Famous Quotes & Sayings

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.

John C. Calhoun

In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the States, constituting this great and glorious Union. To the rest of the world, we are one. Neither State nor State government is known beyond our borders. Within, it is different.

Paul Cook

The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.

Nicholas Kristof

Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.

Jonathan Swift

Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad

Ben McKenzie

usually our relations abroad are those who get us the numbers of other people's credit cards. We have a way of manipulating the numbers to recharge it, but I cannot show you.

Rosecrans Baldwin

In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

Pauline Neville-Jones

The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.

Octavio Paz

Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

Whitey Herzog

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

Henry David Thoreau

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Steve Katz

The policy was $250 a month cheaper than what other agents quoted us, ... And, it was as easy as buying a CD or a book.

Barton Gellman

In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.

David Thewlis

After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.

Victoria Justice

I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.

John C. Calhoun

The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.

John C. Calhoun

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

Mike Holmgren

That was very distasteful to me, to retaliate so to speak like that (against the Vikings). I do believe the commissioner should look into these kind of clauses. We work so hard on trying to gain labor peace and a new collective bargaining agreement and then we as clubs allow agents to get cute and circumvent it. On the playing field there are rules and there are unwritten rules about how the game should be played in the spirit and the fairness of it all. It doesn't make sense to me that we had to lose such a fine football player this way. I was surprised by the ruling.

Yanis Varoufakis

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

Gary Mickelson

It does not currently help us in cases of identity fraud when an individual assumes someone else's name by using their Social Security number. We believe companies should not be placed in the role of policing who has proper work documentation.

Tim Russert

Those who could not get out were the poor, who rely on public buses to get out! Your website says that your department assumes primary responsibility for a national disaster - if you knew a hurricane three storm was coming, why were buses, trains, planes ... provided on Friday, Saturday, Sunday to evacuate people before the storm?

Sathya Baba

From the narrow vision of 'individual need', man must voyage out into the broad vision of the 'Universal'. When a drop of water falls into the Ocean, it loses its narrow individuality, its name and form, and assumes the form, name and taste of the Ocean itself. If it seeks to live separately as a 'drop', it will soon evaporate and be reduced to non-existence.

Leslie Ballin

It certainly assumes a fact and that is that she is responsible.

Jaime Pressly

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.

Neil Parker

I do not think stocks should have a bid premium built into them. That assumes that there is a good reason to buy them.

Patch Adams

Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.

Rig Veda

When a person does great work he assumes a coveted place in the hearts of all and he becomes great. He becomes successful in slaying all the enemies on basis of the efforts and the support of his fellow-beings.

Todd Rundgren

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.

Zach Johnson

If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.

Warren Farrell

While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

Wentworth Miller

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.

Greg Aiello

The policy is that if the average temperature is below 50 degrees, then the city needs a dome. That being said, any league city is welcome to make a presentation.

Christian Maher

The outlook remains unchanged, but the business has to pedal faster on subscriber growth to offset falling average revenue per user in order to meet expectations.

Max Mayfield

The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes.

Gary Garnant

That was a good site for that wind farm on the hills behind Kennewick. They get average wind speeds of 14 to 16 miles per hour consistently so they have a good power factor for those wind turbines.

Charli Thorne

We played pretty average and we only lost by one. So by no means have we lost a lot of confidence in ourselves.

Thomas Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Irwin M. Jacobs

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Gail Carson Levine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Giraldus Cambrensis

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Terry Garcia

The artifact itself and its contents were in danger of being lost forever.

Neal Goldman

We are actually using the news to dynamically generate this table of contents in real time.

Arup Patnaik

Looking at the contents of the locker, it does not seem like the work of a small gang.

David Watters

I think the contents of the encyclopedia will offer surprises to even a born-and-bred New Englander. New England is much more than the traditional taciturn Yankees, town meetings, and maple syrup. It is an important region not only for its past, but the present and the future.

Raila Odinga

The contents of the statement are most ridiculous and a phantom of great imagination.

Peter Conrad

Facts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.

