Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Shermer

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.

J. M. Coetzee

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

M. Thompson

The PAS system is perfect for anyone who abhors prospecting, selling, and closing deals. When you use PAS, you never have to cold-call strangers or attend boring sales meetings. Their expert staff does it all for you.

John Bisio

Anyone who suggests the number is inaccurate is way out of bounds. What would we have to gain from that? We are in no position to mislead people. A lot of people have an interest in working at Wal-Mart.

Judd Gregg

Anyone who knew my father knew he was an extraordinary and special person who brought humor, energy and optimism to all his infinite endeavors, especially those involving promoting and improving his beloved New Hampshire. He will be greatly missed but always remembered.

Marty Brown

The bottom line is that this guy doesn't belong in this league. Anyone you refer to as 'Mister' belongs in the big leagues. I think he's going to be ready for whenever the Twins want him.

Bob Williams

Normally when they shut down every year, Sikeston just goes out and buys the extra power and sells it to its customers. But the prices are so volatile Sikeston hasn't been able to get anyone to lock in a bid, and we haven't been able to either.

Tony Spencer

After seeing the mother and child together, it became clear to me that they have a wonderful relationship. She's a great mother. Any attempt by anyone to interfere with that relationship . . . is wrong.

David Beckham

Anyone would welcome a player like Michael back into the team. He'll be on a high after signing for Newcastle,

James Rubin

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the FBI and Diplomatic Security Service immediately. The United States will ensure complete confidentiality to anyone who provides information on Mr. Dahoumane, to include possible relocation to the United States.

Dick York

Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

Lois Kanter

Anyone who works in these kinds of fields knows it's better to be trying than doing nothing.

Greg Amodio

The bottom line is the attendance is a direct reflection of the product we've provided. Right now going to a Duquesne basketball game is not the fashionable thing to do. We haven't given our fans much to cheer about recently.

Lisa Norberg

Our computer basics and Web basics series continue to be most popular, but we've also had good attendance at some of our more subject-oriented classes, everything from finding health information to conducting genealogical research.

Richard Riley

A simple but profound fact: There is no end in sight for the increase in young people attending our nation's schools,

Scott Stephens

E2V also creates a new type of sponsorship opportunity for leading companies tired of the old methods. We believe that over the course of the year, event organizers of E2V-covered events will find attendance numbers increasing. Our product will help shape networking in the local business community and bring balance to executives' schedules.

Kehlog Albran

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

William Bango

to stay away from a useless election, an election that does not even remotely attend to the national crisis.

Jake Gold

Attendance is way, way up, and I think part of that is the success of the Idols themselves.

Gary Orfield

There's one thing you can't learn in a segregated school as a minority. You can't learn to operate in an integrated society. The same is true for whites who grow up attending all white schools. When they get around people of other races, they are not comfortable, and they are not really effective.

Kerry Cowart

We are in the final stage of this project and we are now waiting on the city and fire marshal to go over the building to make sure we are in compliance with all of the codes. We are also attending to punch list items such as checking all of the equipment in the building to make sure they are working properly.

Ruth Reichl

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

Frank Smith

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

Rachel Johnson

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.

Cynthia Payne

It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.

Tom Harkin

so that my constituents and others will know how and why I reached my decision. I have nothing but disdain for and objection to the closing of the Senate doors on this vital matter of impeachment of the president.

Richard Kimball

Say you sold someone a round of drinks for $17.50, ... You'd ring in $7.50, put the $17.50 in (the register), and put a swizzle stick in the drawer as a reminder that the drawer is up by $10. At the end of the night, if you had eight swizzle sticks in there, you'd pocket $80 before closing out your register.

Khloe Kardashian

When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.

Jane Smiley

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

John Jones

Brent Sullivan did a great job on DeWitt. The rest of our team did a great job of closing out on shooters.

Geoffrey Russell

There's really not much to say. We're just closing out the sale. There are 94 outs Monday so we should be done early.

Joe Franco

We understand that cost is going to be an issue with this, but we're just going to need to come to some type of compromise, ... This is too large of a University at this point to be closing as early as it is.

Douglas Duncan

Some companies were just assigning people a closing date.

Cesar Rodriguez

I felt like this. Everything was just closing in.

Charles Schumer

Any talk of dismantling it would be inappropriate given its unique expertise and resources.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Stephen Cambone

The experts have been through it, and they have not found another plausible use for it.

Susan Collins

An expert is anyone who can already do what we want to do.

Theo de Raadt

Only failure makes us experts.

Marianne Moore

So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths ...

Martha Stewart

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

Rick Jones

Perhaps we could tap them for their thoughts and their expertise in the (environmental) area.

Carl Jacoby

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Bobby Womack

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

Charles Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Brian Marshall

The staff told me they were going to do this. I told them it wasn't necessary.

Oliver North

The teachers that teach here could make more money. The staff could do something else.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,