Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hardy

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Ibrahim Babangida

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Emma Goldman

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Alan Stern

The payload that we're flying is a much more advanced payload than we could have flown, for example, in the last Jupiter launch window ten years ago.

David S. Goyer

'Call Of Duty' initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradually advanced to the end of the Cold War, but you can't keep doing the same thing over and over again. And I think that because 'Call Of Duty' cut its teeth on presenting 'realism,' in quotes... verisimilitude.

Victoria Strauss

There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.

John C. Calhoun

None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.

Bill Cosby

I'm one of those who cut off seeing people after a certain time, when the weight is gone and they sound like the dementia is very advanced - I don't want to see that. I don't even go in to look at the body. That's not my last memory.

Michael Armstrong

The acquisitions and investments we've made over the last year will transform AT&T from a company dominated by a single product line -- long-distance voice - into the leader in a new generation of advanced communications, information and video services.

Mark Pagel

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

Paul Stamets

Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.

Paul Stamets

Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served several purposes: killing contaminants, softening the flesh, and extracting the rich soluble polysaccharides.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Alice Walker

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

Jim Murphy

I think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous.

Steven Cohen

We're lucky our ancestors came here. It makes you realize the sacrifices they experienced.

Dean Gilmour

There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.

Jeremy Foley

That way when it's time to hit the ground once the season is over, you're already off and running. The timing is never ideal in a coaching change. I talked to former coaches, NFL GMs, television folks. I picked people's brains and checked out the Internet to find out as much as I could. Indiana has time to do that. I didn't talk to any school or coaches but did hire a consultant to gauge the interest for us.

Ryan Holmes

Sales teams use social media to generate leads and track clients as they move through the sales funnel. Operations and distribution teams forecast supply chains, while research and development squads brainstorm product ideas.

William Wordsworth

My brainWorked with a dim and undetermined senseOf unknown modes of being.

Trina Graham

It didn't paralyze her, though. It's pretty ugly but at least it didn't go into her brain.

Brad McKinney

I was happy to see Kyle and Caleb finally play the way they're capable of playing. Kyle had a great first set, but than he went a little brain-dead in the second set and started doing things he knew he shouldn't have been doing.

Bill Laimbeer

Turnovers are frying my brain. It's so difficult for a coach to sit there and watch it happen, but we overcame it to our credit.

Ray Smith

We are perplexed about the drawing power of these groups and what the public wants. We want to brainstorm and see what will bring the people out.

Frank Catalanotto

Keith's a brain. He's smart, and he takes a lot of pride in what he does.

Friends

Joey: It's just my character that's not brain-dead.

Rodney Pratt

Will has been a solid piece for us. I was pleased with his performance. He's a very efficient rower for his weight.

Bill Rice

We just want to make sure it is efficient and is not duplicative of existing systems.

Ellen Miller

You can either make a generic product and be so efficient that you offer a low price, or, if you make something totally unique, you can win, because you don't have the pressure of competition,

David Black

We get sales leads from many different directions, and we needed a system that could manage those automatically in order to effectively pursue our leads. Before that, our follow-up was not as efficient as we wanted, so this was essential.

Margot Wallstrom

We have not been efficient enough in communicating the EU. We have not invested enough in listening,

Jason Nelson

I was very impressed to see how well it is planned out, that they are concentrating on more efficient means of transportation for the community.

Dee Bell

We can play if we're efficient and we're able to defend.

Tom Brady

You always want to be perfect out there. But it's about really improving all parts of the game and trying to be more efficient on offense.

Charlie Richardson

We'll make sure that its operating safely, venting properly and as efficient as it can possibly be.

Timothy Noah

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Robert Clark

The overall message we received from teachers is they are extremely pleased the program is available.

Sharon Johnson

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. The market looks at this very much as one of Fed's main indicators. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Brian K. Vaughan

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Christien Meindertsma

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

Denis Napthine

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.

Gary Gaetti

That was the first World Series in an indoor stadium, so it was kind of a novelty. It was extremely loud. We've had very, very similar moments here where you can actually feel it on your body.

Clotilde Hesme

I prefer physical exhaustion over mental fatigue any day.

Don Marquis

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Don Rickles

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.

Natalie Barney

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

C. S. Lewis

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Carrie Vaughn

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

Carrie Fisher

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

Carrie Fisher

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Carl Maria von Weber

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

Yolanda Adams

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

Idina Menzel

I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.

Gail Carriger

When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

Yotam Ottolenghi

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

S. Truett Cathy

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

Bee Wilson

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Vidya Balan

I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

Don Yaeger

Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We have obtained the technology for producing nuclear fuel ... no one can take it away from our nation.

Paul Watson

We are disappointed to have to leave, but we now have no alternative, as we no longer have the fuel resources to stay.

Achmad Faisal

We are optimistic about our intention to win 90 percent of the non-subsidized fuel oil market.

John Connell

My team heard that and took it personally. We needed fuel and that was it.

Rob McDonald

Fuel is now our number one cost. We regret having to increase fares but the numbers are stark.

Ben Macklin

Fueled by a poker craze, the growth of broadband, and television coverage, online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream.

Ed Stewart

For us, it's all about fuel, fuel and fuel.

Angel Mata

If it's down a lot (people are investing in it). Everyone says this can't be sustained, but that's what fuels the markets.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Robin S. Sharma

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

Thomas Harrison

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

Steve Case

We've learned the market functions a little differently in Europe.

Neil Shubin

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish.

Michael Leunig

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

Phil Singer

Those numbers are a total function of his name, not him. He has a short record that has been described as thin.

Hank Johnson

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Georgia Fischer

I don't think we would limit her. If the swelling goes down and the function is there, she would be good to go for however much she would last and however much they would need her. ... There wouldn't be any limitations.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Megan Fox

I think I could survive a week without eating.

Gary Graham

I thought, 'He's done.' If he survives at all he will probably be in a vegetative state.

Paul Bailey

I thought, 'How long can they survive in there?'

Roy Williams

Survive and advance. That's what we're trying to do.

Mike Brey

My theme is survival, and that's even before we are where we are. You're trying to survive and trying to claw your way to New York City.

Randy Smith

I thought she was dead. I didn't think she'd survive that.

Andy Lopez

If they don't get healthy, we've got to find a way to survive without those guys.

Steve Fitzgerald

We're trying to work out how to survive the 26th.

Martin Brodeur

We're trying to survive and get in the playoffs, so these wins are huge.

Karen Evans

If it's useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

Judd Terwilliger

We were never able to sustain (momentum). We'd get leads, but then they'd come back.

Paul Stone

We were never able to sustain a run.

Donna Griffin

We are trying to sustain or make more improvement.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.

Noel Wells

Just as performers, I think you'd be an idiot not to utilize YouTube.