Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

LenDale White

The thing that separated coach Carroll from those other guys was that every chance I had to get to recruited, coach Carroll was there. The first time he could come see me, he was there. The first time he could call me, he called. It was things like that. I just felt way more comfortable here.

Gene Luen Yang

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.

Robert Baccari

I've lost everything. My suits, my work clothes, my furniture; I even have to call the paper and tell them to stop delivering.

Jeff Tweedy

I've never considered us a country band, ... Even after this record, people still call us a country band. Have they listened to this record?

Joe Jurevicius

I've never been a guy caught up in numbers. If you call my number and you throw me a ball, chances are I'm going to make a play.

Woody Allen

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Doug Ellin

The show has always been about the shallow moment-by-moment existence of life in the business. But we keep discovering subtleties, like, in Hollywood, even a guy who makes $5 million is constantly insecure and struggling.

Terrence Roberts

The summer was just horrible after that because you're constantly thinking about that game and you can't wait for the next season. We definitely don't want to go out like we did last year.

Mike Nichols

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

Mike McGann

The thing is with Sauk, is they do have some holes. They're constantly moving their lineup around and it's hard to keep sync on what they are going to do.

Larry Davis

Teams go through ebbs and flows during the season. It's rare that a team goes start to finish constantly climbing.

John Hagel III

Rather than constantly questioning and challenging our beliefs and being willing to think differently about the opportunities that are out there, we withdraw into what we've done before. And in a world that's rapidly changing, that's a formula for vulnerability.

Johann Lamont

I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.

Timothy Noah

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

James Marsters

Details in the mcguffins had to be worked out, but it was there. It was a good idea. I'm not going to tell you, because I didn't think of it.

Ben Goldacre

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Katie Cook

You don't know how much detail people want you to go into, though,

Patty Shea

There's really nothing to worry about, it's not really the outcome or anything like that. It's really about what's going on the field, and some of the things that I'm really happy about is they're playing the game at a more sophisticated level. It's the details that are going to make the difference.

Roger Toussaint

We thank riders for their patience and forbearance. We will be providing various details regarding the outcome of this strike in the next several days.

Donald Knuth

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

Tite Kubo

I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details. ~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

Jacques Perrin

Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.

Darin Strauss

Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.

Charles Schumer

Any talk of dismantling it would be inappropriate given its unique expertise and resources.

Lee Scott

That's when they become the experts and can help teach the other kids. It's the highlight of my day.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Edward Norton

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Albert Einstein

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

Stephen Cambone

The experts have been through it, and they have not found another plausible use for it.

Susan Sontag

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Every expert was once a beginner.

Susan Collins

An expert is anyone who can already do what we want to do.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

Greek proverb

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

Malcolm Gladwell

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Pray God our greatness may not fail/ Thro' craven fears of being great.

George Weinberg

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Baha'u'llah

Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

Arthur Ashe

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Sarah Elliott

As a player, you want to listen to her. She's been there. She knows. She knows the scenarios. We've just tried to listen and learn and execute.

Old Proverb

A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.

Mike Greene

People are thinking about signing up at gyms, and everyone knows people make commitments and don't stay to them.

Mike Post

This is a total team effort, ... Everyone knows they are just one piece in the puzzle of getting supplies to victims, and they all know how important it is.

Auguste Comte

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Janet Leigh

I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!

Desi Arnaz

If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

Daniel Handler

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.

Burt Rutan

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

Janet Reno

I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Ron Perlman

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

Vernor Vinge

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Stan Sakai

All my knowledge comes from research.

Richard Hamming

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Ted Nelson

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

Terry Pratchett

The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing.