Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

If gravity were somewhat stronger or weaker, stars wouldn't exist, and neither would you. And the same can be said of other constants of physics. Several have to be 'just right.'

John Portman

The definition of the design problem comes from understanding the essence of the variables, but the solution evolves through the application of constants, principles of design that hold true in every case. The resulting design should be a marriage of the constants and the variables.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HASH, x. There is no definition for this word --nobody knows what hash is.

Richelle Mead

Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.

Tryon Edwards

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Truman Capote

Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.

Robert Penn Warren

In separateness only does love learn definition.

Robert M. Pirsig

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

Saul Bellow

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

Warren Farrell

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

Rick Yancey

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Russell Smith

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Jeff White

Knowing what we know now, we would have designed it differently.

Gary Bardini

I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.

Phillip Bloch

I think it's moving forward, I love to see designers mature and I think they did a great job. We know that they can do denim, so it was nice to see them do something else.

Beth Young

I always do landscape design with the functional needs of the homeowners foremost in my mind.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.

Lois Huff

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

Maya Elhalal

GUI (Graphical User Interface) is always intuitive to those who design it.

Townes Van Zandt

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Russell Baker

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

Rebecca Miller

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Samuel Johnson

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Will Smith

Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.

Walter Bagehot

The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

Rodney Carrington

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

Rod Serling

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Alan Trammel

He wants to play, ... We're probably the ones who have been holding him back a little bit, but we have to.

Ted Cottrell

He knows when you have to hold back now. He's reacting a lot more to where the tackle is going and making his move, rather than preplanning like he did last year.

Sheila Nevins

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

Gore Vidal

God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.

Colin Falls

He's just making one move and not thinking about it. I think sometimes he holds onto it and over-analyzes. He catches and makes his move (and) that opens us up on the outside.

Jennifer Schack

Hold on to your hat. The winds will pick up for the afternoon.

Josh Hall

I think that people actually just like to hold on to the map.

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Will Ferrell

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

Richard Pryor

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Saul Bellow

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

William Zinsser

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

Wang Jianlin

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

W. Clement Stone

When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you.

William Lloyd Garrison

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Tristan Tzara

In principle, I am against principles.

Wendell Berry

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Ellen G. White

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Jeff Berg

I think in time, once the production catches up with demand, that this won't be a problem anymore,

Igor Shuvalov

Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.

Ron Dennis

His problem was not the engine, his problem was the tyre selection.

Youssef Squali

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

John Carter

It could be a problem at that point.

Johnathan Frakes

I think the problem with the soaps is that because they make 280 shows a year, the writing suffers.

Tom Collins

It isn't a problem unless you want it to be

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Roy Moore

I don't have a solution right now. I haven't studied that.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Emmanuel Jal

Education is the only solution for peace.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Andy Miller

We'll see. We are trying to find a solution that works for all parties' interests.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Fadel Gheit

And there is no near-term solution for any of these things.

Richard Holloway

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Ryan Miller

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

Whitney Cummings

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Richard M. Nixon

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

There's a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy's true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.

Samuel Richardson

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Robert South

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

Robert Pattinson

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

Robin McKinley

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.