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I`m old, I`m young, I`m intelligent, I`m stupid. My tide goes in and out.

- Warren Beatty

I also think if you`re an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you`re just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that`s not in the commercial they think you`re a genius.

- Amy Poehler

That really was a time when the rising tide lifted all boats, and we had an increase in income in California,

- Deborah Reed

I looked down from my terrace hanging over the Thames one morning. It was low tide and there, stranded on the pebbles, was a four-legged corpse - hairless, white and bloated. Was it a calf or a sheep or a goat or a dog? I stared at it until the tide rose and washed it away. For 24 hours I was off my food. When I started eating again, I couldn`t face meat - fresh or tinned. Overnight I was vegetarian and I have been for 15 years or more. I`ve seen the pictures of factory farming and followed the politics of mad cow disease and felt effortlessly superior. Yet it`s not reason or conscience that keeps me off meat and fowl--and these days fish, too--just a memory of that unidentifiable, decomposing body on the beach.

- Ian McKellen

For you I know I`d even try to turn the tide.

- Johnny Cash

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

- Tony Danza

I generally don`t make films to entertain people. I choose the parts that challenge me to break through my own barriers. A need to devour, punish, humiliate, or surrender seems to be a primal part of human nature, and it`s certainly a big part of sex. To discover what normal means, you have to surf a tide of weirdness.

- Charlotte Rampling

Hollywood is on what they call a shit-tide, meaning a tide where stuff comes in and goes out very quickly. People come in, get a part in something, get in a magazine, then they go away and you never hear of them again. The sun shines, the level of paranoia is bottomless and everybody you meet has an agenda. And that`s it. Showbusiness, 24 hours a day. If you`re doing well, you`re a target, nobody`s interested in you except how you can be of use to them. And you can`t engage with anyone, you can only engage with their agenda. It is all very anti-sex.

- Richard E. Grant

It humbled me and taught me lessons. (Scott is talking about his experience working with Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington in the movie, Crimson Tide.

- Scott Grimes

The same thing is happening on the barrier islands, like Longboat Key and Anna Maria, when you have a red tide in the area, ... But the data is not at a fine enough resolution to tease out the economic impact.

- Chuck Adams

entering upon the high tide of its identity.

- David Kennedy

Not long after the evacuation was completed, the plane crashed into the water about 50 metres offshore on an outgoing tide at about 9.40pm,

- Jim Wilson

Not long after the evacuation was completed, the plane crashed into the water about 50 metres offshore on an outgoing tide, at about 9.40pm.

- Jim Wilson

I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours` worth of tunes, and they were really pretty --but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn`t toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On Crimson Tide, on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted.

- Hans Zimmer

It`s only when the tide goes out that you discover who`s been swimming naked.

- Warren Buffett

An edge like along the north shore of the main harbor is a highway for big fish, ... You don`t catch a lot of them when you set up on a spot like that, but if you set there an hour or two on a good, moving tide, you`re likely to get a fish over 30 inches.

- Scott Moore

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.

- Jeff Melvoin

London is vulnerable to flooding -- be it from the Thames tide, from rivers as a result of heavy rainfall, or from our drainage system.

- Roger Evans

London is vulnerable to flooding -- be it from the Thames tide, from rivers as a result of heavy rainfall, or from our drainage system,

- Roger Evans

This is the quiet time. Now is the time to act to push back the tide of HIV in Asia,

- David Bloom

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

- Christopher Columbus

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

- Paul Tsongas

I truly believe the tide is turning. Next year, you are going to see more legislation that is going to cut funding to illegal aliens.

- Susan Tully

If you really want to understand the adversary`s thinking and help turn the tide of battle, ... read this book!

- David Limbaugh

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

- Aaron Heilman

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

- Aimee Ehlenfeldt

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

- Alexander Barclay

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

- Alisha Valenzuela

It`s a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

- Alison Lurie

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

- Allen J. Ellender

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

- Amy Laxton

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston`s community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

- Andrew Combe

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes

- Angelina Grimke

Hurricanes are like big suction cups, they lift the water underneath them, ... The combination of a high tide and storm surge (would) smash into Mexico, doing a lot of damage.

- Anne Reeves

The market needs a catalyst right now with all this bad news weighing on it. It`s up to earnings to turn the tide.

- Annette Cobb

It`s been like this pretty much all year, ... I don`t think anyone on the Gulf Coast could have expected a year like this. There have constantly been things going on, with the storms and then the red tide, keeping us from coming out.

- Anthony Ashley Cooper

I didn`t pay too much attention to Auburn. It was always `Roll Tide` at my house. Auburn was the only school in the state that didn`t recruit me and they were the closest to my high school.

- Anthony Biondo

I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide...

- Mitch Hedberg

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity

- William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

- William Butler Yeats

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide

- William Shakespeare

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

A rising tide lifts all boats

- Proverb
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