Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivar Giaever

While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Irving Harper

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

Ismail Kadare

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Brittany Howard

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Mark Thielen

That was very successful. It drew a younger crowd, some of whom haven't seen the symphony before. People say classical music is dying out, but I don't think that's the case.

Juliet Rylance

I think more than anything, you should do what you love. If you love classical playwrights, seek out companies or places that are doing that. If you love modern playwrights, try to find groups who are writing new plays or working on new plays. If you love television, watch as much theater and film as you can.

Bartlett Sher

I thought it would be kind of fun to open our next season on a very strong, classical note,

George Porter

I think music helps people through many means; it helps people just get through the day, ... I know when I am having not so good a time I put on some classical music and it just gets me through.

Chuck Palahniuk

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.

Alice Walker

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Peter Morgan

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

John Bercow

I think the state opening of Parliament is an incredibly important occasion, and broadly speaking, the way in which it's done is an invaluable tradition.

Tom DeLay

It is expensive, but at the same time, it's incredibly important, because the return (in results) to the people of the United States and the world is also very important.

Cara Bortz

I'm so incredibly proud of this team. We've been the underdogs most of the season. I think we'll be just as strong (in 2006-07).

Nate Feltman

We realize we need to be incredibly cautious.

Jacob Knight

We are on our way up and look incredibly better than in the last three years I've played.

Bob Woodward

On the other hand, Nixon was incredibly smart and intelligent.

Brad Goreski

I have been so lucky to have the support of 'InStyle' magazine. My first big women's fashion story was for them.

Carrie Vaughn

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

Carl Safina

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

Bette Davis

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Danny Way

That was the scariest ... thing I've ever done in my life. I'm lucky I'm alive.

Michael Skibbe

That was a lucky win - you can see we still need work as a team.

Peter Jackson

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

Sourav Ganguly

(Michael) Vaughan is lucky that Gilchrist has not shone with the bat. We were also similarly lucky in 2003-04 when Gilchrist couldn't get going.

Lofa Tatupu

Man! ... I'm lucky he didn't see me.

Randol Schoenberg

The arbitrators wanted us to keep it confidential, but the news leaked.

Loesje

Will the person who stole my bike...deliver the newspapers as well tomorrow morning?

Tom Daschle

We are dismayed and we are angered at the news of WorldCom today,

William Sullivan

It doesn't seem to be news-related, it seems to be more technical.

Kelli Durham

Possibly it could be copycat, because it's getting a lot of news coverage.

Stephen Hess

Polls are a reflection of the headlines. When the news is bad, the president's numbers go down, and when the news is good, they go up,

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tony Ridder

For those 12 newspapers that are being sold, the uncertainty is not over, and I regret that very much.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Nigel Turner

We were stuck in the 1970s in terms of our offering to our customers.

Lou Styles

We've got some offers here in town, ... Our feelers are out.

Rick Wagoner

We have to offer products people want to buy, not have to buy,

Michelle Clark

We're very satisfied. We're very pleased to be able to offer this service.

Carrie Fisher

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

Arsene Wenger

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Bill Burr

When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there.

David Waller

That would have been a water quality nightmare.

Dave Lamarre

We just can't seem to get enough quality shots on goal. It's been our nemesis all season.

Bob Bertini

We just can't get the quantity and quality of the tomatoes we want.

Beck

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

Barry Lopez

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Norman Edelman

The quality of the institution was getting better. The scandal will set it back. This is the tragedy.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Gary Hudson

For us to come out on top again, we've got to play hard, smart, and unselfishly.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.

Gary Wright

We're on top of each other. It's very crowded.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.