Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Marks

Anybody who says there's such a thing as 'actionable intelligence' has never seen intelligence. Almost never in my 23 years have I ever seen anything that said to me that at such and such a time and such and such a place such a thing was going to happen. It just doesn't happen that way.

Kathy Dais

The sophomores have matured very well and I'm counting on them a lot to really step up and almost take the lead and get some things done this year. Katie has great potential to win tournaments and Denise practiced a lot over the summer and she came back really good. I think she's ready to break out.

David Deutsch

The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.

J. Moore

I've never been scared to go up. I like taking contact because I think I almost finish better with contact.

John Kasay

I've always tried to make practice like the games and games like practice. NFL games are often very emotional the energy, the momentum. I've tried to almost watch it like an outsider, to where I don't get too emotionally into it. Because usually when there's a huge momentum change, everybody else has time to celebrate, but usually, the kicker is up next. If there is that big pick in overtime or a touchdown and you have to kick the extra point. You take the opposite tack and ramp all that back down.

Adam Hughes

I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

Joe Grant

Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people over at Pixar. I mean, as far as stories are concerned, almost everything we have could be told that way.

Tim Ruskell

Stuff still gets out. (The media) are able to predict, almost to the T, the first 15 picks (of the first round). But you try your best to keep it in-house.

Neil Gaiman

Strategy number one is that I always, or almost always, have at least two or three different things that I'm writing at any one time.

Ed Ratledge

You ever see those pictures of an anaconda that's just swallowed a deer? That's what you have with the baby boomers. We've had to digest them over the years.

Anne Brown

There should be no soft bedding in the crib, ... As many as a third of the deaths from SIDS could happen when babies suffocate face down in the soft bedding.

James Hetfield

Hey, my baby fetches me beers, and she's only 4 months old!... yeah, I'm a proud Dad!

Adam Leipzig

Going from voices of a mommy, daddy and baby penguin to a storyteller is a significant shift,

Beatriz Ilari

There's this frenzy that the parents want their babies to be so smart.

Elizabeth McNichol

Once large numbers of baby boomers start retiring and begin to benefit from these tax breaks, they'll become not just more expensive, but also more difficult politically to modify.

Robert Lanza

It's relatively simple, it does not damage the embryo, and it's been used on thousands of healthy babies,

Dean Laidley

It's been a big 24 hours - babies and retirements and getting walloped, so it's time to have a rest.

John Carmack

Its gotten a little slower this last year since I got a little baby. I lost my Sundays.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Joshua Estrin

For those of you who weren't lucky enough to be real geeks, if you feel the need to tap into your inner geek, you have my blessing. Just remember, we were born this way - you just have to dress like it.

Bible Bible

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Robert Jeffress

God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.

Bible Bible

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

David Ortiz

He was born to hit. Manny has like, what, (13) years in the big leagues doing the same thing over and over and over? There's no doubt about it. That guy's a hitter.

Sidney Green

He was born to be a point guard. I always told him when he was 14, 15 that he was better than when I was 14 or 15. The only difference is, I've told him, he was a guard and I was a forward.

John Hammons

He was born in Germantown, just outside of Memphis. There's a family plot there.

Heath Carroll

He was born in Baytown because there was no hospital in Sheldon.

Ed Dunlop

As for the future hopefully he will carry on but today is the day, let's live it up.

Joel Pineiro

I've been feeling great all year. It was just a matter of having that extra confidence to go out there and challenge people. Maybe it's a little too late in the season, but it's something I can carry over to next year.

Mike Conner

There's no substitute for experience, and we experienced a win today. Maybe that will carry on to next week for another big game.

Nate Dahlman

There's no doubt. If he would have stayed here in Minnesota, he'd have been under the microscope for four to five years. The pressure won't be there to elevate a program or carry a program. It was just, for him, a chance to get away. And we supported that decision.

Seth Numrich

When I was six, someone in my family gave me a yellow pencil holder that had my name printed on it. I still have it, and when I'm doing table work in rehearsal, I use it to carry my highlighters and other writing utensils. I love it.

David Bloom

What everyone is worried about is the whole regime will disappear. At some point this whole carry trade situation will end. The point is whether this is the catalyst.

Susanna Montezemolo

We tell people all the time that they shouldn't carry their Social Security number in their wallet, ... Their response is, 'Well, it's on my Medicare card.'

Matt Cavanaugh

Tony was gone and it was supposed to be my team in '77. I was the guy who was supposed to carry us. That's why what happened was so devastating.

Monte Kiffin

Tony's got tremendous faith. That's what will carry Tony through. He's unbelievable. I know what Tony's thinking, and I know how he'll handle it, and it will be his faith that will really stand strong. But that doesn't mean it's easy.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Kirby Dean

It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.

Gary Bardini

The rise won't be as high as we saw a week ago, certainly not as high as we saw three months ago.

Lisa Finstrom

That the claims data were back at 356,000 was certainly better than expected and the dollar is gaining.

Philip Rivers

That's not all on my shoulders, but I certainly feel like I can get in there and manage it and handle the situation.

Chan Gailey

You take a force off the field that has been an all-conference player, that certainly hurts you.

Michael Gartner

You really won't know until you know who is hired for those jobs. Certainly they're three of the most important jobs at the university.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

LeRoy Neiman

As I turn 91... I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

John Keats

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...

Linda Evangelista

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Siti Supari

We don't distinguish between the three, ... But how they got infected is still unknown.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Plato

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

John Ruskin

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

Mark Twain

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Henry David Thoreau

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

Henry David Thoreau

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

Ray Bradbury

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Ani Difranco

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

Alison Lurie

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.