Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Ham

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Matt Carle

I was joking with Chris and Brian up there, how all three of us were just glad this thing was coming to an end after all the hype in the last three months. Now they're both competing for a national championship tomorrow (today).

Julie Martin

Kingma is just a phenomenal player, both offensively and defensively. She really got into Dunbar in the second half and was a great leader for them.

Don Williams

Kim woke up to hearing some people screaming. We smelled some smoke and we both walked out on the balcony and saw these embers flying by.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Kevin is a big guard who can defend both positions on the perimeter, ... We liked the effort he put forth during summer league play and wanted to take a second look at him.

Ed Steadham

Keystone was a very important part of our business. We build helicopters, they did the completion that finished our helicopters. We knew the company and were impressed with the company. The marriage has enhanced the both of us.

Bob Cortelyou

Kiev will be the latest destination in Delta's expansion into the key business and leisure markets of Eastern Europe. Delta will be the only U.S. carrier to serve Kiev, and business travelers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as friends and family of Ukrainian heritage in the United States, will look forward to this new non-stop service between New York-JFK and Kiev.

Peter Warrick

Kit and I talked about this a long time ago. He said it would be a great system for the both of us. I never really thought it would happen. Then, once I got here (for a visit), Kit told me about the coach and how he is such a great guy. Here I am.

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Brett Johnson

It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially.

Richard P. Feynman

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Russell Baker

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

William Wordsworth

We murder to dissect.

William James

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

Walker Percy

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

Nadine Velazquez

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

Michael Raab

Going forward, DaimlerChrysler's fortunes will be driven by Mercedes Benz.

Bill Cowher

He's a special person; he means a lot to this team. He's been very much an inspiration to this team. I think we're driven very much by trying to make this a special year for him.

Mario Gabelli

I think we're going from a market that's driven by momentum and driven by a flow of funds to a stock picker's market. That's going to provide very good opportunities for those that are focused on given areas.

Don Perata

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven by a date.

Bob Thompson

I watch a lot of sports, and so far that's been what's driven the big-screen phenomenon. It's a status symbol; a lot of people get a lot of pleasure being able to show off this enormous piece of hardware.

Abu Mohammed

The minibus had just driven out of the garage when something exploded.

George Twigg

It's been a pretty graphic reflection of how much these nomination races are driven by momentum.

Gary Wichard

Crazy. I told Jeremy, 'I think you're out of your mind.' But that's Jeremy. He's just a driven guy, a tremendous athlete. He's a different kind of cat.

Liang Liang

He knows how to handle the subtle inner feelings in a Eastern way while retaining the American way of telling the story.

Mike Harris

Harper understands, but I think the West does need to understand the East better. And I think that the East needs to understand the West better. I think urban needs to understand rural better and rural needs to understand urban better.

George J. Mitchell

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy.

Patrick Franklin

What we have in East Texas today in regards to gay rights is the tyranny of the majority. It is up to us to stand up to that tyranny.

Prince Nayef

It is a fact ? unfortunately ? that there was (a plan) to target key installations in Eastern Province,

Martin Jacques

When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I mean - except you won't, because you will take it for granted that this is what the world is all about.

David Gergen

What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is abnormal. It's an aberration to have a team stay as long as this one has.

Eileen Kleinfelter

I thought we gave Eastern some trouble. I thought we gave them a good game.

Roman Harper

He's a genius, a really smart guy. He just finds a way to get things done. That's how you live life.

Simon Gagne

He sees me pretty well on the ice. He's amazing. He finds me everywhere. He's fun to play with.

Chris Scanlen

I think we've had 10 finds so far.

Matt Hasselbeck

He has been around. He understands how defenses work, how coverages work. He finds the openings.

Corey Williams

He finds the talent - there's no question about that. We've just been really fortunate to have a talented group here at all times so, when somebody leaves, someone will step up.

Howard Davidowitz

The nightmare goes on and when Wall Street finds that out, the stock price goes right back down,

Chris Johnson

All of the imagery, all of the symbolism of American hierarchy of what's viewed as powerful and desirable, really finds its most immediate symbol, in this case, in lacrosse players.

Joss Whedon

The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.

Frank Haith

As you can see, it didn't help because he still got 30 points. He finds ways. He is smart. It is like anything you do, it will work for a short period of time.

Rebecca Solnit

There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.

Richard Hulbert

It's likely that we will find over 100 individual skeletons. No fossil site in the world has ever been like that.

Pierre Loti

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

Lee Iacocca

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

Dan Gebo

They don't all look alike. There are some very different shapes, with implications of how these fossils walked.

Charles Darwin

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

Richard Brautigan

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

Richard Branson

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels

Tamora Pierce

He's just rather more lively than most fossils.

Mary Beth Whitehead

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

Margaret Atwood

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

Richard Wright

They didn't even know about the ski school until Mary told them. They didn't even know about that.

Lech Walesa

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

Steven Tyler

Mary had a little sheep,With the sheep she went to sleep.The sheep turned out to be a ram,And Mary had a little lamb.

Brian Glass

Mary Ann was just outstanding running the bases. Sometimes, I don't think she really understands just how important she is to our team.

Fulton J. Sheen

At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.

Terry Tucker

Our witness was the judge's assistant, a woman named Mary Cherry. So we had Terry, Terry, and Mary Cherry.

Ken Starr

I also know that there's a time and a season, and I think that time, had there been one, has long since passed.

Michael Hayes

He's crazy. He's always been like that, since we were 13, he's been the same way.

Mike Donato

He's a thoroughbred. We have worked out together since our first year here.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Matt Kiefer

He had a long rehab. Ever since he could play (again), he has been a leader. A vocal leader.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.