Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ira Glasser

The worry here is ... will the information that is collected here for one purpose be used for other purposes? ... The government history on this subject is not an encouraging one.

Matt Ridley

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

Doug Tobin

Some of the evidence we collected at the (stabbing) scene did lead up to the trailer where we served the search warrant this afternoon. Fortunately, it ended peacefully.

David Marschall

Most everybody who can has been a volunteer somewhere in town for some period of time. Like everybody else, we collected donations immediately after.

Tom Jackson

It was pretty difficult to watch for a while, ... We collected ourselves and played. Full-court pressure is not an easy thing to do. We must have given up five or six baskets.

Barton Gellman

The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

Mike Sivertson

The way to score with our system is to force turnovers and to not give up big plays. That is one of the reasons that the game went the way it did.

Deepak Chopra

Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields.

Deepak Chopra

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

Tite Kubo

What's up, Hachi?" "Someone......Just slipped through my force-field." "!!!" "A soul reaper?" "No. The Hachigyo Sogai (Twin Cliffs) I set is an original technique I developed after I became a visored. It can't be broken by a soul reaper's kido." "Then who is it? Another visored?" "I don't know. The strange thing is that they didn't break through the force-field. They Slipped through. Not even a visored should be able to do that." "Then, who or what is it?" "...It's coming." "It's a Human?" "Uh...Um...E-excuse me...where's the Bathroom?

Suzanne Collins

Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.

R. Ingram

What I can say is that U.S. forces helped to provide urgent medical support at the scene of the incident, something for which I know our forces are grateful,

Kevin Good

When the spread is wide, packers are forced into the market and producers have leverage. When the spread narrows, packers have the leverage.

Alan Chambers

Homosexuality is not a genetic predisposition. If someone is happy living that way, you can't force them to come out of it. But we give hope to thousands like myself.

Georges Cuvier

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

Kyrie Irving

'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

Gene Luen Yang

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

Michael McMillian

I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend.

Paula Otto

When we got it back from the graphic artists, none of us noticed that it made it a million million.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

Ronda Storms

This is a real victory for people in the community. And for moms and dads, and for people who are just trying to live their lives and have a neighborhood that's safe and that they can be proud of.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Carol Nelson

There is no such thing as closure. My son lives in my heart. I see him in my other children.

Kathleen Blanco

We know that many lives have been lost.

Tamsin Greig

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

Mark Udall

We are, in sum, much safer than we were, and I say that as someone who lives just three miles from the site.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Brandon Cruz

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Augusten Burroughs

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.

Channing Tatum

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Alexei Smertin

I've received an offer from a Russian club.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Ed Miller

Essentially, through one product, the operator can offer three different services here. We've been shooting for this type of integration for some time.

Tom Peters

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Carlos Gomez

Make me an offer I can't refuse, and you can have the taco stand,

Gene Jr

We made an offer and they turned it down.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Pete Domenici

Now you know as well as I know that many of them are not going to do anything, but if a senator wants to offer them as a sense, not as legislation, they may do that,

Sheldon Lee Glashow

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.

Elie Wiesel

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

Bill Belichick

The toughest task now is, 'How are you going to top this?' Because we're going to win another one.

Giles Morgan

We went back on task at 8.00 this morning.

Andre Gide

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

Theodor Adorno

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Lars Trier

I give myself a task. This time, the task was to do a musical.

James C. Collins

Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list

George W. Bush

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Helen Keller

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves....

Derek Magyar

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Aimee Mullins

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

Arthur C. Clarke

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

Brian Eno

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

LaMarr Woodley

You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.