Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.

Bill Maher

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

Louis MacNeice

We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.

Jared Diamond

Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted.

Archimedes

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

Jamie Hyneman

One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.

Stephen Jay Gould

I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.

Ernest Shackleton

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

George W. Bush

States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

Jack Clarke

We have a lot of new players that are new to how we do things, so at the end of the day we haven't really fired on all cylinders this season and we're still a ways from doing that. It's still underachieving. It can be a lot better.

Brian Rolston

We have to play near-perfect hockey and everybody has to be going on all cylinders to win hockey games. And we weren't going.

Fritz Gampe

We dream to go to Mars. To do that we need very lightweight housing, be it inflatable, used rocket cylinders or our shell-shaped structure.

Adrian Klemm

I wouldn't say the line is in disarray. We have lots of movement going around, lots of guys trying to earn positions. But I don't think we were hitting on all cylinders and that isn't just the line. There are other groups, as well.

Carlos Delgado

He's a good friend. He's a tremendous ballplayer, and hopefully he'll be firing on all cylinders and we can help each other out.

Ryan Miller

We're starting to feel like we're hitting on the right cylinders again.

Dmitri Young

When we have our cylinders going, we can hit with anybody.

Mark James

We felt like the tide was about to turn. We had to play on all cylinders for four quarters and I think we played on 2 cylinders for two quarters. And the two quarters where we didn't play on all cylinders, it showed.

John Haberman

We're going to have to be ready for Lamar because they're improving every week. We're going to have everything rolling on all cylinders when Lamar comes to town.

Irwin Cotler

Judges look at the gravity of the offence and the responsibility of the offender in determining sentences,

Charles Caleb Colton

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Arthur C. Clarke

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

Albert Einstein

Gravity is a response to geometry.

Lee Smolin

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.

Robin Bell

Over the lakes, the pull of gravity is much weaker, so we know there must be a big hole down there.

Douglas William Jerrold

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Benny Johnson

Well, when do we talk about it? They don't seem to understand the gravity of this.

O. Henry

The moon buggy is lighter in space because there's less gravity there.