Quotes and Sayings about canal
"My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots."
- Will Arnett
(Related: Film, First, canal)
"The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus."
- Robert Barany
(Related: canal)
"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: canal, Literary, Man, Memory)
"In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem."
- Norm Dicks
(Related: canal)
"Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic."
- Al Goldstein
(Related: Work, Sex, Being, canal)
"Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!"
- Omar Torrijos Herrera
(Related: canal, Panama, Will)
"Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Thought, Mind, Venice)
"In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other."
- Charles Lyell
(Related: Banks, Trees)
"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."
- Felix Marti-Ibanez
(Related: Land, Water)
"In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car."
- John Moody
(Related: Car, Time, Appearance, canal, states, United)
"Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system."
- Talcott Parsons
(Related: Direction, Fact, First, Interest, Will)
"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices."
- Ivan Pavlov
(Related: canal)
"Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts."
- Ivan Pavlov
(Related: canal, Order)
"As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal."
- Ivan Pavlov
(Related: Discovery, canal, Lying)
"The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism."
- Ivan Pavlov
(Related: Body, canal, World)
"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: Government, Appetite, Baby, End, canal, Responsibility, Sense)
"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Congress, Debate, canal, Zone)
"Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles."
- Paul Samuelson
(Related: Automobiles, Internet, Old, Will)
"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
- Jessica Savitch
(Related: Debate, canal, Months, Panama)
"I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals."
- Gerrit Smith
"A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move."
- Johannes Stark
(Related: Direction, canal, May)
"Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: Time, Draft, canal, Years)
"You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you."
- Billy Tauzin
(Related: Water)
"I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action."
- Mark Tobey
(Related: Action, Meditation, Painting)