Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Jackson

We are fortunate a number of players can play well in many positions, like Tom Clarke who has adapted well to midfield.

Colin Cooper

I thought we adapted better in the rain, simply because we were more committed.

Matt Parrish

He was outstanding tonight, he really played well. We just converted him to a keeper this year and he has adapted to it extremely well. We've been real proud of him. ... He kept us in it on a couple of plays.

Kym McKay

I'm very satisfied with the team's performance at our first spring tournament. We improved throughout the day and implemented our new serve-receive system very well. The team played with composure and consistency all day while competing against a wide variety of teams that each had different styles and strengths. The team adapted very well to this challenge, and the weekend proved that not only have our physical abilities improved, but so have our mental ones. Players were multi-tasking the strategic part of the game while also easily executing physical skill - a true sign of a veteran team.

Jared Diamond

The Indian civilizations of Central and North America remained entirely without pack animals; and it took thousands of years for the corn that evolved in Mexico's climate to become modified into a corn adapted to the short growing season and seasonally changing day-length of North America.

Mitch Basefsky

Desert adapted plants, once they're established, they need very little supplemental water. Some of the other plants that we use in the desert, even if they're desert adapted, may not be native to this region, and so they may need additional water supplies.

Robert Schaeffer

Even when people emigrate to another country; they are still a piece of our history. Its interesting to see such a large number here and how they have adapted to life in another country over the years.

Legal Maxim

The laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur

Sara Barker

They may have adapted to using different types of habitats.

Aileen Carroll

Half of this will go to the South Asia earthquake matching fund; the remaining will go to the two appeals we have now received, one from the United Nations and one from the Red Cross movement,

Jim Cullinan

It clearly reveals one important thing that the government is trying to do, which is avoid the Court of Appeals in every possible way.

Richard Engel

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.

Jonathan Turley

Life on the appeals court tends to move at a leisurely and comfortable pace.

John Tanner

We may have gotten good jurors who had no opinion and could give these men a fair trail but we were on thin ice with the appeals court if we went forward with this case.

Janet Reno

In accordance with the Court of Appeals ruling we will take every step necessary to ensure that Elian does not leave the country while the Court of Appeals injunction is place,

Spencer Waller

I had expected there to be some more hearings. I would have expected him to entertain witnesses, but not engage in the full-fledged discovery that Microsoft wanted. That would have given them a little victory, and to the extent where if the court of appeals disagrees with him, it would be on the merits, not the process.

Juan Guzman

I have requested that immunity be lifted and I am sending the details to Santiago's Court of Appeals and simultaneously I'm asking for the medical records,

Reese Witherspoon

I really like the idea that Mark appeals to so many people because he just is who he is. He's not posturing or trying to look pretty or have great hair. He's just a real man and he's funny. There's a lot of actors nowadays, American actors that don't think funny is cool, so it's nice to see someone of his caliber doing comedy.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Marshal Cohen

Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.

William Rehnquist

I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Kathleen Norris

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier

Harmon Killebrew

Kirby was in the process of completely changing his life.

Rob McClure

I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.

Colleen Flynn

I think it's a life changing experience. You can meet someone from around the United States and learn what they go -- they're going through.

Michael Dell

It also means their job is constantly changing because technology is changing and this is a customer-driven industry. So our employees need to be flexible and driven. They are going to always be in training.

William Rehnquist

has been repeatedly reaffirmed by a changing group of justices.

Sophia Amoruso

'Have you ever considered changing the name Nasty Gal?' is probably the dumbest question I've ever heard.

Dan Woods

I think that possibility exists. I don't see how we can open a new school without changing the boundaries.

Brandon Kirsch

I think you can kind of see everything changing from the old Purdue 'basketball on grass' style to a style where we're going to pound it, pound it and run some play option things off that.

Jarkko Nieminen

I was changing the pace and the tempo and it was working very well.

Ken Ford

Hopefully, these pictures and the great words from people who really have a love for Jesus will strengthen thousands of Christians in their faith.

Paul Niemann

It's time for us Christians to come out of the woodwork and take our stand for what's right and what's wrong in our community. I'd like to help our young people, keep them off drugs and get them into the right relationships.

Sherron Watkins

I try to tell secular people that not all Christians are judgmental, ... The ones who have their hearts right have the love of Jesus just pouring out of them. Their compassion for others?sinners included?is so obvious. That's what our reputation should be.

Marianne Williamson

Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.

Jan Hepler

We feel that sometimes the personal touch from other Christians is important.

