Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Steve Snyder

Southwest certainly was a part of the increase in January. We'll see in the coming months what the trends look like. It'll probably be a little easier to make a judgment (about Southwest's impact) at the end of the first quarter.

Jim Beal

So we're certainly concerned. We're watching the situation closely, but at the present time the system's functioning as it's designed and we're being reasonably successful in managing flows.

Arlen Specter

So they weren't necessarily your views then and they certainly aren't your views now?

Andrew Morton

So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may have been intrusive in terms of the way you define it, but it was certainly very laudatory and it really maintained and expanded the fairy tale.

Greg Olsen

Space is not for wimps. It's certainly not just writing a check.

Adrian Gonzalez

On-demand solutions are influencing the mindset and expectations of customers with regard to pricing and time-to-value. While $1 million TMS deals are still possible, they are certainly the exception and relatively rare these days.

John Chafee

Now is certainly not the time for Congress to embark on massive tax cuts or spending programs predicated on revenues we have not yet received. Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Grace Meng

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. That's what I will be above and beyond everything else.

Tao Lin

I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

Aristotle

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

Mark Gottfried

This was the definition of a team win.

Adam Carolla

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Dweezil Zappa

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

Deepak Chopra

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Kathy Johnson

People describe our show as high energy and dynamic. Our music is very uplifting.

Ugo Betti

Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Justin Timberlake

'Friends With Benefits': it feels like a two-hander to me, but it is a big movie, and this is the first straightforward male I've been able to play. I would describe my character in 'The Social Network' as a kind of sociopath. I would describe my character in 'Bad Teacher' as... just a weirdo. But this is a male's male.

Philippe Petit

I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.

Shairon Martis

I was thinking I had to keep the fastball low to get as many groundballs as possible. I used fastballs and sliders. ... I feel very proud of having thrown a no-hitter, and I really don't have any other words to describe it.

Mary Stahlke

It feels awesome. I'm so honored. I don't know how to describe it. I was really surprised and mostly honored to be recognized for the hard work I do.

Neal Boortz

Well, I've known Cynthia McKinney for a long time, and there is no way in the world that that word should be used to describe her or her hairdo or any woman -- unless she really is -- or her hairdo.

Stephen Wolfram

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

Edmund White

While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.

Gloria Steinem

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.