Top 1200 Three Mile Island Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.

You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.

One of our secret-sauce powers is that our people don't just write checks and place the ads, but our employees go the extra mile to get things done.

Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it.

I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three. I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one. I met a girl, and she changed everything.

Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can’t get that right, don’t call it Scrum, OK?

So, I represent the 1st Congressional District of New York. It's on the east end of Long Island. This is Suffolk County.

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.

I don't want to have that thing where I make an album and then I'm super-constantly present in everyone's life for three years, and then gone for the next three.

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.

Growing up on Long Island, I think Billy Joel albums come with your driver's license.

Antigua has 365 beaches, one for each day of the year, which I think is rather unique for such a small island.

There are three legends in sports - Dhyan Chand, myself and Sachin Tendulkar. People will always remember three of us in Indian Sports.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her (or him).

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.

You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

I think I'm a three. But if we got three wings out there, I'll go play the four. As a four, I'm in the post a lot more. It changes your role.

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

Any woman I know can smell a boyfriend a mile away. Women are intuitive: they know when a guy is interested but he's not going to be there for her in that boyfriend-y way.

Every summer I sail to a small island called Cavallo, which lies between Sardinia and Corsica.

Any woman I know can smell a boyfriend a mile away. Women are intuitive, they know when a guy is interested but he’s not going to be there for her in that boyfriend-y way.

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

When Dee Snider and I get together for breakfast, it's just two Long Island guys hanging out.

Staten Island is set off completely by itself in its own world, and that's one of the fascinating things about it, dramatically.

We used to cut out of school and go to Coney Island to record songs almost every day.

If I was stuck on an island with one artist's discography, it'd probably be Jay-Z's. It would keep me entertained and it has a lot of stories behind it.

I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs.

We are unique because we're the same three guys, and as Billy says, playing the same three chords.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

I've been interested in China ever since I was a kid. When I was a kid, I grew up in San Francisco about a mile from China Beach.

When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

Love Island' is for people who aren't celebrities, who've done nothing in their life and are trying to be someone and get something to be famous.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

You got to be able to work hard. And that's what I do. I work hard, because that's what's necessary. You have to go that extra mile.

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?