Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Spina

Metal equities took a thrashing and it appears there may be more weakness in the short term here.

Terrell Jones

As we've learned more about what was proposed, it's evident why many people would find this program offensive. The College Republicans certainly have a Constitutional right to conduct such an event, offensive as it may appear to some in the community. In protecting everyone's right to free expression, the University cannot censor the content of student-organized events.

Virginia Postrel

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.

Theodore Shaw

We appear before the Supreme Court - who in their right mind would want to poke their finger in the eye of the next chief justice? Based on what we know, this is not a nominee that we can let go by unopposed.

Leslie Cockburn

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

Lewis Platt

With two months' results in, it appears that our third-quarter performance won't match analysts' expectations, ... We've done a much better job of managing expenses this quarter. But expense management can't compensate fully for struggling economies in Asia-Pacific and new signs of economic uncertainty elsewhere.

Larry Turner

We're still investigating. There doesn't appear to be any major damage at all to the facility at this time.

Hideo Mizutani

Overseas investors appear to be on hold on concerns about further US interest rate hikes.

Ian Shepherdson

Overall, the recent sales data appear to point to a renewed upturn in spending.

Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.

B. F. Skinner

Most, if not all, of these people down there were trying to do the right thing. They were under a lot of pressure, and they took a lot of shortcuts that may have resulted in a lot of waste. And they may have abused their authority to enter into contracts that they were not authorized to do.

Toby Miller

In a world where 50 percent of the budget of a film actually goes on promotion, as opposed to what you see on screen, the idea that we have a worlds where the consumer can exercise authority and sovereignty is absurd,

Kevin Taft

There's billions of dollars of investors' money at stake here, ... The national financial press will be focusing on this. And for the author of the story to be away on holidays when it's released just is wrong.

Victor LaValle

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Laurence Housman

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Robert Lindner

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt

Andrew O'Hagan

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Doug Flutie

It was fun to watch Tom work. He took it to another level the whole fourth quarter.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Ken Smith

That's a lot. It was one of the most we've made in my history.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

Lawrence Durrell

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Leo Tolstoy

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.