Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Evans

The perception of a growing number of our citizens is that the all-white commission is biased and doesn't care.

Peter Bienert

They are biased statements made without knowledge of the circumstances.

David Davis

Of course we're biased out there with the Pac-10. So if we could have USC and Texas, it would be just special, ... It would be as good a game as we could hope for.

Brad Stone

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.

Anna Sui

You see a lot of uneven hemlines, a lot of biased cut, and a lot of pleating with uneven bottoms on the pleats,

Ellen Stofan

I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.

A. R. Rahman

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

Tommy Kron

To his players, he was a very difficult man. He was pretty set in his thinking in some things. But at no time was he ever racially biased that I was aware.

Cody Acree

There's nothing wrong with what they turned in. It's a little narrowing of the range, biased to the upside, but it's not an inarguable catalyst.

Tim Strickland

We want to see how the perception of Onslow Memorial Hospital compares with the perception of these other hospitals.

Brad Harman

It's a huge surprise. There's a big difference in the level of play at the varsity that compares to whatever they saw in the past. They're a big reason we've had success.

Jeff Hodson

I told them this is the worst part about the job. Cuts are tough, but nothing compares to the last game for the seniors and we have nine of them. It is really tough.

Jim Tracy

DePodesta said Cruz's recent play compares favorably with his earlier years. His .783 on-base plus slugging percentage is higher than that of Dodgers starters Cesar Izturis, Jason Phillips, Jason Repko, Oscar Robles, Jose Valentin and Werth.

Andre Agassi

Pretty amazing. I don't know if I can put in context how this compares with some of my greatest experiences on the tennis court, but I know it's right up there, because this is what you work so hard for.

Nick Haan

This crisis easily compares with any other humanitarian crisis going on around the world today.

Shane Doan

You never want to say, 'This one's for him,' because nothing compares to that, but it's a good way to go home. We're finding ways to win games again.

Elaine MacDonald

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.

LeBron James

The opposing teams don't know I'm a football player first. Nothing compares to those football hits.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Mariel Hemingway

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

Nick Woodman

Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.

Eric Anderson

We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.

Anthony Davis

We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there.

Chris Carpenter

We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.

Sal Fasano

Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.

Gayle Devin

We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Amy Heckerling

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

Allyce Najimy

Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

Nick Robinson

I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

Brian Peters

Would you be notified of other kind of minority groups moving in?

Bonnie Reed

We're seeing people from different social groups who've never come in before, who don't know what to do, and they're just frantic.

Kenneth Sheinberg

It's kind of a normal rotation. Some of these beaten-up groups are getting some sponsorship.

Matt Simmons

They don't play Irish music, but at that point, I don't think many people will notice.

Robert Savage

The theme of the symposium is the American Irish, and the Irish in American film.

Alex Ferguson

Roy is the same. There has been speculation that he is going to Celtic, that he has had a massive bust-up with me and that the Irish situation has been a problem. It hasn't been.

Zinedine Zidane

We'll have to be tough in Dublin. We'll need to have a strong physical presence because the Irish are going to come at us hard. But we're more than capable.

Edgar Watson

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Andrea Corr

She used to play every weekend in pubs with Daddy, and she'd written all these Irish songs out in a book. They're songs we've loved over the years, and because our parents played them in their band, they're very special to us.

John Millington Synge

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Matt Blunt

worth it to protect the lives of Missouri children.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Jim Cavanaugh

It's just too important. We are talking about lives here, ... I'm not going to walk away from it. Period.

Derek Luke

It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful.

Kevin Kwan

A lot of the people who live the lives of 'Crazy Rich Asians' don't see the humour of their lives simply because this is just who they are. Even though I'm from that part of the world, I'm no longer part of that world.

Hilary Rosen

American music has touched everyone's lives throughout its short history,

Julie Johnson

Also, I have a parent volunteer who lives and breathes 'The Wizard of Oz,' and doing this show for the school's first play was partly her idea too.

Charles Spurgeon

I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Alan Alda

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Scott Pelley

It's not the nicknames, it's how they got the nicknames that matters.

Christopher Poole

As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.

Steve Sabol

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

Nicolas Chamfort

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Nicole Appleton

My nickname is The Fonz. My sister Lori nicknamed me it when I was younger and it stuck.

Patrick Schwarzenegger

My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

Ellen Page

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Alexander Pope

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Richard V. Allen

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

Thomas Jefferson

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

Nikolai Gogol

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

J. I. Packer

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

James Joyce

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.

Horace Walpole

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Jeff Perreault

The ref made the right call, but it was a tough call.

John Mulcahy

As we thought about it, we thought it was kind of a tough deal: now they have them, now they don't.

Randy Coleman

It's kind of been a tough day in McDowell County.

Michael Schwartz

It's kind of a tough question. The marketplace for this type of collectible is very volatile.

Jamont Gordon

It's just real tough on the road. We got to take it to another level.

Rocky Hager

It's even tougher when you watch the tape. We had our chances. We made some plays.

Jim Epperly

It's a tough place to go and win.

Rod Barnes

They tried to trap him, make things tough on him.

Colleen Barrett

We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

Jerry Bruckheimer

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Vladimir Putin

This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively developing road connection.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Ray Carter

You can't get any vehicles to come into the city, and we can't get any out.

Chogyam Trungpa

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Edward Gibbon

The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.

Edith Wharton

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

David Horowitz

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

David Hockney

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

David Hockney

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

David Brooks

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

Denis Leary

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

Denis Leary

I wanted a more female point of view.