Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hoffman

I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

David Suzuki

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit

Norm MacDonald

I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching 'Breaking Bad.'

Ruth Collins

What they're arguing about right now is whether there's enough evidence. There's never enough evidence. There's never certainty in medicine.

James Carville

At a gut level, we know something's wrong. Instead of arguing about it, let's figure out what to do.

Ron Polk

They told me I was going to be arrested if I didn't get off the field. For what? Arguing a call?

David Huffman

They started arguing back and forth started spitting back and forth, so they left the store. My boss and another guy walked outside and they started fist-fighting. One guy's shirt came off. Then the other black male pulled out a knife and stabbed two of them.

Al Thornton

It's not just the coaches who are holding the players accountable. The players, we're holding each other accountable, too. That's a big difference as opposed to last year. We'd be arguing and there would be a lot of negativity. Who was getting the shots? Who was getting the minutes? Now, we're just together and it doesn't really matter who scores the points.

John Gibbons

There was no reason at all to toss me. Everyone thought the ball hit the dirt. I guess he thought I was arguing balls and strikes.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

John Cholakis

We want to see what his line of reasoning was and if it's a valid argument, then perhaps the dollar sells off. If his comments are not as dovish as people might fear, the dollar might rally.

Steve Hall

The Peripheral Canal automatically throws you into a heated argument that doesn't solve the problem.

William Gray

The people who have a bias in favor of the argument that humans are making the globe warmer will push any data that suggests humans are making hurricanes worse, but it just isn't so. These are natural cycles.

Jack Straw

We are at a difficult time, but I believe that by the process of argument we should be able to get to a point where we can get a second resolution,

Kevin McClatchy

There are certain players who I think haven't progressed, and we need those players to grow. Put on top of that that we have a slew of young players coming into this thing, and I think Dave just wanted to make the decision to get the best person we can to help these guys continue to develop and evolve. Some can make the argument we didn't do that this year.

Bruce Arena

When we demonstrate ratings, we will have an argument for prime time.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

William Shakespeare

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Charles de Gaulle

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

Charles Sanders Peirce

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Joel Dickson

This is a natural evolution of what we have long talked about at Vanguard -- that costs, broadly defined, are important in assessing funds' returns.

David Deutsch

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

Bill Gates

During Paul's 14 years with Microsoft, he has played a key role in virtually every major initiative, from the evolution of Windows and Office to the .NET strategy.

Clyde DeSouza

Technology is not evolving anymore, technology IS evolution

Barry Colvin

Rather than be some sort of revolution, it's more of an evolution for the hedge fund industry, which is increasingly being taken over by the new guard,

Valerie Robertson

I've been through the evolution. I've been through it.

Jennifer Miller

It would misrepresent the importance of the theory of evolution to our students.

Agnes Repplier

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Agnes Repplier

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Janet Parker

We're not about to let them take the phrase

Daniel Handler

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Aristophanes

A truce to idle phrases!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Clive Barker

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

Adolf Hitler

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

Albert J. Nock

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases — as in the nature of things it must be — that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

Anders Holm

Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Edmund White

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

Terry Goddard

Once you place the order, they pretend to be you.

Abraham Foxman

This is not a documentary, and nobody's pretending it is.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Eric Maskin

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

Taylor Handley

When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!

Andrew Lincoln

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Beck

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

will.i.am

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Richard Smalley

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

Thomas R. Cech

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Taylor Wilson

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Patti Smith

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Alan Alda

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

Fabiola Gianotti

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Bill Proffitt

A lot of students thought they were real.

Allen Moore

I travel a lot, and many of my students travel a lot.

Louisiana Tech

They're going to be Tech students in every sense,

Richard Cate

They're all interesting in their own way. I especially like the interactions with the students.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Ladrika Gross

They're taking this pretty easy. They're taking it better than I thought they would.

David Carr

They're taking their time with him, and that's good,

Carol Olson

It's not like we're taking from other facilities. Everybody's experiencing an increase.

Laura McElroy

For him, repairing something is like taking a walk. He fixes everything.

Lee Gierczynski

This is very atypical. It's taking a very, very long time.

Kurt Tsue

Right now, the tides are taking it out. Should the wind change, it could come right back into shore.

David Carr

I see us taking more of a businesslike approach,

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Scott Justus

They took us out of some of the things we wanted to do.

Mark Tennis

They took the head-to-head thing to a new extreme.

Brad Stiles

They took it to us in the first half.

Ricky Proehl

They took away a lot of things. They took us completely out of our game, and that's a tribute to them.

Larry Jacobs

It's not like he took this for granted.

Avi Arad

It's no secret, we took a lot of sh-- for Ang Lee's 'Hulk,' for all the wrong reasons,

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

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

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.