Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Jarvis

Today we have 260 million guinea pigs for the dietary supplement industry.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.

Matt Jackson

We're scrappy. York, we hope, is a guinea pig for a pilot program.

Dannielli Marcelino

My sisters were my guinea pigs. It probably hurt.

Quentin Blake

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

Jacob Ruppert

When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and Ninety-second streets. I had a little menagerie of my own, some pigeons, guinea pigs, and so on. On Saturday mornings, I had to take my music lesson. Then the members of my team used to come see my menagerie.

Tennessee Williams

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

David Bailey

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.

Cate Blanchett

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.

Jennifer Miller

We realized it was an infection issue. They didn't have the strength to overcome any resistance.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.

Grant Hill

I had a MRSA infection on my ankle. At the time, I had never heard of MRSA. I didn't really know a whole lot about it. It really scared me.

David Flanagan

He had an infection to the bronchial line, which he never had.

Mikko Hypponen

It's still climbing. It's not the worst we've seen, but the infection is sizable.

H. Hart

A lot of people were totally in chaos. I have an infection that needs to be treated and I couldn't do anything till this morning.

Shigeru Omi

This is the first time that we have third-generation infection in terms of laboratory-acquired infection.

Lee Wood

Infection had set in, and it was rampant in the frontal bone,

John Watson

In practice, the likelihood of preventing spread of infection in those circumstances is very limited.

Bertrand Russell

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

William Shakespeare

Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.

William Shakespeare

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares...

Camille Paglia

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

Charles Dickens

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

David Weber

Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.

Mark Cuban

Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

Elliot Katz

Whether there are pigs (left) there or not, we have to see this thing through.

Ice T

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

Sebastian Thrun

That was a turning point in the race.

Dwane Casey

That was a turning point in our season. I think it took a little starch out of us.

Nick Burgess

That was a turning point in his career. He had the ultimatum to quit or work harder. You can see which one he picked.

Bruce Bochy

That was the turning point of the game.

Jeff Lebo

We could never really get it to that point where we made it interesting.

Joseph Garcia

We could have had 50 points in the first half.

Curtis Shaw

We have a lot of Marriott points that we'll never be able to use.

Pat Metheny

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Bryan Gulley

It's just not practical to think that can happen.

Conor Oberst

It's kind of a practical thing to do it this way,

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Susan Minot

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.

Bryan Whitman

That was rumored a year ago and never proved to be confirmed.

John Gibbons

We wanted to make sure he was all right. He proved that he was today.

Paul Doerrfeld

We proved we could play with them. We just have to relax and play our game.

Folarin Campbell

We proved we can play with anybody. We proved we don't back down from anybody.

Hines Ward

We proved all the prognosticators wrong. This is a big win for us.

Reggie Bush

I think I proved that I'm the number-one pick.

Ryan Langerhans

I think I proved myself up here and I want to stay. I think I can play everyday, but it's up to the manager.

Cathy Clark

He had proved to us over and over he could be trusted, so we didn't question him.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Erik Crawford

We had opportunities to step up and make plays, and we didn't.

Rajon Rondo

We've got so many talented guys. As long as someone's stepping up, we don't need a (consistent threat), but in the long run, we'll need someone consistent.

Sidney Govou

We've made a big step towards the title.

David McClure

I thought he stepped up real big." ()

Johnny Whitaker

We are not stepping back to a time when we are going to have anything even approaching hazing.

Mike Canales

We'll find a guy. We'll wait and see who steps up.

Ken Sprague

We were intimidated before we stepped on the court.

Helio Castroneves

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

Dick Pound

I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying,

Ken Leavitt

That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated.

John Montgomery

It's useful to validate specifications as they go through standardization.

John Stone

They were toast, pretty much done. Most of the harbors were at the end of their useful life.

Christopher Hill

as long as I feel it is useful to be here.

Susan Wyderko

Disclosures are only as useful as they are available.

Ellen Terry

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.