Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Browne

When we got to the patient, the dog was a good 50 yards away. He kept creeping up and barking at the firetruck.

Elizabeth I

I don't keep a dog and bark myself.

Isabella Bird

Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.

Tove Jansson

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees!

James Hogg

He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.

Diane Feinstein

I don't know what tree we're barking up,

Ken Parker

Buddy is really going to enjoy this, because he's so inquisitive, ... He'll watch TV and bark at it.

Fadel Gheit

Basically, before the hurricane, they went home Friday thinking this thing is going to fizzle out, it's going to bark but it's not going to bite,

Mike Vrabel

When we went to the 4-3, I thought we gave them some problems. We're going to make changes every week on the fly. We've got a lot of different ways of being aggressive.

Mike Vrabel

When we went to a 4-3, it gave them some problems. We're going to make changes every week -- between series and on the fly.

Jeremy Shockey

When I was making all those crazy mistakes, he would put his arm around me and he said, 'We all make mistakes.' He helped me grow. He never gave up on me.

Stjepan Hauser

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Andrew Wyatt

When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.

C. C. H. Pounder

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

Michelle Ferry

When I was a freshman I came off the bench and just gave the other post players a break when they needed it.

Heber J. Grant

When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.'

Flip Saunders

Tony is a high-energy guy, and that's one of the reasons that when he became available, he was somebody we really wanted to look at. We thought he gave us a different dimension from what we had on the roster.

James Sutherland

We've announced the tour program six months ahead of what we normally would and that's just (because of) the sheer demand and public interest that's out there right now.

Andy Watson

We've always had a plan. As the years go along, you revise it every year, every six months or as needed. Every time there's a structure change, you have to update the plan, and with environmental changes.

Ryanne Floyd

When we were first driving through the town, I was at a loss for words. It looked like the hurricane had just come through the day before we got there. I can not even imagine what it looked like six months ago.

Rachel Tucker

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

Dick Gephardt

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

Neil Durbin

We remain in a very volatile market. A lot of what we see in the next few months will depend on the weather.

Hayne Ellis

We're six months out so there are a lot of exciting things going on. Everybody has their own components and it's all going to come together very quickly.

Walter Maestri

We're six months from the next hurricane season. There is no way known to man, with all of our technology, that we can deal with all of this. And I don't know that any of us can tell people that they should come back and experience this again.

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.

Wayne Chrebet

We've always taken great pride in going to other people's stadiums and sticking it to them. We have a great opportunity this week to not only show ourselves, but show everybody with a national game, that were certainly better than a 2-4 team.

Tom Higgins

We've always felt that way. I'm not surprised that when he had the opportunity to go in that he performed as well as he did.

Tom Penders

When we were up by 10-0, we missed six or seven pretty good looks. We just didn't put them away when we had the opportunity to.

Tim Scott

When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that's why I'm so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

Nate Harris

When I was in high school and would ride along with my dad, I thought of how cool it would be if we were cops together. I always thought if the opportunity presented itself, I was going to try to get on with Fairview Heights.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Anne Bacon

Tom's work was very important, and the way that we will honor him is to try to continue that work, maybe not for each of us going to Iraq, but we all have the opportunity to create peace in our own community.

Brad Grey

Tom's history with Paramount has made for one of Hollywood's most successful relationships; the opportunity to continue our collaboration with him on 'Mission: Impossible 3' is everything anyone in show business could hope for.

David Singer

Tom's has a strong heritage and solid reputation in the snack food business, and we believe that this opportunity will make our company stronger. The transaction developed quickly, and we are still developing our plans. In the near term we intend to continue business as usual while we develop a plan to effectively meet the needs of our customers and consumers. We are confident that the combination of increased sales and operating synergies will create value for Lance, Inc. stockholders.

Tara Wall

When you start making incremental changes like that with double digits then that starts chipping away at their base. We can't truly call ourselves a majority unless we take back the black vote as the party of Lincoln. We are going to reclaim that.

