Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

Ed Hickey

Having Kinard and Barry helps a lot. Kinard can score, and Barry anchors our defense. They've been playing a lot of basketball. They know how to play, and they know how to make plays.

Robert DiClemente

He sees an explicit medium-term inflation target as an anchor for financial markets and a mechanism for Fed accountability.

Jon Miller

Because it's very hard to get gas to behave the same way twice, it argues strongly that these frequencies are being anchored by the black hole's mass and spin, fundamental properties of the black hole itself.

Jim Morisette

I'm thinking about it. I'm going to sit down with my family and with Anchor Bay people.

Bob Zelnick

If I were making the decision, I imagine Charlie would anchor for another five or six years, ... they could get a 20-year ride, assuming TV news lasts another 20 years.

Carey Fagan

In gymnastics, knowing you can count on a 9.8-plus in a routine every meet is very important. She is averaging over a 9.8 on bars this season and has anchored that event for us all year. That will be a tough spot to fill.

Richard Hirschhaut

These volumes will serve as an anchor resource in our library and documentation center. The significance of the Nuremberg trials still resonates powerfully for our world today.

Brand Blanshard

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

Tim Reese

He was able to find that median where he was an authority figure but cool enough that he would hang out with his students.

Zlatko Kranjcar

He decided himself to leave the squad. If we called him back, we would lose authority without any guarantees that he would not repeat such an act.

Robert Kenneth

It is also an affirmation of state's authority to monitor regulate and determine legitimate medical practice.

Jim Hall

Kyle was swinging the bat with authority all day. He had a good cut early in the game, but struck out. Actually, he looked good up there during all three of his trips to the plate. He got a fastball he could handle, low and in, and he didn't miss it.

Abdallah Baali

What matters in our eyes is that he's the president's choice and that he's close to the president. That gives him certainly the authority to deal with us in New York.

Lee Halper

The people should have the authority to change the laws.

Kofi Annan

We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances to call upon the US authority and the present government of Iraq to review the legal status of the present court and to reallocate the present court outside Iraq, i.e. The Hague, Netherlands,

Lionel Jospin

Today I am a candidate in the presidential election, ... in the spirit of responsibility, the foundation of authority.

Bill Bradley

I think that any time a president lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the people's trust.

Sandra Bullock

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

Andrea Dean

They looked over the roster and matched up the females on the roster with the information given in the tip.

Pam Grier

It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

Kristin Hersh

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

Keri Russell

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

Phil Robertson

Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.

Peter Greenaway

All religions have always hated females.

Louisa May Alcott

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

Jo Brand

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Jim Sheehan

This was a good win. I am really pleased the girls played as well as they did.

Javier Ramirez

What we worked on this summer was our vertical. I don't have great size. But these girls can get off the ground.

Julie Klausner

Here is how you meet women: You tell the girls you are friends with - the ones in relationships - that you want a girlfriend. You shouldn't even have to say 'Set me up' or 'Introduce me!' If they're good girls, they'll get the hint.

Todd Borrison

I thought when their guards penetrated and got good shots, our big girls made the shots tough one them and that made the big difference.

Dallas Richter

We surprised a lot of people. It's starting to sink in with the girls and the community. The town is abuzz.

Andy Scott

We threw it into high gear. The girls played with passion.

James Avery

When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies.

Kevin Edwards

I thought the girls played with a lot of heart tonight,

Kris Kleeman

I thought the girls played well tonight. We didn't handle the pressure as well as I would have liked, but they played well.

Peter Davis

I suited the music to particular images on the film.

Ruckett

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

John Burnside

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

Henri Matisse

These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel.

Halle Berry

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film, ... This movie was all about shedding inhibitions for most of the cast, really, you know, saying things and presenting images that were risky because you never know how people are going to take them.

Randa Haines

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

Bob Shimp

The mystique of the American West is what runs this place. That image of the West still strikes people, people from all over the world.

Jordan Knight

I dont really look at myself as a role model .And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me,they do.By no means do I like to give a negative image either.

Gary Payton

I think (Stern) is just trying to get our image back.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Pat Hill

He said, 'I think you can learn from others,'

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Ernie Grunfeld

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He'll learn from it.

Shawn Olsen

I didn't come out pitching like I should have. I wasn't really myself. We'll learn a lot from these losses.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Bruce Kasrel

The network shouldn't have to make much difference. It's going to happen.

Joe Wilcox

It is the most visually oriented social networking application I have seen thus far.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

E. B. White

The most vulnerable part of the network are the undersea pipelines.

Chris Morris

Now if you have a wireless network that won't connect, well, you need someone on-site.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Benedict Lucchesi

He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,

Rudyard Kipling

it's always best to tell the truth.

John Burdett

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

Lauren Myracle

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

Mother Jones

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

Randy Moss

There's no telling what you are going to see,

Anne Frank

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Charles Bishop

No! ... You're telling me if three commissioners tell me I've got to sign, I've got to sign? I don't think so.

Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Will Smith

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

Will Smith

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.

Virginia Woolf

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

Virginia Woolf

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf

I have had my vision.

Samuel Goldwyn

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

Wayne Dyer

I am worthy of attracting unlimited abundance and prosperity into my life, regardless of what life experiences have gone before me. I only reinforce and contemplate images that are in harmony with this vision.

Van Morrison

Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Samuel Johnson

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Warren Beatty

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Virginia Woolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Virginia Woolf

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.