Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

William Cavendish

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Barack Obama

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.

F. Sionil Jose

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

Antoine Halff

We have an economy that has shown signs of slowing. With energy prices at extremely high levels -- and now moving above those levels -- this is kind of a double whammy,

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

Imelda May

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Irwin Thomas

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

Zaha Hadid

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Evo Morales

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

Ellen Key

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Imelda May

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

Colm Keaveney

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

E. B. White

The police have the power to search people's homes, to make arrests, to take blood samples and so forth as long as they have 'probable cause' to suspect that a crime has been committed. That is a fairly low standard.

Joe Cole

The pigs weren't mummified and they were in these jars with blood and maggots crawling out of the ears and maggots crawling all over. We just did not think that was appropriate.

Paul Eenhoorn

From an actor's point of view, if you are watching something, and you see improv, you know it. Because of your experience, you just bloody know that wasn't written.

Patrick Chappatte

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

Tom McMahon

I'm sitting here in front of my computer screen trying to figure the bloody thing out.

William Shakespeare

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

William Shakespeare

And do so, love, yet when they have devised What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend, Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized In true plain words by thy true-telling friend; And their gross painting might be better used Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.

Isaac Brock

I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

Ian Watson

My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

Zhang Li

The overall relationship is strong, but trade and economic ties have lagged behind, especially compared to China-India trade.

Brian Harvey

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

Brewster Kahle

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Valentina Tereshkova

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

Shun Totani

The 10-year notes are reasonable to get in at these yield levels compared with a month ago.

Fabio Capello

We have an extremely competitive roster in terms of quality and quantity. And compared to last year we know each other better and have all been together from the first day of training camp.

Mark Zuckerberg

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content.

Zubin Mehta

Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

Bob Parker

We have very strict rules for the conduct on solicitation.

Peggy Noonan

There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.

Jonathan Tucker

Most of the inspectors, even though they have technical skills, are not experienced in conducting inspections, and they'll be on a very steep learning curve.

Jane Duffield

Most investigators conducting research make that determination themselves.

Stephane Dujarric

It is critical that those Iraqi groups who have complained about the conduct of the election are given a hearing.

Dave Bristow

We've talked with students and the teacher and are conducting an investigation, but so far we haven't found anything to back up the allegations that were made. What we found so far seems to support the teacher's allegations.

Janet Reno

We can and we should use existing laws to prosecute most unlawful conduct on the Internet, ... We must ensure that regulation of unlawful conduct on the Internet is treated in the same manner as off-line conduct.

Ira Glasser

The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a problem of immoral leadership. We have heard a lot about public morality and moral leadership in the last year. But very little of it focuses on the immoral conduct we're complaining about today.

Derek White

We wanted to highlight 'in the Red Zone' to reward kids for working hard and having the courage for strength where it counts at the point of sweat.

Chuck Hagel

John's a realist. John counts pretty well ... John's a very effective leader and politician, and mathematically you just can't get there.

African Proverb

Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given

Eidur Gudjohnsen

We got the three points and that's what counts at this time of the season.

Jim Erickson

We anticipated the spacecraft's star scanner would detect about 300 to 400 pulse counts of radiation, so imagine our surprise when the instruments showed Galileo had flown through 1,400 pulse counts,

Wavell Hinds

It feels nice and it is a privilege to don the maroon outfit in such a great milestone game and I hope I can take heart from the experience of such an opportunity and make every game that counts after a meaningful one.

Chris Burke

Nobody is more surprised than I am. At the same time, I've been in favorable counts and gotten good pitches.

Bill Doba

I would be lying if I didn't think that was in the back of our minds. It's like the preseason in the NFL but it's not. This game counts just like all the rest of them.

Pat Riley

If it's two to four weeks, then I'll be happy. He'll work very diligently to get it healthy. He'll stay in condition. Just as long as he's ready to play when it counts the most.

Tom Tylutki

That weapon was fired at least 20 times.

Al Horford

We were struggling on offense in the first half so I did whatever I had to do to get us going. I knew I had to get everyone fired up.

