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.

Clinton Portis

I used to do gymnastics. I almost made it to the Olympics, back in '98, I think,

Richard Grieco

I usually go out riding late at night when there's no traffic because L.A. has become almost like the Philippines now as far as traffic.

Ivan Reitman

I've almost never watched The X Files through. I was never a fan, I don't watch much television anyway so it's nothing personal.

Mary Kindred

We had so many baby squirrels it was a nightmare.

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.

Bruce Barket

What are you going to do to save babies?

Nancy Green

Those babies don't do as well as the full-term.

James Hetfield

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

Joe Horn

Just to see kids like that, it's horrible, it's sad. Just to sit back and watch babies that can't even eat, that are suffering. I'm just hoping that the government goes in, sends ships in and gets people out as quickly as possible and tries to rebound from this catastrophe.

Adam Leipzig

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

Jessica Stroup

I was a part of that Beanie Babies generation. I had, like, 400 of them... OK, maybe not that many, but I had a lot of little stuffed animals that I liked to make talk. I was a big dork, and I still am.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Kevin Turner

We will pursue this individual, we will search him out and try to get at least some of our money. The rest will be borne by the taxpayer.

Dale Carnegie

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

e. e. cummings

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

Alex Ferguson

Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.

Harold E. Varmus

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

Amartya Sen

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Anneliese van der Pol

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Anne Sexton

women are born twice.

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.

Kate Winslet

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

Anne Bauer

Early funding is essential in order to carry out time-sensitive activities.

Meggie Ford

Even if it is just for a day or two, it will give them some money to carry on.

Liu Yunshan

Folk culture workers should fully tap the rich resources in the country and carry forward the fine traditions to strive for the prosperity of folk culture.

Tom Smith

We have done everything we can to make sure the channels will carry the maximum capacity.

Anne Lamott

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

Steve Todd

We currently carry them, and I don't know of a decision yet on my store.

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.

Maurice Cheeks

The zone hurt us quite a bit. We couldn't get any shots; we couldn't get any dribble penetration. We didn't make any shots and certainly our defense was not up to par.

Bill Cowher

They are all very unselfish guys and that certainly will make my job easier (in choosing who plays). While it's a tough decision to make, they have recognized it, and, that position has epitomized the unselfishness on this team the last couple of years.

Alex Rodriguez

The win is obviously the most important thing right now, ... The record is something I'll certainly think about once this whole thing is over.

Steven Chercover

The wood industry would certainly welcome boosted demand, especially since the pricing for wood hasn't been that strong despite a good housing market.

Hugh Pennington

The virus is transmitted by live birds. It's not in the poultry meat and it's certainly not in eggs.

Elizabeth Lewis

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

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

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.'

Pam Collins

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Andrea Cook

My sons picked up trash for 21/2 hours one day. The next day, there was so much trash, it looked like we didn't do anything.

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

Andy Anderson

That's the type of response parents need. They need to know what's going on now, not three hours from now.

Tayler Johnson

I was pretty proud of myself. I worked on it every single day for hours to shoot that.

Paul Tagliabue

You can go back and look at whether we'd have a team in L.A. had we done something different in 1994-95. But I think if you look at the big picture, it's one of strong accomplishment. There are only so many hours in the day.

Siti Supari

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

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Anton Chekhov

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

Tom Peters

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

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.

Socrates

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Socrates

I know what I do not know.

Socrates

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

John Owen

All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less.

Ray Bradbury

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

Dick Thompson

These are not our viruses and this isn't our information.

Kate Looby

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

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

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.

Anne Tyler

Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

Anita Brookner

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.