Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Flynn

The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Guy Laliberte

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

Diane Wood

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Neil Harbisson

We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.

Nicholas Mosley

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Li Shufu

Volvo has one weakness, and that is in the interior design. They have not adapted to the Chinese people's perception of luxury when it comes to the interior design, and this has to be addressed.

Brad Wilson

What we're seeing is a great deal of customization on country and industry levels. When Microsoft was developing its CRM, it made sure that it was built on a Web services architecture so that it can be easily adapted to specific local needs and requirements. We don't ship an out-of-the-box, property-management application, for instance, but those in real estate using the software can easily add apartment information without adding programming code.

Dr. Rodier

When we have a child infected we are giving the virus more chance to adapt to human beings, and giving it this chance could help create conditions for the emergence of a new virus.

Maria Semple

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

Eddie Izzard

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

Baroness Orczy

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,"...

Ato Boldon

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.

Bill Nye

If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Mike Babcock

We want him to feel good and be an important part of our team. He told me the other day that he feels he's skating well, and that his leg doesn't hurt. Well that's great news for us. He's dominant in the face-off circle, his brain works all the time; he knows how to play in all situations.

Charlie Crist

I’m not a scientist either, but I can use my brain, and I can talk to one,

Charlie Cox

All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury.

Sathya Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Lee Janzen

The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win.

Sharon Stewart

We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed.

Nicolas Roeg

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Bill McKibben

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Terri Teuber

There is no question that different consideration would have been given to the situation if people were going hungry.

Jim Bowden

We respect the arbitrators' decision. We feel that it's a good salary for the team and a good salary for the player given his talents.

Jack Thompson

What we're saying is that Devin Moore was, in effect, trained to do what he did. He was given a murder simulator,

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Charles Caleb Colton

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles Manson

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Billy Wilder

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Madeleine Stowe

As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.

Jane Levy

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Mark Richt

about as pretty as I've seen. Maybe we should do that more often.

Juan Felipe Herrera

The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts.

Sheryl Skolnick

It seems to be of some concern. Maybe you don't need the headache.

David Lipe

They played well. Maybe this will give those two some confidence.

Sean McCarthy

They should be very proud of what they've done. Maybe not satisfied, but proud.

Nancy Mitchell

This happened, so maybe something else can happen.

Ron Rivera

They thought they were better than we were and in some instances, some positions, maybe they were better.

Eddie Izzard

Peace, peace, peace. Peace is organized.

Dolores Huerta

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

Max Brooks

Organize before they rise!

Robert Myers

Many people want to restrict your access. They are well organized and very vocal.

Vicente Fox

On that side and this side there is organized crime. On that side and this side there is drug consumption.

John Marshall

Because Ray was so organized anyway, we just kind of plugged things in and we go.

Michael Leunig

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

Jim Greer

If it's not organized in any respect, you're just going to get in the way.

Al Gore

If you are going after Jesse James, you ought to organize the posse first

Brandan Wright

We stopped pressing them and started trying to get into the passing lanes.

Carol Leifer

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

Jay Frydenlund

It's the same thing every game. Our passing is weak, and it has been all year.

Todd Plattner

They recovered well, they were long in the passing lanes, and I'm sure that's the most turnovers we've had all year in a game.

Diane Wakoski

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

Jodi Manore

At times we played very well and at times we were inconsistent. We still need to work on our passing and defense.

Mike Seward

We tried passing over the top and that didn't work; we just got killed inside. We couldn't make up for that size.

Rachel Brown

We really have to work on our passing and shooting and get better by Friday.

Elizabeth Bishop

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Paul Kalas

The story of how you make a ring around a planet could be the same as the story of making rings around a star.

Author unknown

Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.

George Stovall

That's Mars. And over there, that is Venus. What a treat - two planets in the same sky.

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Carlos Garcia

They're selling nothing and screwing over (the buyer).

Robbie Reiser

You were screwing around with (Stewart), you have to come in.

Todd Jones

You can really see it screwing up hitters.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Morris Peterson

When we were off to our 1-15 start I think that's when they did the poll.

Becky Hammon

We're starting to come together a little more. We're starting to put it together.

Keith Guttin

When we get that done, we'll start turning it up as a team.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Lawrence Frank

We're starting to see what we need to do to win.

Terrie Archer

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Kim Smith

We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.

Gary LaGrange

We're starting to get back to work today.