Martin Brodeur

My life was going to school, having a snack and going outside to play hockey until dinner time. I would then do my homework and go back out to play, but only if the Canadiens weren't playing that night. That's what I did every day, whether it was street hockey or pond hockey.

Canadian Hockey Player

Anthony Michael Hall

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

American Actor

Jimmy Dean

I'm exactly where I want to be - we live out here on the James River outside Richmond. I have three ponds, and we catch the biggest, most beautiful bass you've ever looked at in your life.

Muhammad Ali

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

American Boxer

Steven Wright

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

American Comedian

Victoria Beckham

In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.

English Musician

Finn Balor

You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you're only going to be competing against people at that level.

Irish Wrestler

Saul Bellow

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

American Novelist

Rob Huebel

The comedy world is like a small pond; we all know each other.

Stacy Keibler

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

American Actress

A 'pond' is usually smaller than a lake and can be naturally formed or man-made.

Size Matters

'Ponds' often imply natural or serene settings and can be part of landscape descriptions.

Natural Setting

Ponds can be habitats for fish, ducks, and other wildlife; great for ecosystem context.

Home to Wildlife

Used idiomatically, 'pond' refers to a scope of influence or activity, often humorously.

Metaphorical Use

'Across the pond' is a friendly and informal way to refer to the Atlantic Ocean, linking the UK and USA.

Transatlantic Phrase

Knowing the phrase's popularity in British and American English helps grasp its cultural use.

Cultural Context

 so that the oil companies wouldn't be trying to promote something that sounds like a sticky tar-like substance that's the world's dirtiest oil. So they decided to call it oil sands. The tar sands consume more water than any other oil process, three to five barrels of water are taken, polluted and then returned into tailings ponds,

Garth Lenz: The true...

 If every mass has an effect on every other mass in the universe, no matter how small, then changes in gravity can tell us about what those objects are doing. Fluctuations in the gravity coming from the universe are called gravitational waves. Gravitational waves move out from what caused them, like ripples on a pond,

What are gravitational...

 landscape and what are the biggest changes you've seen here the fundamental change to start with was they raised the water levels in this pond there was a pond here it's now four times deeper and twice as big an area than it was before but also

Wild Beavers Return...

 to devour their smaller pond mates. Nourished by this extra fuel, they develop quicker, leaving the pond before it can dry out. The spadefoot toad is far from the only animal to eat members of its own species as a normal part of its life cycle.

Cannibalism in the...

 bank on identities hmm but at the but the problem with all of this is that women don't normally come up with things that we want to see like high-technology I mean the world of high technology with high ponds and I said but I think the

Where are the women...

 Now the problems with closed photobioreactors They are quite expensive, they are automated, and it's very difficult to get them in large scale. So on large scale what do they use? We use open pond systems. Now, around the world

Bilal Bomani: Plant...

 like ripples covering the surface of a pond. We can clearly identify features of the wave pattern as a whole, most importantly, its wavelength, which is the distance between two neighboring peaks, or two neighboring valleys.

What is the Heisenberg...

 So it makes the cricket go find water so that it can jump in, commit suicide and that worm can go on to continue its life cycle. So, in that pond or in that stream the worm will go find a mate, it will lay a bunch of eggs,

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 their network of channels also enables them to ferry whole branches back to their pond and there where the water is deepest

A Collection Of Autumn...

 they drip into the pond as more advanced