Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mcewan

My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

Giraldus Cambrensis

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

Roman Jakobson

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

David Frost

Manufacturing has persistently failed to sustain recovery and, in spite of the modest fourth-quarter improvement, faces acute threats.

James Rothman

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

Kathleen Sebelius

We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.

Noshir Kaka

The problem we are facing is huge. The acute demand is leading to supply-side shortages.

Stanton Glantz

It doesn't take much to cause big effects. If you already have compromised coronary circulation and go into a smoky environment, there is a substantial increase in your risk of an acute event.

Charles Hennekens

Those having a heart attack will have a far lower risk of having a second heart attack, a stroke, or their death rate is lowered almost a quarter. Aspirin has the best benefit to risk ratio and benefit to cost ratio of any therapy of acute heart attacks.

Ilham Patu

The patient is a suspected bird flu case. He had a history of contact with live and dead chickens.

Catullus

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

Bill Vaughan

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

Stephen Hegarty

That would include responding to outbreaks of disease. It doesn't specifically refer to bird flu. The purpose of this plan is to provide an outline of how we proceed. In the past, we never really considered these massive events that could knock down a school system.

Peter Dawson

The 18th hole will present a birdie opportunity but as a dog-leg hole with out-of-bounds ever present it will also be a hole for potential disaster.

Tim Griffin

We can't look at just the side-to-side movement, ... but in terms of the combined side-to-side and forward movement, penguins conserved up to 80 percent of the mechanical energy required for walking. This was quite high, because other measurements for humans and other birds have found that they recovered only up to 70 percent of the mechanical energy.

Vijay Kumar

We have undertaken an extensive clean up of the poultry farms now that the birds are gone. We hope to complete this exercise over the next three days.

Cathy Maret

We have a first case of bird flu. It's H5. The virus type has to be confirmed in the (European Union) reference lab.

Cathy Maret

We have a first case of bird flu. It's H5.

Gareth Bale

Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.

Virginia Postrel

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

John Smith

The American way is very much about passing on knowledge. This person will become an adviser, a point of contact for the public.

David Bone

We have virtually no records, ... Everyone who we know had an interest in the mausoleum was contacted long ago, or had the opportunity to contact us (after public notices about the demolition).

Thomas Steg

We have to use existing contacts to contribute to de-escalation.

Ruth Ozeki

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

Peter Grant

We've made contact to say we're interested. We would love the opportunity to speak to him. If Roy decides he wants to come to London - then bang, we're in for him.

Mike Holmgren

Usually, when there's contact like that, it's a no-call. But they called it and that's that. That's the way the day went.

Don Black

With the exponential growth of the Net we were able to reach many thousands of people that we otherwise would never have been in contact with our publications and organizations.

Herbert Meade

We're still trying to figure out what went wrong with this detection unit.

James Geary

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

Foreign Ministry

We are putting more efforts into vaccine and detection research.

Steve Cooley

would have probably led to the early detection of disgraced former officer Rafael Perez.

Penelope Boston

I want to try and get into those kinds of places. It's very important to make devices for life detection on Mars, for example. ... Any planet or moon with a solid surface will do.

Maureen Johnson

Our leak detection system was tested in 2002, and we physically demonstrated that it could find a one percent leak. That system was working and we followed our procedure.

Alan Boss

Now we have our first genuine detection of light from a planet around a solar-like star,

The Foundation

We now know that early detection and treatment, including diet and medication, can slow down the progression of kidney disease and its complications and prevent further damage, in some cases,

Klaus Stohr

Strong surveillance and response networks for early detection of pandemic virus will make a difference.

Isabella Bird

It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

Elizabeth Warren

For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.

Pedro Chequer

The alternative ... is domestic production of the medication, preferably by the government. Today we pay up to nine times the fair price.

Samantha Power

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

Jen Kirkman

Use your passport for domestic trips, so that way you don't risk losing your license.

Jim McCafferty

Mid-cap stocks are more domestic and much less reliant on overseas markets and overseas concerns.

Jane Liu

While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as they had been. Our January sales forecast predicted that domestic automakers earned approximately 54 percent market share of new vehicle sales, and that Japanese, European and Korean automakers would earn 35 percent, 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively.

Kiran More

Whoever performs well in the domestic championships will be eligible for selection. The performance of India 'A' players will also be taken into account.

Mark Land

We're obviously pleased to be finished with it. It's made us better. We examined all of our processes and controls, and I really think we have strengthened our financial reporting and controls.

Ken Holland

He has some damage. He's going to be examined Friday and we'll know more about his status after we get some more opinions.

