Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

the way that people register, the way that people vote and to guarantee that when their votes are cast that they'll be counted accurately and to make sure that we don't discriminate against voters who might be poorer or live in a precinct that has a bad system.

Hal Varian

I was a little surprised. I expected this to be accurate because there's a lot of literature and experience with these systems. But this has been even better than I expected.

Larry Scott

It's accurate to within the fuzz of the ball.

Paul Hawken

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.

David Romer

The decisions are comparatively simple, the possibilities for learning and imitation are unusually large, the compensation for coaches who make the decisions is extremely high, and the market for their services is intensely competitive. Despite these forces, the standard assumption that agents maximize simple objective functions fails to lead to reasonably accurate descriptions of behavior.

Jean Claude

Using archaeological and anatomical science rather than artistic interpretation makes this the most accurate likeness ever created,

Daniel H. Pink

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

James Stover

We paid for the Census Bureau to give us an accurate count. We don't believe that's an accurate count.

Ron Walker

We owe it to the people to get an accurate counting of what they thought. ...What I want is the people satisfied because if the people aren't satisfied, it's a bummer.

Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. But not any man is capable of being a good camper. So, murder and camping are not as similar as you might think.

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared

Ron Bonjean

Senator Kerry's comments used for campaign fund-raising purposes are simply over the top, extremely inappropriate and factually incorrect.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Ken Holland

We've got some more people at training camp we're looking at, but nobody major.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Cindy Fushimi

A big part of our success was we had all the kids in the lineup perform. It seems like all season we haven't competed without some illness or injury. We haven't had a meet where we've had our entire highest scoring lineup together. It was nice to finally have everyone at the same place at the same time.

Demond Garth

They played us a zone the entire game and it took us a few quarters to get used to that.

Ignacio Bunye

They (Piston) are not the entire transport sector. This group is really traditional demonstrators. With or without e-VAT (expanded value-added tax), they hold rallies.

Steve Hook

They never quit. They played hard the entire time.

Chuck Fales

They gave him the holes to go through. It wasn't just one person. The entire line was great.

Melanie Boeglin

They have 8,000 fans screaming the entire game. We were confident, but we watched them three other times in the tournament come back from behind. So we knew they were going to make a run on us ? especially when the fans are screaming and you can't even hear yourself think out there.

Neil MacDonald

This entire market space is under massive convergence pressure. Be prepared for vendor flux and licensing changes.

Michael Ferguson

This entire family is going to suffer. There's a one year old girl that will never really know her mother, or her aunt. They've got to live with that for the rest of their lives. So why should that person be put to death, and his worries will be over. Let him sit there and suffer in prison.

Garron Whitehouse

There weren't a lot of hung heads as we walked off the field. It was a great game, we matched up well, but the kids understand that somebody has to win and somebody has to lose a good football game.

Perry Miller

would be like not spraying your fields and hoping the weeds will stay away.

Ken Phillips

We left a lot of batters in the field today and just couldn't get the hits we needed. We gave everything we had though and finished strong.

Pat Willis

We're trying to take one game at a time and stay positive. And step out on the field and try to play three parts of the game.

Bryce Harper

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'm going into second base.

Bill Shaw

We shot just over 20 percent from the field. We struggled the whole first half. We took shots but just could not find the basket. I really feel like we had many opportunities to perform but did not.

Arthur Doyle

The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

David Fink

The parade is to help generate traffic for the circus. People are used to going out to Christensen Field for events. We think this will be a popular event.

J. Hoover

The only thing that's going to keep me off the field is something that's season-ending. It's getting better. It's just a little tight.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Morris Chestnut

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Michael Beasley

We had a lot of football players on the team then. Once we got out of football mode we started making strides.

Steve McClaren

That, for us, was as good as signing on the dotted line. There was a taxation issue, not a football issue, that needed sorting out.

Pele

Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

Pele

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Kevin Keegan

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Les Miles

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

Junior Seau

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

Cate Blanchett

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Longchenpa

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Joseph Joubert

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

John C. Maxwell

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

James Otis

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

Edward Tufte

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

John Lothrop Motley

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.