Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Art Bell

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

Marty McOmber

We're working on something for next week, but the details we're still kinda hammering out.

Jim DeMint

While the exact details of the trip are not released until after the fact due to security concerns,

Karl Swanson

We haven't received any details of the auction, ... We'll be happy to see just how they intend to do it.

Alan Wolff

It is far less in several respects than what we were seeking, but it is something we've accepted. The details may shift. Let the two governments work it out.

Frances Townsend

The problem is you can't share these details when you have operational leads. It takes time.

Rick Homans

It forces us to work out the other details involved with the spaceport in terms of the state land office, which actually owns the land.

Dennis Wiese

We have sufficient petitions in hand and we have finished the details for our announcement tour.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

Bonnie Tyler

I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

Rick Perlstein

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Gore Vidal

World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.

Jim Clarke

We could have up to a dozen participants in the contest.

Patrick Carman

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

Richard MacDonald

I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.

John Bacon

We have a key list of two dozen tenants we want to get this in front of and get their feedback, because they are integral to how the project may take shape.

Linda Warren

We've made 9,600 dozen over the years, (through 2004), ... and we really have fun spending the money.

David E. Price

The 2001 and 2003 tax measures are an unsettling reminder that unified party control is no guarantee of either coherence or fiscal responsibility.

Kofi Annan

While many parts of the United Nations have been involved in the peace-building process, the system has lacked a dedicated entity to oversee the process, ensure its coherence or sustain it through the long haul.

Anna Lindh

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

Robert Zoellick

It is a very fluid situation ... the process of SLM coherence is proceeding.

Dana Spiotta

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

Herbert Read

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

Michael Polanyi

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

Nicolas Davila

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.