Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Mays

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

William Scott

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

William Scott

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

William Scott

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

William Scott

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

William Scott

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Whitey Herzog

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Whitey Herzog

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

Chuck Zito

One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.

Bonnie Bassler

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

Carl Sagan

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

Bill Bryson

Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.

John Gearhart

We could have made tremendous progress in getting these cells toward clinical application if federal funding had been available.

Peter Nygard

I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine was not able to cure her. If I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me.

Jesse Pichel

Micro fuel cells are years away from commercial deployment, but considerable R&D is underway funded in part by the military to power portable communications equipment in the field.

Ravi Chandra

We can pattern a surface with single-stranded DNA containing a specific nucleotide sequence, then coat cells with single-stranded DNA that contains a complementary sequence.

Austin Smith

We're already talking with the bio-technology and bio-pharmaceutical companies about taking these cells into screening systems for new drugs. Hopefully that will come to pass within two to three years.

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.

Gary Michiels

We've got our own power plant going. A house down the street has a generator, and we use a long extension cord to keep the refrigerators and fans going in 15 houses.

Silvio Berlusconi

I will try to have greater cordial relations with the United States...because it is thanks to that nation and the young lives it sacrificed that we were liberated from Nazi-Fascism.

Trent Nelson

Plus we're not going to have that same unity we had in high school. Now it's just Cord and Patch and Trent and Louie-and Jeremy's off on his own. It's tough but we need to make those friendships again, that's the only way to win.

Kenneth Brown

Because of where the discs rupture in these little dogs and because of the length of the spinal cord in dogs, they tend to put direct pressure either on the spinal cord in the back or the neck. They're not just painful nerve pressures, they're actually paralyzing injuries.

William Hearst

I don't have the umbilical cord Pop had with each paper.

Mekhi Phifer

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

Lyall Watson

Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.

Charles Givens

We got to looking around and there were extension cords running all over the business. The main electrical panel was open, didn't have a cover on it in the back room. Water was running down the wall into that electrical box. It was illegal wiring and very unsafe.

Beeban Kidron

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

Chris Crutcher

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

Scott Coffey

That was the strongest evidence in the case.

Russell Smith

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

Bob Stott

We had only circumstantial evidence tying him to the bombs. And our circumstantial evidence wasn't that good.

Tom Davies

We have to move ahead, ... There is evidence that dries up after a while.

Jay Greene

Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.

Bill Schultz

Why would she have done such a thing if she knew what she was doing. She never did anything else wrong. There's no evidence she had anything to gain.

Seth Shostak

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

Mike Ruddock

We have a lot of injuries but I still think we play some pretty sexy rugby.

Mats Sundin

We've had injuries before, but we have to play through them.

Jeff Bower

We have too many injuries to work on anything but PATs.

Ronnie Moore

Will has been unbelievably unlucky with injuries and it has been one after another.

Trevor Carritt

We have overcome injuries and sicknesses and wrestled real well at the state tournament. It's been a long season but we'll remained focused.

E. B. White

You just can't prepare for the injuries that we've had. Its also pretty tough when you also have young kids who haven't played at this level get thrown out there to play baseball.

Frank Gore

I'm still making my cuts. The injuries made me stronger and more patient. I feel like I might be a better and stronger runner.

Craig Fugate

We haven't had any serious injuries or loss of life, and we'd like to keep it that way,

Eric Musselman

We're a little surprised, because of the injuries and having so many new faces. We still haven't had our whole team together.

Alice Cooper

There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

Nina Blackwood

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

Jennifer Grey

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

Cassandra Clare

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

Matthew McGrory

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Henry Rollins

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Kathleen Blanco

We're dumping things into the hole, just to stem the tide.

Greg Schiano

Sometimes you make a play like that interception in the end zone and you stem the tide and find a way to win. We interfered.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

Phil Fontaine

We can't be treated as secondary. We can't be an after-thought,

Marc Bulger

We treated this like a regular-season game. Whether they did or not, who knows?

John Macdonald

We treated this (bar) just like any other licensee.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Gwendoline Christie

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.

Cass Sunstein

Rehnquist really was treated unfairly, ... A person is a career, not a moment.

John Timoney

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Matt Cookson

We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Neil Tennant

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.