Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Wills

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

Elizabeth Warren

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

Vidya Balan

From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.

C. S. Lewis

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm the computational method for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm -- the computational method -- for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Menachem Begin

My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.

David Sanborn

Usually there's some kind of clue, whether it's a rhythmic foundation or sometimes its very abstract - just an emotional kind of landscape - and then you just kind of start someplace.

Octavio Paz

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

Bill Cosby

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

Manoj Bhargava

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

Richard Eyre

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

Toba Beta

Man will never be stronger nor independent if he lives under perpetual motivation of others.

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.

Kathryn Harrison

Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

Anita Gallentine

I think residents ought to wake up and be concerned. People need to realize their lives won't be the same.

Tom Duffy

We're celebrating right now. It really is historic. It's going to save thousands of lives over the years.

Sidney Taurel

We're going to be saving hundreds of thousands of lives with this product,

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Bruno Seraphim

The Argentine question has in part been resolved, at least in the very short term, so shares no longer need to price in that question.

Chuck Palahniuk

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

Jessa Gamble

Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

Jeff Horner

I wore it longer than I should have.

Richard Branson

I was very nervous because it took a lot longer to get down the runway than we predicted.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Alvin E. Roth

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

Clive Granger

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Anaxagoras

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

Ian Mckellen

I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

Paul Poley

We recruit as many as we can possibly handle.

Donald Kennedy

We don't see them as a threat, but possibly as a competitor,

Marina and the Diamonds

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Danny Ferry

He could possibly be back and participate in the post-season.

Brandon Orr

He got me started as young as you possibly can.

Deborah Moggach

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Lynn Dooley

I don't know what I could ever possibly say to them, because thank you is not enough.

Arno Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Bryan Gulley

It's just not practical to think that can happen.

Conor Oberst

It's kind of a practical thing to do it this way,

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'