Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

Ed Hickey

Having Kinard and Barry helps a lot. Kinard can score, and Barry anchors our defense. They've been playing a lot of basketball. They know how to play, and they know how to make plays.

Robert DiClemente

He sees an explicit medium-term inflation target as an anchor for financial markets and a mechanism for Fed accountability.

Gavin Smith

We're proposing a new model of housing, to replace 20,000 FEMA trailers in our communities with something akin to the Katrina Cottage. They're more livable and more in keeping with our coastal architecture. They're safer and can be anchored on elevated foundations.

Brian Katz

He's figured out how we've wanted him to play all year, and that's anchor the middle and change shots and make it very difficult for people to shoot around the basket. He has been a factor now in the last few games defensively.

Nathan Stevens

He was just coming into his own. He was really starting to hit, and he's been an equalizer defensively in center field. He's the anchor out in the outfield, so it's going to be a big loss.

Michael Redd

He was our anchor and played the best game I've seen him play in three years here. If we can get that type of performance every night, we'll be in great shape.

Will Ferrell

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

Will Ferrell

I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!

Ben Smith

I think it's a good thing for them to keep up. It opens your eyes to different aspects of biology.

Roy Verley

He was a great business leader, but I think he'll be remembered most as someone who truly embodied the best aspects of the HP Way personally.

Alison Nordstrom

He consciously tried to preserve aspects of old Paris. For example, he didn't shoot the Eiffel Tower.

Tony Buzan

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, 'Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.' Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

Maggie Jones

There are so many positive aspects to a small-scale wind farm.

Bob Wright

Having all of the distribution and all the commercial aspects lined up with the content should make us a more effective organization, give us a chance to make faster decisions or make everyone feel comfortable about who we are.

Leslie Williams

I think the main thing that's going on is people want the experience of living in a multifamily downtown, but they want to bring with them certain aspects of their lives, ... They had dogs in the suburbs, and they want to have dogs in the city.

Mike Sullivan

I thought Bergeron was one of the best players on the ice, ... in all aspects of the game. There isn't any aspect of the game we can't use him.

Jean Miller

I think the contest demonstrates that games can not only be entertaining, but beneficial to society on a grander scale. The public often sees press on all the negative aspects of games. This is a fight, in a way, for better games.

Vincent Van Gogh

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.

Ken Ford

Hopefully, these pictures and the great words from people who really have a love for Jesus will strengthen thousands of Christians in their faith.

William Wilberforce

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

William Wilberforce

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

William Wilberforce

If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go

Anton LaVey

The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these 'sins' as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

Anton LaVey

I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

Richard Hooker

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

Richard John Neuhaus

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

John Hahn

Ken and Steve never connected today. With the opening of free agency, Ken spent most of his time on the phone. He hopes to speak with Steve by Wednesday.

Josh Bidwell

He connected really well with the kids. He shared some real solid truth with them.

Greg Behrendt

I rarely sit down to write something. I usually have an experience and relate it to somebody and go, 'There I connected some dots,' you know? That's what makes people laugh. And then you go and take it on the stage, and sometimes it works, and sometimes people go, 'What's he talking about?' I don't know; I thought it was it funny in the kitchen.

Steve Earle

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

Nadine Velazquez

I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

Raina Telgemeier

Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

Mike Hamilton

He's been somewhat of an evangelist, a circuit-riding preacher. He's connected with the fan base.

Eve Ensler

I was drawn to vaginas because of my own personal history, because of sexuality, because women's empowerment is deeply connected to their sexuality. And, I'm obsessed with women being violated and raped, and with incest. All of these things are deeply connected to our vaginas.

Owen Wilson

The people that come up to me about 'Bottle Rocket' tend to be my favorite maybe because that was our first movie and that was maybe the most personal one to us, ... And so that means more than like an 'Anaconda' fan even though you're appreciative of that. But I'm more connected emotionally to 'Bottle Rocket' than 'Anaconda.'

Plaxico Burress

Just let Eli be Eli and he's going to be OK, ... Stop putting so much pressure on him and just let E be E. I've got a lot of faith in him. He's the quarterback of this team.

Mikhail Bakunin

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Atharva Veda

Have faith in Him; He will never give you up; He will guard and guide you until victory is won.

Sathya Baba

Have faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then, you can have peace and joy, whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.

Debra Roberts

God's got your back when you give Him your heart

Rick Bowers

He's just got ultimate faith in his shot. When he needs it, he can get it.

Eric Bass

It is a leap of faith for all of us,

Chris Byrd

To fight three times in three years is crazy. It has been disappointing to the point of sometimes you get frustrated and really just want to retire. I have been to that point, but God is faithful and I just keep plugging along. I just have to remain patient and fights will happen, but it has been disappointing.

Walter Scott

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Dana Brunetti

When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'

Dani Shapiro

I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

Mike Huckabee

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Jason Phillips

He catches everything in the outfield, and he throws people out. He's good. Real good.

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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends, in addition to either a functioning market in which nobody can conclusively determine how well-off particular groups or individuals will be, or a central direction where a group organised for power determines it.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Patrick Freitas

He just stayed up every time. He had the respect of the gym.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Lenny Wilkens

I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

William Blake

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect, no respect at all!

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Smith

We do not feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Steven Smith

We don't feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Robert Collier

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

Rob Bell

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

Eric Hoffer

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

Eric Hoffer

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Paul Henderson

The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.

Kerri Walsh

It's not a sprint to get in shape.

Nicola Formichetti

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

Ben Shahn

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

Eric Kripke

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

Martha Beck

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.