Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Katz

I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.

Nick Fry

Since Honda acquired a 45% stake in the team at the beginning of this year, we have been finding ways to work even closer with our Honda colleagues, ... The Honda Institute is the perfect place for us to learn more about Honda and I'm sure that what will come out of this will be greater communication and understanding throughout the team.

Christin Armacost

I think the technology Ascend has acquired gives them the lead over existing data networking companies in offering full-featured SS7 technology. Stratus offers SS7 technology on a high-end computer platform, whereas Cisco offers more low-end signaling.

Juliene Berk

Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Donna Dubinsky

I mean, they sort of refused to come to the table with any incremental capital. They would have loved for us to be acquired just get their money out and be gone.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Gopal Ahluwalia

This consolidation really started in the mid-1990s but picked up speed and is still continuing. In the last 15 years, about 150 companies have been acquired or merged. Most of the consolidation is confined to the top 10 builders, who are acquiring companies.

Margaret Geller

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.

Stewart Butterfield

People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.

Davis Eidahl

The one thing about our team that I like is how all the grades and ages blend together. They all support each other in practice and meets.

David Macaulay

I've never thought about the ages of my readers.

Louis Agassiz

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

Janet Miller

We've got all ages here. We've got one-year-olds. We've got elderly folks as well.

Howard Schultz

China's emerging as one of the centers of the world, if not the center of the world, ... If my kids were of very young ages today, I would be asking them, and encouraging them, to learn Chinese.

Martha Stewart

My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' whether it's them learning how to make an easy weekday dinner or starting their own business.

Henry Williamson

From all the ages my soul desired to take that soul-life which had flowed through them as the sunbeams had continually found an earth.

Robert Ingersoll

Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men

Arlen Specter

Chief Justice Roberts has great potential for the future to bring a consensus to the court, to have a better recognition of congressional authority and, as he put it, to understand the Constitution responding to the changes in the ages and responding to societal conditions.

Larry Garza

As for me, I'm single, and it hurts me 'cause he's not here and he won't be able to see his grandchildren grow up. He was always proud of his three sons finishing college, growing up and providing for themselves.

Donnie Edwards

Marty has been talking about us finishing games. ... He has been stressing about making plays when you have to.

Brad Bevis

We had a lot of question marks. I had no idea what to expect. So, I'm pretty pleased with finishing third.

Don Helvey

We're not finishing when we need to finish, but we finish when it counts. The kids know how to play the game and they've been taught that they need to stick with it until the last whistle.

Morgan Betscher

Our finishing was very nice. I think we got maybe four or five good opportunities and we scored on three, and that's as good a percentage as you're going to find. It was just getting more chances.

Ron Jirsa

We worked hard before the game at shooting and finishing better around the basket.

Taro Aso

understands that it was not a recalling of the envoy but an announcement of the finishing of his duties.

Jack Edison

We had trouble starting and finishing in that quarter.

Kelly Witte

Finishing strong this weekend in the last game, we really put things together and looked like a team firing on all six cylinders. When we string it all together, we can get production at every position.

Gary Carr

It was a long day. But the girls learned a lot and they're trying to find their way.

Cecil Burch

My girls are still running strong. They seem to just get better and better. The girls want to set their goals high, too, so they working on making themselves better.

Ric Flair

Girls, you can't be the first, but you can be next.

Frank Oz

Girls and sports. That was the interest, mainly. I never wanted to be a puppeteer.

Karen Falana

I would say 75 percent of my girls go on to college. And I would say 90 percent of that group goes on to play rugby in college.

Jim Clarke

She's had a very big impact on the team. The girls all look up to her. They all respect her. When she talks, they listen. ... She's having a positive impact on the younger players in the program.

Kathy McCartney

She does yeoman work all the time. The kid?s 5-foot-8 but she plays 6-foot-something girls every day.

Becky Cleary

Six girls are doing pretty well. It will be super exciting.

Fred Thacher

She's a big part of this team, and the girls really look up to her.

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Daniel Dennett

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

Tom Peters

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

Stephen Hawking

We won't know for a few years.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Sigmund Freud

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

Robert Browning

One and all We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto- Encourages the meanest who has racked Nature until he gains from her some fact, To state what truth is from his point of view, Mere pin-point though it be: since many such Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend Come forward unabashed and haply lend His little life-experience to our much Of modern knowledge.

Richard Hamming

It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.