Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Armstrong

We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.

Carol Moseley Braun

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

Cheryl Richardson

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

Charles M. Schulz

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

Richard Davis

Whether we like it or not the burden is placed back on the individual investor. The current model serves those interested, savvy investors.

Dennis Phillips

We're going to pay user fees for water and sewer and it's my understanding the burden of extension lines will be on the shoulders of the developers, not the city,

Marc Schenker

Worldwide, the need for public health efforts to reduce the disease burden from infectious and emerging diseases is urgent and enormous.

Robert Cooper

We're going to have to get the money somewhere, and you'll have to shift that burden from property tax to sales and income tax, but I think it can be done.

Tom DeLay

A country founded on freedom should not maintain a tax code that arbitrarily places an extra burden on husbands and wives,

Whitney Ransome

We want them to be independent and responsible and be on their own. At the same time, we want to view them, in some cases, as extensions of ourselves.

Paul Armstrong

a logical extension of what we already do.

John Muller

There's a set-up in the living room, for example, that demonstrates the hazards of having too many plugs and extension cords.

Danny Blind

A two-year extension was not an option for us.

Floyd Abrams

Telephone records are the extension of the journalist herself. Telephone records are the embodiment of the speech of the journalist and require the same protection.

Michael Cassidy

Your home should be an extension of your personality. It should be a place you look forward to returning to at the end of the day, a place that relaxes and rejuvenates you.

Doug Kosarek

This project will be an extension of our on-going partnership with those colleges. It will provide students with a real-life setting.

Ed Slott

There are no extensions for IRA contributions, even if you have an extension to file your tax return.

Kevin Cramer

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Alan Bennett

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

David Tudor

Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.

David Duchovny

You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours (points to us), what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Lines are very difficult to learn.

Bear Grylls

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Deepa Mehta

While we're working on the script, I never see any films. I make it a point because I don't want to get distracted. I don't want to be influenced, and before I know it, have somebody say, "My God, she plagiarized that line."

Alan Green

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

Edith Piaf

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Eartha Kitt

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

Barry Commoner

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

Audre Lorde

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

Arne Duncan

No one is mandating merit pay.

Les Brown

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

Benjamin Graham

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

John Tabor

(There's) a lot of traffic on there now, ... We're not on sewer anyway.

Wilson Mizner

A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

Tony Martin

Personally, I say no. No to water, no to sewer and no to roads.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

C. S. Lewis

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Urban Meyer

The shoulders of everyone on the sidelines just kind of slumped down.

Victoria Wood

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.

Tom Robbins

…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

Miranda Lambert

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

Michel de Montaigne

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

Eric Church

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hilbert

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Antony Beevor

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

Antonin Artaud

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Ken Dulaney

You should take all user interfaces out of your applications,

Eric Schmidt

Toolbar users are more sophisticated, use advertisers in more sophisticated ways,

Marissa Mayer

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

Wang Hui

By the end of 2006, we will have about 60,000 users in total. The new ones will be installed this month.

Jake Ijams

For the most part everything is user friendly.

Jerry Yang

We look at our users' interests, without our users we don't have business.

Peter Norvig

We thought it was very important to keep our users out of jail.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Viscott

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

David Hockney

Water colours are wet colours in water.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details

Agnes Varda

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

Chanakya

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

Charlaine Harris

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.