Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Gittins

The most important consideration in this matter was that Cmdr. Waddle was the captain of the ship, that the rest of the submarine force is watching him, his peers are watching him, guys who may be in his shoes in the future are watching him, and it was the right thing to do for those reasons.

Leander Paes

They are all hardworking and fun to be with. But a captain is only as good as his team and not the other way round.

Bruce Dickinson

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Mark Rosenker

We will be looking at all factors. The training, human factors, the history of this particular captain and the rules and regulations he operates under,

Charlie Ebersol

Neither the captain nor the first officer had any winter weather flying experience.

Gennady Zyuganov

I don't think you have to be a specialist to see what his state of health is ... if during the crisis the captain is not on deck, that means he is seriously ill.

Stephen Fleming

I don't support super sub rule but the power play involves some manipulation as a captain and I quite enjoyed it,

David Fulton

I expect he will make a very good captain and I'm not sure why it's taken so long (for him to become India captain),

Lanny Wadkins

If a Captain makes the right or wrong pairings, he has a heck of a lot of impact on the outcome. I haven't played on a Ryder Cup Team when the Captain didn't have an impact.

Siri Hustvedt

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

John Richter

Americans are fed up with the tens of millions of unsolicited, sexually explicit e-mails received every day,

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Geraldo Rivera

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Ryan Church

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.