Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Wright

We bought 1.64 acres of some stuff that was dear to us, ... We just thought it was in the best interest to preserve it, and the price seemed good.

Dave Combs

Years ago a town would have, on average, 20 acres annexed in a given year. Last year alone 120 acres were annexed. The rate is happening faster and the parcels that are going are bigger. Which I don't think bodes well for the town.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Dan Hare

The potential to lose half in 2007 and another 800,000 acres the following year is a tremendous impact to natural resource opportunities in the state.

Kevan Casey

We are pleased that we obtained a rig and drilled this initial well with no problems. Should this well be productive in commercial quantities, we will exercise our option to obtain a 100% working interest in approximately 7,600 acres in this prospect.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

Jon Davis

With those temperatures, there's no wide-spread damage across large acres of groves, but there's potentially spotty damage in the hours that temperatures are in the mid-20s. There certainly is a risk of damage later this week.

Brian Tracy

There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

Kenneth Branagh

To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

Harry Wadsworth

We're in a low area, so we had one or two feet of water yesterday. That has drained down now. Obviously, the area is still wet, but it's drying out. We did get some roof damagesome damage to some windows, and tree limbs hitting windows.

Jenna Morasca

As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.

Mike Lewis

On Sept. 8, I opened the gates and drained it for 45 days. We got it down to three acres of surface water.

Gary Pippen

He had a tremendous defensive rebound and they fouled him. He had missed his last three free throws, but he stepped up and drained them both.

Bruce Smith

Business is challenging right now. Because of those financial difficulties, it has drained resources away from the Robin's brand.

Alan Greenspan

There is a palpable unease that businesses and jobs are being drained from the United States, with potentially adverse long-run implications for unemployment and the standard of living of the average American,

Arthur Doyle

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained

Gail Goestenkors

It can be good or bad. Sometimes you're emotionally drained because you had such a feeling of euphoria coming off a big win. But sometimes it gives you more energy or more confidence.

Todd Pinkston

I think it was a distraction because a lot of people let it be one. If you're a professional and you take pride in your job, you shouldn't let that affect what you do on the field. But I think guys were drained to a point where every day you look on TV and see something going on as far as 81 and Donovan or 81 and the organization. People got tired of looking at it. People on other teams got tired of looking at it.

Stacy Adams

When I was manning these gates with the military, we had between 20 to 25 officers. But the normal operation for this management is 10 to 14.

Dennis Mannion

We're going to open the gates three hours early to allow more time for tailgating and such. I think it will be a fun experience for everyone going to the game.

Sandy Parker

When we do business, we are looking at the broader Rochester area and not just Gates and Chili. The time was just right for them to be independent.

Tracy Byrd

We're going to have the Red Cross at the gates taking donations. These people need so much help, it's the least we can do.

Nathan Myhrvold

The personality of Bill Gates determines the culture of Microsoft.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.

Bertrand Russell

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Death is the gate of life.

Fred Perry

With the statue and gates with my name, it's all a great thrill. People are now saying ' I'll meet you at the Perry statue'. It's a strange feeling, makes you feel a little queasy. It's a beautifully-done statue. People don't know how I used to be, they only know me as I am now.

Michigan State

When we were driving over here before the game, it seemed like the Big Ten opened like the Red Sea,'' he said.

Daniel Hope

When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'

Gene Kimmelman

What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.

Mark Fraser

When we first opened we wanted the restaurant to be slow- paced, the bar area with its couches to be medium-paced and this bit to be fast-paced. That's why we had square tables and wooden padded chairs here. The furniture wasn't bad but it was harder than it is now. Then we had a rethink and decided that really we didn't want anywhere in here to feel as though there should be a quick turnaround, so we moved in round tables and curved, leather seats.

Tom Coulson

When we first opened we had only six school buses. Now we have 24.

S. E. Hinton

What he gave us was a lot of rebounding and push at the basket. He has a very good quick step, which allows him to get to the basket, and that opened up a lot of things for the other guys, as well.

Bruce Bochy

We broke down in the eighth inning. That opened up the floodgates. ... We were playing flawless ball until the eighth.

Anthony Williams

We boxed out, played defense and kicked it out for the 3s. When we did that, it opened things up for us.

Alan Trammel

We're going to have to, ... I'm sure he'll be a topic. We're not over yet, so he might make that decision easy one way or another. But he's certainly opened some eyes. This has not been ordinary. It's been very good. Right now, he's a force. I'd certainly like to give him some credit, but is a few weeks enough? No.

John Hoeven

We've asked BNSF to fix these problems, and they haven't, which is why we're proceeding with our rail rate complaint with the Surface Transportation Board, ... BNSF needs to do more for our farmers and shippers.

Rodney Carney

We're so talented, so deep, we may not have even scratched the surface of how much we can get done, what we're capable of.

Celine Charveriat

What looks on the surface like a genuine attempt to move the talks forward is in fact a very clever piece of maneuvering by the U.S.,

Nancy Donovan

Unfortunately, I think what's happened is, there's been so much underground work done to prepare the surface that you don't see a lot of that from the roadway.

Sean Badding

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

Augie Garrido

We're just now scratching the surface of finding our team identity. And when we do ...

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

Charles Horton Cooley

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

Barry Hyman

We've accepted the fact that the earnings growth for the quarter is around 20, 21 percent year-over-year for the S&P. But there's been this behind the scenes look or under the surface look at revenue. And we haven't got the best of forecasts for the second half of the year in many companies going forward. And if you don't have that pristine look -- where you come in this earnings season totally clean -- you've gotten battered. And I can't even name more than a handful of stocks that have come through.

John Carr

We've always said controllers are like runways -- it takes three to five years to make a good one,

Jamie Dixon

We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. Oftentimes, your smaller players are your better players. Last year, our bigger guys were our better players.

Philip Goodhart

We've always had a broader cultural coverage, particularly in the last three or four years We have short stories in every issue. We have more of an interior life. Perhaps the mistake was not to make more noise about that in the earlier issues.

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Ozzie Guillen

When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.

Arron Afflalo

When we were down nine, it became a kind of desperation time for us. But three minutes is a long time.

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

Jason Peters

When I was little I'd design these dresses and show them to my family. There'd always be three or four or five (designs) on the fridge.

Justina Machado

When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.