Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that we're like ants trying to discover humans. Ask yourself: Would ants ever recognize houses, cars, or fire hydrants as the work of advanced biology?

Mike Gillespie

He's advanced beyond his age in terms of his coolness and composure. He'll give up hits and people will score, but he just doesn't all of a sudden spiral into a mess.

George Allen

I think the president ought to meet with this mother. What I would say to her is her son will always be remembered as a great hero and a patriot, advanced freedom in Iraq and the Middle East, has made this country more secure.

Scott Fosgard

The purpose of this agreement is to focus on advanced and emerging technologies. Fuel cells had been our focus for the last 7 years.

Rick Lehner

Iran and North Korea are two countries that have been spending a great deal of time and money to develop several different types of advanced ballistic missiles, including a type that could possibly reach the U.S. homeland with a weapon of mass destruction in the near future.

James Fenton

In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.

John Boyd Orr

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Tom Kendall

Interconnects and file systems are critical to what we do, the availability of a smaller advanced development system will ensure our users a positive first experience when they get onto the larger production machines.

Ben Matheson

By joining the Advanced Infrastructure Systems Management competency, Microsoft Solutions Partners will receive tools and resources that will help them audit a customer's existing disaster recovery plan to determine if the existing backup strategy is effective, and identify small to mid-market organizations that are a good candidate for DPM. We will also be releasing online Web-based training and a Project Guide in the coming months.

James Gallagher

Having been around audits for a number of years, there was nothing particularly outstanding in the audit that I would consider to be a severe deficiency, ... Some things need to be changed, and they will be.

Brian Postl

I think what the minister said the whole issue of who is on lists, how do you audit or monitor it to make sure you are gaining the ground you need to gain is an important part of this.

Mircea Monroe

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I went out on auditions because I didn't know if I was coming back on '24,' and then my pilot got picked up, so I was in London for nine weeks.

Joan Chen

I went on auditions for a movie called Year of the Dragon. I was pretty much fresh off the boat, and I had a little baby fat on me. I was a cute - really cute 22-year-old.

Sebastian Bach

I went to audition for an episode of 'Law and Order,' and they didn't understand why I was talking so fast, and I was like, 'No, you don't understand. I was on a show called the 'Gilmore Girls.' We had to say everything like that.'

Spoken Reasons

I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.

Kathy Burlison

Remember that even if you haven't been audited in the past, it doesn't mean you won't be in the future. And it only takes one audit to ruin your day.

Pete Carroll

John David is ready, he's as ready as a guy could be in a backup situation. I feel very fortunate we've had him in the wings.

Matt Hasselbeck

He didn't have to be that guy. He was my backup and he was the most supportive guy on the team.

Curt Schilling

He's a classy guy. I'm guessing (he retired) because from a pitcher standpoint, the backup catcher has got to catch Timmy and that represents a whole new set of challenges.

Rich Rodriguez

He's doing a nice job, he's our backup long snapper and he's competing to get better. We've been proud of the way he has worked. He's better now than he was last year and every week he keeps getting better and better.

Stuart Cohen

We're preparing as if we're getting a Class 4 hurricane, checking equipment, supplies, generators, communications, backup communications capabilities, phones and pagers, ... Our normal disaster recovery procedures are in place.

Rick Vanhoy

We've got to keep him healthy. Brandon Brothers is our backup fullback. Brandon's tough, and he'll run over some people. But we really need Brandon on defense.

Jeff Rubin

What you need is backup protection, a way to destroy the data if the machine is stolen, and encryption. With our data destruction, it's like the laptop will swallow cyanide.

Tony Battie

I think it takes care of itself. I don't put any extra pressure on myself. I bring what I bring to the game. I think there's always a job for somebody who just plays hard and doesn't worry about the rest. It all depends on how the front office views you. Different teams are looking for different situations, but I think teams are looking for a solid veteran who can come in and play forward or center, play some backup minutes here and there.

