Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Smith

Our research was telling us viewers in our market are getting plenty of local news, local, local, if you will. It's no secret our 6 o'clock news is skewed to our eastern market. We felt 'Virginia News Tonight' could fill a void that our research is telling us.

Bede Griffiths

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Bebe Neuwirth

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

Sami Kapanen

I think they're one of the quickest teams -- especially up front -- in the Eastern Conference. That's how they try and play now, and especially with the new rules, it's been real good for them. If you look at the standings, they're right there at the top.

Ali Khan

It is only the reverses of the Korean war that have made the Western powers realise that the Eastern nations can and do produce good soldiers.

Ed Mathey

It is important to get over .500 now and keep our momentum going forward. We've got a big weekend with Eastern Michigan and we need to go in thinking we need to gain ground on the second place team in our division.

Kath Bright

It gave everyone a lift. We've all felt down since Toga was taken. This was something positive to come out of it all. Visitors can see him at Easter - he'll be out of the burrow by then.

Tricia Binford

It depends. We've got to get Eastern Washington here, and we've got to steal one on the road next week.

John Cooney

I think it will be very quiet today with some selling because of the Easter and Anzac Day break.

Tim Bawmann

Staten Island (the Yankees' New York-Penn League affiliate) knew we were going to do this. They're planning to retaliate.

H. Hart

Pine Island Road is just one strip mall after another with trash. We might as well sell and leave.

Ashton Kutcher

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

Arsene Wenger

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

Mandy Hotchkiss

I was just totally overwhelmed. Their whole island has been totally wiped out.

Gerry Adams

I think people throughout this island have voted for change. The task now is to manage that change.

Stacy Stewart

I wouldn't be surprised if much of the island is under water. It's just a speck on the map.

Fred Glass

Just like Kings Island has to have a new ride every year or so, we need to have a new thing.

Mitchell Pally

I think it's essential. In the past 10 years, where people live and where people work on Long Island has changed.

Jeff Fontaine

I think it is an isolated situation. It's just a piece that wore out. I don't think it's symptomatic of a larger problem.

Donald Rumsfeld

I would characterize it as an isolated problem.

Greg Sparling

We wanted to kill the clock. We wanted to get Lance isolated so he could make the shot.

Dan Castellaneta

Marge, old people don't need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them...

Debbie Anthony

But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want.

Abraham Maslow

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

Pierce Brown

If you look at 'Golden Son,' it was just a focused, isolated battle for Mars.

Cecil Murray

The wounds are in the process of healing, ... They have not healed, but there are isolated moments where you can note progress here on this hill.

Richard Kelly

It seems to not be an isolated incident.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

Robert Schmuhl

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Jeff Smith

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Mike Birbiglia

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

Daniel Pauly

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.

Beck

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

B. R. Ambedkar

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Cecelia Ahern

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

Carl Safina

For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake-with our minds, hearts and hands-to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea-that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet.

Carl Safina

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

Carl Safina

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

Carl Safina

Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.

Amanda Vanstone

The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success,

Keith Aubry

No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Jim Watzin

LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Edgar Mitchell

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

Bindi Irwin

You do only live once, and I feel like if I'm able to make a difference on this planet and leave it just a little better than I found it, then I've done my job.

Afrika Bambaataa

I wear anything of culture, from the Earth or beyond. The whole planet is my shop.

Michael Crichton

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

Evelyn Glennie

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound.

Alex Van Halen

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

Doug Harvey

I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.

Benjamin Disraeli

We moralize among ruins.

Brandon Sanderson

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Clare Phillips

We can't and won't let this ruin our season,

Anne Hutchinson

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

Don DeLillo

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Confucius

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

Aeschylus

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are