Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Ullman

Key West is the absolute best place to sail. I try not to ever miss this regatta.

Michael Pagano

I would say that getting hybrid in place, up and running, is the absolute most important thing they have to do. If they don't get hybrid right, all their competitors can come and pick them off.

Gene Lamont

I would say now it's next to impossible for us to make the playoffs. Even if we won the rest of our games, everything would have to fall absolutely perfect with Buffalo and Rochester for us to have a prayer.

Brian Boland

I would say that Notre Dame is a top-10, top-15 team. It's a strong club and they're only going to get better. VCU is another underrated club. They're as good as anybody we've played this year. We had an absolutely grueling match with them.

Jacques Gansler

I would say we didn't get the data we had hoped to have, ... The question of whether it's an absolute need or not is one that the secretary (of defense) and the president will be deciding.

Roberto Cavalli

Kate looks absolutely fantastic. She is confident and stylish, and she works well with the Cavalli look. She is back working and doing what she does best and, like usual, she was really professional.

Pete Carroll

It absolutely won't change what we do at all.

John McDonough

It absolutely affirms the need for public policies to protect taxpayers from companies who deliberately shift responsibility for the health needs of their workers onto the backs of taxpayers. Every company on this list needs to take a second look at what's going on with health care benefits.

Ernesto Zedillo

I talked by phone with Fox to let him know the government is absolutely ready to collaborate with him,

Bill Gray

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Russ Yarworth

He's a very tough worker. Mentally, he's tough, despite what he might tell you. He's got a good feel for the water.

Willie Green

I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am still here, despite smashing up my legs.

Jane Jensen

I love 'Gabriel Knight' and will always be proud of it. Despite the fact that I've done many other things, it seems to be the one thing that people remember. I hope 'Gray Matter' is as memorable.

Robert Hall

The health fears are what stuck out the most for me, but I think the stuff we see on television and all of the victims affected, pushes me into helping, despite the fear.

Margaret Atwood

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Patrick Fearon

So despite the indicator today, the report for February might not be quite as strong as this is suggesting.

Stuart Hoffman

At the same time, many retailers and the automakers have had good June numbers, despite the rise in oil prices (over the last month), ... Overall, there's some relief right now that the economy is indeed strong, but not overheating.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Richard Whately

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

William S. Burroughs

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

William James

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Richard M. Nixon

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Susan Gibbs

The cardinal's understanding is that he'll be here another two years or so.

Nate Mendel

Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Northrop Frye

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.