Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Moss

State and Homeland Security are still resolving if this will be a proximity or distance read.

Rob Parish

Our goal going down there was to be within striking distance of top (4A) team in the state.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

Becca Fitzpatrick

I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for me?" "I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

Bill Bryson

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Bill Bryson

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Bill Bryson

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Roger Cox

The announcement you have today is not nearly enough. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Jami Attenberg

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Mark McKinney

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Geoffrey Zakarian

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

William Giles

Surprise, the stuff that news is made of.

Alan Clarke

Overall, this reinforces signs that we have seen the worst news on UK activity.

Bill Evans

Our 5 and 11 p.m. news had their strongest performance since we signed on.

Michelle Williams

I went to sleep with the news every night,

Robert Green

It is a small piece of encouraging news for the week ahead.

Billy McNeill

It is a small consolation to know that he has been spared a lot more pain and suffering but today we feel very sad at his passing. It is devastating news for everyone.

Randol Schoenberg

The arbitrators wanted us to keep it confidential, but the news leaked.

Roy Williams

That's the kind of news we like to hear.

Dan Anderson

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,

C. S. Lewis

I came alive when I started loving you.

Jason Richardson

I was always getting the short end of the stick.

Bret Michaels

I will deliver, rain, snow, anything short of a tornado,

Tom Parker

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Justin Young

The only thing that's different is that now I'm the short guy,

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Thomas Evans

He's done great. He's come a long ways in a short time.

Kyle Murphy

Our prime-time spot has always been between 7 and 8. That won't change.

Pete Carroll

I think, the more, the better. We've been in the spotlight so long, it's become normal.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Dorn Whitmore

We may start to get more spot fires.

Chad Henne

I go to the spot I'm supposed to be and turn around,'' he said.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

Donald Norman

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Bruce Beresford

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.

Gwynne Shotwell

I never felt any issues whatsoever about being a woman in Tech.