Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Plater

Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this ancient creature survives for future generations to enjoy.

Shari Arison

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.

Edward Hirsch

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Margaret O'Brien

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Robert Owens

We may look through ancient and modern history, yet scarce find a sovereign to whom God offered the privilege of bestowing on humanity a boon so vast.

Jack Gleeson

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

Anne Dudley

I'm very interested in the color of sound. And I'm very interested in the juxtaposition of different things, ethnic instruments juxtaposed with symphonic instruments, and I'm interested in the ancient and the modern. I don't know why, but it has always been something that's fascinated me, from when I first heard a symphony orchestra I wanted to know how those sounds were made.

Bill Bryson

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.

John Burnside

In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Nick Cave

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Kimberley Nixon

A lot of my background is in theatre, so when you're on location, and the wind is really blowing, it's raining, and you've got mud all over you, it really keeps you on your toes.

Lisa Rinna

I don't have the dance background like Stacy, who studied ballet, or Drew, who was in a boy band.

Richard Cohen

I suspect the fraudster obviously had my name, my date of birth and maybe my mother's maiden name. People do not actually think about what they throw into the rubbish.

Richard Roberts

It causes an increased risk of birth defects and mental retardation.

Alan Henderson

Her memory is about two years behind, ... She doesn't remember giving birth to Alania.

Tony Gomez

He said he loved his son, that he'd just had a one-year birthday, so we started working that angle, and that seemed to be working. ... The only thing he wanted was to see his child. He told Kelly he wanted to say goodbye. Obviously we were not going to do that.

Charles E. Wilson

It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Swami Vivekananda

IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for loves sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - love unselfishly for loves sake.

Marie Osmond

I think a lot of women do hide it out of shame. It is supposed to be the happiest time in your life after giving birth to a child, you know.

C. S. Lewis

It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Sachin Tendulkar

I was just relaxing and spending time with the family. Everyone was together and that?s how a birthday should be.

Bill Tancer

Just when some thought that search as an acquisition channel had reached its limit, it continues to outpace the market. In order to succeed in this increasingly competitive environment, online retailers must find new and creative ways to intelligently leverage this channel.

Nathaniel Brown

We are firmly committed to maintaining commercial-free all the music channels XM itself creates.

Dave Williams

I think any channel partner that's too dependent on just the technology part is going to struggle relative to one that has a strong solutions and services orientation.

Joseph Flowers

Restaurants are moving in the direction that consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers took some years ago. Continuous measurement and evaluation of marketing channels such as television, radio, internet and print and in-store promotions is either in practice or under consideration at a number of leading restaurant chains.

Gordon Haff

Particularly with this kind of niche, this isn't really so much about the box, it's about channels and go-to-market. It's about setting up distribution and supply partners more than it is about the right box.

John Daane

In our international channels we are experiencing a sharper decline in demand than we had forecasted and therefore, we have modified our second quarter revenue guidance.

Kevin Connors

I just need to focus on this because I think this channel is really going take off.

Dave Navarro

If there was a channel that showed nothing but hysteria and panic, it would be the highest-rated channel on TV. We like to think of creating music as a way to channel the panic into something tangible.

Bud Selig

I need to get a new life, because I sat and watched The Weather Channel all day determining about low temperatures, high temperatures, medium temperatures.

Linda Allen

Kim kept going back to medical, complaining about the contractions, but they just kept sending her back to her cell.

Doc Sadler

Josh has been here every day, working hard. I've never heard Josh complain about one thing. He will definitely be a very successful person.

Randi Osberg

The only thing that is really different is that inspections are not complaint-based any more. Originally, it was totally complaint-based and no inspection was done unless a complaint was received.

Ken Smith

Having to get more than one market pass hasn't been on the same level of complaints as high hotel rates and other hospitality costs.

Rob Babcock

He's a real man who has a strong character. He's not one of those guys who will come in and complain that they aren't staying in a five-star hotel.

Dexter Williams

Whatever Josh allegedly did, I'm very shocked because Josh is a good kid. Since he's been with us, our relationship has been good. We didn't have any complaints from teachers or anything.

John Jones

We try to look for solutions rather than just complain about the problems of being poor.

Liz Smith

We took all the technological know-how that we had and took all the things women complained about and married the two.

Jeremy Newberry

He was kind of dear to me. The guy was a hard worker. I never heard him complain about anything, man. He always wanted to do better. We lost a special person. It's a sad day for everybody around here.

Brad Holmes

It's kind of cosmic in its intensity. It's one of a kind.

Jeff Schweitzer

All of life is a grand roll of the cosmic dice.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

Eden Ahbez

We're not earthly beings any more… we're cosmic beings.

Heraclitus Ephesus

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man; it forever was, is, and forever will be, an Ever living Fire

Brandon Boyd

Floating in this cosmic jucsi we are like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. Noone flinches we all float face down.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

Scott Nutter

Cosmic ray is the worst name. Because people think it's something out of science fiction.

Tommy Chong

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

Trevor Noah

I don't know how to let loose when I'm dancing to the music and the people that made the music are watching me. I've never felt so much pressure in my life.

Suzanne Weyn

Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.

Michelle Lombardo

He saw I had talent and he wanted to keep me in the business, whether it was through dancing or designing,

Ray Bolger

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

Rob Thurman

What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.

Russell Brand

To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

Tyler James Williams

I've been dancing forever; since I remember, that's what I've been doing.

Wayne Williams

I began dancing for entertainers and singers and, as I got older I wanted to progress and get myself a vocal instrument. I started taking singing lessons and getting some serious direction and that's how it began to build.

Rokia Traore

I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Roy Blunt

I think we'll have the votes next week,

Robert Froehlich

I think we could be in for some very rough sledding over the next day or two.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Brad Richards

This was not a step backward. If we play like that every night, we're going to win 80 percent of our games.

Walther Bothe

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

Nancy Reagan

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

Rachel Carson

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

Cynthia Nixon

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Farrah Fawcett

It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Steven Saunders

He wanted to know why he couldn't remember things.

Walter Price

He remembers I took him to Carmichael two years ago. I don't remember.

Rosaleen Tallon

It is all wrong in its symbolism. I look up to the sky to remember him. I will never go down.

Lofa Tatupu

What do I remember about that play? That it was long.

Rick Moore

We've got to remember who got us here.

Rekalin Sims

He was rubbing it in our faces. We remember that. We've got something for him.

S. Truett Cathy

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

Denise Moore

He never remembers us together. This is the only time he remembers me is in prison.

Richard Paul Evans

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Michael Foley

All of a sudden there was a lot of static and it went blank.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

David Packard

To remain static is to lose ground.

Jean Piaget

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

Anthony McFarland

We've been a little static in the preseason, but tonight we took some steps forward.

Rick Baker

I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television.

Tucker Carlson

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Wolfgang Puck

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

Jon Hamm

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff

John Cleese

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

John Cleese

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

Eric Balfour

Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

David Champion

I think it's desperately time for a change.

Steve Vai

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

Kelly Stables

I love the show tunes; I love all of them.

Larry Wall

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

Keith Jarrett

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

Karl Lagerfeld

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

Patrick Carney

Tune into my new lifetime movie. ’Dislocated shoulder’ airing right now,

Paramahansa Yogananda

If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

Lucas Neff

I'm certainly not a trained singer. The only place I could probably carry a tune is my shower.

Harlan Coben

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Chris Remley

When he was selected, I wasn't surprised. I'm going to watch it.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Rob Corddry

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Richard Dawkins

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond