Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Maurstad

Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the average of $4.

Mark Twain

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain

Jeff Sherman

Parlay cards had a good handle and average win, while props did very well. It just took a while to grade them.

Mark Shapiro

Paul had an average fastball and average curve. He was going to pitch in the major leagues, but there was nothing that would particularly distinguish him from lots of other guys.

Mark Hyman

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

Mike Gundy

Our offense has been very average and by rotating quarterbacks, we couldn't ever get into synch.

Al Way

Our offensive linemen have decent size. The 2000 state championship team averaged 260 pounds up front. We're pretty close to that average (257 pounds) this year.

Cary Thompson

Our offensive average went up after losing our career leading scorer, and our steals went up by 64 this year. We accomplished a lot out of the change in style.

Dave Esquer

Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.

Ma Jun

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

William Fitzgerald

Our portfolio remains slightly below duration. But then, the entire fixed-income universe has been defensively positioned for months now.

Toba Beta

Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface. I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.

Ethan Harris

Payrolls were well below the whisper number, so there's been a big sigh of relief in the market,

Ron Lievense

People have looked at our size all season and wonder how we got here and how we won 28 games. We're not going to look good in an airport. One coach called us the best below the rim team he'd ever seen, so I guess we're not all that athletic.

Scott Kriens

Spending levels during the quarter were below expectations but represented a more diverse set of key service providers and carriers. We remain committed to financial fundamentals, our multiple market strategy, and to the expansion of our product portfolio, all of which will be critical growth drivers when the public networking industry outlook improves.

Alan Ruskin

Some of the headline (jobs) numbers maybe look slightly stronger than expected, but when you scratch below the surface, you find there is still plenty of weakness out there, ... Obviously the manufacturing sector is looking as weak as ever.

Evan Mann

Some investment grade mutual funds and pension plans can't hold paper that's below investment grade. People that couldn't own it because of the ratings restriction now can look at it again.

William Lewis

Our salaries have slipped below the high schools in our area.

Rob Domagalski

St. Catherine's outplayed us. We were prepared at practice and just did not play very well tonight. For whatever reason, we looked like a deer in headlights.

Bob Hoffman

Maybe if you're on the highway, you could hit a deer and fuel your car, or you could use leftovers from deer season.

G. H. Hardy

I will never see the turkeys run up and down the road again. I will never see my deer feed in my yard again. ... I will never be able to freely do what I wanted to do.

Bill Vaughan

Everything pales in comparison to deer.

Roger Johnson

That's been our goal the last few years, to try to reduce the deer population, and it doesn't all happen in one year.

Chuck D.

I think this is ridiculous. It's their responsibility. Last month they told us if we called immediately they would pick up the deer and now they're telling our residents it was only a courtesy.

Brad Anderson

I was in my tree stand sitting on the edge of a cornfield about 6:30 p.m. when two deer walked out,

M. Wolfe

I am anticipating a pretty rough year. I talked to a landowner this morning who is trying to shoot as many deer as he can to get his numbers lower.

William Buckingham

I was like a deer in the headlights of a car, ... That was the first time I had ever been interviewed, and I misspoke.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Ben Kingsley

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

Andy Rooney

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

Christopher Moore

Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

Eddie Izzard

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

Darren Shan

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Jill Thomas

I've ridden my whole life. I used to ride hunters and jumpers. If I wasn't at my work, I was at the barn.

Dennis Jones

This was just too much for the hunters and the guides.

Grant Morrison

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

Tom Palmer

It's a real hunt. I think hunters recognize that and are interested in participating.

Brad Anderson

Just being out there hunting is really cool,

Bertrand Russell

Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

Bertrand Russell

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Rachel Brown

That was just part of the life, hunting and fishing.

Bruce Sutter

I was planning a hunting trip next year if I didn't get in this year. I didn't need to be around the phone, I can tell you that.

Bill Gottschalk

I don't have time to fish. I take my time off in the hunting season.

Chris Carter

Hunting whales is like hunting tigers (or) gorillas. New Zealanders regard it as unjustifiable,

Joe Lewandowski

Hunting revenue is not growing. It's pretty much staying flat.

Billy Baldwin

If they really want to make some changes, then it's treatment that we're looking at. Not witch hunting on the industry.

Gerard Kennedy

It is not inevitable that our schools have incidents like this. We can make our schools even safer,

Joschka Fischer

It is not only because of the incidents with the Swiss, Swedish, and Spanish embassies. There is an urgent need for discussions,

Harvey Pekar

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Thaksin Shinawatra

If the incidents have spilled over to other areas, it is possible to use martial law to solve problems in such areas. This has nothing to do with the government, ... could do it on their own.

Ken Trump

When I looked at the incidents this year, it jumped right out.

Monte Mitchell

We've responded to nine incidents seven in the past two weeks.

Dave Bristow

We don't know if the two incidents are related, but it could be that the suspects were working with the two men who were arrested.

G.S. Walia

The president narrated most of the incidents in the series and he even knew what type of wickets we had in the first two tests.

Scott Wilson

We routinely respond to any incidents regarding the power plant there.

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Steve Gibson

Our wines are doing quite well in national and international competitions.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

Bill Daly

We now have a national product we can sell in United States, ... When you're perceived as a regional sport, you can't sell national sponsorship agreements.

Edward Collins

We need a backstop of a national catastrophe fund,

Chris Bosh

I think it's (the national team selection) a little bigger.

Tanya Chaplin

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Curtis Sumpter

I think of it all the time. I think we could be national champions. But even with us not out there, I still think we can be.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

Charles James

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

Marilyn Monroe

The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).

Ben Kingsley

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

Alexis Arguello

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

Thongchai Jaidee

Let's see how things take shape but I will try to do my best.

Whitey Ford

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.