Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Rimel

Dr. Barnes really believed that this should be accessible to, as he said, the plain people.

Danny Arendt

Sales to the Arab market take place two or three times a year, and they sometimes, but not always, place considerable orders. For the time being we offer a good product at accessible prices, but the appreciation of the dollar (against the Brazilian Real) may pose a problem.

Joanna Scott

There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

Matt Silverman

There are some that don't have a positive reaction to the word devil. There are some who don't have a positive reaction to a devil ray. What is a devil ray? If we make a change, it will be something that will be more accessible and appeal to everyone . . . or at least not drive people away.

Mona Williams

We are trying to make our plans more relevant, accessible and affordable.

Michael McDonald

We need to make sure that the live experience is as accessible to as many people as possible.

Troy Aikman

One of the big things I believe about why the sport is so (big) is how accessible the drivers are. Right up until the race, they're signing autographs. You would never get that close to an athlete in any other sport.

James Pendleton

Burns is committed to providing affordable and accessible health care to Montanans, and the reductions cited were to reduce Medicare overpayments, which were not benefiting Montana seniors.

Don Fuller

I feel that the design with the central island is appealing. It's easily accessible for customers, has a nice large counter area, and is completely surrounded by impulse items like candy and magazines.

Robert Guerrero

A flu pandemic is when it really gets widespread worldwide and that's what we're talking about- the type of influenza that would be easily transmitted between our population.

Brad Jackson

Sometimes with a talented team, especially offensively, it just comes so easily that you can lose focus. In the first half we really got it going, and when things are flowing like that it can be easy to relax mentally a bit.

Mark Vogel

That game could have very easily been a 2-0 game. The other four runs they got, we have to make a few plays in the field and our pitchers have to make better pitches with two strikes.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We can easily get our lives out of balance.

Daniel Goleman

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

Nick Morgan

E-mail can easily be angry, hurtful, or critical. It takes a lot of time to undo the damage.

Vernon Hamilton

We could've easily hung our heads. But I think you're starting to see the fight in this team.

S. Walker

We could quite easily raise enough to provide free tuition.

Josh Beckett

Either one of those guys can easily tie the game or put them ahead. You're happy with however you get them out.

Romesh Gunesekera

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Steve Barnes

I've never seen anything like this in my life. The smell was putrid. And when the wind blew, you couldn't escape it.

Jay Heck

It would be hard to see how the other defendants are going to escape any penalty given what's happened here.

Elaine Vogel

This is a place where I can escape to fantasyland.

Elizabeth Hand

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

William Shakespeare

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Peggy Smith

We didn't know about her trying to escape until after court, ... Now she faces two more charges.

Dan Clark

Nobody's plotting to escape the accountability; they're just trying to help students get a fair chance. These are not malicious errors.

Alex Hernandez

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

Alan Lightman

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

Arthur C. Clarke

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Laurie Levenson

The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Abraham Verghese

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

Doris Lessing

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Allen Ginsberg

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Ruth Rendell

The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.

Kaley Cuoco

I've never been in an acting class in my life.

Orlando Bloom

I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.

Magnus Scheving

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

Murray Bartlett

I've never been a big nightlife person. I have a pretty low-key life.

Robby Benson

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

Daniel Craig

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

Layne Staley

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into.

Chad Oberholtzer

We tried a new lineup tonight, and it looked like that might have been too soon. We switched out and we still couldn't seem to get it together.

Gail Simmons

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

Emilia Clarke

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.

Andie MacDowell

I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.

Bre Pettis

When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.

Billy Burke

I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it.

Joanna Lumley

You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.

Donald Rumsfeld

Every day there are numerous threat warnings, ... They are looked at, sorted and sifted.

Terry Bradshaw

At Matthew's age, I looked just like him. It's a perfect fit.

Steve Monks

He's quicker to the ball. He provided a big spark off the bench.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Richard Roby

A win is a win. When you can scratch and claw and pull out a win like that in an ugly game, it's a plus.

Ricky Skaggs

This was sweet to his ears. This was what pulled me away from my toys.

Carl Weathers

When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

Stubby Clapp

There's nothing like pulling the red and white over your head.

Brad Taylor

The tires just went sideways and pulled me into the ditch.

Bobby Harper

Cheney should have made sure of his target before he pulled the trigger. He wasn't being careful.

Rob Lowe

Before you could actually have face-lifts, they would pull your skin around the back of your head with rubber bands, where they would tape it. And then you'd have to wear a wig over it to hide the rubber bands. It was not the most comfortable.

Carolyn Scott

He's someone who would give you the shirt off his back. (He) pulled his own weight.

Simon Payne

Lloyds is rising on speculation that BBVA will make a bid. There's been talk of a tie up between the two for ages. BBVA pulling out of BNL is going to reinforce that rumor.

Zach Pollakoff

Our shows can be uplifting for somebody having a rough day.

Dwyane Wade

Every time we play them, it's a rough game.

Mike McCoy

We just got out there and it got really rough and we couldn't get back in." ()

John Jones

We were pretty physical. That was the plan. We wanted to get rough with them and win the match.

Rumi

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

Greg Olsen

I had rough times. There were times that I wanted to give up and quit. Don't give up.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

Jon Lieber

It was just a rough day. Things snowballed.

John Hartford

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Auguste Comte

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Arthur Koestler

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Bertrand Russell

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Octavia E. Butler

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

Calvin Coolidge

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Charles Kettering

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Charles Kettering

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Charles Darwin

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.