Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Osnes

I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA... But once I found out I only had to take math and science for two years, I didn't take them junior or senior year. And I convinced my high school to give me actual credits for doing professional shows in Minneapolis... as work-study.

Eric Lander

I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease. Most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.

Dan Flavin

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

Henry Spencer

Historically, the U.S.'s big launchers fly seldom enough that their costs are dominated by annual upkeep of facilities and staff, not by the actual cost of each launch. The expensive part is maintaining the launch capability, not actually conducting launches.

Lisanne Skyler

I think this school has tremendous resources in terms of equipment, but also because the students get a chance to work with actual filmmakers. They are constantly learning how it really is as opposed to how it is theoretically. And they have a lot of role models for their field.

Jonathan Galassi

I think that the continuity of what I do as an editor with what I did when I started out 40 years ago is very direct. The delivery system is changing and will continue to, but the actual interaction between publisher and author is exactly the same.

Sam Riley

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

Rob Andrew

Our actual level of performance has been as good as I can recall in the last five or six years. We've just not had enough breaks and results have slipped away from us. This game will be a good yardstick for us. Not one single person in the land expects us to win.

Erma Bombeck

Phrases and their actual meanings: "My teacher has never liked me." Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly.

Richard Le Gallienne

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Samuel Johnson

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Philip Coyle

If Portsmouth were to be closed, the U.S. would be left with only 8 percent excess capacity,

Suzi Quatro

I have record approximately 10 studio albums. I had 16 top ten singles and sold in excess of 45 million records all over the world.

Henry Adams

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

William Blake

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

Juan Enriquez

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

Oscar Goodman

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

Cate Blanchett

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Westbrook Pegler

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

Robert Sinclair

Our members are screaming. People are wondering where it's going to go and, of course, we can't tell them.

Roger Toussaint

Our members will stand together and stand firm, and make sure the organization is not broken.

John Hope Franklin

Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family.

Jim Moore

As you can imagine, it's been an ordeal for all members of the family.

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

John le Carre

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Rebecca Watson

All safety systems worked to successfully shut down production on the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) platforms,

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Prince Royce

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Wyatt Sexton

We didn't know whether he would ever come out of it,

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Chris Lowery

We've never done this. We've always been on eggshells wondering if we were going to get in or not.