Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

David Kay

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

Enrique Garcia

That was a sad case. These cases are really made by people coming forward with information.

Rick Santorum

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love.

Matthew Quick

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

Allan Urlis

Typically, when there's damage to the weatherhead and the meter box, the city inspector would need to look at it before we could reconnect. But in this circumstance, where there are so many cases like that, the city inspection is not required before we restore service.

Stacey Gabriel

Today the prices have dropped in many cases to a fraction of a penny per genotype, and we can do millions a day. This is the difference between not being able to do the studies, and getting them done rapidly and well.

James Roth

Time is of the essence in these cases in gathering and sharing information, and anything that slows that down is distinctly unhelpful.

Giles Foden

At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.

Eve Ensler

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Emmett Brown

The all-tackle world record will not be overturned. In many ways, it's further validated.

Naveen Andrews

We know that there's going to be some new people joining and that's great because you do wonder how much further they can take it before running out of ideas, ... How can it possibly sustain itself?

Martin Schulz

We will see a further improvement in the small- and mid-sized companies.

Ernie Accorsi

Waiting for 25 can be frustrating at times, but you are there for the right reason. You just hope you are even further down every year.

Shahab Jalinoos

We have a long way to go in terms of pricing in further Japanese rate hikes. That's the point, which we think the yen will really start to rally.

Marla Shavin

White is going to be huge for spring. The further we get into warmer weather, we will see it more and more.

Mark Wilson

We can't get down to much further so this is a big game for us. Plus, we'd like to keep the momentum going after last week's win.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Dorothy L. Sayers

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

Thom Berry

We feel like our regulations are protective of the environment.

Orlando Bloom

I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

Hilary Mantel

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

Paullina Simons

He is just protective over me-” “Not protective, Tania. Consumed.

Mickey Loomis

We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Sukarno

I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

Dennis McCullough

We have a sneaking suspicion where it is." ()

Alfred Jodl

To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.

J. Haldane

Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Jewel

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

Henry David Thoreau

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Samuel Johnson

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Sonia Braga

The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Allen Ward

We know the cabin, we know the people, we know the training and we know the job.

Corey Brewer

We told him to get some training wheels.

Mike Thibault

From that standpoint, it kind of makes for a very competitive training camp.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernie Mac

I've been in training for stardom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Bill Young

We're wearing out our troops, we're wearing out the equipment,

Mallory Jansen

Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.

Joan Hickson

I thought I was the wrong shape: that Miss Marple would be much fluffier than me, much more wearing shawls and things. But I was persuaded, and now, well - I can only do it my way.

Harry Graf Kessler

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Paul Kuschel

I would have been better off wearing nothing on at all.

Carolina Herrera

When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.

Charles Stross

I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

Laura Marano

I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

Diana DeGarmo

If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.