Famous Quotes & Sayings

BD Wong

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

Rick Baker

I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

If Alien was my friend, I'd like to be with him when he went to the dentist. When they started drilling, he'd probably go nuts and start eating everybody. That Alien!

Jim Bell

One of our big goals was to make this an experience like you were there. The impression we wanted to create was, you step out of your little capsule ... and you're seeing this alien landscape for the first time.

Toba Beta

My belief in the alien existence has made me change my previous views on God. All this time, I believe that God is almighty. But apparently, I know somehow that even God's creations are far more fantastic than I could imagine.

Gary Michiels

We emerged to find an alien landscape. We bound our wounds, we buried our dead, and we commenced to rebuild.

Victor Hanson

If many thousands of illegal aliens marched in their zeal, many more millions of Americans of all different races and backgrounds watched - and seethed. They were struck by the spectacle of illegal alien residents lecturing citizen hosts on what was permissible in their own country.

Kevin Baines

The atmosphere of Venus is so alien compared to Earth, yet it's our sister planet. We've got the same size, the same materials basically and almost the same gravity.

Harold Ramis

Dan has many interesting sidelines and he's fascinated by the world of paranormal. It's part of his family history, in fact, ... He has relatives he claims were spirit mediums. He also believes in alien visitation and there is some speculation that Dan is an alien. He's so genuinely enthusiastic about the stuff. That's what was on the page when he showed it to us.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Ron Marks

Anybody who says there's such a thing as 'actionable intelligence' has never seen intelligence. Almost never in my 23 years have I ever seen anything that said to me that at such and such a time and such and such a place such a thing was going to happen. It just doesn't happen that way.

Dick Leggitt

These conversations he said he had with me are total fiction. Almost everything he said will be refuted.

Jimmy Ruff

The system has an automatic eye and it makes adjustments almost instantaneously. This means we can get the photo registered much faster.

Josef Duben

The swan was found near the same location as previous cases, so protection measures will be almost unchanged.

Kathy Dais

The sophomores have matured very well and I'm counting on them a lot to really step up and almost take the lead and get some things done this year. Katie has great potential to win tournaments and Denise practiced a lot over the summer and she came back really good. I think she's ready to break out.

David Deutsch

The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.

Jimi Mistry

The thing with Ramu, my character, is he wants to come to America to succeed. He almost exploits a perception of society that they see, a perception of him and what he knows and what he can offer.

Anne Salmond

The things that they do I never would have dreamt of - it's quite exciting to see that. It's almost like a string of crackers - you light the first one but what happens after that is anyone's guess.

Wayne Madkin

The stadium's great and very exciting. It was really loud, and it was a whole different atmosphere out there.

Ellen Stofan

If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.

Gene Kitts

The primary purpose of the drilling from the surface is to determine the atmosphere at the (accident site) just to give rescue teams more knowledge what to expect.

Rogers Johns

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Robbie Laing

There's no better atmosphere than what we played in tonight. It just can't get better than it was. There cannot be a better college basketball atmosphere than we had tonight.

Stanimir Stoilov

We played some decent football and the boys were in confident mood today. We also missed several opportunities, which could prove fatal on another day. On Thursday we will be under heavy pressure and the atmosphere will be different, but we must be prepared for that.

Martha Grimes

I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.

Byron Scott

I think the energy in the crowd has been a tremendous boost to our team. We've got a lot of young guys and they feed off that type of energy. When you have a college atmosphere and you have a young team, this is what they like to play in front of.

Shaun Alexander

I love my wife and she was knocked out, so I was cleaning at 2 o'clock this morning. It's just a fun time. I'm so proud of everybody in this organization right now. We have a true family atmosphere where everybody is doing whatever it takes for us to win and keep going. It's fun.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Mike Redmond

I've played through it, but it just got to the point where that was it. I couldn't basically run. I feel good about doing everything I could. I battled through a majority of the season, especially the last two weeks.

Kit Williams

The state law has basically no effect on city ordinances, which remain in effect as long as they are more strict than the state law. A city ordinance doesn't overrule state law. A city ordinance can't make things less strict than state law.

Steve Silverthorn

The whole idea is to basically beat the pass to where it's going. You have to have an idea, you wanna know at all times where everybody on the ice is.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

Jesse Hathaway

The whole basis for Odyssey Interactive was basically a product of brainstorming at Donkey coffee. We literally sat around a coffee table shooting ideas off of one another.

Carl Smith

says Stanley Crouch, the writer who long urged Rollins to trust Smith. ''It actually creates a kind of a reevaluation of what we consider musical creativity. When you hear this, these chumps in hip-hop and rock, they're jokes compared to Sonny Rollins.

Dan Hendricks

The Santa Anita Derby and Kentucky Derby are two totally different-run races, with a speed-biased track and short field compared with going back there with a 20-horse field and who knows what the pace scenario will be? This is a big race, a $750,000 Grade I. To win that would be a big deal. The Kentucky Derby is like a one-hand poker game. It's all in with whatever you've got. Whatever comes up comes up.

Malcolm Lowry

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

Jonathan Frakes

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

Audrey Green

My efforts are nothing compared to what's being put in. It's just going to be a wonderful night for Art.

Brad Wilkerson

Montreal compared me to Rusty Greer when I was drafted. If I can do half as much as he did around here, it's going to be very special.

Stephen Roach

Growth has been chronically weak when compared with any expansion of the past 40 years.

Avril Lavigne

i dont want to be compared to britney,ashlee,hilary or lindsay. i want to be compared to me.

Mike Nutter

For what we could control, we couldn't be happier. We had six rainouts compared to one last year.

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

Barbara Kingsolver

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Brian Jacques

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

John Cross

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,

Dean Kamen

We have a promising project, but nothing of the Earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up.

Bhagavad Gita

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my separted material energies

Mahatma Gandhi

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Anton Chekhov

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

Alfred Nobel

To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

Dorothy Hamill

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

Alvin Lee

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Anais Nin

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Steve Case

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

Suzanne Collins

The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

Robert Burns

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

Sister Parish

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.