Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruth Rendell

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

Arlen Specter

Institutionally, the court is on the spot as to the whole overtone of appearing to be too political or ideological.

Lorraine Shinn

All of a sudden, all of these cashier's checks start appearing and money orders. To me, money orders equal cash.

Bob Jones

The idea is to retain as much of the historic material and character of the property, so it basically doesn't turn into appearing something other than it was 50 years ago. Often times, changes will occur toward the rear of the property, things that aren't seen, so the character doesn't change.

Lord Byron

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

David McMillan

The average international consumer is eating more expensively. With really good restaurants appearing at the higher end of the average price range, but still within reach, we're seeing that people are eating out more frequently as well.

Barry Long

Nothing makes man more unhappy than the untruth appearing as the truth.

Robert Ctvrtlik

It's a very difficult decision, not just for our hemisphere but for Asian cultures as well. There was a solid faction that didn't want the IOC appearing that they would flip on issues.

Jill Lepore

Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.

Jeremy Siegel

I was looking back on when Nixon resigned and actually the market held up very well around those days. It began to tank actually after Ford came in as president and the economic news began to dim.

Drew Gilpin Faust

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.

Thomas Galvin

I think we're returning to the inflationary worries which is more painful for interest rate-sensitive (companies) and less an issue for technology. It's a similar rotation that began yesterday (Thursday). People are concerned about inflation.

Roxane Gay

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

Shaun Treacy

It goes back 2 or 3 years when we began to see quite a large growth in our event business including meetings, conferences and banquets. Our whole business grew quite dramatically over the past couple of years and we felt we were running out of space.

JD Salinas

I thank Mr. Garcia for a good race and for bringing Hidalgo County this far. I've already began researching several issues that I consider critical to residents here, and I am ready to get to work.

Eric Matthews

It has been a privilege to work with Nate the last four years. He began turning our program around and the kids respect him. The number of kids out for the team says a lot.

Lindy Ruff

He's built for the game. He's got good tools at the back end and he's a very good defender. We've never given him a set role. He began to play well on the power play and he gained a lot of confidence from that. That confidence came from him knowing that he would be in the lineup night after night.

Kristy Swanson

After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.

John Flaherty

He's a very detail-oriented guy. For this job, he's got a great combination of old-school work ethic - knowing how to put the time in - and the new generation that uses computers and video to get as much information as possible.

Ian Pearson

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

Futurama

In the future, ... people will live twice as long, computers will die twice as fast.

Charleen Scott

If Jewel Quest was a person, I would punch them in the effing face.

Larry Buchanan

I'm expecting to get a couple more years out of these computers.

Jessie Evans

I'm disappointed about having to start the conference on the road and then finish on the road. The schedule-makers have to get together because that shouldn't happen. Not with the size of the conference and the computers we have to work things out.

Bill Gates

The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.

James Comey

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.

Grant Saligari

All in all it is a reasonably good story. The whole appliances, computers, electrical segment has been pretty resilient, and the franchise model they have got is a pretty robust one.

Douglas Coupland

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.

Virginia Postrel

I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life.

George Shiffler

In some sense, the desktop market is being hit with a double whammy.

Paul Otellini

In recent years, the notebook has seen great evolution, but the good old desktop has not. But the desktop still has an enormous installed base; desktops are more than 70 percent of all PCs sold, about 85 million units per year.

Rob Enderle

There isn't a player on the desktop that's at greater risk of losing share to IBM here than Microsoft,

James Governor

This is a very powerful tool, potentially with a bidirectional metaphor. It's indexing all this stuff on your desktop and doing something on the Web. Who's to say that's not a potential breach?

Bill Watkins

Three years ago, this room would have all been desktop PCs,

Adhir Kalyan

I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.

Ross Anderson

Something that goes on the desktop has to be a simpler and more structured tool with fewer configuration options. It has to be running in the background.

David Colburn

No, ... We looked at five factors. The most important was securing relative parity with MSN on desktop distribution.

Patrick Mahoney

This puts Yahoo Mail on par with desktop programs like Outlook and Lotus Notes, and offers a better experience for users.

Wayne Taylor

I think it may have started as an electrical fire because I started smelling something in the cockpit,

Don Arnold

It's looking like more of an electrical issue, but we are still waiting for the official word from the state fire marshal.

Lee Kreindler

Evidence is there that a structural, mechanical or electrical failure of some kind led to the explosion.

Terry Capps

They are doing the electrical work for the fuel tanks this week or next.

Martin Chalfie

We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.

Rob Williams

This is great news. This is great news for us and it is also great news for the region's electrical energy supply.

John Trudell

What I view life like is about energy. Everything is about energy - everything. We physically are little units of electrical energy, and we vibrate and project electromagnetic thought.

David Mica

You don't invest money in electrical wiring and not do anything with the wiring.

Paul Thompson

We had a major electrical fault last night which meant we couldn't produce the paper as we usually do.

Karl Hobbs

His status is at the point where he's getting up and down the floor a little bit. And we're hoping that he'll be able to play on Thursday.

Jim Compton

We tore everything out of here. All that was left when we started was the floors and the walls.

Rich Basirico

I thought we got up and down the floor really well, and our shot selection was excellent.

Doc Rivers

He's been great. He's been in a zone on the floor, off the floor with teammates. He's just been in a zone all the way around.

Rick Forney

He has a great sense for the game, he has a great sense for when the opponent is off-balanced. His vision on the floor is tremendous and he showed that.

Ron Phipps

A house with lots of small rooms may not do as well as one with larger rooms. People like open floor plans.

Michael Freeman

You can't even get people to acknowledge that there's a problem. That's what floors me.

Joe Layne

You can talk about his on the floor game all you want to, but off the floor, he has led very positively in a great manner.

Rickey Paulding

The main thing I took away from the Pan Am Games was the importance of being aggressive, every single night, ... Our goal this year is to stay together and leave it all on the floor every time, even in practice.