Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gardner

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

Rich DeBrino

It's just a thinly disguised way to sell software, and actually, it's not that thin.

Anna Johnson

thinly disguised propaganda urging women to be decorative, toe the line and marry (rich).

Becky Johnson

This ordinance is unfair to every visitor in Santa Cruz. It's thinly disguised loitering law that will be selectively enforced.

Primo Goffi

It's a parts program in a thinly disguised cloak.

Lynn Coady

I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.

Walid Jumblatt

Those involved, including some arrested, were found to be people working for Syria, including Syrian soldiers disguised as civilians.

Richard Armitage

Now, whether it is the mobile labs or weapons disguised as industry, we are finding ... that the capabilities were even more dispersed and disguised than we had thought,

Miranda Hart

My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.

Jose Theodore

When you start you lose your focus, you don't play as well. You can't get distracted by good publicity or bad. You have to make sure you do your job and that's what he's been doing.

Daniel Loeb

Whether we own shares for the short-term or long-term, it's a red-herring issue that incompetent management uses to distract people from the real issues, ... In this case, the issue is that Ligand is beset by Robinson's and Maier's incompetence and failure.

Michael Hirschorn

We're most impressionable when we're 12 to 24 years old, so that what we wore, what we watched, what we listened to has greater import at the time, when you had yet to be distracted by things like jobs and families.

John Stevens

As with all investigations, I shall go where the evidence leads. Our quest won't be distracted or diverted and if there's evidence of wrongdoing, it will be highlighted.

Michelle Pfeiffer

They were distracted for a split-second, which was all it took for the other man to jump into the car.

Craig Newmark

During the bubble, we got distracted by the prospect of big bucks. Now it's much better balanced.

Giovanni Bisignani

A European solution is no solution at all. Unilateral regional efforts will only distract from this process,

J. Courtney Sullivan

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

Stephen Push

The worst feeling was helplessness. I'm done being helpless. I need to be on the front line. Few other things can occupy my mind. I can't read books. I can't watch movies. They can't distract me from the hurt.

Eron Shosteck

Automakers have engineered numerous new safety technologies into SUVs over the past several model years to prevent rollovers.

Craig Venter

I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.

Ryan Holmes

Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.

Michael Parenti

I have never seen John Kerry give anything but an engineered response.

Nariman Behravesh

The Fed seems to have engineered a soft landing.

Eartha Kitt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

E. Hurley

We are providing a stage where everyone can participate and everyone can be seen. We see ourselves as a combination of America's Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight.

Mike deMaine

We're interested in providing something for people of all types and ages. It's going to be family-friendly, and there'll be entertainment between each inning.

Charice Pempengco

I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

Kevin Spacey

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Bob Hope

Television is the box they buried entertainment in.

Ellen Wheeler

We're introducing the show to a new generation of people who are getting their entertainment in many, many different arenas,

Lauren Zalaznick

We're gaining cross-promotion from the entertainment outlet for this community.

Marsha Blackburn

As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Hit-Boy

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.

Herbert A. Simon

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Cesare Pavese

The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It's not about accounting. It's about lies.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It is not about accounting. It is about lies and choices.

Cesare Pavese

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Susan Love

Breast cancer: Where we are and what lies ahead.

Proverbs

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Paul O'Neill

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

Timothy Ghriskey

It seems to us that this rally is primarily short-covering, rather than something fundamental. The sense is that tech doesn't have much room to go lower.

Neel Mehta

It's a service used primarily in enterprises. You don't see it much on smaller-scale servers or desktops.

Scott Sullivan

primarily Sullivan's testimony that contributed to the government's successful prosecution.

Theo Zwanziger

This is primarily a communicative move, where misunderstandings can be put out of the way,

Michael Allen

That's what they do. They primarily like going after big markets.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

John Heimlich

We don't yet have traffic back where we need it, but yes, the problem (of losses) is primarily fares rather than traffic,

Richard Sherman

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Chief Joseph

I know that my race must change.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Edward Gibbon

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Edward Gibbon

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

Eddie Marsan

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

David Ricardo

LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

David Icke

The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.

Clint Eastwood

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

Mike McDermott

It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money,

Chelsea Cain

I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

April Bloomfield

I'm a sucker for a packet of biscuits. I can eat a whole pack in 10 minutes.

Tupac Shakur

I'm a sucker for love

Alan Cooper

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Alaina Huffman

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

Chip Kidd

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

David Hockney

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

David Hockney

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

David Hockney

I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

David Bromstad

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Ben Whishaw

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.