Famous Quotes & Sayings

At times like this, you need a guy who's been on the ground floor,

Marilyn Monroe

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

Stuart Pearce

The day after Shaun left, I looked round the training ground and didn't see any sign of a hangover from the players,

All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked trees over.

As someone now that is trying to please a number of constituents, it's rather tricky ground for Senator Santorum to navigate,

Elijah Wood

It's fantastic, are you kidding? To sort of be part of this project from the ground up, from the script form, and then for it to kind of do as well as it did in the States in the festivals, and come here; it's fantastic, it's wonderful.

They need someone who can hit the ground running.

This instrument records ground motion in three different directions.

For all the ideas and theories that people might have, we have some real ground truth.

It's this last option -- the middle ground -- that's the real key.

Muhammad Ali

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die,/ You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

There's a big ground swell of interest in new payment technologies.

I told her, 'I'll ground you.' I didn't know it was slang for flow.

It's all in how you run, it's not how big you are. If you run down low to the ground and with some fire, you can get it done.

It popped out of the ground because of the water pressure.

This just allows us to hit the ground running. I think there are sites we can designate as Pine Tree Zones immediately and that will help us mitigate the impact.

Brendon Clark

There's been no rain, so the ground is hard-packed. You're running on a hard surface like a road instead of a soft grassy one, so the times are faster.

It was already on the ground when we got there,

It was real frustrating. Sometimes it seemed like I was getting up off the ground every play. And that turf was harder than I thought it'd be.

It was the first time I've been invited in from the ground floor.

Val McDermid

On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.

Tommy Caldwell

In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.

Kyra Sedgwick

Yes, I have something else that I produced and he directed. We have something else that we're trying to get off the ground that we have a script for.

Melanie Mayron

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

Donald Rumsfeld

Commanders on the ground are the ones that are making the recommendations,

Anything that touches the ground is a problem.

The suspect got on the ground as commanded, and they took him without incident,

prepared to implement a phased and conditioned reduction of the Ground Safety Zone.

The school itself plays a big role. It's just a massive mixing ground for respiratory illness.

The security at the time had been delegated back to the ground exiting point, ... We wanted to make sure the referees were in a secure position with a minute to go.

Robby Ginepri

I served well and hit well off the ground and won the big points at the right time,

The winds were just too strong and they kept us on the ground today.

The whole world, the whole nation, will be looking at New Hampshire in February, ... You have a unique opportunity to lay the ground work for a new era, a new millennium.