Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marsha Sharp

The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are.

George Scalise

The worldwide market for semiconductors in 2001 is expected to decline 31 percent due to excessive inventories and price pressure on a wide range of products, ... However, recent data indicates inventory is now largely in balance and prices are rebounding in some product categories.

Hosni Mubarak

encouraging, balanced and gives hope for the peace process to move forward.

Evan Bayh

To strike the right balance between protecting Hoosiers' health and maintaining a strong economy, ... we need to take the time to get the rule right.

J. M. Roberts

We all have our different interests and needs, and we're trying to maintain a balance between the health of the creek and the people who depend upon it for water.

Steve Witt

We all have diverse backgrounds, and it's a perfect balance that we have on the board. Our relationships with one another are excellent.

Nicole Mayo

We all had to write a report last night. Did it happen? Yeah, but we took a lot of breaks. We spend a lot of time studying, but we balance it out with humor and fun.

Marty Jaggers

Everybody we have played has run a five-man front on us because we use two tight ends and like to run the ball. That enables the defense to balance up better with our offense. Occasionally, we will try to go with an unbalanced line to offset that.

Laura Bush

Everyone supports stem-cell research and so did the president and there are embryonic lines for research. It's a very delicate balance between what we want to do for science and for research and what is ethically and morally right to do.

Jason Chaffetz

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

Ashley Painter

I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship.

Tom Hines

We might be a little deeper, but we're not going to have the dominating guy at the top. It will be an interesting year.

Mike Timlin

He's a young guy who works hard. He's not just scraping by in the ninth inning. He's going out there and dominating hitters and people in the stands want to see that in a ninth-inning guy.

Susan B. Anthony

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Justin Smith

I don't know if I'll be able to play (with Jeff) next year as a freshman, but I should get to play with Kevin. Hopefully, three Smiths will equal national championships.

Michael Eisner

Net income for the first three quarters of 2005 is nearly equal to all of 2004,

Craig Brown

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

Bhagavad Gita

No one is even equal to You in the three worlds; how can there be one greater than You? O Being of Incomparable Glory.

English Proverbs

It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.

A. N. Wilson

People have a tendency to regurgitate whatever they've last heard and to give equal credence to untruths as they do to truths.

Oscar Wilde

Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Steven Levitt

Some of these deceased personalities have Q scores equal to or greater than some of the live personalities we measure,

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Brandon Jennings

The harder you work when nobody’s watching the less you bleed when it’s time to perform.

Tyler Murovich

When I hear stuff like that it reminds to work harder and stay in the weight room.

Eric Ferguson

We were ready for the aggressiveness they (the Rebels) were going to bring. But they just played harder than us in the second half.

Dan Simmons

Its hard to die. Harder to live

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Thomas F. Wilson

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

Raymond Smullyan

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

Francis Ford Coppola

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Francis Bacon

Whatever you can, count.

Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

G. H. Hardy

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

G. H. Hardy

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Janet Reno

Everyone working together has made a difference, but you can't say, 'Okay, now let's move on to something else,' ... We can never relax our vigilance about crime, about enforcement, about prevention ... there's going to be some new problem down the road.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Andrea Dworkin

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Aldous Huxley

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Corey Lessard

We want to be physical with them. And we want to make their goalie move from side to side and try to open him up.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Orson Scott Card

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Orson Scott Card

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Robert Kiyosaki

I don't like medicine. There's an old Irish proverb that goes, "If I knew where I was going to die, I wouldn't go there." I suspect that I'm going to die in a hospital, so every time I go past one, I drive really quickly to get away from those things. So I spend a lot of money on health: gyms, I go to naturopaths, acupuncturists; anybody else who's almost the alternative to medicine. I think by the time you need medicine, it's too late. That's my belief.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

Robert Kiyosaki

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Jim Brown

We are trying to see who can perform under those conditions.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Dieter Zetsche

It has performed well in the world's toughest market.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Aleister Crowley

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Alberto Manguel

reading is at the beginning of the social contract

Alberto Manguel

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

Alberto Manguel

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

Alberto Manguel

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

Alberto Manguel

Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

Albert Einstein

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

Albert Einstein

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Claire Danes

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Clarence Darrow

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

Daniel Day-Lewis

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

David Caruso

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

Anthony Holden

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Swami Vivekananda

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Sabeer Bhatia

Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.

Ricky Ponting

Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.

Mark Pryor

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

Jack Kornfield

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

Harold E. Varmus

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Will Wright

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Wayne Dyer

Every obstacle is a test.