John Dunning

I already knew it was going to be a tough day because I wasn't going to have my staff. I tried to have backup, but then my backup didn't show up.

Yale Hirsch

I would think Cisco might make a great candidate because the Internet is not going away.

Thomas Mann

I would say Joe Lieberman (would be perceived as being the most pro-business), ... is the least likely of the major candidates to win the nomination.

Brenda Wright

Just limiting contributions leaves untouched one of the core problems, which is the pressure that candidates face when they can never stop fund raising.

Matt Bennett

Joe Trippi may want to check in with his candidate before talking,

Stu Jackson

I think it had come to a point where there were several viable candidates and it was just time to do it,

Don Drummond

He did a very good job as finance minister in Ontario. He's a very strong candidate for that position.

Ron Walters

There are so many candidates in the race. Whoever can get a critical mass of voters will win the race.

Peter Hakim

What we do not know is how he will govern. There is a big difference between a candidate and a president.

Summer Luciano

Having the music and the candidates out here forms a sense of community. We want people to be excited and feel empowered to go out in force and vote.

Kellan Lutz

Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

Derrick Mason

I was jaw-jacking with him a little bit, but it was fun, ... I was like, 'Keep coming, rook, because we are going to keep coming at you.' He's only going to get better the more he plays.

Erick Siqueira

I was lost; I could not understand a word that was coming out of that lady's mouth. So I kept on saying huh, what, when all the sudden she raised her voice and started to yell at me as if I was mentally retarded or something.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Roy Blunt

Knowing what is going to happen next year is going to be helpful in coming to a conclusion this year,

Shemar Moore

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.

Buck Showalter

Knowing Kam, I don't think there will be anything. He's still mad about coming out of the game.

Tony Nathan

I would think with Jamal coming back, he's been the horse here for a while and we're still going to continue to ride that.

Arthur Sullivan

I would suggest the people from other counties here, they do have emissions tests. Not waste their time coming over here.

Jerry Sloan

Guys played a lot harder. They played a lot more determined to try to win, rather than the way we have been.

Mewelde Moore

He's a classy, determined individual. Those are the characteristics you love to see in a head coach.

Jim Clarke

Going back to the farm and isolating the virus will let us determine whether we have a concern.

Nick Cave

I was determined not to spend inordinate amounts of time on something I felt would fundamentally never get made.

Jay Weatherill

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

Joe Barker

What is a threat to national security and who determines what is a threat to national security?

Alexei Miller

Today in fact we have determined the time frame and the scale. We are talking about large scale deliveries (of gas).

Linda Pinney

I thought, 'This is crazy; I have ADHD,' ... I was determined that this was a problem that needed to be solved.

Jeanne Shaheen

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.

Suzy Pelican

Going in without a list is usually kind of a disaster for most of us. You're going on hunger and a whim and not planning well.

Davitt McAteer

Historically, investigations of mine disasters in the United States have never involved the families of the victims. That era ends today.

Dan Schnur

There aren't a lot of votes to be gained by overseeing a disaster relief that is handled the way it should be, but there is a political downside to not doing enough, or not doing it fast enough.

Stephen Hess

He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly,

Yasser Arafat

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Srikantha Herath

In general we are observing more and more heavy rain-associated disasters in the region.

Arthur Stein

In general, very few people are prepared for any kind of disaster including disability, which doesn't require a hurricane,

Gary Conelly

Initially, we were told that the Israelis escaped and the terrorists were captured. We didn't learn about the disaster at the helicopters (where the hostages were killed) until much later.

Monica Johnson

As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation.

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use, ... There are several advantages. Its centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and its good topography (without many hills in the area).

Nick Bell

IDMS is a set of interfaces and protocols. Before, GM did not have a single system for its dealers to use. Instead, GM would certify existing systems.

Richard Cobden

I have sat on the army, navy, and ordnance committees, and I see no limit to the increase of our armaments under the existing system.

Rick Boucher

The Internet has provided a means for gambling operations to evade existing anti-gambling laws.

