not something we can wait on. A lot of time, I think our staff is putting a lot of pressure on themselves to do everything. The last thing they want to do is cut a corner and make a mistake.

It's not like planting corn in Iowa; there aren't neat rows,

Antonio Villaraigosa

For Los Angeles, it's an opportunity for us to showcase that you can come from every corner of the earth and live together in harmony and peace and make it in America,

Kimmo Timonen

It's not easy sometimes. You go into the corner on the ice, it's not easy to not think about what's going to happen in the future (in Nashville). I still see them as my teammates. But of course, you can't give up anything easy.

They failed to establish an identity for themselves, a niche, and that makes it difficult for it to stand out, ... They never gave shoppers a reason for preferring it to any one of its rivals. It was just there, like soaking corn flakes.

You can't miss us. We'll have sweet corn all over, everywhere.

Richie Havens

I told him, 'You don't need to get gigs from the union. You can make your own band,' ... That's how he did it. He went down to the coffeehouse I told him to go to. A month later, I'm around the corner at another cafe. Friend of mine comes up and says, 'You gotta hear this band! This guy was great!' And I went around the corner and went, 'It's him! It's that guy!' He was so magical.

Jimmy Johnson

I tried on the restart, got on the outside of him, but then he jumped off the corner and got away from us.

Adam Smith

It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out of every corner of the world

It's a grind. With finals just around the corner and the World Series right after that, we have to make sure that we are able to sustain the grind.

Jeff Conine

It's all about location. He located his fastball on the outside corner all night long.

This is the year we're going to turn the corner on MBS,

There's definitely a lot more at stake when you mess up. At linebacker, when I made a mistake, I knew my safeties and corners were going to back me up. Now, if I mess up, the only person who is going to help me is the ref.

Kenneth Turan

There is stuff at which your jaw just drops, and yet they were hugely popular, ... It's an interesting corner of film history.

It was our strategy to overtake Robbie on the first corner because it might have been difficult to do so in the next laps.

Tim Thomas

It was definitely a big shot because it was going back and forth and they were trying to get back in the game. Boris did a good job finding me in the corner and I just knocked it down.

It was a way a farmer could turn his corn into money. You couldn't always sell corn because everybody grew it, but you could always sell whiskey.