Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Kornblau

King Kong is one of those rare cinematic achievements that reminds us of the truly magical power of movies. From the first frame, Peter Jackson and his team take us on an unforgettable adventure that not only thrills, but also touches us on a deep, emotional level. We are extremely proud to be able to bring this one-of-a-kind film to home entertainment audiences.

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

Jay Blanton

He values merit-based pay systems that emphasize and recognize individual achievement and rewards it, rather than a collective, regulatory scheme that does not.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Charlie Coles

This was a great accomplishment for the seniors, to go out with a win. They're second to Kent, and it's a close second.

Bob Ford

I think Will has done a superb job and the team has too, obviously. It's a step in this process for a school that went from (Division) III to II and I, and this is not a culmination by a long shot, but to get into the dance is a tremendous accomplishment, when you look at where the basketball team was four years ago.

Robert Clarke

It has been another great year for Honda in the IRL. We've faced increased competition from both Toyota and Chevrolet this season, along with the challenges of opening of our new facility in Santa Clarita, California. This achievement is a tribute to the tremendous hard work and dedication of all our associates at HPD, our teams and drivers, and our technical partners.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

Colby Armstrong

He doesn't like to talk about it. He wants to focus on playing. But it would be a great accomplishment for an 18-year-old kid - and, with all the things we've been through this season, it's great we still have something to shoot for.

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Brett Johnson

It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially.

Richard P. Feynman

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Russell Baker

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

William Wordsworth

We murder to dissect.

William James

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

Walker Percy

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Sally Ride

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Walter Pater

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

Cayden Boyd

I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law & Order' set in the future, and I have a very dramatic role in that. I have to sob and weep and wail. It was very hard. When it was done, I was like, 'OK, time to watch 'SpongeBob!''

Carmen Electra

I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.

Andrew Coates

The knock-on effects to the International Space Station are quite dramatic ... (long delays) could potentially be a show-stopper for the whole thing.

Gellert

You can't listen to the news or watch the dramatic images of the effects of Katrina and not want to lend a hand,

Joanne Kelly

It's a fine line we walk on 'Warehouse 13.' We really earn our dramatic moments, but our tongues are always firmly in our cheeks. If we take ourselves too seriously, we get into trouble.

Ron Meyer

There's a shrinking number of dramatic stars who can guarantee an opening-weekend audience. They must be in the right vehicle at the right time.

Mike Hall

I was looking for a fastball in and something I could drive. It was pretty much in the exact spot I took my warm-up swings.

Todd Simmons

I wouldn't be able to give an exact time, but I'd say if you start listening to a song on the radio, you're probably going to finish that song on the same light.

Mike McCormick

Jorge Posada is a genuinely loving man -- the exact opposite of this so-called 'fan,'" ()

Joe Clabby

I think it's a huge step in the right direction. It's exactly what they should be doing.

Kirk Smith

It always does increase in the winter, we don't know exactly why.

Matthew Johnson

He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist. He took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.

Matthew Johnson

He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist, ... He took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.

Todd Pletcher

He was a fresh horse and ran exactly the way we wanted him to.

Robert Dallek

He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal.

John Eccles

I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.

Roberto Unger

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

Zoe Heller

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

Source Unknown

I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.

Tom McDonald

In the seven years of the Munsterlander Club's existence, we have had six of these get-togethers in some centrally located, upper-Midwestern state,

Bhagwan Rajneesh

The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival...because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.

Emile M. Cioran

An existence transfigured by failure.

Judith McNaught

Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen

Maimonides

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Orlando Bloom

Right where i left you... Not where i left you?

Haroon Lorgat

He is well established and respected as a senior member of the squad.

Jim Moran

I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.

Brad Dayspring

I think a lot of members will be supportive of the legislation.

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Michael Hopkins

He was never a member of this organization! That's all I have to say about ... Pete McGowan.

Hut Landon

I'd like to uncover some worthy recipients and I'd like it if the member booksellers nominated programs in their communities.

Westbrook Pegler

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

John Thain

pleased with the resolution of this litigation, which allows our members to vote as planned on the proposed merger on Dec. 6.

Publilius Syrus

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

Rick Riordan

Percy frowned "You have a feast for tuna?

David Gallagher

I'm more into beats than rhymes.

Soren Kierkegaard

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I have always been a pencil.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Tricia Helfer

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Jonathan Schwartz

I want to see most of the planet online.

Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Bill Gates

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

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Alex Van Halen

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

Alex Van Halen

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Larry Harris

Then she starts pointing towards me and shooting and I was shooting back to her.

Tim Ritchey

That is the race I've been pointing for.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Carly Rae Jepsen

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

Paloma Faith

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Ovid

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Don Franklin

We spotted them their runs. We were not sharp, not making the routine plays.

Mike Wilson

The routine has pretty much stayed the same.

Barbara Turner

We kind of have a routine going and it's actually worked out pretty well for us.

Kelvin Frazier

There's never a routine traffic stop. Everything is always different. You're not going to run into the same situation twice.

Dominique McElligott

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Ed Wade

I think we need some space at this point,

Jack Berry

Hopefully, we'll be able to backfill that space.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Robert Crippen

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

Robert Crippen

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Rebecca West

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Rick James

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.

Viola Spolin

Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Riccardo Muti

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Sarah McLachlan

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Nelson Mandela

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Marion Cotillard

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

Grady Sizemore

That's what you play for. You play all year in a lot of games. This is the spot you play for.

Grady Sizemore

That's what you play for. You play all year, a lot of games. This is the spot you play for. We know what we can do. We know what we have to do every day. We just worry about ourselves.

David Bentley

That's my spot - in the corner. I was on my way here. My back would have been right there.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

William Cowper

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Steve Davis

It's going to be a tough task as they are two very tough games,

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Oswald Chambers

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Julia Quinn

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

Stanislav Grof

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.