Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Boyd

Standard residential land has been going for over $150,000 per acre for a while.

Jim Pierce

Someone has said $1 million, but no one knows. But five to six acres of oysters is a lot of oysters. It all depends on how many people will be fishing out there, too, and what the prices are.

Tommy Bailey

Our goal is to determine if we can detect any pollutants entering our lakes. With more than 1,018 acres of lakes, ensuring their protection is a priority for us.

Ed Brown

Our crews have responded to over 4,900 fires and we had somewhere around 100,000 acres of forest land burned in the state.

Max Baucus

Our bill will fully fund the rural schools program without selling even one acre of our prized public lands. Our public lands shouldn't be put up for sale to the highest bidder.

Don Rogers

I'm happy Boca High is getting some needed things, but I don't think it will help in the long run. Boca High has 30 acres of land, which is the smallest site in the county for a comprehensive high school.

Zac Goldsmith

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

Cathy Johnson

The 6,015 acres in question constitute only three one-hundredths of 1 percent of the land in the state of Maine. There are literally millions of acres adjacent to Baxter State Park where hunting can, will and should continue.

Ted Stevens

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is 19 million acres, ... The area set aside for oil and gas exploration is 1.5 million acres. Because of advances in technology, only 2,000 acres of that will be needed for production.

Ray Staver

Our kids worked real hard in the second half on defense. I thought where they really hurt us was with screens. They are a very physical team. They play physical.

Peter Henning

or a very short sentence in a halfway house.

Charles Phillips

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.

Fran Drescher

Surgery is half the race, but you have to go for the follow-up or do yourself a major disservice.

Larry Harris

Starting off the second half of the season, we knew that this was going to be a big week for us and now we're 0-2.

Natasha Burton

Overall, 2005 saw higher numbers of shoppers on the High Street than in 2004, though this camouflages what was a challenging second half of the year for most retailers.

Donald Brownlee

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,

Brent Cox

Many African-American students are half American Indian as well.

Chris Landsea

Most seasons we are going to get a hurricane hit the U.S. and probably more than half the time we will have a major hurricane hitting the U.S. as well.

Anthony Weiner

I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

Kurt Knaus

It's a process that has never slowed. There are still provisions in there for how you have to stable your mules underground.

Mark Twain

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

Sam Rayburn

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Marcus Aurelius

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

Plato

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

Katharine Hepburn

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Josh Billings

Wisdom that don't make us happier ain't worth plowing for.

Robert Green Ingersoll

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

Rick Riordan

We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.]

John Lasseter

Stay at the end of the credits. I pulled out the stops on the credits.

Bob Hofman

Man, that was like pulling teeth out there tonight.

David Aebischer

That's the way it is. You just have to play well and don't give him a reason to pull you.

Jimmy Williams

I was out there fumbling the ball, and you just can't do that. We pulled it out (Saturday), but that just can't happen.

Walter Dorman

I think it's the first time this season that we were rattled. It's unfortunate that we couldn't pull it out.

Juan Dixon

I was wrong, I was frustrated. I apologize. I just wanted to try to pull through and get us the win.

Susan Rosenberg

I was thinking, straight zipper. But when it was installed, and you could see the undulations and the pull ...

Melissa Fumero

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

Anthony Robbins

It doesn't pull away any wax that it says it's supposed to.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

Barry McGuigan

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

Azzedine Alaia

I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

B. B. King

Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.

B. B. King

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

C. S. Lewis

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Cecelia Ahern

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.