Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

P. J. O'Rourke

The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

Eileen Claussen

The study findings offer a blueprint for progress. But progress in the developing world will not build itself. The industrialized world has an important role to play in supporting reforms that will allow these benefits to accrue.

Steve Mullaney

The SSL blind spot and wide open door of port 443 on the firewall is yet another example of why enterprises should not allow users to connect directly to the Internet without going through a proxy. The Internet brings tremendous value, but it can also be a cesspool, introducing significant security risks to the business. With our new SSL proxy functionality, Blue Coat can close a major security hole for enterprises.

Andy Wallace

The team gave us a really good car despite the little practice time we had but we still don't have the straight-on speed we need. The rules still allow other manufacturers more of that speed. We could gain some of that back by taking off the wing but if you did that we'd have no grip - not a good idea. We're kind of stuck where we are right now; not bad but not great.

Peter Brimelow

The system won't allow special salaries for math and science teachers, who are sometimes said to be in short supply. It's hopeless.

Brian Cross

The threat of us being able to throw the football doesn't allow them to bring the secondary up to stop the run. They can't put eight or nine guys in the box. They have to defend us with seven, and with our line playing well and our backs, it's pretty difficult (for defenses).

Jeff Bower

The thing you try to do is create an atmosphere and a culture that will allow people to be successful, ... ... We've got great people in this organization who are really talented. I think the important thing in our position, in the front office, is to allow them to do their jobs and to be there to support them and help them.

Tim Burgess

The thing I'd hope all state employees keep in mind is that health care costs are going up dramatically. It's these kinds of modifications and changes to the plan that allow us to hold down the costs to the membership.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Dave Blood

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

David Wu

The business of America must be more than just business, and engagement must be through more than just the cash register... Real engagement sees the Chinese people as real people, people like us, people with aspirations, with hopes, people who aspire to walk the path of freedom.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

William Cullen Bryant

A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.

Ronald Reagan

Reagan is indisputably a part of America, and he may become a part of American history.

Wendy Smith

Real Life Drama: The Group Theater and America, 1931-1940.

Megan Smith

The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

Ernest Mandel

After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.

Ron Redmond

After more than a quarter of a century of misrule, much still remains to be done to rebuild the country. Overall, the conditions are in place for refugees to return to their country in safety and dignity.

Ben Hecht

Once you're online and you see its power, you never go back. What we want to make sure of is that the nation has 21st century infrastructure for information for low-income people.

Robert Pinsky

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think.

Lori Smith

We've seen a dramatic shift in the '80s and '90s and into this century with more political involvement by women, and I think that's a good thing.

Twyla Tharp

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

Steve Forbes

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

David Dreier

We want the Y2K problem to be the last crisis of the 20th century and not the first crisis of the 21st century.

Howard Osofsky

People's emotions are very frayed, ... And returning citizens will often be more irritable dealing with their own issues. People coming back will be under more pressure more stress.

Mark DiCamillo

The survey just looked at registered Latino voters. Had it included non-voters and non-citizens, the numbers likely would have been different.

Paul Hancock

Public officials have a responsibility to count and recognize the votes of all Floridians who voted in this presidential election, ... Factors such as administrative inconvenience, expediency or the limitations of vote-reading machines pale in comparison to protecting the voting rights of our citizens.

Fatos Nano

These elections are of extraordinary importance. This will be a society of free citizens no different from other European nations. Tomorrow will be a new day.

Candace Cameron Bure

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

Desiderius Erasmus

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

Dennis Prager

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

Dan Gillmor

Fewer citizens participated, they were less interested in collaboration with one another, and the response to our initiatives was underwhelming.

Bob Brown

The results speak for themselves. The citizens of the state of Utah understand that private clubs and taverns are different from hospitals and office buildings.

Tracy Mullin

This is going to be a great season for kids, ... Lots of hot toys out there. A lot of electronic toys, interactive toys. A lot of wonderful things for children.

Eva Simons

Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real.

Andrea Lewis

Now, the way in which we send that information will be by secure and encrypted electronic transfer.

Peter Lilley

Physical money possesses greater risk than electronic money or even gold.

John Ford

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

Bill Steiner

It's fast. It's easy. You don't run the risk of math errors. I can't think of a reason not to use electronic filing.

Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Robert Moog

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

Jose Leal

We really can't rely on electronic equipment. You have to rely on your experience and senses.

Ron Yoda

The theaters were the hardest hit, but to some extent all the stores got water intrusion.

Wang Zheng

The extent of the rate hike this time is fairly small. What is more important is whether or not more lies ahead. And even if there are further rate hikes, it is investment that will first be impacted, followed by consumption.

Laura McDowell

They do work to an extent in smoothing things out, but you have what you have.

Wendelin Wiedeking

When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.

Eve Ensler

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

Greek proverb

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

Malcolm Gladwell

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Pray God our greatness may not fail/ Thro' craven fears of being great.

George Weinberg

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Baha'u'llah

Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

Arthur Ashe

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Chris Noth

Mr. Big has been sticking to me, and that makes me uncomfortable. I know it's meant well when people stop me in the street and say, 'Hey, Mr. Big!' But I don't ever want to be identified by any part I've played once it's over.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

Andy Warhol

I want to be a machine.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Language is the machine of the poet.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

Richard McKenna

The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

Ray Bradbury

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Ray Bradbury

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Mark Zuckerberg

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

Max Euwe

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

Barbara Sher

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

Auguste Rodin

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature is stronger than education.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Blaise Pascal

When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Kurt Woerner

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

Bernie Ecclestone

I understand now that there may be some problems with that.

David Freeman

You're trying to put all of this in to solve problems you caused.

Scott Bullock

Blight 50 years ago entailed serious problems and neglect,

Richard Langford

Conceptually, I don't have any problems with this idea. It's just a question of where do we start and how do we get there.

Valentino Castellani

We are very satisfied and committed. We don't have any structural problems. Everything is working. ... We will have always some small problems to solve. What is important is to solve them quickly.

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Bob Bowlsby

I never would have taken the first step if I thought I was going to risk problems at Iowa. That was an important part of this process.

Kenneth Darby

Brodie kind of shocked me today. All I could do was just smile.

Serena Williams

I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.

Astro Teller

When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.

Hope White

I'll be very shocked if we didn't use all of it.

Karlie Kloss

Every single day I'm shocked.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Marcia Gay Harden

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

Ahmed Plummer

I would like to start. That's what I've been doing here, but that's totally up to the coaches.

Max von Sydow

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

Spencer Grammer

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

Peter Rodman

don't go to the latrine without voting in parliament. This is not helpful.

Alan Trammell

This year, if I'm voting, I'm voting for Colon.

Donald Trump

If you don't have voter ID, you can just keep voting and voting and voting.

Desmond Tutu

My vote is my secret.

Richard Trumka

A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders,

Sydney J. Harris

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

Robert A. Heinlein

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Rush Limbaugh

Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.

Tony Campolo

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.