Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Klein

In addition to mitigating climate warming, we should also be focusing on how to adapt. In the last few years people have realized that climate change will happen. Adapting is not a choice - it's something we need to do.

Jimmy Adams

The attitude is right so they are adapting very quickly and we are delighted with the way the cricket has been going.

Melinda Shiraki

It's just such a switch going from rescuer to victim, in a sense. It's just about adapting and surviving. You'd be surprised what you're capable of doing when you have no other choice.

Duncan Fletcher

It's a nice surprise and feeling to begin with a win. Our players shaped up well and we did a good job of adapting to the conditions.

Dominic Cooper

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

Peter Jackson

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

Nicholas Mosley

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Debra Walker

As government and public scrutiny intensify, managed care executives need to be adept at making staff accountable for improving operational efficiencies, successfully adapting to new regulations, and increasing customer satisfaction. This type of change requires complex leadership skills and highly evolved leaders.

Jacques Villeneuve

Normally the good teams stay in front when there is a regulation change, the teams that do the most testing and have the most budget end up adapting fastest. From pre-Christmas testing it's very difficult to know because not every team was running with V8s, so it's really impossible to know where anybody stands at the moment.

Suzy Menkes

I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?'

Tasnim Aslam

It is a fabricated story and motivated by vicious intentions.

Kelly Cutrone

If we get a girl who is bigger than a 4, she is not going to fit the clothes. Clothes look better on thin people. The fabric hangs better.

Stella McCartney

I hope that each season, we get tighter and tighter and we get a little more refined and the fabrics get richer. And I hope it gets better and better.

Neale Donald Walsch

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

Clay Aiken

All the stuff, curtains, fabrics and whatever else is coming, too.

Susan Russell

The scripture that comes to my mind is 'Jesus wept,' ... Jesus weeps today for the loss of life in New Orleans and he weeps that his gospel is being hijacked by the rabid rhetoric of the religious right -- that is in its own way as destructive to our national fabric as Hurricane Katrina has been.

Pete Fewing

You're a legacy team. You won a national championship that will always be a part of your fabric and your identity. It's a title you'll be able to use for the rest of your lives.

Billy Corgan

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

Raul Grijalva

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

Ernesto Zedillo

I will not permit these homes to be rebuilt in the same places,

Alex Inglethorpe

He is homesick and wants to stay away. I am disappointed, but the South West is not for everyone.

Freida Pinto

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

Jim Shelton

This is a lot of infrastructure to put into place for the number of homes we are going to see for the next five, 15, 20 years.

Keith Wilkins

That protects their habitat, but it also protects homes and businesses. That's a win-win for everybody.

Joe Sinagra

All of the people who are renting homes in this state, their rents are going to go up even more.

Dave Kelly

You don't get homesick here, ... It's like living at home.

Steve Wilson

There's a lot of distractions when people are trying to secure their homes and get home to safety.

Robert Reich

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

John Green

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth...

John Green

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Richard Bausch

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

Paul Bloom

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

Joseph O'Neill

I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes.

Budd Schulberg

I ran the newspaper, at Dartmouth, and there was a marble quarry strike about 40 miles away,

William Wordsworth

Where the statue stood/ Of Newton with his prism and silent face,/ The marble index of a mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

William Butler Yeats

See how the sacred old flamingoes come,Painting with shadow all the marble steps:Aged and wise, they seek their wonted perchesWithin the temple, devious walking, madeTo wander by their melancholy minds.

Melina Mercouri

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Jon Gries

I am a closet metal fan.

Lemmy Kilmister

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

Hideo Kojima

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

Mat Sprague

The stress is out of the way, we're putting the pedal to the metal for state and district.

Ville Valo

Everyone wants to pretend their cock is big and metal is the medium, but ultimately it's about the songs.

Edward Kempf

Every metal has been taking it on the chin.

Adam Rich

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

Corey Taylor

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

Darius Kasparaitis

screaming at us, telling us what to do like the 'Full Metal Jacket' movie.

Julie Harris

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

Hasso Plattner

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Philip Johnson

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Ovid

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

David Rakoff

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

Niall Ferguson

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Justin Vernon

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Michael Brown

Thanks for update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?

Clara Shih

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Shannon Edge

Even though you do not live in a specific area, you can come to any of the meetings.

Dusty Baker

Be more specific of who you are talking about. Yeah, I talked to Walk. We got it straight.