Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Colton

The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm

Johann Lamont

When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.

Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Alan Stern

Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the formation of our solar system.

Kelly Brownell

One of the brightest thinkers in our field, he produced fundamental changes in the way the world thought about issues of human abilities. Remarkably productive, but always with time to share a laugh and wisdom with those younger than him, Seymour has made a very real difference.

David Meadows

One of her teachers said she was one of the brightest students she'd had in 20 years. She was so strong in math and science. She excelled.

Juan Maldonado

I think they are the brightest students I've ever taught.

Terry Wogan

Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.

Dave Carlson

Most of the functions of today's cars are computer controlled, leading not only to much higher price tags, but also for technicians with computer skills and excellent diagnostic abilities. By encouraging the brightest high school students to pursue education and training in this field, we are ensuring the country will have qualified technicians in the years to come.

Margo Lewis

He'd been ill for a while and was forced in 2005 to take a hiatus from performing.

Doug Heller

The only thing more shocking than these profits is the prices that motorists are being forced to pay at the pump. It's hard to imagine that these numbers won't rattle the cages pretty severely.

Richard Hamilton

I thought we were great defensively. We pressured the ball, got in passing lanes, forced everything baseline. That's what we wanted to do tonight. We weren't worried about our offense. We wanted to come out and try to make a statement.

Ron Carey

I think working people have been taking it on the chinlong enough, ... It's acrime that they have forced our members into a strike.

Gary Knapp

We took residents completely out of this project. No residents will be forced to hook up the sewer.

Tom Wright

I think we got something accomplished. I think we forced them into this.

David Murdoch

I think we just placed our stones better today. We never made a messy shot. We forced a lot of pressure on Canada.

Tage Clausen

He was not forced out. He's on vacation, that's all.

Mark Capasso

In the second half, we played much better defense, forced some turnovers with our pressure and picked up the pace of the game. In the first half, we played the game at Plainfield's pace.

William Farmer

It's a lot of work, but this is the kind of thing you have to do when you put a new program in; it's just inevitable and you learn to live with it and do what you need to do and move on.

Robert Towne

There must have been something inevitable about it because we got it done. I lived with (the book) for 20 years when I didn't write (the adaptation), and when I did write it, I lived with it for the next 10, 12 years.

Bob Lutz

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Katrina Kelner

Something like this is probably inevitable for most journals.

Jay Farrar

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

Jorge Chabat

With all the money and power of the drug cartels, it was inevitable the AFI would become corrupted.

Terry Gough

I don't know what it is. Recruiting is crazy.

E. B. White

When we recruit running backs, we recruit big backs,

Carl Forti

To us, it's much more important to recruit someone who can win,

Dan Mullen

A recruit may say one thing to you, then tell someone else something totally different.

Dick Peecher

She's very loyal. They were the first school to recruit her.

Brian Carlwell

My visit was good, and I just wanted to get the recruiting over with.

Harvey Milk

My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you.

Jon Heacock

We don't always get everyone we recruit, and we don't recruit everyone. I would say we took in over one thousand DVD's, videos and CD-ROMs of players.

Robert Carlyle

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

Sara Sheridan

Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

Winston Churchill

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

Samuel Johnson

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

Ewan McGregor

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

Ambrose Bierce

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Goldwin Smith

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

Hugh MacDiarmid

Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

Hugh Laurie

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Mara Wilson

I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Ogden Nash

When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.

Marty Schottenheimer

We still could have shut them out and won by four.

Shi Zhengrong

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables.

Shaun Cody

It's painful. It's really frustrating, and it makes you want to shut it down. You want to, as a player, say 'I can't take this no more.' But I'm a professional.

Kevin Roy

Sunday at 6 p.m., we shut it down.

Brandon Rush

It just shut them up. You lost, what more can you say?