Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans Blix

We have not seen a serious effort on the Iraqi side ... or evidence that would clear up the question marks.

Cheryl Everall

We haven't heard anything back yet, but that's why we're speaking publicly now. I think this is an issue of importance not only to clear our name but to demand justice for this family.

Trent Duffy

The president has made clear that he was not satisfied with the federal response. That is why he ordered a comprehensive 'lessons learned' report and plans to work aggressively to implement improvements to our disaster response plans by the start of hurricane season.

Scott Bleier

Those are the segments that have the most powerful organic growth going forward for the next two to three years, minimum, ... You have to steer clear of the very highly-speculative small-cap technology names, those stocks that have been around for a long time and have reinvented themselves over the last year as Internet companies.

Maxim Medvedkov

We'll do our utmost in order to complete the negotiations this year. By the autumn, I think we'll have a clear understanding of whether we can do it or not.

Rick Fried

Those make it pretty clear that it's from the raw sewage.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Unfortunately the picture is still hazy and not very clear as to the scope of the program and the nature of the program.

Richard Engel

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

Raf Simons

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Donna Favors

When we show concern for the happiness in others, we ultimately enhance the happiness in ourselves.

Mike Flowers

Naturally, it hurt our pocketbooks. But we knew it was coming, so we saved some extra funds. Our concern now is how quickly it will come back.

John Gannon

I have a concern that density may not be as good a fit for Boise.

John Morse

That was enough of a public health concern to get it in the dictionary right away. Now, one of two things could happen. Either we'll never hear about SARS again, and if so, I've wasted three lines of type in the dictionary. Or it will come back, and everyone will go to the dictionary in a time of need to see how SARS is defined.

Tom Golisano

It's concerning to me. I'm very interested in the topic. How I would get involved is undetermined at this point.

Bobby Shelton

They can contact our traffic management division at 455-6100. We'd take their concerns and issues and put it on a list to study.

Edward Deak

It's just another source of concern as to the strength of the Connecticut economy. The state has been slow to recover the jobs that were lost during the downturn.

Mike Gowrylow

It raised a major concern for us. We don't think federal judges should determine the applicability of state sales and hotel and motel taxes.

Tony Crescenzi

It's a little surprising because I thought there'd be a little more concern over weakness in dollar/yen.

Martin Evans

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bids the tempest cease, And, leads her to a port of peace; And on, the lonely pilot steers Through the lapse of future years.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now

Arnold Palmer

I just hope I can keep him from being embarrassed by my poor golf.

Duane Lunak

I just hope he's there when I get there.

Ann Collins

I just hope he's sent away for as long as it's possible to send him away.

Shatha Atiya

I just hope he'll realize what he put us through.

Joe Torre

I just hope he earns it a little more tonight,

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Ronald Reagan

I am not a scientist.

Paul Dirac

When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

Ovid

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.

Lord Kelvin

I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

Abraham Flexner

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Sydney Smith

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.