Ted Baker

The implementation of the two-referee system to support the New Standard of Enforcement of the existing Playing Rules has resulted in an increase to the number of officials required on our Officiating Team

Benjamin Cardozo

Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not the journey's end. The law, like the traveler, must be ready for the morrow. It must have a principle of growth.

Jamal Qureshi

A million sounds pretty high. I have a hard time seeing that from just existing fields and rehabilitation.

Bob Kemp

They provided service to a lot of destinations and we're sorry to see them leave. People will be able to get to all of their destinations on our existing carriers, it just won't be nonstop.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Susan Linn

Kids know that school is supposed to be good for them, ... So they think whatever a school endorses is also good for them.

Bill Davidson

Kids are working hard. They're positive. There's a lot of good things left here. There's a lot more kids left than there are gone.

Gary Arthur

Guidelines simply aren't enough to keep us safe.

George Packer

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.

Criss Angel

There are somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 working magic professionals in the world, and since we debuted our Magic Kit, we have sold over 1 million. So it's for people who have a strong interest, but be it for one trick or a lifetime, we will be there for them. We will guide them so they don't waste their money.

Monica Johnson

With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.

Abraham Foxman

There is enough leeway in these guidelines to permit proselytizing.

Jake Plummer

I didn't do much I just guided them down the field.

Jake Plummer

I didn't do much but just guided them down the field.

Karen Kain

Our marvelous musicians will be ably guided into the magnificent new theatre under David's leadership.

Scott Haywood

If you leave the state for temporary purposes, that doesn't automatically mean you lose your Texas residency. In the state statutes, there are some guidelines for maintaining that residency.

Andrea Martin

I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Rig Veda

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

Will Peterson

Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

Luke Donald

Knowing I have played well here before helps a lot.

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Pat Callahan

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

George Herbert Mead

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

Janet Reno

It is important that we identify who is responsible for them having guns, what the parents knew or should have known, and take appropriate steps, ... Meet the Press.

Ed Gillespie

If you look at the party identification and how voters identify themselves, the parties are just about at parity,

John Hannah

It's something that has been going on for a number of years. As our investigation progresses, we will be able to identify individuals involved.

Joe Piscopo

It's vital to getting out the vote because the kids identify with it so much.

Paul Register

As much as you want to identify people, there has been a lot (more) time spent ruling out people. That is part of it.

R. Robinson

They said we needed to identify him so we did. We said this is Christopher Robinson.

Marcia Townsend

There were more than 100 plants. We had a wonderful time trying to identify all of them.

David Fincher

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

Trip Hawkins

You'd be surprised at how many women are joining those leagues.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Mo Rocca

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.

Nick Saban

I’ve never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would.

Stephen Kinzer

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Audre Lorde

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Noel Redding

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Michael D. Barnes

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

Graeme Smith

I think he will be joining the squad (this week). I don't know if he will be playing though.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Harold Vogel

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,

Woody Williams

I'm sure it was a relief for my teammates and management,

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

John Challenger

Summer is always a slow job-cut time. Management is away, and vacations are going on,

Kevin Mitnick

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

Justin Guarini

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

Jeff Cohen

The only thing I think really needs to be addressed by Microsoft is biometrics.

Jeff Johnson

He was saying, 'Look what I did at Microsoft and look what I can do for you.

Rob Enderle

There's always been a belief that Microsoft would respond punitively if you did something they didn't like. You were afraid of Microsoft's reaction, .. That belief has been pretty much destroyed. Vendors, clients and customers feel pretty much free do whatever they have to do in their Microsoft relationship.

Bruce Perens

If Microsoft turns out to be the aggressor, that does not help. The pool unfortunately turns out to be spitting in the wind.

Chuck D.

The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul.

Richard Williams

This is a glaring, embarrassing problem that Microsoft has to fix.

Eric S. Raymond

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

Naveen Jain

Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.

Jeff Raikes

A combination of Microsoft technologies will always have more impact.

