Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Anderson

I was kind of under the impression that very little research was meaningful in medicine ? that their work was frivolous. Every time I was able to deny a project, I felt I had gained a victory that these animals didn't have to be used in research.

Martin Chalfie

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

Lanny Davis

Knowing those animals are locked up, not able to do any more harm that's one satisfaction. I do not look at them as humans. Humans don't do that.

Amy Davis

Kids are just interested in animals. But it's much more than that. They have certain responsibilities they have to meet, and many want the challenge. It teaches real-life skills. Sports works for some people, something like this works for others.

Georgia Zern

It also helps people learn to appreciate the animals more if they're involved in something like this.

Kenneth Grahame

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

Kenneth Grahame

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.

James Elliott

Have children in the home suggest songs from school. Hold a contest for the happiest song, the best song about animals or another topic. Give ribbons or certificates to the best songs.

Kofi Annan

Hard as it will be, we must find ways of structuring that co-existence, or we will never be able to stop viruses migrating from animals to us -- and to our children,

Jay Lynch

It also seems far-fetched. People with osteoporosis have brittle bones and are prone to bone injuries. ... By its very nature, osteoporosis places one in the position of potential harm occurring. To say that a facility is negligent because osteoporosis creates falls that result in broken bones is illogical. Denying care for a resident's broken bones is harmful.

Willie Anderson

Guys have to realize that it took us 15 years to get here. It's not going to be easy for us. They don't start throwing you bones for another five, six, seven years. We've got to come to work, take the shovel, and break up the rocks with the sledgehammer. It's not going to be easy. It's just the hand that we've been dealt.

Mark Parrish

Guys have as much confidence in Garth as they do in Rick. (Garth) keeps those old bones limber on the bench, so he's ready.

Mike Babcock

He's cut around the eye. I guess the bones are fine. They sent him for a CAT scan or whatever, but it sounds like he's just fine and everything's precautionary, so that's real positive.

Mike Babcock

He's cut around the eye, ... I guess the bones are fine. They sent him for a CAT scan or whatever, but it sounds like he's just fine and everything's precautionary, so that's real positive.

Jason Varitek

When he walked back to the dugout like that, you knew it hit him good. Those bones are delicate. They break easily.

Shayna Richardson

I went into the first surgery where they cut me from ear to ear and they cut my face down and they took out all the fractured egg-shelled bones and put in steel plates.

Robert Heaney

Unless we constantly replenish our supply of calcium, drop by drop, our bones become thinner from depleting our calcium savings account. It's like living off your principal instead of your interest. It's not smart, and it puts you at risk for osteoporosis.

Robert E. Lee

He loves his sailors, he loves his Navy, no bones about that, ... He never expects anything in return. That's what I love about him.

Dax Maier

I was just a little scared because, one, what if I miss it; two, what if I slip, I might fall into the river. And so I just kept on looking up and got directions, and then next thing you know I was on the gondola and they brought us down.

Chadd Moore

James brought him to me. I saw he wasn't paying no attention, so I just took a chance and stole the ball.

Kathleen Blanco

Katrina and Rita brought our people and our economy to its knees.

Jane Meyer

Just say we brought more of a pink flavor to the visitor's locker rooms.

Stephen Nichols

Joseph got so close, and it was a great match and pretty even. He brought it home and wrestled smart.

Keith Johnson

John brought it out front and I crashed the net. I was yelling for the puck and he got it over to me.

E. Hicks

John has brought a new level of professionalism to the Texas Rangers over the last four years. During his tenure the organization has improved on the field at the major league level while enhancing the minor league system.

Matt Williams

John has been brought in to learn about international preparation and at this stage it is just part of his development. But we would be looking for him to be knocking on the door of international selection in the near future.

Troy Glaus

J.P. has brought in pitchers and hitters to help out and that's just what we're going to try and do. We're going to try to put this team back to the level it's been before and the level it deserves to be.

Wallace Stegner

We are fossils in the making.

Rebecca Solnit

There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.

Mark Norell

These fossils are things we predicted would be there but seriously in my lifetime I never thought we were going to find them.

