Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Adams

Hard data is behind boundary changes. It is not an arbitrary decision at all.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

James Salter

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.

Kate Chopin

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

Brian Billick

As a coach, there are a lot of things, personally, I may or may not like or would not personally do - not necessarily may be my style, ... But you have to be very careful about inhibiting the passion for this game in an arbitrary way. I've got a very diverse group of players economically, socially, racially, geographically, with a number of different upbringings.

Joseph Campbell

There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.

Lynne Truss

The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

Frank Darabont

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

Jeremih

R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.

Bill Carter

The documents remain the property of the U.S. government, and contain information such as sensitive sources and methods. Under the law, no private person may possess classified documents that were illegally provided to them.

David Albright

That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and they are just going to start spouting classified information to somebody who is an enemy of the United States.

Jeff Conine

It's disappointing and frustrating. Any time you get a collection of guys like this together and know you have what it takes to make the postseason and you don't, it's classified as a disappointment.

Bill Harlow

It's a problem because it was a willful misuse of government computer systems and done in a way to try to hide from system administrators. We have determined it does not involve the loss of classified information.

Trent Duffy

The leaking of classified information is a serious issue.

Donald Rumsfeld

And as I understand it, the Judiciary Committee preferred to have an open hearing on a classified matter, and therefore the department declined to participate in an open hearing on a classified matter,

William Doyle

There were a lot of classified documents and what have you that the defense has been able to read, and I want to see what's submitted in court. I'm concerned that there's only one person that's being tried, and I'd like to see all the people that failed us being held accountable.

Wayne McCants

Right now they are classified as an exotic.

Scott Skiles

I'm pretty sure Larry invented the game. I'm pretty sure about that.

Darin Strauss

I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.

Kevin Bleyer

Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws.

Matt Thomas

As long as they invented football, I'd be OK.

Will Rogers

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

Alex Ebert

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

Tony Hawk

When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

Mathieu Amalric

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

Ronald Reagan

You are right, ... We didn't have those things when we were young. We invented them.

Joseph Castelo

It should not strengthen the position of those with a preconceived notion about terrorists.

Greg Stein

The notion of packaged products is really going to go away.

Ray Allen

It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls.

David Fish

This is the notion of personalization at the intermediary level.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Dolly Wells

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Lalit Modi

It wanted specific and later-stage matches, presumably the semi-final and final, which was uncalled for.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Mahatma Gandhi

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

Clint Hurdle

He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

George Herbert

You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.