Kristy Sobel

I went online because I wanted to see if there was something I could use if I was going out.

Susannah Fox

There aren't any new recruits. It's online veterans who are signing up for a second or third tour.

Marc Rotenberg

This is a very important development in terms of online privacy.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Kara Swisher

As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Jim Donahue

This is a better time of year to get a late-model car, ... and that will be reflected in the online price.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Chris Moneymaker

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Rudy Giuliani

I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership.

Bill Gates

Partners need to come in and be the ones who pull together the solution,

Christina Richmond

Partners are getting more and more savvy in services because they have to.

Mickey Gilley

I don't own everything, I do have a partner.

Justin Osmer

It's very important for us to reach out to different partners in the search space.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Rachel Griffiths

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

Katherine Dunham

Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.

Helen Mirren

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Jim Bowden

I think you have to plan that he will not be back this year and be pleasantly surprised if he is.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Scott Cowen

I think we have to have a very comprehensive plan to rebuild the city,

Juli Lax

I think we're up to Plan K right now.

Michael Barrett

There are no plans to do any of this, but we're monitoring the situation closely.

Vince Green

When they say plants are closing, they're going elsewhere. And it's not just China; it's Tennessee, Texas, more business-friendly states.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Steve Ford

Had the residents not done (what they did), the project would not have been what it is,

Mitch Gross

If you have a school project I suggest you get it done because you will be back to school on Monday.

Andre Holland

I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

Roy Grant

I'm not going to project where we're going to be at the end of the quarter.

Bill Henderson

The milling and resurfacing part of the project is part of our regularly scheduled maintenance,

Frank Dobson

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

John Loyd

They did try working one day. The soil could not be worked to reach the project specifications.

Curt Johnson

They're stuck. This project is in serious trouble.

Terry Williamson

It is safe to say that we support projects such as these.

Richard McGinn

I think we're doing a lot of things well, and I think it's been received well on the street, ... Street Sweep.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Scott Nester

I keep checking, and we have not received any yet.

Jeong Kim

Each team will receive a word, then they will have 20 seconds to confer and 60 seconds to spell.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Jim Goodman

It's going to be really interesting to watch him work here at the receiver drills and do all the things that they do.

Tyler Florence

It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it... if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put in on a sandwich.

Wayne Dyer

During any moment in which you're experiencing thoughts that make you feel sick or bad, do your best to change them to thoughts that support the idea of feeling good. Refuse to talk about disease, and work to activate thoughts that predict recovery and overall well-being.

Virginia Satir

I am me and I am okay.

Robin Quivers

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

Heather Mills

Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.

Mark Twain

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Nikki Sixx

There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

Paul R. Ehrlich

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

Kristin Armstrong

Everyone knows I drink a lot of Diet Coke, so...I drink chocolate milk after races as my recovery drink, and you won't ever find me without a peanut butter sandwich in my bag at races or without a jar of peanut butter when I am heading to Europe.

Michael Ratner

They have been very resistant to releasing the names.

Lisa Davis

There is no truth in the story that he won't be making or releasing any more records.

Jeaniene Frost

The 'Broken Destiny' series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

Peter Murphy

We need to look at the value of releasing these players.

Brian De Palma

Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.

Michael Birch

Resources have underpinned the strength of the market.

Kevin McCarthy

If Russia wants to use energy as a weapon against our friends and allies, let's use our resources to set them free.

Michael Garcia

They are now fugitives. We will be using our resources to find them.

Joseph Stalin

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

Chester Jourdan

They don't have the resources to do that nor, unless we get that supplemental (federal) money, will (they ever) have the resources to do it.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

David Straus

It would put a strain on the resources big-time.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Darryl Frank

There is a strong (talent) pool, but a very small pool.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Kevin Jones

He doesn't play as small as he is.

Sander Levin

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'll start with small things.

Tory Burch

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

William Butler Yeats

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Emmanuel Jal

Education is the only solution for peace.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.