Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Flanagan

Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

Bill Dreher

They are admitting they have very cloudy visibility on the very critical holiday season. What might be more significant to investors is that even though they had an admittedly superb second quarter, where are we going from here?

Joel Androphy

You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, because he has a get-out-of jail-free card, has changed his mind. If the prosecution thinks it hit a home run they're not going to last the full nine innings.

Kristian Bush

We're completely and admittedly out of the water here, but that's exciting - that's called living right there,

Richard Bernstein

Policy makers seem to continue to believe that they can boost demand enough to alleviate the oversupply situation. They now talk of extraordinary monetary measures and huge tax cuts to stimulate demand, ... Although their timing was admittedly very poor, Japanese policy makers attempted the same thing.

Alexi Lalas

On the left hand side and the right hand size we look to Peter and Chris to provide service, to go up and down the flanks, which is something we admittedly didn't do enough of last year.

Andy Geiger

I am troubled that a rule was admittedly violated and it took us five years to find out about it.

Dennis Erlich

Jon and Tim both admittedly didn't have their best game. Jon said he kept grinding all the way to the end. We say when you don't have your stuff you grind it out. Tim said he was four or five strokes over early and just kept grinding.

Linda Shelton

We want them to grow up and have a solid psychological and physiological basis for success. I love to move more than life, and want to empower girls and women to feel the joy of movement.

John Connell

We are seeing certain markets where housing costs and rents are going up on a monthly basis because of limited inventory, especially in developing Eastern European markets and major centers such as London, Paris and Moscow.

Terence Gabriel

We are probably going to see another 75 basis points.

Mike Street

We are pleased to have concluded the basis and substance of a deal with Gate Gourmet. The key to unlocking this dispute now lies firmly in the hands of Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). They must sort out their differences for the good of our customers and the employees of Gate Gourmet.

Wu Bangguo

There are both solid basis and immense potentials for cooperation between China and Morocco. Enhancing cooperation in various fields will definitely bring tangible benefits to the people of the two countries and play an important role in facilitating world peace, stability and development.

David Brown

We still think that the bigger 50 basis points move is the odds on favorite judging by the current strength of the euro,

Scott Snyder

We still see more value in the Asia-Pacific region than in the U.S. market, where people are still panicking over inflation. On a 15- to 20-year basis for a country like Japan, which has had years of market turmoil, there is certainly still room to run.

David Sobel

Where the basis of the request comes from is that the government itself has revealed nothing about these initiatives. The objective here is to move beyond unnamed DOT sources to really make public on an official basis some of the details.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Alan Cooper

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

Alan Cooper

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Alan Cooper

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Chip Kidd

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

David Rockwell

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

David Rockwell

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

David Brainerd

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

David Brainerd

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Charles Spurgeon

I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell

Alan Watts

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Alan Bleasdale

I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

Alan Alda

I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government. And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to. They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes. So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.

Al Purdy

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

Al Smith

I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

This democracy... The elections in Iraq were held despite the American opposition. It was the will of the Iraqi people and the religious authorities. [The elections] were the result of pressure by Ayatollah Sistani, by the Iraqi religious authorities, and by the fighting forces in Iraq on America. They left the US no choice but to allow the elections.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.

Don Brownlee

It's a crystalline silicate grain. This is great; we've already got scientific results.

Amy Fisher

It was really interesting, ... It was scientific illustration.

James Smith

That's where I don't go, ... That's not a scientific question.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Harold Varmus

We were overwhelmed by the scientific community's response,

Sigmund Freud

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Dick Vermeil

I don't know if there's a scientific way to do it.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Ernest Dimnet

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Ken McNeely

We simply don't think Californians should have to wait that long.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

Robert Henri

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Phil McGraw

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.