Ken Holland

He has some ACL and MCL damage, ... He's going to be examined Friday, and we'll know more about his status after we get some more opinions.

Jerry Green

We have to get used to being examined and poked and touched.

John Sherman Cooper

Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.

Richard Henning

I think what's perhaps most disheartening about this petition is that these issues were examined recently by the board.

Samuel Johnson

Particulars are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed.

Larry Leake

I've been a lawyer for 31 years. I've examined a lot of witnesses. Seldom have I found one less believable.

Jeff McNeely

Every expedition that goes into a place that hasn't been examined before finds new species.

Bill Burr

I am so pro-swine flu it's ridiculous.

Bill Burr

I am so pro-swine flu... I want it. We need a plague. It's got to happen; don't be afraid. It's only going to kill the weak.

John McCamant

That would make for a much quicker response to a flu outbreak, and would help move vaccine technology into the 21st century. Right now vaccine technology is in the middle of the 20th century. It just doesn't make sense to rely on outdated methods that have been around 40 years.

Bill Snyder

That win was not a fluke by any stretch.

Mark Adams

We were standing around offensively. We were not as fluid or crisp as we were in the first quarter. There was some hesitation there. I'm not sure I know why. It just happens.

Henry Scott

We have a lot of quail here, and we're going to have quail hunting this fall. It's not uncommon to flush 35 to 40 coveys a day.

Peter Morgan

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

Lola Russell

Maybe our message of encouraging people to seek flu shots is getting through.

Ash Rajan

We need the flu shot. We need the vaccine.

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Pete Earley

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

Marianne Williamson

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

Andrew Flintoff

There have been injuries, illnesses and that's not been ideal. But it's an opportunity for the team to show what we can do.

Ivar Giaever

You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

John Ross

The patients that are now in the waiting room and the ones that are in ambulance stretchers can't come into their departments because there's actually no place to put them.

Jerry Woods

You can be profitable if you have that revolving door, that rehab patient that comes in and out. That's our goal.

William Shakespeare

Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

John Cherne

We executed better on our sets, and our inbounds play was better tonight. And we were a lot more patient in the second half.

Chris Hill

People were very, very cooperative and patient outside.

Michael Sayre

Basically, the more times someone pushes on the chest, the better off the patient is.

Richard Mansfield

If anything we'll be able to see more patients and provide more services.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. He's not being patient enough.

Bethenny Frankel

I have always been a business person.

Camille Paglia

I am a very reclusive, private person.

Alan Sugar

I like to be a very fair person.

Cheri Huber

A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.

Beyonce Knowles

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

Caitlin Moran

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

Cass McCombs

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Bob Phillips

The person who knows everything has the most to learn.

David Garcia

We're urging people, particularly on Padre Island, in the strongest possible terms to evacuate.

Korey Rowe

It didn't seem possible and it took a long time to sink in.

Mark Warren

We are doing everything possible to treat the water,

Nick Harper

I was trying to get it as soon as possible and get to where there were no defenders, find a clearing, and score.

Asaf Shariv

We have to prepare for the worst possible scenario.

Yuri Andropov

Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

Michiel Huisman

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

Pete Carroll

If I'm lucky, I can see 7-8 possible recruits at these meets.

Mario Theissen

I think it could be possible but in the end it's a sport.

Bertrand Russell

Change is one thing, progress is another.

Bertrand Russell

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

Bertrand Russell

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

Mark Mann

We'll progress him over the weekend in regards to his running, ... and just take it day by day and see how he feels.

Peter Brown

Time is running short for her to show progress.

Bud Selig

We've made some progress on a lot of issues. But progress in the end is when you have a deal.

John Singlaub

We've made progress with our over-the-counter application process. But we are still not there yet.

Jeff Heath

We've made progress. We're taking it step by step.

Ted Waitt

We've made a lot of progress in 2001 and now it's time to grow,

Phoebe Philo

I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.

Jerry Glanville

Will we get them? The percentages won't be high. But you have to let them know you want them. We're showing them we have a strong interest.

A. Johnson

Just showing off my personality. Once I get in the end zone, that's all it is.

Robert Horan

He wasn't showing affection, he was killing them. Do you understand that?

Bob Baffert

He just had little pesky injuries. He's showing his stuff now.

Joss Whedon

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.

Nicki Minaj

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Brene Brown

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

Brene Brown

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Bill Bryson

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

Padgett Powell

I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

Steve Walsh

I think it is so strange it has to be real.

Willie Morris

He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Djuna Barnes

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Agnes Varda

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.