Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Vecchio

Her loss will be felt not just here locally, but world-wide due to the critically endangered status of this species.

Matt Fidler

What ETS is hoping to do is test vocabulary in a different way under the umbrella of 'testing critical thinking' without the use of antonyms and analogies.

Tom Peterson

We've got to let ourselves play well at critical times in the match. Sometimes, we didn't even get swings.

Paul Anderson

I'm loving this kind of critical polarity. It's the first time it's happened to me and I'm actually getting off on it a little bit.

Tom Watson

I'm very grateful to have been able to make those critical putts at the right time. The greens tested your skill with the flat stick. I finally got used to in the last round.

Michael Robotham

I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.

John Koskinen

Information and the exchange of information is a critical part of being able to remediate Y2K problems worldwide.

Aaron Lazar

In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

Mark Friedman

increasingly uncertain outlook about revenue growth in the critical holiday season.

Richard Dawkins

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

Raymond Chandler

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Robin Wright

I just love getting dirty.

Walt Disney

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point--mine wouldn't be.

Vinod Khosla

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

Roseanne Barr

Don't call people names you dirty name caller you.

Warren Farrell

Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.

Zach Parise

I don't score highlight reel goals. They come from work, from getting into the corners, getting a little dirty.?

Walter Wriston

Risk is not a dirty word.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Valerie Plame

the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.

John Livingston

The food that we are sending out for the disaster response is food that we would normally distribute here to the food shelves and people of Minnesota, ... We're hoping that people in the state will step up and help us replenish those supplies.

Nizam Idris

It's not a disaster because you know this sector (pharmaceuticals) is very volatile. It's not a trend.

Lixion Avila

This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.

Gene Poston

Nothing was the same -- just like any disaster.

Rob Stevenson

The need for this just doesn't go away because of a natural disaster.

Donnie Smith

It's probably the largest weather disaster we've had in years.

Jan Egeland

The number one priority is to get to those who have nothing. If we don't, we will become a disaster within a disaster.

Bob Paduchik

Ken Blackwell is either a huge hypocrite or very incompetent.

Peter Greenaway

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.

Shimon Peres

It can't happen as long as there is still shooting. Either there is shooting or there are talks,

Steve Smith

He can play either position equally well, and I don't often say that about guards. I hear that and when I see most kids, I think they become one or the other. He can honestly play either. And that helps.

Richard Berner

Greenspan's remarks will be significant, either because of what he does say or what he doesn't say, ... They will move rates higher this year but the timing of that may have changed.

Brad McClellan

He should either be running for office or be an impartial elections officer and not try to fool the voters that he can be both.

Clint Hurdle

Hitting a Major League baseball. I wasn't that good at either one. I think I've got the marriage thing nailed down now and that took me three tries. I know I can't hit the fastball anymore.

Jerry Falwell

It could have gone either way, right to the last minute of the game. I think the players took something very positive from that game, that if they play up to their potential, they can be a competitive squad.

John Hobbs

It could have gone either way. It was pretty volatile there for a while. Thank God it didn't turn out to be a free-for-all.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Nariman Behravesh

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

William Whewell

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

Richard Francis Burton

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

Walter Huston

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

Mark Fields

Our path is not going to linear and smooth.

Don Brash

If you remember, that's when I suggested the unemployed could line up outside post offices each day for work.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Sam Marchio

What you have to remember is he's shown he can raise the money when he needs to.

Anthony Solomon

I thought we should give the money back to the fans.

Robert Kraft

I think when you spend up to $10 million, that's real money,

Joe Kasper

Whatever this costs, it is going to save us money in the end.

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Russell Banks

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Ruben Studdard

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

William Shockley

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

William Ellery Channing

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

Red Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Tucker Carlson

Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

Tupac Shakur

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

Tupac Shakur

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders, ... This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

Tony Espinoza

I'd like to give the seniors another opportunity to prove that we're better than we performed tonight.

Ron Chernow

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Travis Tritt

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

Rick Derringer

This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it.

Rex Stout

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

Regis Philbin

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

Reid Hoffman

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.