Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

Douglas Elliott

I suspect that there will be some mix of taxpayer subsidy and increase in premiums that attempts to partially recoup the losses.

Jane Friedman

I think it's a great attempt to popularize the book business, and boy, do we need it. It's a good thing, as we try to expand our readers, to put the public into this. I think it's important to have the consumer not only buy the book, but confirm that this is the best book of the year.

Laila Sadler

It also seems to be in distress. It has made two seemingly deliberate attempts to beach itself.

George Dunlap

He left a man on the ground dying, and he didn't attempt to render aid.

Sally Schneider

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.

Derek Brown

It complements what Yahoo! is attempting to build on the convergence media side pretty nicely.

Henry A. Kissinger

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.

Glenn Williams

It is clear that the father was trying to get them out, ... Everyone was attempting to escape.

Teju Cole

I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.

Joe Evans

I think it's awful that because of a personal conflict, Mr. Spinks thinks it's necessary to do something that may have the effect of disrupting the whole festival and the whole county loses.

David Kennedy

It could be false, but an awful lot of it gels. Unless the guy's been much more surreptitious than these guys usually are, it's probable that law enforcement is on his trail.

Joseph J. Lhota

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Dave Wannstedt

I think what you saw out there today is really no different than what you saw in the preseason. He breaks an awful lot of tackles and the guy has an awful lot of desire.

Brian Coulton

There are no numbers, there are very few deadlines and not an awful lot of ownership of these plans, and so it is a disappointment.

Sally Ride

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

Wanda Sykes

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

Vince Gill

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

Nancy Pelosi

I would not want any president - Democrat or Republican - to have the expanded power the administration is claiming in this case.

William Wilkinson

He continues to issue press releases claiming that the court has already ruled that Mr. Noe committed a fraud. That's false.

Mikhail Kamynin

We are far from claiming a monopolist role in the post-Soviet space. At the same time, we feel sure that enforcing models of development from outside won't lead to any good. We have seen examples of that in the post-Soviet space, in the Middle East and in Africa.

Michael Moschen

If you look at any 15 pieces of mine, nobody does a piece like them. Totally new techniques. All the jugglers are stealing from me and claiming that they've done it.

Scott Cameron

They were claiming they had a significant insurance settlement coming, I think the number 2.5 million dollars was batted around.

Bernard Beckett

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

Richard Clarke

People downplay the importance of cyber-security, claiming that no one will ever die in a cyber-attack, but they're wrong, ... This is a serious threat.

John Key

I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

Mary Gordon

Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they're not feminists - even though they are.

Jeff Edwards

Things can happen quarter to quarter that distort the long-term trends.

Whittaker Chambers

At issue was the question whether, in the desperately divided society, there still remained the will to recognize the issues in time to offset the immense rally of public power to distort and pervert the facts.

Geddy Lee

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Arlen Specter

It is imperative that the White House provide expeditiously those documents it intends to release,

Silvio Berlusconi

I can guarantee that there were not any documents passed to the Americans,

Emmett Brown

The documentation was very well put together. It was comprehensive and left no doubt about what the people signing the documents saw and witnessed.

Michael Hulley

As you saw I only got some of the documents this morning.

Stephen Cutler

Destruction of documents is obviously an extremely serious matter. Documents are an essential ingredient in our investigations.

Paul Boyce

Nowhere in any of these previous 2-1/2 years worth of investigations and documents has there been any reference to lions being used in detainee operations.

Saddam Hussein

These documents are forged. I have never done anything to a youngster.

Peter Sellars

Documents that were top secret and never meant to be seen are now set to music.

Attorney Crank

We'll study it some more and look at some of those findings, go pull some of the underlying documents and see what they show or don't show.

Michele Compton

We're starting to put the squeeze on drunken drivers.

Source Unknown

Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination.

James Chu

Jon is a very strong kid. I really feel that he's the one that's been victimized. But for the sake of Jonathan, I'm going to forget about what Mr. Wooden has told me.

Juan Rincon

He's a really nice guy. I'm never going to forget (the home run), but I don't take it personal.

Jim Caldwell

He's a very unusual person that has physical gifts and he also has great intellectual gifts. He has a memory that, without question, is sharp as one could have. He rarely forgets anything and he can recall things from eons back. But that helps him, I think, just in terms of being the detail-oriented person that he is. He's able to maximize his study and preparation for our opponents.

Zhuangzi

The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

Zhuangzi

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

Alkaline Trio

Remember when I said I love you? Well, forget it, I take it back.

Ashley Josephson

I just try to forget about what happened in the first half. And then it's a new 20 minutes. You just have to go out there with a fresh mind and stroke the ball.

Wanderley Luxemburgo

I have worked on my striking, without forgetting my physique. I look good, Even to myself

John Tortorella

I just couldn't wait to start another game to forget about the (Washington) game. You do have to look by it, but it was a tough one to eat. So I'm glad they rebounded.

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Willie Nelson

You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.

William Osler

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Brian Giles

If you're in October, not at all. I don't care. It's a new season in October. Throw your records out the door, and it's about winning series.

Carly Rae Jepsen

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

Paloma Faith

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

Ovid

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Don Franklin

We spotted them their runs. We were not sharp, not making the routine plays.

Mike Wilson

The routine has pretty much stayed the same.

Barbara Turner

We kind of have a routine going and it's actually worked out pretty well for us.

Kelvin Frazier

There's never a routine traffic stop. Everything is always different. You're not going to run into the same situation twice.

Dominique McElligott

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Alastair Campbell

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

David Daniels

He's got to be smarter with his pitches.

Bob Dylan

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Education doesn't make you smarter.

Tibor Kalman

You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

Kevin Heath

I'm a lot smarter than I was a year ago.

Brian Billick

I think Marvin would have been the smarter hire, but I'm biased,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Jack Evans

There are not even any discussions about it taking place around here.

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

Peter Ashkenaz

If they wait, they're taking a big gamble.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Liam Fox

For those of us on that Leave side there is a natural credibility with those voters.

Judy Woodruff

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Seth Rogen

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.