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  • Atlantic City' is very good. -- Peter Capaldi
  • The Atlantic Ocean was something then. -- John Guare
  • That's the best way to cross the Atlantic. -- Arthur Whitten Brown
  • The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters -- Ahmet Ertegun
  • I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless. -- Seamus Heaney
  • I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic. -- Alec Baldwin
  • Possible outfits rolled in her head like a slot machine in Atlantic City. -- Terri Gillespie
  • I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today. -- Toby Young
  • The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished. -- Paul Keating
  • Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. -- Theodor Adorno
  • Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish. -- Paul Watson
  • If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack. -- Michael Shannon
  • Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato. -- George Iles
  • I'm signed to Atlantic through 300 Entertainment [Lyor Cohen's label]. That is my only contractual relationship. -- Young Thug
  • On the Trans-Atlantic Single-handed Race Mr Owen Smithers has been disqualified for using both hands. -- Heikki Luoma
  • In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City -- Bruce Springsteen
  • The European economy is collapsing! The trans-Atlantic region is a disaster area in terms of economy. -- Lyndon LaRouche
  • The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance. -- Mark Shields
  • Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific! -- Ed Koch
  • The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer. -- Nic Pizzolatto
  • I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. -- Martin Cruz Smith
  • The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer. -- Nic Pizzolatto
  • For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic. -- James N. Frey
  • Of course Germany's media are heavily influenced by the country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. -- Vladimir Putin
  • Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual -- James W. Loewen
  • I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats. -- Antony Hewish
  • I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land. -- Peter Sarsgaard
  • I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way. -- Donald Trump
  • No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans. -- Will Rogers
  • Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. -- Irvine Welsh
  • One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. -- A. N. Wilson
  • The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me... -- Heinrich Heine
  • To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money. -- Ben Gibbard
  • To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money. -- Ben Gibbard
  • The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality. -- Edmund H. North
  • Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. -- H. G. Wells
  • I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean. -- William Monahan
  • Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic. -- Nathan Lowell
  • Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean. -- Dionysius Lardner
  • I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific. -- John Diefenbaker
  • Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years. -- Willie Soon
  • Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise. -- Herbert Croly
  • On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. -- Joseph J. Romm
  • With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean. -- Vladimir Putin
  • You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • 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
  • I'll tell you, it's Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business. Or two words รข?? Big Business. -- Donald Trump
  • 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
  • I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers. -- Charles Rolls
  • The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I'm an openly gay man playing an omnisexual hero, who is loved on both sides of the Atlantic. How could I not be proud of that? -- John Barrowman
  • Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries. -- James L. Barksdale
  • In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic. -- Peter Diamandis
  • The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head. -- Drew Carey
  • I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic. -- David Mackay
  • I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.' -- Eric Schlosser
  • There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade. -- Lisa Kristine
  • From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. -- Mary Ritter Beard
  • Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else -- Miriam
  • 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
  • Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world. -- Charles de Gaulle
  • It's the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all. -- Gregory Maguire
  • I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy. -- Jim Lovell
  • 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
  • For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer. -- Bill Bryson
  • 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
  • Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. -- H. L. Mencken
  • 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
  • I'm really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific instead of looking across the Atlantic. -- Mark Morris
  • If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod. -- Mark Kurlansky
  • I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.' -- Terry Teachout
  • My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. -- Stephen Colbert
  • It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the way from Texas, it's unusual. -- Phyllis George
  • Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region. -- Bryan Stevenson
  • Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt. -- Stephen King
  • In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic. -- Colin Callender
  • The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy. -- Stanley Ho
  • If I had a brick for every time I've repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I'd probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them. -- Ray Kroc
  • Bad Religion took a long time to develop into gold-record-status artists. Along the way we learned and applied our knowledge, and Atlantic helped us every step of the way, since 1993. -- Greg Graffin
  • I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics. -- Vivienne Westwood
  • Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod. -- Graydon Carter
  • When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles. -- Diane Ackerman
  • As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further. -- Marek Belka
  • 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
  • Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London. -- Gordon Bethune
  • Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves. -- John Mearsheimer
  • The Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania are designed to counter long-range ballistic missiles that may be launched from other nations, outside of the Euro-Atlantic area, against our European NATO partners. -- James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
  • Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart. -- Bon Scott
  • That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed. -- Gideon Defoe
  • The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us. -- Anthony Horowitz
  • I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that. -- Kevin Starr
  • Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others? -- William E. Simon
  • 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. -- Horst Kohler
  • 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. -- Horst Kohler
  • There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which requires you not to be crazy to achieve them. -- Orlan
  • But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? -- John F. Kennedy
  • 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
  • In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others. -- Richard Branson
  • The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war. -- Robert Dallek
  • We are hidiously rich Annabelle-- and I've got three older brothers, all unmarried. Would you consider one of them? If you like, I'll have one shipped across the Atlantic for your inspection." -Lillian Bowman -- Lisa Kleypas
  • That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. -- Winston Churchill
  • Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world. -- Jamaica Kincaid
  • It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada. -- Stephen Harper
  • Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends. -- Andre Naffis-Sahely
  • As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • 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. -- Kenneth Koch
  • If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. -- Wendell Willkie
  • Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles. -- Rose George
  • This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
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