Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Iorio

We've always partnered with the schools. They are the anchors of the community.

Al Kaline

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Charles M. Blow

When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.

Bill McKibben

TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.

Catherine Crier

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

Jane Hamilton

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

Jana Kramer

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

Janette Turner Hospital

That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

Charles Lyell

Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by man, land animals and forests now abound where the anchor once sank into the oozy bottom.

Steve Williams

We're going to start this activity the first week of April, and focus through the months of April and May and be monitoring, of course, as we go.

Huston Street

We're going to really play it by ear and be cautious. We're not out of April yet -- that's what I keep getting told. There's a lot of season left. ... Talking to Larry, he says these things can take five to 10 days.

Kathleen Stephansen

What this, in conjunction with the April unemployment report, shows is stabilization in the labor market and timid improvement. By no means are we talking about a roaring improvement in the labor market.

Lynn Anderson

We felt it was best to decrease the prices when it helped our customers the most. April is the month when those changes typically occur, but we didn't want people to have to wait that long.

Paul Anderson

With the merger action in North Carolina, we have cleared the last hurdle in the regulatory approval process. With all requisite approvals in hand, we intend to close on April 1, less than 11 months from our merger announcement.

Larry Watruba

We feel that we have some things to negotiate. They gave everybody full pay up to April 11. I guess this is their 60-day notice of plant closing.

William Shakespeare

From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.

William Shakespeare

Well-apparel'd April on the heel Of limping Winter treads.

William Shakespeare

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Michael Hecht

The performance in global clearing was the only real negative we can point to this quarter as balance growth has clearly slowed here. But we also suspect that continued pressure on commission rates played a role here as well.

Luis Carmona

We started feeling a little bit of pressure and we got anxious and started clearing the ball instead of working it. That goal they got was an unlucky break and that's one thing we need to learn from this.

Alexander Cockburn

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

Bryan Colangelo

The Suns, meanwhile, appeared to be hoisting a white flag over the Arizona desert. With a 12-22 record at the time, they were clearing out big contracts for salary-cap relief and a chance to start over again the following summer. We are taking a step backward in the immediate run, .. But we're certainly looking forward to the future.

Peter King

We want to provide very significant tax incentives for businesses to locate there, incentives for housing, and attempt to minimize as much of the red tape as possible by creating one central clearing house for government programs,

Greg Smith

When folks do have fires in the evening, we do advise them to stay with their fires and have a means of extinguishing it. They should also leave 10 feet of clearing area around the fire.

David Hockney

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

Theodore William Richards

Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer.

Jan Wald

The price wasn't as important as clearing up some terms and conditions. If Boston Scientific has done that, then I don't know why Guidant's board wouldn't accept this bid.

Chris Gaynor

When it came up on the TV screen, yes, we were happy to be there, but it was a little disappointing.

Layton Aliviado

We're so happy. I don't know. We don't show it too much.

Frida Lyngstad

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Oscar Wilde

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

Martin Seligman

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

Kim Fields

Working with Will Smith was one of the highlights of my career. He is so talented and has a tremendous work ethic. We are still friends, and I reach out to him and his partner to pitch ideas. He loves my mother. In fact, my mother was his son Jaden's acting coach for the movie 'Pursuit of Happiness.'

Travis Bradberry

Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.

Leonardo Rivera

We feel at home. Very nice to have the opportunity to have a couple of hours of happiness. We're used to it when you play in California and in Texas, but not normally this deep into the U.S. I'm glad they're here and they're producing.

Simon Cowell

We're proud, we're happy, and it's nice that she remembers the show as well.

Tony Vecchio

We've always taken a special interest in the health of coastal ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. This fascinating lecture is a way we can educate the public about the importance of our coastal environment and its fragility.

Kate White

We've always been reassuring about sex. We've taught our readers about sex. I know people sometimes feel uncomfortable with it. But I try to tell baby boomers that Gen X and Gen Y are really comfortable with sex. ... It's just a wonderful, healthy aspect of life.

W. S. Gilbert

When I was pregnant I used to cook a healthy dinner in the morning. That way, no matter how the day went, there was a nutritious meal waiting at the end of it.

Jordin Sparks

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

Kurt Eichenwald

When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand.

Dennis Hastert

Tomorrow we will pass a pharmaceutical plan that takes care of the neediest in our society, ... Older Americans deserve financial security and health security.

Bill Brennan

We remain concerned for the health of the public, and again urge people to heed the signs the city posted warning them to stay out of waters that may be contaminated.

John Mendoza

We respond better to the stresses and challenges of daily life. We're more creative, use our abilities to the fullest and make the most of opportunities when our mental health is strong.

