Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

Olivier Martinez

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Oliver Goldsmith

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Ryan Potulny

He is such a good player it makes it easier for me. We found something that's working very well, chemistry wise.

Lisa Bluder

I think your seniors set the tone for what kind of chemistry that you have. You look forward to getting into the gym.

Cathy King

We're pretty close. Chemistry in women's curling is huge. Sometimes if you say something the wrong way, women tend to take it personal, whereas with men you can tell them 'you know what?' and they don't really care.

Brian Waters

Really, it was a big risk to gut your defense like they've kind of done by cutting a lot of guys who had been there a while. Not just for the personnel's sake, but how the team feels about playing with guys, and the chemistry on the team.

Sue Semrau

I'm proud of this team who, I think, early in the season, had every right to question whether or not we could finish in the top four of the conference. They set their minds to it, even as a young team, and said 'we're going to do what it takes in order to gel into a team that has strong chemistry and a team that has a solid worth ethic and a team that defends. And boy, they did that tonight.

Wally Dallenbach

I know when Jamie McMurray puts his helmet on, he's going to drive as hard as he can whether he'll be there next year or not, ... He's going to do his job. It's just the chemistry is not going to be there if you know a driver would just as soon move on.

Warren Moon

I'm not knocking those guys, but they did get their teams here. There's a lot of players and a lot of teams that just don't seem to get this far because it takes a special chemistry to get here.

Jan Balkenende

The chemistry was unsatisfactory. There was not sufficient trust to take the steps that were needed. That is the sad conclusion,

Amar Stoudemire

The chemistry on and off court is really helping us a lot. And we also got a floor general like Steve Nash who's going to keep everybody involved. That's always a positive for any team, when you've got a point guard like him.

Chris Konieczka

I think it has an attraction: the Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street, the fun area, it's warmer than Madison. But now it's got the attraction of a city in dire need, a physical manifestation of a way we can help out.

Joe Muscato

I think it's going to turn out very well. We're sure it'll be a very big attraction when it's finished.

Radha Mitchell

I think the major attraction to me was?Christophe.

John Hodgman

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

David Joyce

Everyone is anticipating the growth and attraction of this market.

Michael Sutton

The attraction is that we are not bogged down in tremendous bureaucracies and processes that make it difficult to get the transactions done.

Jim Bunning

The new visitor center at Big Bone Lick State Park will provide an important cultural attraction in Northern Kentucky that will further establish it as a tourist destination,

Jacky Ickx

That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

E. Hicks

They'll be an attraction in themselves. People still like to come and watch the fish being landed, and they'll be very interested in these people doing their painting too.