Sentences with phrase «famous old saying»

The famous old saying that «Where there's smoke, there's fire» has convinced some pundits that there was much more than meets the eye to the bizarre events involving Manchester United and Portugal star Nani on the eve of the World Cup.

When I spoke to Hannah as part of my 2018 Big Ideas project, she referred to a famous old saying: marketers used to joke that they knew 50 percent of their ads worked, they just didn't know which 50 percent.

Not exact matches

As one of my best friends in the business and a very famous trader once said when asked who's the best trader he's ever seen, the answer was his young 4 - year - old nephew Bobby, because he could hold a chart in front of Bobby and say, «Bobby, what's that doing?»

«It's one of the oldest and most famous stories in the world,» Aronofsky said.

I know that people will always trot out that famous old football saying about it being a «nice problem to have» when, like Arsenal right now, a club has a lot of competition for places in a certain area of the pitch.

Backing Liverpool on their travels has proved a recipe for disastrous, a quick - fire way to the doghouse, as one not so famous old geezer once said to me down my local bookie.

The senator, famous for preferring to use an old flip phone instead of a smart phone, said Upstate has problems with poor quality when it comes to cell phone network speed, network reliability, data performance, call performance and text performance.

The senator, famous for choosing to use an old flip phone instead of a smart phone, said he has routinely experienced dropped calls while traveling across Upstate New York, even in some cities and suburban areas.

Fo ti is said to have been taken daily by Chung Yun, a famous Chinese herbalist who reportedly lived to be 256 years old.

There is a famous saying «Love has no boundaries» and you can fall in love at any moment or any time no matter what your age is, even if you're over 50 years old, you have the right to choose the right person whom you can spend your life with, who can share all your feelings and emotions.

Essentially, then, this is a stop through (mostly) all of Linklater's feature films, with the usual testimonials from famous collaborators (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Jack Black, Patricia Arquette) and fans (Jonathan Demme, Kevin Smith), accompanying some admittedly interesting archive material, although said material tends to be stuff anyone with old DVDs of the likes of Dazed and Confused will have seen already.

But he said the cultlike following and high resale values of the older Land Rovers also influenced the decision to bring back the famous off - road vehicle.

When sixth - grader Hero Netherfield moves into the famous Murphy Diamond House, she obsesses over finding the centuries - old diamond said to be inside.

«I put up my famous post pointing out the errors in the Old School safe withdrawal rate studies on the morning of May 13, 2002, How many of the Old School studies would you say have been corrected in the 12 years since?»

On its crisscrossing move, this luxury Indian train journey also visits Khajuraho and Varanasi; while the former one is famous for its temple fleet having sculpted idols of gods, goddesses and mythological characters in erotic postures on its walls and pillars, the later one is best known as one of the holiest pilgrimage destination in India which is said to be as old as time.

The Night Ghost Tour travels through the hotel's most haunted spaces and introduces guests to the paranormal phenomena surrounding the century - old hotel with visits to the basement rooms of the Concert Hall and the famous tunnel where Flora and F.O. Stanley are still said to be seen.