Carl Honore

We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

The Vikings

When we were 1-2 after the Providence game, our players that following week re-dedicated themselves, ... You don't get better on Friday, you get better on Monday through Thursday, and that's what these guys have done.

Bobby Bowden

We're going to start off just like a Monday night practice and we are going to treat it just like a regular week, like we would have during the season.

James Mansinger

We're going to pitch, but we didn't pitch great today. There's no doubt about that. Clayton McMillan did pitch well. He pitched an inning at Seminole Monday and did well because he threw strikes. That's the whole deal for him, throwing strikes.

Scott Gomez

We're going to face a different club. They got a lot of young guys who got their first taste of it. We've got to be ready for that on Monday night.

Buzz Hargrove

What they're saying to us is that they are selling our jobs out to the market. We're not going to take that. Sunday or early Monday we will likely tell them that we will strike them.

Tony Williams

What all of us heard (at Monday night's public hearing) is that the animal shelter is not open enough. I think we need to do a better job of organizing it so that it's more available to the public,

Anthony Schlegel

What a crazy, exciting time it is. Since my wife told me the Monday before Michigan she was pregnant, it's been crazy. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I'm trying to live in the moment and do everything I can to get prepared.

Ben Agosto

We felt like we skated pretty well and we got good marks. And we're looking forward to better performances on Sunday (original dance) and Monday (free dance).

Kim Bradley

We bring our younger teenage daughters with us to help on Monday when they have the day off from school. They look forward to it every year as much as we do.

John Banville

What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.

Michael Winter

We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Chester W. Nimitz

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Charles Buxton

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

David Barnes

We believe that NZL 60 is still the fastest America's Cup Class boat in the world at the moment and so it is a great opportunity for us to sail against them in our ex-Nippon boats,

Eddie Izzard

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in. - I claim India for Britain!They go, - You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!- Do you have a flag?- We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!- No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association.

William Shakespeare

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

Source Unknown

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

Jochen Zeitz

When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - this is a no-brainer.' Let's define the sound of the future.

Norman Blake

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of punk music, but then along came Orange Juice, ... They really broadened my musical perspective. They were self-deprecating and had a great sense of humor. And they sounded like Velvet Underground meeting Al Green. They called themselves 'the sound of young Scotland,' a play on Motown's 'Sound of Young America.'

Herbie Hancock

You don't know what that's going to sound like; you just do it because the urge is there.

Abbie Letz

We're more confident and believe we can win every game we play. A rematch sounds really good right now.

Wayne Coyne

We remixed them in 5.1, which doesn't sound like much, but let me tell you it's really a crazy, complicated thing to take these things that you did almost 15 years ago and revisit 'em in this format that only became available a couple years ago. A lot of bands can't do that because they don't have their own recordings. But we've always recorded ourselves, so it's a matter of me just going to the back room and grabbing the tapes and sort of putting them back on the reel. It's a weird treat.

Zeb Simon

We're so sound on defense that we didn't feel we needed to blitz to get the type of pressure we needed, you know, to get the great underneath coverage we got from our secondary.

Carolyn Anderson

We're sort of the soundtrack to these wonderful, wonderful images, ... The subject is the universe, but we interpret that loosely.

Yorg Kerasiotis

We're so influenced by Motown and the mid-'70s and the rock sound Detroit had.

Craig Biggio

We're going to the World Series, ... It sounds weird to say if off my lips. Finally the baseball gods shined on us.

Phil Klay

When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

Elizabeth Colton

We felt it was important to give a platform to young women in their 20s and 30s, to raise their voices and inspire them to leadership. It's really their world.

Adam Phillips

United Nations is an organization of global neighbors. I really wanted to be here to raise our voices together to our leaders to do more for our brothers and sisters who are poor.

Michael Youash

We're hoping it's going to be considerably more than that. But the main thing to remember . . . is it's not the actual number that's critical. It's the importance of these people's voices being heard.

Hal Straus

The Post newspaper provides an incredibly deep and smart opinion report. The Web-only content supplements that with some different voices and with work that responds to the Internet's continuous news cycle and is more focused on Internet information sources.

Connie Stevens

We are a generation of women that has listened to the much louder voices of parents, teachers, employers, husbands and children while our own voices were small or muffled or totally ignored. Aging Out Loud gives us permission to not only listen to that voice but heed its warnings, laugh at its jokes and follow its directions, without guilt and without looking back.

Scott Graham

There are certain voices that you just associate with a big game, Super Bowl, or whatever it is. These voices are the ones I grew up listening to. The best I can say to them is, 'Thank you.' They set a standard of quality so high that the rest of us are way behind.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

James E. Faust

I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism.