Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Kopplin

We need to keep working to get our national surrogates to explain the facts - that the federal response was anemic and had been shortchanged by budget cuts and avoiding responsibilities like protecting Louisiana levees and wetlands.

Kurt Karl

We have a housing valuation issue. The time is now for raising interest rates and defusing these problems potentially by slowing down the economy a bit and avoiding a big necessary increase later and a consequential recession.

Sean Egan

It dodged a bullet by avoiding punitive damages in this case. But if it is forced to clean up lead paint, the company's exposure could be huge.

Himanshu Patel

One of the likely sticking points in the pending sale of GMAC may well be resolution on Delphi, further emphasizing GM's interest in avoiding a labor dispute.

Rachel Miner

I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't keep breakfast in the house, so that I have to go out first thing when I first wake up. And then I come back and shower.

John Faso

I have always been pro-life. I characterize myself that way and I'm not running away from it or avoiding it.

Frederick Sanger

I had remained in Cambridge concentrating only on basic research and avoiding as far as possible teaching or administrative responsibilities.

Brent Lewis

I felt like they were avoiding questions. They cut it (the meeting) short when people weren't done.

John King

Fortunately for us, we got a break and he did a good job of avoiding the tag.

Idina Menzel

I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

Idina Menzel

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

Vincent Bugliosi

We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

Michael Grant

The only crime, if any, that may have been committed in these circumstances is the perpetration of a dangerous act.

Janie Jamieson

The people are committed to wanting the land back and are willing to stay as long as they have to.

Toll Holdings

The outlook for the group is very positive and the company remains committed and focussed on delivering superior shareholder value in the long term.

Barack Obama

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

Rand Paul

I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

Jay Rockefeller

The American people deserve to know not just whether this administration committed crimes, but whether this administration told the truth - the full truth, the straight story,

Paul O'Neill

Harvey said that people are going to certify, and if they falsely certify, it's going to be fraud, and they're going to go to jail, and we think that's the right step,

Casey Luskin

Students will learn more about evolution, not less as some Darwinists have falsely claimed.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Acquaint thyself with God.

Edgar Allan Poe

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

Cornelia Funke

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

Bible Bible

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Joseph Addison

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Thomas Browne

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

Mel Gibson

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

Mark Twain

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.