Saudi Arabia

The other contents of the Prophet's room are preserved and none of them were lost since the entry into Mecca and Medina by the late King Abdulaziz,

Carl Young

People don't know how to use styles; people don't know how to use the table of contents creation feature tool in Word,

Nicholson Baker

What sugar-packet manufacturer could have known that people would take to flapping the packet back and forth to centrifuge its contents to the bottom, so that they could handily tear off the top?

Idris Elba

I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

William Shockley

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

Brian Kernighan

No matter how non-technical your life and work, you're going to have to interact with technology and technical people. If you know something about how devices and systems operate, it's a big advantage.

Daniel Kahneman

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Donald Norman

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

Charles Golvin

Microsoft in the long term wants the kind of strong position in mobile devices that it has in PCs,

Robert Kiyosaki

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

Michael Gartenberg

The problem was that the devices weren't very good, the screens were terrible, the prices were too high and there was a terrible selection of content.

Mark Murray

It doesn't do us any good to hide our head in the sand with regard to what is hazardous. The manufacturers of these devices need to take responsibility for phasing out the use of toxic materials and for taking back their devices.

William Safire

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

Chino Moreno

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Mike Gonzales

With the electronic age, we wanted a way to help keep our members informed on what is going on.

Jim Barnes

Who knows? Maybe eventually I'll be doing my nightly read with an electronic device. It's hard to imagine, but a lot of things are hard to imagine, but then they come true.

Peter Nelson

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access.

Peter Nelson

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in the electronic village all the village-idiots have internet access.

Philippe Petit

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.

J. Hoover

We can get electronic test results back within 24 hours, ... Teachers will be able to use the results right away to help with the curriculum.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Rachel Sklar

Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

David Hockney

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

David Hockney

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

Bill Gates

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'

Billy Bush

I have the iPad and I love Words With Friends.

Brian Williams

Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.

Craig Ferguson

Dell Computers announced they're releasing a competitor for the iPad. Now it is, in fact, a great alternative for people who already have an iPad, but are fed up with it working all the time.

Craig Ferguson

I'm so excited about the new iPad, I just iPeed my iPants.

Yo-Yo Ma

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

Keitaro Matsuda

The overcrowding problem is likely to get worse.

Anthony Chan

The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.

David Hewson

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'

Peter Singer

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.

Mark McKinnon

If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.

Peter Jackson

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

Danny Ferry

Most likely we'll have two second-round picks next year.

Kevin McCarthy

Most likely it was the snow on the power lines, or a tree on the power line.

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Darcy Tucker

We've had enough closed-door meetings this year. We don't need another one - the score said it all.

Mary Ford

We're really not in a very different place now than we were before. Unfortunately, this meeting really just didn't come to a conclusion.

Dan Rooney

I think they're meeting and there is some progress. But it's not enough, unfortunately.

Amy Poehler

It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and everything you see onstage tonight is being made up on the spot,

Robert Mueller

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

Javier Solana

It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

Mike Miller

We'll have a meeting in a month or so before we get started.

Jacques Rogge

Well done and thank you. You have succeeded brilliantly in meeting your challenge. These were truly magnificent Games.

Tracy Kidder

Returning to Northampton, I thought: here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why.

Pat Davis

They just got us with the big play. Right now, we're down to zero returning starters, so we're just trying to get better every week.

Marat Safin

It wasn't my day today on the serve, Gisela was returning winners on my serve so it was kind of embarrassing for me,

Cliff Hite

I always tell the quarterback, we don't want you to make a big tackle, just get in his way, trip him, do whatever you have to do to get in his way.

John Bryan

I don't know many trips you can do for a whole week for $150.

Vic Tayback

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

Lauren German

I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.

Caron Butler

Yeah, it was ugly, but we won. We'll take it, especially after the trip we just had.

Tim Adams

Our findings on this trip will be an important input,

Paddy Ashdown

It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,

Ron Vanover

Every trip is unique; every trip has a story.

Colleen Nave

That's the first triple play I've ever seen. It was very exciting.