Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.

Brittany Howard

I'm a huge fan of dystopian films. I collect them in my brain.

Bill Hader

I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don't have the DVDs out. I put them in binders.

David Kay

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.

Bill Hicks

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious...

John Wiater

The AEP scrubber, that had the incident, will be the collecting system for the raw gypsum that eventually will be supplied to the BPB plant.

Rebecca Solnit

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

Susan Cook

We have a fine collection of children's books.

Laura Stromberg

We've known for some time we can't collect until then. We're a little surprised they're just finding this out.

J. M. Roberts

The Patent and Trademark Office was correct in issuing the patent.

Wole Soyinka

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.

Richard Rohr

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different.

Jose Pekerman

The Argentine players know that we have to give everything, that we have to play the way we always do and respect the laws of sport. The team must play correctly and look to win.

Mack Garner

That was the correct result. I take issue with the finding of the jury.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have tried to find a new and correct solution for the country.

Doyle Friskney

We've got some corruption. There is something inside the directory that is not correct. We just have to identify it and correct it.

David Glass

We've made our share of mistakes and we've tried hard to correct them, but we've never covered them up, ... What we need to do much better is to get our story out about how we feel and how we really run our business.

Joey Galloway

It didn't turn out as well as we would have liked, of course. We only (had) three points on the board. The defense put us in some positions where we should have put more points on the board, but we didn't do it. We know that we need to correct some mistakes and get better than we were tonight.

Avery Johnson

We didn't earn our paycheck. We need to give Mark Cuban a rebate, all of us.

Henry Ramos

We don't sit on the U.S. ambassador's lap, nor do we sit on the Cuban ambassador's lap,

Alejo Carpentier

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Michael Parmly

We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset.

Higinio Velez

This wasn't a gift. We won this. The Cuban team simply had to come and show the quality of Cuban baseball.

Michael Parmly

What we are trying to do is communicate with the Cuban people.

Andy Garcia

I could talk about him all day. He's the Mozart of Cuban music,

Danny Pino

Growing up seeing Desi, I thought there were Cubans all over Hollywood. I understood that dialogue, everything he said. It wasn't weird to me because that's the way my dad talked.

Al Hirt

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Terrie Williams

We're working to meet immediate and possibly long-term needs for 1,000 or more evacuees, and still provide the necessary services to the people here in Clarksville we're already serving and will need to serve.

Paul Shaffer

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

Phil Dow

I think if you're looking for immediate gratification, there's probably no place that's real safe to buy,

Gregory Campbell

Nevertheless our sympathies at this time will very much be with her immediate family.

Kevin Kelly

On March 7, to get this packet of information is a little startling. Most of my immediate reaction is not printable.

George Tenet

one of the most immediate threats the United States is likely to face.

Joseph Curran

From the discussions I've had, the immediate target is 'where are these tires and how many are involved, how many does Firestone think are involved, and what are we going to do about it,

Phil Goff

What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,

Doug Young

Going to a pawn shop is a short-term solution to meet the immediate cash-flow crunch.

Carl Sagan

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

Paul Auster

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Chogyam Trungpa

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Yuvraj Singh

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

David Byrne

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Jim Adams

We're already working on getting prices on materials for the building.

Brian Reed

We have so much material that it is actually crippling.

Peter Diamandis

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Francis Bacon

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Danny Walker

Until there's a research question, the material is preserved better in the cave.

Kenneth Fisher

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

Caspar Weinberger

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

Richard Shelby

There are thousands of these surface-to-air missiles around the world.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke executed thousands of miles away.

Tasnim Aslam

There is no response from the US on our protest lodged after the missile attack.

Richard Myers

This is one of the things that we have seen over time, that in the no-fly zones there will be surface-to-air missiles moved in, moved around and moved out,

Ian Macdonald

We have nuclear power plants so we have to stay in compliance.

Haley Barbour

like there'd been a nuclear weapon set off.

Haley Barbour

I don't think you've seen anything like this, ... We're talking nuclear devastation.

Mohammad Khatami

From the outset we have said that peaceful nuclear technology is our right. And we have said that under no circumstances will we go towards making nuclear weapons.

James Davis

He is a sophomore at N.C. State studying nuclear engineering.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Gustav Humbert

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.

Brett Tomko

I thought I pitched pretty well, but I've had the same results all year,

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Joe Escobedo

It doesn't take 18 months; it doesn't take 18 days. The results were immediate.

David Healy

I would say that's the best-ever result we've had,

Nat Friedman

We're offloading a lot of the work to the hardware. The result is things look and feel a lot smoother.

Mike Canales

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

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.

Jeff Borris

He's always had the weight of the world on his shoulders. But when he steps on the field, he's got tunnel vision.

David Cornwell

We took two steps back (Tuesday). We just started out sluggish, and they tore us up.

David Allen

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

Zakk Wylde

I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

Common

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Tony Blair

I think the union has come out of this strengthened, not weakened,

Albert Camus

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.