Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russel

Whether artificial man will be better or worse than the natural sort I do not venture to predict.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Armin Zoggeler

I took to the luge when I was very young, but I never imagined that it would become my passion. At 14, I was already competing on artificial tracks.

Alexander Vershbow

We are ready to negotiate on the nuclear issue right now. It's North Korea that's creating the artificial obstacle to progress.

Bob Hiester

We had two practices on grass this year. The rest of the time was in the gym. On an artificial surface field, we would be out there all year.

Barry Ritholtz

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

E. O. Wilson

I tell you, this course is on steroids, ... A good start is nice but, with a good round, you can pass about 60 guys. There is still a long way to go.

Mike Daboul

I tell the guys all the time there are many pieces to the puzzle here. Our pitching is pretty good, and they will get better with more game experience. I think offensively we will get better through the course of the rest of the season and again, that is where the depth of our team comes into play.

Sergio Garcia

I think I'm ready to win. Of course it would be great. This is what we play for.

Sarah Hall

I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.

Gary Anderson

I think Mike was looking to make a statement today, maybe get a little redemption. This course has treated him well and he knew he could shoot a low score here, even after the start he had.

Spike Jonze

Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.

Vince Carter

You just want to hear me say it. Of course there's adjustments, there's always adjustments. Teams put in new plays. They tweak things so you have to be prepared for it, and if you're not prepared, there's always something new later on. We could play them 20 times and you'd make adjustments 21 times. That's the way it goes.

Rich Beem

Guys skipping this event to go prepare for next week -- are you kidding? This is the perfect course to set up for Augusta.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Billy Childish

A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.

Aristotle Onassis

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

Dave Obey

I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

Stuart Cohen

E-mail is the primary source of viruses. So cutting off e-mail before midnight seems prudent.

Doris Lessing

A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?" In the same way, we never thought to ask, "How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?

Doris Lessing

Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

Don Williams

We need nearly every department, with the exception of police, fire and rescue, to look at what they can cut. Maybe there are some projects we need to put on hold.

Cristin Milioti

I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Ben Lindsey

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Glen Gulutzan

We couldn't win a puck battle. I thought our effort was fine, but we made some glaring mistakes and lost battles.

Chris Kapilovic

There's still a long way to go. There's a lot of work to be done. We're not at the level we were last year. We can get there. But it's going to take time and hard work. So far, these guys have responded well and put forth the effort to get that done. But there's still a lot more work left.

Dave Baseggio

We showed an excellent effort to make a great comeback.

Robert Greene

What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

Rajneesh

My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Stockwell Day

Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Paris Hilton

People think I'm stupid. But I'm smarter than most people.

Andrea McLean

People think I'm Snow White... the most boring person in the world!

Keith Smith

People think if you made that much money, then you're getting over on the system.

Richard Owen

People think Berlusconi is just clutching at straws.

Jeremy Kendle

People think because he's tall that he can't shoot the ball, but he can get on.

Jen Kirkman

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Camila Alves

A lot of times, drama around it is not for the worse but for the best in the long run. If we look at it that way, I have learned to find the best of it in most situations.

Carol Burnett

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

Alain de Botton

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

Charles Darwin

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

John Milton

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

Kevin Watkins

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

Marianne Williamson

Family... a group experience of love and support.

Jamaica Kincaid

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

Jim DeMint

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

Jenny Frost

I have the most amazing support network around me.

Glenn Beck

I want you [Sarah Palin] to know you have my support. But please look into protection for your family. An attempt on you could bring the republic down.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Francine Prose

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Kenny G

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.