Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Richard Geist

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

Ai Sugiyama

Whenever we have the Olympics or the Fed Cup, our schedule becomes very tight and I couldn't play the last couple of years. Everything is fine with me this year.

Eric Goldstein

When folks find out the garbage is from New York, all of a sudden it becomes even more of a political issue.

Jason Calacanis

Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Al Sharpton

As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

Al Jarreau

I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn't noticed anything up until then.A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.

Chloe Sevigny

I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them.

China Mieville

When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.

Edith Piaf

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

Ben Whishaw

I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Stephen Moore

What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over the past 20 years?,

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Ben Bernanke

The Fed is totally open.

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Shawn Johnson

Unless it's really, really outside of what is expected, the Fed probably won't move at all between now and the end of the year,

Michael Chertoff

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,

Joe Horn

We fed (the Giants) on a platter, and they ate.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Chris Bosh

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

Jean Bruyere

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Janis Serrano

We're in a rebuilding process, we're doing fine for where we're at. We're just trying to improve on their race techniques and have them do their best.

Sam Perlozzo

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

Bill Belichick

We're not polishing fine china here.

Max Heindel

The first step in Occultism is the study of the invisible Worlds. These Worlds are invisible to the majority of people because of the dormancy of the finer and higher senses whereby they may be perceived, in the same way that the Physical World about us is perceived through the physical senses.

Neil Flynn

While 'The Middle' is still funny for adults to watch, there aren't sex jokes. And I'm fine with that. I like the idea that my nieces and nephews can watch it without their parents.

Kelly Sullivan

We've always had a passion for fine lingerie, and we saw a need.

Lorraine Bracco

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Mike Heffernan

We're in significantly better shape than we were last year,

Gene Stephenson

We're in last place now in the league. Twenty-nine years we've never been in this situation in this league at 2-6, I know that. Right now, we're just not very good.

Bill Trumbo

We're in a much-improved spot from a year ago. At this point last season, we were 0-4.

William Shakespeare

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

Shawan Robinson

When you think of those overtime games, some of the others that were ours to win going into the last minute or so, I know ? we all know ? it would a be a different season if we had him.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

Roland Rust

There's a lot at stake for the Winter Olympics now.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Emily Hughes

The Olympics are such an unexpected competition. You never know what can happen.

Bonnie Blair

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

Gary Zenkel

There's no better lead-in to the Olympics than the Olympics.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Andy Murray

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Cindy Klassen

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

Ato Boldon

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Aaron Sorkin

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Nathan Fennell

We're going to play a rougher schedule this year than we have for many years.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Larry Coker

It is what it is. Again, it's not my preference, but we take the schedule as it comes.

Jeremy Foley

The years that we do have the flexibility, we want to schedule them.

Bob Hunter

It's a very tight schedule and it's a very tight budget.

Phil Garner

I've long said the schedule is the most favorable,

Dennis Franchione

We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.

Erron Kinney

A lot of it is on us. We have just got to do better in tight situations. Me included.

Daniel Briere

They're tight games. I thought tonight we had the better chances.

Rick Barnes

This is what it is this time of year. For us to do what we did today, in a tight game, it was terrific.

Doug Ellis

It was a tight match. It was a little disappointing we didn't win.

Mike Holtzapfel

That's what we can realistically look at. I know there are going to be some tight races.

John Roberts

You see she has a very tight grasp,

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Marcus Spears

When I was recruited and after I signed, I had aspirations to be a tight end and thought I would be.

Madhur Bhandarkar

Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

Hayley Orrantia

Whenever you go into an audition, you have to be as prepared as possible.

Jacob Burtschi

Whenever we got close, they widened the gap.

Charles Smith

Whenever we go somewhere, it's like, 'What are we going to eat?

Brandon Kendzierski

Whenever we go at it, it's like a war.

Jevon Kearse

Whenever we blitz, we have to do more than take up a guy. We've got to get to the quarterback and get him on the ground.

Ric Flair

Whenever they feel like it, the door's wide open.

Johnny Miller

Whenever there's something new, it's always roundly criticized.

Andrew Hall

Usually it was 6:30 p.m. to whenever we were tired.