Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Steinhardt

The pattern in which photons are blocked or not blocked had never really been computed. In the laboratory, we were able to construct a device that was effectively like doing a computer simulation to see the patterns of transmission.

David Malpass

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

Dev Hynes

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

Carl Sagan

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.

Antoni Tapies

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

Charlie Dacey

That was huge. You've got to block out on a free throw. No one's moving, everyone's standing still, and you just don't block out on a free throw. Simple little mistakes.

Richard Long

That would be a big block in terms of the way Telstra looks at this. But I wouldn't expect the board to dismiss it out of hand. They will at least look at it.

Evan Wolfson

The 1913 law is an artifact of an era of trying to block racial equality. It's serving its mission of discrimination.

Jeff Bzdelik

We came out of the blocks with good energy and it was a wire-to-wire win over a good team.

Rick Perlstein

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Richard Williams

Microsoft is the dominant player if it chooses to be which would mean there would be significant market share losses for Symantec.

Michael Cunnah

Microsoft is one of the world's leading companies and is notoriously selective over which organizations it chooses to partner, ... resurrect the stadium as the world's leading sports and entertainment venue.

Kevin Spacey

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

Romola Garai

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

Charles Schumer

We hope that whoever the administration chooses to succeed him will be given the tools needed to really do the job.

Rose Rosetree

Nobody pushes Sonja around. And she's not just a survivor; she chooses to claim her power with real grace.

Peter Kelly

I felt having one person, one vote would be all-inclusive, but if this is what they decided, it is the executive that chooses the process,

Nancy Parrott

If a patron chooses to purchase tickets through a third party, they do so at their own risk.

Linda Tripp

I think I'll be filing for bankruptcy. Look, I've never, ever been without a job. I've never not worked for the government.

John Casesa

GM and the UAW will collide at some point as the company's results worsen, ... The Delphi filing suggests that it will happen sooner rather than later.

Bill Strassberger

If they think they are qualified, they should apply. But at the same time, they have to realize that there are penalties for filing for fraudulent benefits.

Keith Ainsworth

The reason for filing the intervention has been accomplished.

Richard G. Scott

Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.

John B. Orr

We did the filing before Icahn went away.

Dan Pickering

Our gasoline system is not meant to handle everyone filing up their tank at the same time.

Brian Johnson

I think they are very serious about filing if they don't get concessions. I think Miller's track record indicates he doesn't put out threats and then back away from them.

Scott Bauer

But this filing will give us the freedom to operate the office as we wish, such as taking limited deposits, until it makes strategic sense to open a full-service branch.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Jeffrey Schneider

We have not been served with a lawsuit and don't have any comment.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Bonnie Campbell

My perspective on this lawsuit is that it's just wrong.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Brian Foster

No lawsuit has been filed, but we're considering all options,

Joe Faraldo

Is there something that says, Thou shall not use (the management's) method of testing'? No, but that's what this lawsuit is about.

Anthony Romero

Unfortunately, as our lawsuit shows today, those statements are patently false.

C. S. Lewis

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Carrie Fisher

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Bill Bryson

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Order doesn't come by itself.

Anthony Storr

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Bill Vaughan

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Bill Vaughan

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Yao Ming

I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

Don Howard

We have a long way to go and a very short time to get the work done.

Roger Miller

We haven't had as many workers over there. We have a shortage of workers,

Stephen Jones

We're not short on supply -- we're potentially short if something were to happen.

Frederick Burke

Ports could be a bottleneck in the short term.

Louisa May Alcott

Never use a long word when a short one will do

Thomas Ford

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

Grace Young

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Kelly Chesney

Voters need to read the petitions. Don't sign anything unless you know what it says.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

Tim Hevly

We have not signed him and there's no announcement pending.

Johnny Rivers

One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.

Olli Jokinen

If it was up to me I'd sign myself here. But it's out of my hands.

Keary McCarthy

I think it's a sign of desperation for them.

Penny Monahan

I think it's a very upbeat celebration, and it's also the sign of spring in town.

Frostee Rucker

When he stayed back this year it wasn't just to have fun. It was to put his signature on his work.

Bruce Bochy

He wanted me to sign it, ... He took it over to me.