Saad Hariri

As Lebanese, rather than Christians and Muslims, let us cry 'Lebanon First'.

Azim Premji

We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.

Ted Cruz

There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.

Bruce Arena

Despite the fact we've had a rash of injuries and some conflicts with clubs, we feel this game is an excellent test for our veteran players in Europe as well as some new players in the team.

Gerald Mueller

This isn't a magic bullet. It's not usually a lot of fun to do, because you're usually involved with people you may have had conflicts with and that you may not like.

George William Russell

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Jonathan Proctor

We hope to save wolves by preventing conflicts in the first place. Who could disagree with that?

Clarissa Ward

Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.

Stephen Kinzer

Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.

Madeleine Albright

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Alija Izetbegovic

The time of confrontation and conflicts should be replaced with a time of construction and prosperity.

Jill Soloway

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

Brad Holmes

It's kind of cosmic in its intensity. It's one of a kind.

Jeff Schweitzer

All of life is a grand roll of the cosmic dice.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

Eden Ahbez

We're not earthly beings any more… we're cosmic beings.

Heraclitus Ephesus

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man; it forever was, is, and forever will be, an Ever living Fire

Brandon Boyd

Floating in this cosmic jucsi we are like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. Noone flinches we all float face down.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

Scott Nutter

Cosmic ray is the worst name. Because people think it's something out of science fiction.

Tommy Chong

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

Mickey Loomis

I knew what his desires were, but we didn't get to that point. We talked about four or five different scenarios.

Steve Green

It took a lot of hard work and a lot of hours, and it took a lot of heart and dedication. I've never had a whole lot of anything, so I've always had my desires and my dreams.

J. Taylor

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Todd Haynes

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.

Caroline Knapp

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

Source Unknown

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Rig Veda

A person, who desires godliness should worship gods.

Debbie Ford

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

Sathya Baba

You must give up the luggage of your desires and wishes and thus make life less burdensome.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Brendan Shanahan

He just knows how to play the game. Most times, I'm the one standing in front but if I'm not there, he has no fear of going in there and doing that job. The goal isn't scored unless Steve's screening the goalie.

Steven Gerrard

He just goes out there as if he's going for a knockabout with his friends, ... He has no fear.

Sugata Mitra

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

James Douglas

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh

Maurice Ager

We've been through a lot together these last three, four years. Just playing the schedule we've played, right now, we really don't fear nobody. The seeding doesn't matter as much to us. We just want to go out there and play hard and try to get back to that Final Four.

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Dana Quigley

I taught her everything she knows, ... She played with me last year, and look what's happened. I hope I have the same impact on Tim as I did Paula.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Cokie Roberts

He's always hoped I would have one. I never have.

Bob Holthus

He's just progressively got better. He's improving every day. We don't know for sure where he's going to stop, but we hope that he's got a lot more left.

Dave King

He's dangerous. Like I said last year I hope Mrs. Browne doesn't have any more sons,

Matt Bowling

His numbers speak for themselves. He took a big step from last year and we hope he takes another big step next season.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

John Edward

John Kerry has what it takes ... to be president of the United States,

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Pete Carroll

John is talking to everybody, all the time. That's the way he handles his business. He's got a marvelous spirit.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Woodrow Wilson

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Harold Bloom

I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Whately

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Richard Avedon

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Truman Capote

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

Truman Capote

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Richard Darman

Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

Lars Trier

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.

Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Richard Paul Evans

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Richard Paul Evans

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

Richard P. Feynman

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

Richard Dawkins

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Richard Dawkins

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Richard Dawkins

If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

Richard Dawkins

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.

Frank Langella

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

James Nesbitt

Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

Karin Slaughter

Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

Anne Lamott

Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Revelation replaced investigation.

Martin Luther

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

Moses Mendelssohn

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Henry David Thoreau

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

Jeff Vandermeer

What occurs after revelation and paralysis?

Alexandra Adornetto

As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Phil Gramm

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Zacky Vengeance

Some of the things we said looked worse than we meant them

Winston Churchill

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Henry Rollins

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Vengeance has no foresight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Vengeance is without foresight.

Neil Young

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

Barbara Deming

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

Leo Tolstoy

Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

George MacDonald

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

John Betjeman

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

Julian Assange

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

Joss Whedon

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

Benjamin Franklin

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Barbara Jordan

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Daniel J. Boorstin

In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future

Tim Cook

The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.

Nolan Bushnell

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

Tom Shannon

Our respective governments have very different visions for the hemisphere.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Richard Dawkins

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Richelle Mead

Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.