Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Any religion or philosophy, which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Michael Moran

As far as the village is concerned, we'll preserve the status quo based on official county records.

Robert Edgar

A senator or a congressman's faith should never be called into question based on their support or opposition to a particular nominee.

David Spooner

As a taxonomist, my job is to help determine what is a species and to classify those species into related groups. Other scientists use these results as a kind of roadmap to guide them in the use of these species based on prior knowledge of traits in other species.

Steve Erickson

As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.

Dwight Yoakam

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

Larry Wachtel

The bull market only ends on a fundamental reason. It ends if inflation rises and rates rise. It ends if profits dive. It doesn't end because the Dow goes down on a random day based on program trading.

Sebastian Seung

The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are encoded in connectomes, your personality might be in your connectome. If that's the case, that's the basis of your uniqueness as a person.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Salomon Torres

The momentum of the game, I liked it, ... Because even though we were losing, it was coming in our favor. The guys never stopped fighting.

Condoleezza Rice

The moment of truth is coming here, ... and it's time for the co-sponsors to get together and discuss it.

Ronnie Wood

During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

Tim Bajarin

Dell is notorious for taking a wait-and-see approach, and then, if something catches on, coming in and dominating it.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Cliff Floyd

Ramon's just been doing a tremendous job for us. Like I said early in the season, it's going to take all of us.

John Olver

Primitive peoples used biomass, wood, and charcoal for their energy source for heat, running pottery kilns, and early metal processing.

John Rogers

Probably 80 percent of that is folks who were impacted by the storm. We're hoping it's a short-term bump, but it's just too early to say.

Brian Ciemnecki

People should really just kind of stay in and wait out the storm, if at all possible. The roads will be snow-covered and treacherous. Visibility could be down to a quarter-mile for three hours or more during the heaviest snow late Saturday night and in the early morning hours Sunday.

Jerry Miller

People don't realize how susceptible these fields are in the early spring. One cleat mark can rip out the roots and that's it. The grass is gone.

Bill Richardson

North Korea will return to the talks in early November unconditionally,

Brian Grun

Again, we didn't execute very well early and that frustrates me. It was just a matter of having more talent, being taller. Marvin's kids played real hard. It wasn't lack of effort on their part.

Brian Gionta

Once we got up early on them with those three goals, we just stuck with what we were doing.

Jane Siberry

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Albert Einstein

From discord, find Harmony.

Anatoly Karpov

I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

Plato

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

John Dryden

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

Jerry Uelsmann

The room itself had a strange, timeless quality to it.

James Purnell

There is a possibility that the number of offences will increase. That in itself could be a sign of success because more people are using the powers of the act.

Albert Camus

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself

Noam Chomsky

The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the - is its outrage.

D. James

If that swelling comes down and they can do some things with it and get itself worked out, then possibly he could come back. But if it doesn't, that's something he can't play with.

Bob Bourne

Cy-Ride outgrew itself continually, right from the beginning.

Jeff Traylor

It's always worked itself out in the past and this situation will work itself out too.

William Gibson

It seems as though the Net itself has become conscious,

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Dennis Ward

At this point, it looks like Kevin Helfer has pulled ahead,

Amanda Peet

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.

Kevin Mitnick

The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

John Salley

The hardest guy I had to guard: Hakeem Olajuwon. No one can guard Hakeem. And then, Kevin McHale.

Patton Oswalt

If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.

Mike Healy

We go the way Kevin goes. If he's playing well, we're playing well.

Chris Pine

I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Henry Giles

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Jason Mraz

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

Josh Homme

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Kaskade

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

AJ Case

After Wild Child, I had pretty much had it with the music business.

James Michael Tyler

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'

Katie Melua

The style of music I make now, that only started when I was about 15,

E. O. Wilson

The show is particularly significant because it was the same show, performed in 1989, that was the first musical in our new theater at its present location,

Meghan Trainor

Any body type is beautiful. It's all about loving what you got and rocking it.

Farley Flex

You're stiff as a rock but you roll with soul baby.

Brandon Thomas

Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Brenda Lee

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

Ben Gibbard

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

Carrot Top

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

Bart Chilton

I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

Craig Finn

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

Bobby Vinton

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

Timothy Simons

I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's insane to forgo this.