John Durham

Most of the N.C. militia men ran after they fired their first shot of the first line.

Doug Lowenstein

Microsoft fired the first salvo, if you will, in 2005, and the rest of the parties will join the battlefield in 2006.

Jeff Mitchell

You can get real fired up for the Saints. I mean, they knocked us out of the playoffs. We feel for what they're going through, but that shouldn't be an issue.

Daniel Briere

It fired up our will when we heard things like the more the series went on, the tougher it would go for us. Those were just motivation points for us.

Jamie Mayne

I think she was fired up and made about (injuring) her knee (in the first quarter).

Mark Carmon

Thousands and thousands of rounds were fired here during training.

Roger Sharp

(My teammates) have been waiting for me to do that all year. It got us relaxed and got the team fired up.

Michael McCabe

We're always doing internal reviews, ... This is our business. We take it very seriously. If there is a way to do it better, we do it. Safety and security are our number one priority.

J. J. Johnson

Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code. Taxation, basically. It's what tripped up Al Capone.

Mike Turner

He will not be rehired ... regardless, ... an internal personnel matter.

Katsuya Okada

The reform of Japan starts today. There is no tomorrow for the Koizumi LDP government, which spends all its time in internal power struggles.

Laila Robins

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Lao Tzu

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Allen Freeman

Our internal polling has been showing that we're up by 20 points.

Anthony Zinni

That decentralization was done so they insured they had control, ... I think it was done more for internal reasons and internal military problems they thought they might have than for any military preparations they had for us.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is an internal Russian problem to be solved between the Chechen people and the Russian federation.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Isabelle Arthur

Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.

Steve McManaman

I experienced the heat when I was playing for Madrid. If we went to places like Sevilla early on in the season it was unbearable. Usually you can feel it on pre-season tours in places like Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta. The humidity levels are unreal, but this is different, the first game of the World Cup.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

David Allen

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Arnold Rothstein

There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

Bill Bowerman

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

Michael Phelps

Nobody is going to put a limit on what I'm doing.

Bob Thomason

He's a role player on our team, but I think sometimes he limits his role more than he should.

Jim Silver

His return is a big positive for the industry. It will spur everyone on, especially in terms of pushing the limits of technology,

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

David Bell

The Astros aren't going to win the rest of the way. We have a chance.

Peter O'Toole

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Lee Humphrey

We've got some time to rest up. I think we'll be fine.

Larry Bowa

(Johnny) Damon and (Derek) Jeter won't need much coaching. They know how to run the bases. The rest of them will need a stop sign now and then.

Dwayne Hickman

Little did I know then that I would be tied to that role the rest of my life!

Robert Lang

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

Kerry Healey

I think I need to rest up for the big day.

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

Gunter Blobel

The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.

Stephen Manes

What's been revealed of Windows Vista is particularly sad.

Christopher Molineux

Sometimes things are most truly revealed by the illuminance of twilight

Jacki Weaver

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

Jeff Moss

Today (Tuesday) will be security review day for a lot of places,

Bob Combs

We reviewed it. We don't see it being used in our tournaments.

Tim Wagner

We have not had time to review it and have no comment.

Jonathan Diamond

We are disappointed in the verdict and will be reviewing our options.

Richard Head

Those who have been reviewing their statements have seen no unusual activity.

Stephane Dujarric

Her status may be reviewed after her rebuttal is received.

Madeline Albright

We were always willing, if they cooperated, to go to a comprehensive review

Anish Kapoor

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Michael Kirby

that are continually being developed, reviewed and prioritized.

Antoine Lavoisier

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

David Guetta

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

David Deutsch

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

David Deutsch

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Bryan Shelton

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

Agnes Macphail

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Arnold Bennett

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Bill Nye

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

Bill Watterson

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

Joe Potter

We've kind of snuck in there. But we keep improving, and we have throughout the season. As the year got longer, we got better.

Phil Harrison

It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage at all. Throughout our history, we have never been the first to market.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.