Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Pagel

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

Paul Stamets

Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.

Paul Stamets

Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served several purposes: killing contaminants, softening the flesh, and extracting the rich soluble polysaccharides.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Alice Walker

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

Jim Murphy

I think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous.

Steven Cohen

We're lucky our ancestors came here. It makes you realize the sacrifices they experienced.

Dean Gilmour

There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.

Charles Ruff

The president did not urge Ms. Lewinsky to conceal the gifts he had given her, and of course, he did not lie to the grand jury about that subject,

David Raskin

He concealed the valuable information that he had about the impending attacks.

Louis Stokes

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

Richard Butler

The only reason it's taken so long, ... is that from day one, Iraq dragged its feet, sought to conceal and obfuscate and keep us away from the things we have the legal right to find.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Robert South

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Ari Fleischer

We still are in an environment where whatever they hid and whatever they concealed could remain hidden and concealed.

Dan Brown

I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

Loretta Lynch

Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.

Heather Wilson

Junk faxes dried up after that. People stopped doing it,

Charles McCarry

I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.

William Butler Yeats

I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.

Bible Bible

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Lynn Shelton

By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

Denny Brown

It's pretty dry. I'm working up ground now that I never get on until, most of the time, the first of May. Places that are usually still wet are completely dried out.

William Butler Yeats

The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.

Wade Wimmer

Once that dried up, things went really well.

Bob Lilley

We had streaks last year where we were good at putting the goals in and streaks where we dried up.

Ernovian Ismy

We will request premium import duties as well as a quota.

Kevin Reilly

It is blatantly unlawful to terminate a public sector employee and give those duties to someone else and justify it by saying the title is different.

Rig Veda

Those who do not perform their duties and lack a sense of responsibility can never succeed in their lives.

Rig Veda

Only those who perform their duties promptly become successful.

Christopher Cox

I look forward to returning to my duties very quickly. I plan to be back in the office in mid-February.

Steve Campbell

His responsibility as a father and a husband and his duties as mayor are his priorities.

Anjem Choudary

He left on Saturday. He is considering his Islamic duties in Lebanon .

William Osler

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Albert Barnes

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

Beeban Kidron

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

Chris Crutcher

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

Scott Coffey

That was the strongest evidence in the case.

Russell Smith

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

Bob Stott

We had only circumstantial evidence tying him to the bombs. And our circumstantial evidence wasn't that good.

Tom Davies

We have to move ahead, ... There is evidence that dries up after a while.

Jay Greene

Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.

Bill Schultz

Why would she have done such a thing if she knew what she was doing. She never did anything else wrong. There's no evidence she had anything to gain.

Seth Shostak

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

Jane Seymour

A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look real anymore. If you freeze everything on your face, you can't emote.

Yo-Yo Ma

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Vivek Wadhwa

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Bill Hader

Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.

Dennis Crowley

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Vladimir Potanin

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Bill Bryson

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Lindsey Graham

The allegation is that when they told the grand jury about the process they made some misstatements and false allegations, ... Face the Nation.

David Raskin

He wishes there were more coffins, more funerals and much more pain.

Thomas Lynch

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

Scott Taylor

Because of operational reasons we can't get back to the UK for funerals so it was just played as a mark of respect to the three guys who were lost out here last week,

Michael Green

The funerals are hard, so it's good to see all these people come out and show their support,

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Repub - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Dan Hinds

That was the turning point right there. We knew right there we'd be able to punch it in.

Jeff Hawkins

That was the turning point right there. That's when we knew we had them.

George W. Bush

That woman who knew I had dyslexia: I never interviewed her.

Pam Schild

We have always been supportive of his decision. We knew he would never do anything half-heartedly.

Matt Baker

We could have won the game. We knew we were in position. We took a shot and lost on it.

Gwen Moore

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

Menachem Begin

Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.

Patrick Modiano

Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.

Phil Klay

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

Charles Blood

I think they probably should have canceled this week for lack of interest.

Rosanne Cahn

Manufacturers are still selling a lot in the United States but their lack of pricing power in the top-line really puts a lot of pressure on them to become more efficient.

Robert McCann

We are not where we want to be, not for lack of effort, but because the process simply takes longer to produce results than any of us would like.

Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

Terry Tucker

Our witness was the judge's assistant, a woman named Mary Cherry. So we had Terry, Terry, and Mary Cherry.

Mary Beth Whitehead

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

Alphonsus Liguori

A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.

Ronnie Bond

Mary was superb. But we missed a lot of shots that we've got to make. That's been a problem for us in the past month, so maybe we'll be able to work our way through it next year.

Jon Birsner

Maryland played it well and Ian wasn't wide open. It really didn't matter because I was going to throw it to him no matter what.

Skip Lockwood

Maryland is the first state that seems to be going section-by-section through the bill, because so much opposition to this has come out of the woodwork that they are very concerned.

Steven Tyler

Mary had a little sheep,With the sheep she went to sleep.The sheep turned out to be a ram,And Mary had a little lamb.

Brian Glass

Mary Ann was just outstanding running the bases. Sometimes, I don't think she really understands just how important she is to our team.

Carrie Fisher

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

Tim Zasada

It all starts with the nose guard. You're just worried about getting the snap off and not getting hit.

Dale Jr

We've got to tweak the nose a little. We're talking tenths of a percent - not a whole lot.

Rick Thomas

He had some momentum, like he was running down hill. I flowed over and got my nose busted.

Chevy Chase

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

Chandra Wilson

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

Edith Wharton

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Charles M. Schulz

A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection

Busy Philipps

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

Yahya Jammeh

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

Glenn Martin

What you're going to start seeing is the infrastructure the roads, doctor's offices and stores come next.

Niki Tsongas

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

Jay Cairns

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

J. M. Roberts

We see some representatives out here, but I think most sit in their offices and don't see the people that they affect,

Peter Gould

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

Herb Kohl

All the Wisconsin and Beloit stuff in their offices made me feel at home,

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.

Carl McDonald

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

Marcia Miquelon

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

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

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.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Chris Tarry

Swissair has been strengthening its relationship with American over recent months.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Benjamin Franklin

What's proper, is becoming: See the Blacksmith with his white Silk Apron!

Mike Shula

We've got some work to do. I think we made a small step.

Richard Cate

Most of my years there were only two of us in my grade. So I know something about small schools.

Milton McGregor

You'll have big winners, and you'll have small winners.

Ang Lee

I thought it was a small work of love. I never thought it would play like this.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Aaron Sanchez

I think I can find a house, ... but a small house.

John Armato

But as a district, we?re not too small and we?re not too big to try this, we?re just about right.

Scott Kahan

For small investors, they probably aren't the place to be.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

David Sedaris

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

David Morrissey

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

Agnes Varda

When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

Charles Spurgeon

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Chris Christie

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

Betty Who

I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!

William Shakespeare

Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!

Bill Watterson

Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?

Danny Meyer

Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Keith McKeown

All the various discussions are going on with all the different parties.

Roger Williams

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Red Herring

Walker Digital's going to be around for a long, long time,

Abraham Lincoln

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

Charles McDonald

Even the slowest walker will be done by noon.

Frank Melton

The whole thing with Walker was for his own protection. It had nothing to do with getting his testimony.