Richard Hulbert

It's likely that we will find over 100 individual skeletons. No fossil site in the world has ever been like that.

Pierre Loti

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

Lee Iacocca

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

Dan Gebo

They don't all look alike. There are some very different shapes, with implications of how these fossils walked.

Charles Darwin

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

Richard Brautigan

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

Yoshinori Ohno

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

Immanuel Kant

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

Tatsuyuki Kawasaki

In the long term this is going to be a setback for the market ... It is likely to gradually lessen trade by individual investors.

Amy Smith

I just kind of got gradually better and better, and then one day it clicked, and I did pretty well ever since, I'm going to miss it too much after I leave (Manheim Township).

Barry Long

The true in the false, gradually strips away all self-delusion until all that remains is pure being.

Larry Wilcox

It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.

Albert Camus

At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate, ... He is stronger than his rock.

Al Madrigal

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

Santonio Holmes

Knowing the history of all the receivers that have made a legacy here and in the NFL, I wanted to be a part of that trend.

Vinny Testaverde

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Trey Clark

I talk about it every year at our team meeting. Their legacy and history is being passed down.

Paul Azinger

Greensboro's got too much history for the Tour to pull out, ... You're telling me you're going to pull the plug on a tournament that's been around for as long as this one has? That Sam Snead won (eight) times? I'd like to think the PGA has some loyalty and better sense than that.

Phil Angelides

has come down on the wrong side of history.

Thomas R. Insel

We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Jostein Gaarder

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Steve Earle

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Annelise Hoffman

I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

John Tracy

Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.

Maxwell Anderson

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

Aminatta Forna

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

John Ashcroft

I think it is always very important for us to take those kinds of requests very seriously,

David Sanborn

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values.

Jan Johnson

We talk about all kinds of lady things.

Debra Lee

I was working on all kinds of projects. Every six months we were starting something new.

David Marais

We have to be open-minded and look at all kinds of possibilities.

Ron Prince

I don't even talk about those kinds of things.

Kelly Kennedy

Our arson investigators have worked in all kinds of weather.

Ichiro Suzuki

Physically I'm fine. All I have to do is get my timing back, those kinds of things. Physically it's no problem at all.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Flavio Briatore

I was looking at the No. 1. That's the only thing I was looking at.

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Dan Bonner

Just looking at the process, and seeing how things worked, I just thought that I would like to get involved.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Omar Sharif

Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.

Renzo Piano

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Troy Polamalu

There's so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check them out. And the food is excellent, too!

Robert Smithson

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

Robert Smithson

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Roger Caras

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

Vivienne Westwood

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

Virginia Woolf

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

Werner Herzog

If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

Wayne White

Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.

Tammy Loew

I think it is perfectly natural for people to want to take a break.

Jeff Sessions

has the very natural qualities to make a superior judge.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Fred Thacher

He's done well for us, especially considering that not his natural position.

Paul Budde

I think the natural share price is between $3.70 and $3.80.

Miguel

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Richelle Mead

I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

Reinhold Niebuhr

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

Friederike Boszko

I want to find the time sequence of events, which I still don't know.

Geena Davis

Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence.

Elizabeth Blackburn

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

Tom Stoppard

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

George Raft

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

David Liss

I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.

Marguerite Young

I like Gertrude Stein, and spent two weeks with her at the University of Chicago.

Source Unknown

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Richard P. Feynman

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

William Whewell

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

Samuel Johnson

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Virginia Woolf

Theories then are dangerous things.

Walter Lang

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Wendell Berry

We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.

Henry Rollins

In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.

Manly Hall

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

James Patterson

What you have to understand is that Michael's film isn't really a documentary. It's a portrait,

Sen. Tsutsui

I think it's important for residents to understand what they're getting for their $40 million.

Charles Jackson

I think a lot of us don't understand circumstantial evidence.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Leonard Hamilton

He's getting a better understanding of his strengths.

Johnny Damon

Hopefully, they cheer. If not, I understand because I'm wearing the Yankees uniform.

Mike Petersen

I don't know (the family). But it didn't take long to understand their predicament.