Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Frauenfelder

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.

Bill Walsh

Joe might have been more active and quicker on his feet,

Janice Jackson

John is active here in our Devon Club, which he was president of at one time. He and his wife would attend a lot of the dances here.

Fred Taylor

I suspect that Venus is very volcanically active but we don't know that for certain,

Seth Shostak

Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research area that uses sound as a probe of our home star.

Rich Galen

Having their fingers burned, they're being more active in making sure the Hill knows.

Gilly Penrose

Her house is looking like a florist's and she's very much enjoying it. She's very philosophical about (her age), because she's very active still.

Geary Claxton

He's always talking, he's always an active person on the court. Since day one, since we've been playing together he's always been talking.

J. M. Roberts

He's been pretty consistent. He's very active away from the ball, and very aggressive to the glass.

Noam Chomsky

In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat.

Paul Wolfowitz

The Iraqi people are going to have a chance to show the whole world what Arabs are capable of.

Rabih Alameddine

The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.

Adnan Mufti

Any group, particularly the big ones, has its own peculiarities. The Arabs cannot represent the Kurds and vice versa neither. We are aware of the situation and I think the next coalition should include everyone.

Danny Arendt

Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts.

Jack Schwartz

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

Marilyn Monroe

What I really want to say is that what the world needs is a feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, blacks, Jews, Arabs - we're all brothers!

Humam Hammoudi

Those who are representing the brother Sunni Arabs are not elected,

Peter Galbraith

Since sectarian war is already underway between Sunni Arabs and Shiites in Baghdad and some other parts of the country, it is hard to see how a centralized Iraq run by Shiites could serve the interests of its Sunni population.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

Samuel Jutzi

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

Samuel Hopkins

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

Katori Hall

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

Roy Moore

It is a crucial time to run for office when rights and liberties are being eroded, taxes climb, the education of our children declines and morality erodes while judges tell children they cannot pray,

Shooter Jennings

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

Richard Holbrooke

there is no change in (the American) position in the sense there is a clear disagreement between the Russian government and NATO. But that does not mean we cannot still continue close contacts.

John Stevens

I would totally disagree with that comment. I don't think we're ever considered as a soft hockey team. We've had this conversation before, our guys that are expected to score, need to score.

Richard Chamberlain

Handsome" means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

Susanna Moore

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Mark Leno

The only thing that could come to mind is that he's politically pandering to the far right, which has been demanding that he make a statement, ... I'd like to take her at her word that he only considers the policy implications, which means there's no need to make such a hurried decision.

Jon Fleischman

Here's a state that Democrats have long considered an easy win. Not this time.

Paul DePodesta

He's a guy I've been interested in sitting down with for a while, ... We considered him for farm director position last year and he is a potential rising star in the game.

Mike Scioscia

He's been playing great. I think he's got to be a candidate. With the type of year he's having, you'd have to consider him.

Lanny Wadkins

I think it's going to be the same thing that you always have: Players are going to look at places where they play well. I think it's going to be the same criteria. I don't think the players are going to consider the Players Championship a major.

Steve Goodwin

It is a disgrace - realistically, we could consider suing the racecourse. We will see our lawyers to test the rules.

Samuel Wilson

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Paul Hewitt

This is a 401(k)-styled defined contribution plan, ... It has performed very, very well.

Ryan Ford

A shoulder pad on T-shirts, in sweaters, in shirts, in jackets, in everything. It's not a huge overwhelming pad, but it's a very defined shoulder.

Curtis Hanson

defined by the outward differences in the appearances, we tried to extend this duality to the two geographic worlds in which the story takes place.

Mika

Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

Dave Freer

Science, properly understood, should merely be defined as the knowledge man can gain from observing the natural world.

Scott Peters

The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It's our front yard and a beautiful playground for families and visitors. It should be clean, safe, and inviting.

Patrick Wilson

You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.

Bruce Lee

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

Daniel Solove

Having your identity stolen is somewhat like contracting a chronic, protracted disease.

Kurt Busch

Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same.

Khaled Hosseini

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Jeff Goldblum

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Noam Chomsky

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

Judith Butler

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

Judith Butler

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

Oswald Chambers

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Michael Rubin

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

Hans Blix

The Iraqis have been putting themselves in a position to rejuvenate their weapons-of-mass-destruction programs.

Patrick Burns

The Iraqi people are out of luck, the way it stands right now.

George H. W. Bush

This is a very positive day for the Iraqi people and as well for world peace, ... Democracies are peaceful countries.

Ahmad Chalabi

a very positive and constructive role in the formation of the Iraqi government.

Andrew Krepinevich

As long as there is no government, Iraqis tend to view the situation as one of occupation.

Tariq Aziz

Singling out the question of inspectors is wrong. There is the Iraqi issue, and in that issue, there are many items, there are many areas, and some of them are very, very important to the Iraqi people.

Jalal Talabani

For the Iraqi state, it is very difficult,

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.