Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susanna Moore

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

Strobe Talbott

Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- 'citizen of the world' -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Paul Dolan

There is no artificial cutoff on signing long-term deals.

Joe Cocker

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

Pat Campbell

The field turf product in the Dome is only a month old, and what makes it different is that it's the closest thing to natural grass that you can get in an artificial surface. And it's the preferred surface of the NFL.

Mike Clarke

You ... would be able to distinguish natural from artificial radiation.

Sal Palladino

The Earth has a very low tolerance for this greedy egotistical corporate robotic human behavior. The Earth senses its artificial ingredients and will use its immune system to combat it.

Tae Satoya

The course out there has artificial snow and is stiff, which may prove to be of my advantage.

Cato Institute

We have to acknowledge that individuals can face transition costs when trade barriers come down,

Chris Anderson

If you just look at state policy, you're not looking at the whole picture. As we've heard from many of our members, you can have a great state policy that can't be implemented, or finds barriers at the local level.

Charisse Ward

Clutter causes stress, and clutter is one of the main barriers of productivity.

Paul Wolfowitz

calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agriculture subsidies that hurt small farmers and the private sector.

Richard Jenkins

Canadians continue to embrace e-commerce and the convenience that it offers, but there remain a few barriers for consumers to shift more of their buying to retail websites.

Gwen Ifill

I'm happy to break down barriers and be a role model, but I don't want that to be the only thing people talk about. At some point, you have to move past it... . I try not to play into it. I've had this job for a while.

Geena Davis

I love to see those barriers broken. What I'm really hoping is that we can get break the barriers and then get past it to the point that its really not shocking news.

M. Wolfe

You've got to find another team, and even if you do find another team, they're not obligated to let you play. There are tough barriers to overcome when something like this happens.

Tony Bates

The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.

Russell Smith

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Jeff White

Knowing what we know now, we would have designed it differently.

Gary Bardini

I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.

Lois Huff

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

Townes Van Zandt

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

Larry Ellison

Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.

Alan Siegel

We try to make things user-friendly. We try to use information designed to facilitate quick understanding.

Johnny Hill

We make a practice of being on- site for the initial install of every site. OSP engineers have joked with me that I must have worked in the field because the platform is designed to accommodate the 'fat fingers' of the field technician, rather than the manicured hands of a laboratory engineer.

Brian Murray

He never really seemed to take off as decisively as he has this year. We can put in a lot more designed plays.

Carolyn Sczepanski

People who haven't experienced Special Olympics before don't know what kids who are disabled can do. They just get out there and they have such a great time. It's so great to see the smiles on their faces. Being out there makes them feel so free.

Aimee Mullins

I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.

Umberto Eco

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Tucker Carlson

Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.

Yoweri Museveni

Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today there are 38 million, despite the catastrophe of AIDS, which we have also tackled. The Ugandans know and appreciate this, especially the elderly.

Loretta Young

I know elderly people who have so lived in their long lives. Today, they find great pleasure in each and every day.

Steve Parker

In Moss Point, there were people who had insurance and money to fix themselves up. I'm not there for them. I'm there to help the elderly and handicapped who did not have insurance or the means to repair their homes.

Jonathan Sacks

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

Maggie Smith

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

Jim Anderson

We didn't know anything about this population anymore. We didn't know who was there. We didn't know if it was an elderly population or a sick population. We didn't know if they had any education.

Robert A. Heinlein

If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

A.E. Howard

It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Bill Ross

It is a language, and it touches on things oral or written language don't get to. When I first met Antonio, I wondered if he could speak. He was so shy.

Tony DiSanto

Laguna' was sort of told in the visual language of a lush teen drama. The idea here was to be a little grittier, more voyeuristic.

Carol Bruess

I think we're seeing a more relaxed, more offensive, some would say, use of language, the use of swearing.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Stephen Sachs

He doesn't know what language is. He has been totally isolated,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.