Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dimitar Sasselov

It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.

Graham Shear

This (decision) sends entirely the wrong message. English football have lost the message that a footballer is an employee, it is more like the master and servant of centuries ago,

Phil Stevens

For many centuries into the Middle Ages, the church regarded the killing of Christ as the most horrible crime of all time. Even though theologically it's recognized as the foundation for Christianity, it was a horrible, horrible event.

Hilary Clinton

It is still very much alive, standing proudly, ... Because it is three centuries old, it is our last living link to President Lincoln.

Anthony DeCurtis

It's a vexing type of question. It seems silly, because music has been expressing these issues for centuries - it's hard to think that it doesn't have the cultural standing to do it any more.

Marguerite Gardiner

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit

Lester Pearson

During my lifetime greater and more spectacular progress has been made in the physical sciences than in many centuries that preceded it.

Gordon Hamilton

You really have to have records that are several decades long, or centuries or millennia even. It's only when you look at long records you start to see trends.

Jeb Bush

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Doug Barry

We want people to see us as part of the cultural vitality of the greater Hilton Head area.

Patrick Stump

We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

Krisztina Nagy

The region needs peace, economic development and real exercise of cultural rights for Kurds.

Stephen Lewis

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Tom Lake

Working there, excavating, is truly like taking a ride in a time machine as you uncover cultural artifacts that see the light of day for the first time in thousands of years.

Steve Biko

We regard witchcraft, as part of the mystery of our cultural heritage

Tim Callahan

It's just another instance where the cultural wars are going to be fought out in our classrooms.

Stephen Perkins

It's a side of museums that many people don't see and sometimes don't understand when they see it in your budget. It's something that happens out of the way and it's not flashy but we're ensuring the long-term health of the cultural legacy of the area.

Nina Conti

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

Carol Miller

It's a witness. It's my truth, and I need to be out there expressing it.

Vano Merabishvili

If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.

Adam Hicks

I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

Dara Horn

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

Angela Mejia

This is a scare tactic. We haven't had raids for a very long, long time. It's a sad thing if we have raids by the government to stop people from expressing their freedom of speech.

Jackson Pollock

The modern artistis working and expressing an inner world in other words expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Tao Okamoto

Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.

Chris Kilham

Espresso, made by steam expressing finely ground coffee, is rich in flavor and aroma and chlorogenic acids, but not very concentrated at all in caffeine.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

David Brooks

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

Barney Frank

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Barney Frank

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Chico Hamilton

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Chico Hamilton

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Chick Corea

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.

Chick Corea

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

Edith Wharton

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Janet Anderson

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.

Scott Gomez

It seems like it's early. But it isn't. We need these points.

Jeffrey Cohen

It seems like a wonderful thing to do.

Jim Smith

It seems like a simple business. But it's as complicated as it can get.

Max Winkler

It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.

Pete Kendall

It seems like a long time since we've done anything.

Melanie Troxel

It seems like we can do no wrong. I'm as surprised as anybody. I don't want to wake up from this.

Larry Coker

It seems like three years to the players.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Johnnie Hayes

It was still standing and a tree was on it, but it was flooded. Everything we had in there was ruined, our TV and all our furniture.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Gene Autry

things that give you standing in the community.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Joe Brennan

We did a lot of standing around for two quarters.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

Bob Marley

You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Bobbi Brown

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

Lindy Ruff

It's the type of win you have to muster up with the injuries.

Jon Gruden

It was always a square-fist-in-the-mouth type of game.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chen Shui-bian

I've been charged with misappropriation of funds or misuse of two types of funds.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

Buster Davis

That's not him. He's not that type of guy.