Atlantic Quotes

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(about his 1974 tour) "Oh, that was a fabulous tour, one of my best. Over in England, The Rainbow . . . Bristol was the best ever . . . the Festival Hall . . . those were magical gigs. I did an encore at the latter with nobody there but Ahmet Ertegun, who owns Atlantic Records. I said, "Ahmet, I played so good tonight I think I deserve my own private encore". So we went out and played "Tonight`s The Night" for the fourth time that evening (bursts out laughing) with no one left in the theater.

- Neil Young

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you`re an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

- Hugh Grant

Well, I see our potential destruction and the potential salvation as human beings coming from technology and how we use it, how we master it and how we prevent it from mastering us. Titanic was as much about that theme as the Terminator films, and in Aliens, it`s the reliance on technology that defeats the marines, but it`s technology being used properly that allows Sigourney`s character to prevail at the end. And Titanic is all about technology, metaphorically as well as on a literal level, because the world was being transformed by the technology at that time. And people were rescued from the Titanic because of wireless technology, and because of the advances that had been made only in the year or so before the ship sank that allowed them to call for help when they were lost at sea in the middle of the North Atlantic. So I think it`s an interesting theme, one that`s always been fascinating for me...

- James Cameron

Sex. What Fun. to the students of Atlantic Theater School

- Sam Mendes

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It`s just the wrong Queens that`s all. It`s over the 59th Street Bridge. It`s not over the Atlantic Ocean.

- Cyndi Lauper

(to acting students at Atlantic Theater Company)Invent nothing, deny nothing.

- David Mamet

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

- Peter Davison

I think our offensive line is as good as any in the Atlantic 10. Their continuity is extremely important to our success.

- Don Brown

I feel like we have a good schedule. It`s a tough schedule, maybe one of the toughest in the country, but that`s what we wanted. We are working to set a standard for our players and you do that by playing the best teams out there. It also helps the conference out. The tougher our schedule, the better we will look in the RPI and that helps the Atlantic Sun.

- Dusty Rhodes

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

- Mary McCarthy

(Four Ducks players were named to the 2005 Atlantic League Post Season All Star Team. Outfielder Henry Rodriguez was selected after winning the regular season batting title and setting a new Ducks single season record for home runs. Second Baseman Carlos Hernandez was chosen after finishing second in the batting title race behind his teammate. Also recognized were pitchers Lance Davis and Todd Erdos. This season, Davis won the most games in a single season by a Ducks pitcher and also became the all-time wins leader in franchise history, while Erdos, in the role of closer, led the Atlantic League with 32 saves on the season.) We are very proud of these four guys, ... They put together exceptional seasons and led us to the post season for the second straight year.

- Michael Hirsch

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

- Nick Clooney

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

- Stephen Ambrose

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

- Winston Churchill

(The film was completed by 2002 and screened at several festivals, winning awards in Atlantic City and Palm Springs, Calif. It had distribution offers, including one from one of the) classic ... simply had not had a good track record.

- Bob Clark

It is the media area where the differential performance has been greatest and where we feel the valuation gaps across the Atlantic now look most extreme.

- Ian Scott

It is the media area where the differential performance has been greatest and where we feel the valuation gaps across the Atlantic now look most extreme,

- Ian Scott

I learned a great deal from Atlantic. Atlantic taught me how to walk in this life of music, it taught me how to fall and how to get myself back up.

- Solomon Burke

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins` record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

- Deborah Cox

(An Atlantic Records executive sent Ben-Ari to Wyclef after he spotted her playing at an open mic night in New York.) I had my own steady gigs and I was writing my own compositions. They where very R&B, ... And I was very serious about jazz. Wynton Marsalis was on my last CD.

- Miri Ben-Ari

(One account, in J. Henry Cartland`s) Ten Years at Pemaquid, ... came over to this country with the view of settling here, but left his wife in the old country, until he could first make himself a little acquainted with the new country, and provide a suitable place for his family. Though he escaped from the wreck unhurt, his mind was deeply affected by his narrow escape, and he wrote to his wife such a doleful account of the storm and shipwreck that she never could be persuaded to undertake the voyage, even to join her husband. And he was too timid to risk himself again on the stormy Atlantic, they remained separated the rest of their lives.

- John Bailey

That`s still the ultimate goal, to sail across the Atlantic in the Viking-style.

- Robert McDonald

The future just got brighter for Atlantic City International Airport and the travelers it serves. This new service, connecting Atlantic City to the world`s largest airport, offers greater accessibility for travelers to our exciting regional destinations and excellent connectivity for our outbound market.

- Frank Spencer

This project is the first step toward enhancing Atlantic City International Airport as a destination for both leisure and business travelers.

- Frank Spencer

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

- Stephen Harper

There was one year in 1933 we actually had 21 storms. That`s been the most in the Atlantic. However, it was before we started naming storms

- Daniel Brown

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.

- Alan Justad

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City`s got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

- Albert Rauch

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

- Alexandre Louzada

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I`ve written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it`s understood on television and in newspapers.

- Allen Rossi

If you were to go back 20 years ago, the ships were trans-Atlantic liners, and people thought they`d be bored or confined on the ship.

- Andy Arnold

People here in Canada, especially in Atlantic Canada because of that Acadian connection, felt that `well, maybe we could take some of these people in, especially the children. We could offer them a place of temporary refuge,` 

- Anne B. McCoy

We extended our track record for double-digit earnings growth to a fourth consecutive year even while integrating Bell Atlantic and Nynex following our merger,

- Arijit Dutta

With four quarters as a new company under our belt, we can say unequivocally that we have delivered on the promise of the Bell Atlantic-NYNEX merger, ... With our merger synergies, we have been able to produce solid operating results in our key businesses and fund our entry into new markets as well.

- Arijit Dutta

This is a logical fit, naturally uniting our U.S. properties and strong management teams, and enhancing the benefits of Bell Atlantic`s merger with GTE,

- Arijit Dutta

We sometimes get used to tracking the Cape Verde storms that come all the way across the Atlantic. But some storms seem to come up out of nowhere.

- Arpad Tzumo

Jump right into the Atlantic and just kinda relax,

- Arthur Donato

I believe we`ll be one of the top teams in the league. Some people have us seventh or eighth. One picked us last. I don`t think that guy knew what he was talking about. The Atlantic Sun is a much tougher league than other people realize.

- Atron Jackson

It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.

- Ulysses S. Grant