Famous Quotes & Sayings

Owen Elias

This is fascinating. In England our acid levels are much higher.

James H. Douglas

I would rather put a phial of prussic acid in the hands of a healthy boy or girl than the book in question.

Francis Crick

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.

Timothy Gardner

What has been demonstrated by this trial is that vitamin B-6 and folic acid are not helpful in preventing heart disease. The key message for people taking vitamins is to be careful -- you can overdo what you thought was beneficial,

Bill Griffith

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Isabella Bird

Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot be got rid of by any amount of cleanliness. Many careful housewives take their beds to pieces every week and put carbolic acid on them.

Bill Nye

There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.

Jennifer Howse

We need to increase the amount of folic acid in the grain supply and add it to corn flour. That way, women will get most of the folic acid they need through a healthy diet - without having to think about it -- and their babies will be safer.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on the changing chemistry of our ocean to help illuminate one of our most pressing and inscrutable environmental issues.

Marcus Samuelsson

Avocados have a creamy texture, making them a healthier replacement for ingredients like butter and mayo in recipes, though they do contain a surprisingly large amount of fat - a whopping 30 grams per medium-sized avocado.

Stacy Palmer

a very remarkable outpouring, but compared to the amount of need . . . there's still a fund-raising challenge ahead.

Kate Winslet

Awards season is always a huge amount of fun whether you're a part of it or not. It's always really exciting seeing what films are coming and a lot of new talent as well.

Jonathan Grayer

At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these applicants are from all over the country, and admissions officers need ways to sort through them. The SAT is just one of those things.

Samuel Huntington

Back then that was pretty clear, and there were great pressures, and a certain amount of coercion, to ensure that immigrants did assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant culture, work ethnic, and the principles of the American Creed.

Ron Zook

A year ago, I didn't know exactly where we were. I don't know that I know exactly where we are now. I do know we are improved from the fall and that the amount of work we were able to get done this spring was two-fold from last spring.

Lou Marcoccio

As of January 1999, companies are spending an equal amount in IT and outside, for things like risk assessment on their business partners and contingency plans. By the end of the year, companies will spend two-and-a-half to three times more outside IT.

Marc Imhoff

As population increases we are going to have to rely on our soil resources more and more. Because of their style of consumption, in Europe the amount of land needed to support urban areas is 100 times larger than the urban area itself.

Steve Brown

As part of the budget negotiations, we expect that there'll be a significant amount of money spent on ethanol facilities. There seems to be a shortage of ethanol.

Mal Peet

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

Robert Evan

So she can have us both by her bedside at night.

Laura Hunter

We're looking at increased volume. We could justify as many as 250 beds on the existing plot. With the land acquisition, we can provide 300 to 325 beds. This is a growing community. We're at capacity now. We need to expand for the volume we have now so we can take care of as many of south Miami-Dade's population as possible.

Mary Roach

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Andrew Stern

Nurses are leaving the bedside in droves. We have more and more large employers. We can't solve problems at a local level.

Lynne Sipiora

Now, that might not necessarily mean that there are 40 open slots. The beds are spread throughout the men's, women's and family wings. So it just depends on who comes in.

Louise Brown

I have a large pile of novels on my bedside table, and I look at them frequently, promising myself that I will find the time to read them.

William Williams

Minds like beds always made up,(more stony than a shore)unwilling or unable.

Damian Nisenson

JIAS helped us find our way when we got here, bought us our beds and mattresses, which we really appreciated.

Tex Avery

He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him.

Chuck Jones

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

Jack Cheevers

We want to make sure there are no bugs in it and, when we do go live with it, it will be ready to go. It's an enormously complex task to get all this information entered into this thing.

Isabella Rossellini

Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.

Cheryl Hayashi

I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.

Taylor Schilling

I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

Jon Holder

At first, when we got there, I didn't think it was going to be all that great. There were a lot of girls that looked like they were more worried about if there were going to be bugs and things like that. But really everybody came together and the people who knew the roofing or the painting were teaching the people that didn't we all clicked.

Tim Schafer

There was a 'magic rock' my mom would lift up, and under the rock was a bunch of bugs. Roly-poly bugs and worms. Somehow I thought that it was a magical world of insects, and I wanted to go there. It was the same impulse as 'Pikmin' - I wanted to go into that world.

Barton Gellman

In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Rose McCaulay

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Thomas Sharp

That's where we really have a traffic flow that the road cannot handle now. The sections in between, quite honestly, can handle the traffic flow -- don't need to have new capacity added.

Seiji Maehara

Prime Minister Koizumi is making comments as if there is no problem but...he cannot escape moral responsibility.

Angus Campbell

Profit taking cannot be ruled out, especially if oil prices head north.

Albert Einstein

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Roy Coates

Our seniors have experienced so much, including two championships. They have become so experienced and have a lot to offer to the other girls. There's always talent out there - talent is easy to find, but the personality and the leadership of these girls cannot be replaced.

Julia Huff

Other browsers may work well with the version we are using now, but they have not been tested. Because of our tight schedule and resources, we cannot do that testing now.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Nick Harkaway

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.

James Graham

The show is going on 100% Sunday night. We have a ton of contingency plans in place -- for everything from light rain to lightning to a full-on storm. We're just rolling with it. We're watching it carefully hour by hour.

James Fallows

The technology of nonstop news and the Internet means that allegations that would have been carefully checked out a generation ago no longer are. We now have a 24-hour-a-day news cycle. News gets used up very quickly and there's a constant hunger for new tidbits.

Carol Olson

The Swiss Tropical Institute will be responsible for selecting patients and carefully monitoring the trials,

John W. Thompson

The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips the balance in regulating its use or regulating what companies or individuals do on the web, it could have an economic impact that might be unintended, quite frankly, by the regulations themselves.

Rick Wolff

I've always been careful because what is the difference between this and paying somebody $70 an hour to teach my kid how to play piano, 'cause I can't play piano?

Hu Jintao

The motherland and people are proud of you. I hope you will successfully complete your task by carrying out the mission calmly and carefully and have a triumphant return,

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Austin Mahone

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

Buck Showalter

The big thing was Curt Schilling, he was obviously on top of his game. We ran into a great pitcher today. It's disappointing.

David Lewis

The big question is: Is it too little, too late? I think in great part, yes.

George Savile

A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use

O. J. Simpson

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Josh Page

Avon had a lot to do with our shooting stats. They played great defense. They took away our inside game.

Heinz Jungwirth

Austria has great relations with the IOC. We don't want to put anything under the table.

James Coleman

A truly great hug comes when you squeeze just hard enough to share a heartbeat.

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Frank Garcia

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alfred Kazin

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

Alexander Herzen

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

Chuck Close

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

David Marcus

The secret is getting in early. You want to get in when it's a ripple, before the wave hits. Then you ride the wave.

John Bryan

The ride is set up to showcase South Carolina. We're trying to show off our state.

e. e. cummings

All in green went my love riding

Roy Hattersley

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Gerald Laird

If it's the shoes, we'll ride it as long as we can.

Alderman Mokros

If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.

Eugene Ionesco

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,

Frances Wright

Credulity is always ridiculous.