Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul D. Boyer

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

Chris Maher

We think that this technology has a lot of other applications. It can be applied to a whole range of problems that require tight linkage between data and computation -- tsunami warning devices (where you have a lot of data coming in and you have to make quick decisions), homeland security applications, medical imaging systems and so on. So there are a lot of other potential applications for this kind of technology.

Chris Licursi

There is no surgery involved. It's like a contact lens with hair injected into it. Then using medical adhesive it is applied to the person's head.

Robert Pozen

There is no single rule that can be applied in deciding whether or not to limit new purchases in a given fund,

Orrin Hatch

This vote should have been 100-0. But 78 senators applied the right standard in evaluating a judicial nominee - a nonpolitical standard - and that's a good sign.

Steve Miller

Obviously as we get into our discussions going forward, the reductions that GM has made are going to be naturally applied to the Delphi situation,

Wayne Oakes

Based on reasonable and probable grounds, dangerous driving was the most reasonable offence that applied to the four individuals charged.

Craig Maurer

I feel the valuation applied to that business (Western Union) has been severely depressed by being part of the whole First Data. I think the remaining businesses will be a significantly less attractive investment.

Bob Mancini

My issue with the whole thing is that I don't believe that they applied the rules correctly. They way I understand it ... is the referees are in charge. They're supposed to have a decision. They need to call goal or no goal and (in replay) determine whether it's conclusive or inconclusive. I'm looking forward to talking to the league tomorrow.

Ruth Ross

A ''should'' is a ''have to'' with no teeth; it is dead energy.

Siri Hustvedt

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

Hugh Orde

Officers were shot at last night. We are very lucky we do not have dead officers this morning.

Robert Reid

Dead trees are hazardous, and they will fall in the period of a storm.

Eric Fry

Dead money that springs to life will die again.

Jessica Raine

After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.

Victoria Wood

Thanx for all you did and said, i'm so grateful dad's not dead

Pras Michel

Sometimes people say things because it sounds cool. But when I say I'm with the revolution, especially now, I'm dead serious about it.

Chris McKay

The work is very relevant to Mars because we know the surface of Mars is as dead as a doornail and any life there -- if it exists -- would live underground.

Roma Downey

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

John Sutherland

These are six extremely different novels, all of them good in a very different way.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Mike Bossy

I'm always extremely honored to be applauded the way I am when I get back here and have any kind of liaison with the fans. I'm humbled by it.

Shanna Briggs

I felt like we started out extremely flat. And we didn't do some things well defensively that we wanted to, and that's when they went on their run.

J. Taylor

Hiroshi is an extremely technical player with his passing and dribbling, ... He'll be a good player for us.

Jay Foreman

He stepped up big for us. They had put a lot of good shots on goal. He was solid in net. His reflexes are good and he is extremely athletic. He showed me a lot stepping in a tough spot like that.

Peter Castro

He's extremely concerned. And she's extremely grateful for that concern.

Mike Woodson

He played extremely well. He didn't play like a rookie.

Anne Rice

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

Davy Jones

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

Marie Dressler

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Toby Keith

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'

Stephen Fitzgerald

Fifty percent of the students are on financial assistance. It's safe to say that 70 percent come from single-parent households.

Dennis Rodman

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

Melissa McDonald

Fifty percent did not have to come to the station. Seventy-eight percent of the people were willing to use the Internet.

Phil Niekro

Fifty games - sometimes I don't think that's enough.

David Byrne

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

Dennis Wilder

Some people today want to see a quick fix to the trade imbalance. In the new global economy, there is not a quick fix.

David Mellem

Once you've done the sale, the only way to fix that is with a time machine. But you can take steps to minimize the (tax) impact.

Sathya Baba

Pray to God and recite His Name or meditate on His Glory for some fixed period of time everyday; you will find it amply rewarding.

Bob Elliston

There are fixed costs, so the more horses we get, the better the situation is for us. We can handle about 900 horses; we had applications for 1,100.

Larry Hill

There is nothing more demoralizing than knowing the other team is going to run and you still can't stop it. You do that, you're fixing to win the game.

Tom Rossley

There's no question that's the No. 1 thing we've got to get fixed between now and the Vikings game. We have to get our run game going.

Derian Hatcher

Obviously right now we're a fragile team. I don't think there's any question about it. As we go on, that's something we have to fix to win games.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Pam Tanner

One thing about that it is that (San Francisco) struggled in their league last year. I think Tanya will go in there and be able to fix that.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Eurico Guterres

This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Anton Chekhov

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Philip Kerr

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

Harvey Fierstein

With her understanding of 'Fiddler's' important place in theatrical history, I am positive she will uphold that tradition excitingly.

Suze Orman

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Mark Cox

That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit.

Brandon Sanderson

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

Baruch Spinoza

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Augusten Burroughs

You manufacture beauty with your mind

Benjamin Banneker

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Dalai Lama

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Edward Snowden

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

Brian Greene

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Ehud Olmert

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Dirk Benedict

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

David Bowie

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Robert Kiyosaki

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

Doris Lessing

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Joseph Estrada

The victims here are the poor people, the squatters, ... So that is my top priority.

Donald E. Graham

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

Marsha Kello

The poor little thing is so little that we didn't even notice.

John Bunting

You get off to a poor start in the third quarter and things start rolling the other way. It starts snowballing a little bit.

Alexander Pope

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

Scott Stapp

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.

Margaret Heffernan

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Marilynne Robinson

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

BeBe Winans

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

Roni Java

We regret that there was any misunderstanding. Hopefully, this will get us on the road to resolution.

Brian Bosworth

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

Cameron Diaz

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

Alan Cumming

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

Channing Tatum

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

Jamie Lee Curtis

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

Janet Jackson

When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.

Bram Fischer

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

Brene Brown

It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.

Scott Hatteberg

The whole series was tough. When I look back on things, yeah, I wish they were different.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Joe Berlinger

Each film stands on its own. But we have a series that hangs together and is visually arresting.

Pat Murray

We fumbled on our first series and then threw the interception on our second,

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Albert Pujols

winning and getting back to the World Series and getting a ring.

Aileen Anderson

This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Keith Kramme

It'll be interesting to see what the mind-set is of this group. I think it's going to be good, but we won't know until we take the field.

Jimmy Fletcher

It was pretty much nip and tuck until the end.

Omar Jacobs

It's going to keep going until I retire, so I think it's something that will always be there. When it changes, it changes. If it doesn't, it doesn't. As long as I'm productive, I don't think it should matter.

Michael Owen Bruce

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Geraldo Rivera

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Ryan Church

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Matt Silverman

When you see the word devil, you think evil.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Seamus Heaney

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.