Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Flinn

I think it does give the appearance of preferential treatment with respect to gender or with respect to rank,

Charles Darwin

Here, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to the great fact -- the mysteries of mysteries -- the fist appearance of new beings on earth,

Bill Swain

He really wants to make this event his first public appearance in Maine. We just love him here and he will get a real hero's welcome.

Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg

David Menlow

The IPO market gives the outward appearance of a rebound but that is a false sense of confidence. The market is firming up and there are definitely upgrades but not all the signs are clear.

Allen Iverson

The first appearance is always going to be the most memorable. This one is special because I'm 30 years old and you hear all the negative things about your game declining and at this point you should be breaking down. I still go out and play hard every night and give it my all. I guess the fans recognize that because they put me in the All-Star game.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality

Joe Bugel

A lot of times it's appearance, how a guy looks. Is his shirt tucked in, what kind of socks he wears, how he walks. That's very, very important. Because you're being evaluated every minute of the day. Every time you're walking through the lobby, someone is watching you. Because we're talking a lot of money, a very important decision.

James Anthony Froude

Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.

Brian Belski

I think we received some clarity there. I think we are done with the Greenspan hangover.

Barry Hyman

I think we are just mired in interest-rate concerns until we get some clarity on rates.

Tori Amos

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

Brad Smith

I'm very optimistic about the new opportunity that we now have. It finally gives us the specificity and clarity that we need to work in a constructive way.

Xtine Hanson

I just had this moment of clarity that there really could be a tool for this.

James Redfield

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

Scott Wren

The economic news has been very good, but the Fed remains somewhat of a mystery. It's the same problem that's really held us back all month and it'll continue to be a problem until we get some more clarity from the Fed.

Roger Kubarych

The fund industry lobby their own members to improve the clarity of prospectuses,

Jim Oberweis

That's one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.

Allen Sinai

I suspect that on Fed decisions, the president has been very much influenced by Mr. Greenspan. Greenspan and Cheney go back.

Lee Humphrey

I think it kind of lifted our team up and we fed off his energy.

Kim Maher

I think it got to the point where we just got fed up. It was a gut check.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Karon Bradley

He didn't look too stressed about it, so we just kind of fed off him. I talked with him a little bit. I knew.

John Lonski

He didn't give the impression that the Fed is panicking.

Gary Sheffield

The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.

Richard Cripps

This was a good, constructive quarter. The market overcame two problem areas: the Fed raising interest rates and high oil prices.

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Gilbert Arenas

I'd been setting up my team all night, ... I'm going to win the game. That's what I do. . . . They didn't say it was going to be easy.

Richard Greenberg

The implication is that these settings would actually be hospitable to life,

Stephen Friedman

To make it more meaningful, you really have to have the right class. What makes this work is the setting of the right person in the right class.

Paul Brinkley

We are not setting up a new bureaucracy.

Patrick Leahy

A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

Ruby Dee

We've got the possibility of setting things right,

Bruce Willis

Just Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Ashraf Nubani

Just stop the pain, I'll say anything, ... one lash after another.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Josh Fodor

He was stopping everything. We had a lot of opportunities but couldn't get any in.

James Rubin

I don't know who talked first. Let's just stop it, okay?

Mike McBride

He was unbelievable. We couldn't have stopped him with 16 tanks.

Robert Schumann

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

William Devane

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William Whewell

In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they must be apprehended and analysed according to some Conceptions which, applied for this purpose, give distinct and definite results, such as can be steadily taken hold of and reasoned from.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Gary Sherwin

If you're part of the community, whether you like it or not, you're part of the brand.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Enrique Morones

We still don't know whether it will be a march, a strike, or a fast.

Rivers Cuomo

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.