Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Gibbs

Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

Nancy Gibbs

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Etienne Lavigne

The 2007 Dakar will definitely go ahead but we will do everything in our power to prevent these sorts of accidents happening again.

Etienne Lavigne

The 2007 Dakar will definitely go ahead. But we will do everything in our power to prevent these sorts of accidents happening again.

David Waltemeyer

We can't know the number of accidents that haven't occurred.

Verdell Pettey

We've had Mayo One land there several times because the accidents were so bad.

George Stavropoulos

We have to maintain a level of smoothness. Sometimes there are accidents on stage, and sometimes we will perform with the audiences. The key is to make everything look easy.

Richard Rose

Most of them don't understand what's going on. To them, it's just freak accidents is what it is.

Roberto Reveles

We just did not feel comfortable with people being out there stretched out in single file where they could be subject to accidents and possibly expose themselves to provocation from outside groups.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Yann Tiersen

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Timothy Noah

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Inga Cadranel

You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

Inga Cadranel

It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.

Garry Wills

I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

Gina Bellman

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Donald Johanson

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

Phil Mauney

That way we can compile a detailed list to go by.

Scott Clark

Typically, industrial operations have an in-house energy management group that can go a long way toward determining their needs but can't really do a detailed feasibility study. So, they need to come to consultants like us.

Ron Shock

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

John Schneider

Going forward from here, we'll take what we've done and probably go back into a small group arrangement and be more detailed on what the steps would be in these various areas.

Tony Blair

His WMD program is active, detailed and growing. The policy of containment is not working,

Terri Jordan

He is just a master painter. He used to do really detailed works when he was younger. When he got older, he developed Parkinson's, so now he does paintings that are expressionistic, simplified. They're all about color. He's brilliant.

John Krawczyk

I don't have any detailed information on the proposal. So I don't know if there are any nuances that would move the projected numbers up or down.

Mike Wagner

I'd like a detailed explanation as to why they can't get this done. I just want to make sure the tax dollars are being watched out for in this whole thing.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

Keith Brooking

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Bill Hader

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

David Crosby

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

Rick Warren

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Mary Pipa

That was a tough one. (Montoursville) just took over the net. When they won the second set (7-5) I think it gave them a boost.

Johnny Podres

That was the key of the game. It gave us a big lift.

Terry Wilczek

That was a key play. That gave us a big lift and some momentum going into halftime. We needed to keep them out of the end zone.

Ismail Kadare

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

Vincent Bugliosi

No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

Zubin Mehta

I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

Nayvadius Cash

My day one fans - my fans from my mix tape days - know my life now. They know where I've been. You don't want to have a disconnection with those fans. You have to give them all of you because they feel like they've known you.

Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Roman Jakobson

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Dorothy Day

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Juergen Trittin

We've long known the waste would have to be taken back.

Rodney Moore

We've known about this idea for some time, but it has yet to be developed.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,