Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paal Brekke

By looking at the sun at different wavelengths, we can peel off the different layers in the (solar) atmosphere, just like peeling an onion.

Nancy Baker

The idea is that someone is watching that child. Layers of protection are for when that fails.

Eric S. Raymond

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

Lauren Oliver

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

Arthur Golden

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Bill Gates

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Bobbi Brown

I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.

Morley

As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write the script, get money for the script, shoot it, find distributors, make it into film festivals, all of that just to get to your audience.

Susan Wyderko

The more layers of security you have, the better off you are.

Walter Johnson

The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

William H. Seward

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

Kurt Cobain

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

Manfred Eigen

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

Frederick Soddy

An honest money system is the only alternative.

Marshall McLuhan

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Margaret Thatcher

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

Peter Singer

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.

Terry Eagleton

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

A.E. Howard

It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Bill Ross

It is a language, and it touches on things oral or written language don't get to. When I first met Antonio, I wondered if he could speak. He was so shy.

Tony DiSanto

Laguna' was sort of told in the visual language of a lush teen drama. The idea here was to be a little grittier, more voyeuristic.

Carol Bruess

I think we're seeing a more relaxed, more offensive, some would say, use of language, the use of swearing.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Stephen Sachs

He doesn't know what language is. He has been totally isolated,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.