One of the most exciting and unique things about the xenosaga series is that you can look foward to seeing different character models with each new game because appearence of the characters change with each game, not because the characters have aged but for other reasons.There is one special thing that xenosaga episode three has that should have been in the other xenosaga games is the swimsuit mode because it allows you to watch movie scenes with the characters in there swimsuits but for some reason not all of the movie scenes in xenosaga 3 can be viewed in swimsuit mode, I guess it would have made the movie less serious or something.My favorite movie scenes in xenosaga are blue testament, white testament, KOSMOS verses Black Testament, any movie with Luis Virgil becaus ehe is my favorite character in the game because he's passionate and i don't think that he is a bad guy since he was able to brek free from being a testament and the only real reasons why he became a testament was because he wanted to be able to visit that old church on miltia and to gain power to prevent death.I also love Luis Virgil and all of the movie scenes that he appear in becaus they are very dramatic.The best thing about the xenosaga series is thst the story is very dee, interesting, and shocking and anyone who has played the game in order from episode one through three will definitely say the same thing.There is no doubt that anyone who has completed episode one and two will be stunned when every secret and mystery is unraveled in episode three.The one thing that I can't seem to under stand is why do some of the characters have to travel back to the earth in the end, will shion and the gang make it back to earth or will there descendants finish the mission and find earth in the end, Chaos and Nephilim told the group that the key to saving humanity lies on earth, what I want to know is what is it and how will it be used to save the universe, Even in the end new mysteries arose and remained unraveled.If there is any one outher who has has the awnswer to any of these questions please let me know when you write you're review or else there has just got to be a xenosaga four on the way, (crying) they just can't leave the story end this way.The only thing that dissapointed me about the game at first was the battle system because on the back of the case of xenosaga three said that the best aspect of the previous battles systems from episode one were combined to form a new battle system, If namco had really done this Xenosaga episode three would have had a better battle system in my opinion because I belive that the best aspect of xenosaga episode one were the special atacks wich are better than the those of episode three and the best aspect of episode three as the break system wich was also better than those of episode three.I think that namco should have given xenosaga episode 3 the battle system of episode 2 combined episode ones style of special attack, but doing this would have probably made the battle system of xenosaga episode three boring because the same old tactics would have to be used in a new game and the battle system most likely would not be as realistic as it is but it would probably be cooler.However the ability to summon all four Erde Kaisers including the new Erde Kasier Sgma my most favorite summon in the world at will and use new Ether and Tech attacks along with the new Counter and Revenge abilities gave xenosaaga episode three more than boost that it needed to have an descent battle systemThe E.S battle system of xenosaga episode 3 is way more better than those of episod one and two though, I must say that Namco really outdid themselves with the E.S battle system of xenosaga episode because the other E.S battle system from the two previos games weren't good, luckily they made up for it with the character battle system.In episode one I never really wanted to use anA.G.W.S, lucky for me they were optional but in episode two sadly it is manatory that you pilot an E.S to progress in the game in Episode three you piloting an E.S is also mandatory to progress in the game but the difference between the three episode is that will be sorry in episode three you will ge glad that you are using an E.S because their battle system is extremely cool.Xenosaga is most definitely one of the besrt RPG games in the world andit is far more better than any final fantasy game that Square Enix has ever made but for some reason it still score lower than Some Final Fantasy and other Sqare Enix games on this site.I bet that if xenosaga was actually named Final Fantasy and had a subtitle it and if it wre made by sqare Enix it would have probably been more famous and it would have scored higher even though it is still the same gameIn the end with every thing being written said and done all i can say is that I feel more at peace now that I have defended this underated game.All I have to say now is that TURN BASED GAMES RULE!

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are famous for having so little dialogue, but in The Last Guardian a narrator — who seems to be an older version of the player character, judging by how he uses the first person — will gives you «hints» at what you must do next, which is nice, but having the deathly silence interrupted by an unintelligible language is a bit distracting, to say the least.

There's a famous old quip: «A lot of people in business say they have twenty years experience, when in fact all the really have is one year's experience, repeated twenty times.»

Indeed he has so much to say that the 53 - year - old is not only China's most famous living artist, but also a constant irritant to its authorities.

I'm old enough to remember that famous Walt Kelly 1970 Earth Day poster depicting his cartoon character Pogo looking at a garbage - strewn landscape and saying, «We have met the enemy, and he is us.»

The 94 year - old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self - regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that «it's just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer» and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms.

The 94 - year - old author, inventor, and former NASA scientist who is one of the most famous founders of the environmental movement also reiterated his support for natural gas «fracking» and his contempt for advocates of wind and solar energy, which he says will never provide sufficient energy for modern society.

Her eleven year old son Eugene says, «I hope my mum will become famous worldwide for her skill!»

The 9 - year - old granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr. «I have a dream that enough is enough,» she said, echoing the words of her grandfather's famous 1963 speech in Washington.

[Here's a small reference I used in my «Sauces» folder in my cookbook manuscript: Chef Karl Adam (d) in Germany is acknowledged as contributing the recipes in an old Asbach Uralt wonderful small cookbook from the 1950's, dedicated to using the cognac in cooking, and HeddaAdlon, in the same cookbook, last owner of the famous Hotel Adlon in Berlin's «Unterden Linden,» is credited with saying: «Three indispensable ingredients are needed for the creation of every good sauce, without any one of these the sauce will have neithersavour nor substance.»