Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Perlis

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Alan Jackson

It's a scary word, 'cancer.

Alan Bennett

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Al Ries

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

Edward Hoagland

Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

Eddie Long

The doctor can X-Ray you and say, 'You got cancer.' And then you go home and God let me see, does Christ have cancer? If Christ don't, I don't have cancer. All I need to do is get a picture of what he looks like. Because, if I can see Him I become like Him.

Athol Fugard

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Arnold Palmer

I guess most of us would rather not discuss cancer because we are all afraid we might be told we have it. It's hard for people to even say the word, and that's the first obstacle you have to overcome when you are diagnosed with the disease. I think once you understand a little more about it ... I don't mean it gets any easier ... but I think you give it more in-depth thought about how you're going to deal with it.

Arnold Palmer

I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

Alan Bishop

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

David Hornsby

I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?

Dee Hock

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

Paul Sanberg

The positive side is it allows people to get cell lines made for specific diseases, do it quickly and to do research on it.

Jeffrey Nelson

We're in a place where it's an important battleground for the hearts and minds of younger cell phone users.

Brigitte Boisselier

where it's legal to do the final step ... the human cell nucleus transfer.

Craig Venter

When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

Jim Barry

When you think back to the first cell phones, if they weren't the kind you slung over your shoulder in a pack, they were about the size of a brick. That was all battery.

Bill Murray

You know the theory of cell irritability?. If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.

Paul Gillis

We're fighting for the division title and this is a good step toward that, but we still have a little work left to do.

Romeo Crennel

We're just not good enough within the division overall.

Keith Primeau

With the new system, we see teams in our division eight times and those rivalries, if they weren't in place, will be resurrected.

Jon Garland

A lot of people out there will be disappointed (whenever the Sox don't win), because I guarantee we won't be picked to come in fourth in our division this year. There are different expectations this year, and there should be, but I don't think people realize how tough it is to win a World Series.

Jeff Gutowski

They might be an inch or two shorter and maybe not as quick, but this is the Big Ten at the Division II level.

Michael Hegarty

This is a much-needed performance today and it keeps us in the hunt for the division title, which was our first and foremost goal all year.

Josh Kellett

This is a division game, so it's obviously a very important game. We're 1-0 in the division and they're undefeated. And you always want to win at home.

Chris Hall

This is a big division game. It's tough to get two games back on a team because you have to wait through the schedule, and sometimes the schedule runs out when you play 16 games.

Willie Randolph

They're the division champions. Those are the guys we've got to go through to be where we want to be. We feel good going into the series. We want to feel good going out.

Arne Jacobsen

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

Diablo Cody

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

C. S. Lewis

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

Marian Seldes

I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.

Kevin Arquit

What they presumably need to do today is come up with something that is realistic enough and acknowledges enough of the judge's finding that he takes the proposal seriously.

Byron Katie

The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

Laura Gunn

We're still taking statements, we're still finding stuff.

Steve Coury

We?re still finding ourselves offensively, but defensively, we?re pretty sound. Our team speed is very good.

Dick Clark

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Ben Whishaw

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

August Strindberg

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

Tom Robinson

We have never operated outside permit levels at the plant.

Cheryl Richardson

There are no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousness .

Charles Simic

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Nayvadius Cash

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

Charles Gounod

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

Carl Jung

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

Kelly Clark

Women's snowboarding has progressed a lot. The younger riders are really pushing the limits of technical tricks.

Charlie Rose

When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.

Trent Bray

They've got an offense a lot like Boise State's. It's complex. They're a big-play team; you've just got to limit that.

Matt DiBlasio

They've always been a throw-around, slow-paced team. They will try to limit our shots and try to play a ball-control offense.

Ben Affleck

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Bette Midler

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Debbie Stabenow

At a time when so many Americans struggle to pay for the prescription drugs they need, we must look for ways to lower the price of those drugs.

Trilby Lundberg

All point to lower prices at the pump,

John Davis

abused by male students because of their low self-esteem.

Lev Grossman

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

Victoria Brown

A lot of people were surprised by the low price and thought we should be charging more.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Lorraine Toussaint

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

John Milton

The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.

Joe Vinson

The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think,

Mike Stackpole

We still thought we might be able to do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Bill Nighy

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Mark Billingham

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Dave Schreiner

We do these things naturally and we don't talk about them.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Pat Rafter

He's naturally very gifted. Scotty's always been very unique in that way.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Jeff Barker

People are naturally curious, they want to see what's going on.

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Derek Bailey

I don't research anything.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Carl Jung

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Edwin Land

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Barbara Tuchman

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Scott Fosgard

As we switch from pre-competitive research to development, we don't have any need for collaboration.