Jay Graham

We want to reclaim what we think is ours. Winning the (CHC) title is one of the things that we want to accomplish this year. ... We just want to continue to play our game and let everyone else try to catch up.

Jim Kennedy

On Monday night, the president acknowledged an improper relationship and apologized, ... The president also said it's time to reclaim his privacy, and we're going to respect that and not comment on every leak that comes out of the investigation.

Newt Gingrich

If we regroup and reclaim the mantle of reform and change, we are likely to win '06 and '08. If we do not regroup, we are likely to have a very difficult '06 and '08.

Marc Violette

The people of New York have waited long enough to reclaim the historic Hudson. The time has long past for General Electric to put its significant resources into cleaning up their toxic mess.

Bruce Barber

There are people who bring garbage bags full of bread to the lake and just dump it, ... This is part of an overall management plan to essentially reclaim the town from the geese.

Antonio Tarver

He came to reclaim his throne, but it wasn't happening tonight,

Jennifer Myers

I lost my best friend two years ago and I was going through a lot of grief, so it was a huge struggle to rise out of that angst and focus on my creativity and work. But eventually through my work, I realized that you can reclaim your art through the grieving process. It's about the journey you have to go through to reclaim it.

Bill Thomas

We look forward to getting back the DNA so these young men can reclaim their lives.

Scottie Reynolds

When it comes down to playoffs, it don't matter how ugly it is, it don't matter what you do, you are going to be remembered by wins and losses. We know if we slip up one time, it's over.

Tony Russa

We're going to talk, and we're going to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks. Scott is really important, and we're hoping that what he's done is not too much too soon. That's why it's important we talk.

Travis Plunkett

We're going to see people in a debtor's prison without walls, ... They'll essentially slip through the safety net, hit the ground and then sink into an underground economy.

William Hazlitt

What a fine lesson is conveyed to the mind -- to take no note of time but by its benefits, to watch only for the smiles and neglect the frowns of fate, to compose our lives of bright and gentle moments, turning always to the sunny side of things, and letting the rest slip for our imaginations, unheeded or forgotten! How different from the common art of self-tormenting!

Carol Mann

What happens is that women tend to panic when they're losing it. Whereas, generally speaking, men, rather than panic, go to another place: resignation. At a U.S. Open, panic is worse. Your brain floods, everything slips away, and there is nothing you can do.

Freddy Ferrer

We can do better than a mayor who cuts sweetheart deals with developers at a time of a crisis in affordable housing. . .better than a mayor who let 100,000 New Yorkers slip into poverty.

Richard Hamilton

Usually, in the past, they were hard games for us. This year, we're more focused on those games. We don't want those games to slip away. We know we've got to come out early and set the tempo.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Louise Bourgeois

I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious.

Ron Abramovich

We've always said spring moisture would make or break our water forecasts.

Tamar Kvaratskhelia

When we went into the spring break everyone was exhausted from matches, school, and tests, and it was really bad. Now everybody is feeling really fresh, and over the break we got to sleep, so that was good.

Brian Snitker

You don't know what will happen in spring training, but it was an encouraging board to look at.

Donna Henderson

We're going to get it started right after the kids come back from spring break.

Jeff Rubin

What we're looking at this year is an exponential increase in interest in alternative spring breaks.

Bill Elliott

When we are selling time-saving products, we can appeal to contractors. But when we sell to homeowners, manufacturers need to advertise to people who will own these homes. We need to plan ahead for product launches. Frequently, manufacturers spring promotions on us with less than 30 days notice.

Bill Callahan

What a great environment for our recruits. They can see Memorial Stadium all in red on a spring afternoon.

Bill Dreher

We believe this will have a negative impact on February sales for the majority of our retailers as the much colder weather will likely impede store traffic, and sales of spring merchandise sets that are now in stores may be impacted.

George Coleman

We removed it because by the time we got around to doing it, we figured the city of Sandy Springs would be in business. We figured we'd let the governing authority see if they wanted red-light cameras.