Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tig Notaro

As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.

Errol Morris

There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

Freddie Roach

Mayweather likes to say he is better than Sugar Ray Robinson, but I think it is more important for him to keep the zero on his record than it is to fight Manny. We hope the opportunity comes for a fight with Mayweather, but Manny is going to continue to fight, even if it means moving up in weight to go after nine titles.

Frank Oz

I'm always amused that people zero in on one thing, and it's the wrong thing to zero in on, but nevertheless, the reason they do that is because the voice is what they know - the voice represents everything about the character, that's why.

Chris Hadfield

When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one. At best, you can be a zero. But a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. And you have to be competent, and prove to others that you are, before you can be extraordinary. There are no short-cuts, unfortunately.

Chris Hadfield

In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.

Hans Blix

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

Herman Cain

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

Jillian Michaels

Fat is merely stored energy. It is a physical state, nothing more and nothing less. It implies zero about your value as a person in this world.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Alfred Korzybski

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

Alfred Korzybski

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Alexander Alekhine

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Aldo Leopold

In wildness is the salvation of the world,

Tom Reilly

We do need to increase our energy supply. There's a right way to do things and there's a wrong way to do things.

Norbert Ore

While energy prices and the impact from Hurricane Katrina are major concerns, the manufacturing sector has regained significant momentum,

Jeff Hawkins

We played today with unbelievable energy. This was the toughest week of the year. We needed a win to get us out of a funk of our two losses.

Randy Carlyle

We had lots of energy early. Lots of things went our way.

Craig Manning

We had a lot of positive energy today and the girls supported each other through the entire match.

Ben Gordon

We had a lot of energy to start the game, but then we just leveled off. We fought all the way to the end, but just couldn't get the win.

Kevin Young

It does take away all the distraction and all the negative energy around us. We're just going to leave town and try to get a good win.

John Little

It does raise your energy level. To finally get to this point, where you're playing at home and being ranked, you really can't take that for granted.

Joe Barton

I tell my environmental friends that they have won, ... Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is looked at from an environmental perspective.