Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivar Giaever

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Geoff Hoon

I have had many Ashfield people say to me that they might not agree with my political views or my decisions but that they supported my right to be heard.

Warren Farrell

I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.

Wesley Clark

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

Elizabeth Warren

There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces.

Elizabeth Warren

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

David A. Bednar

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

David Byrne

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

Philip Baggaley

The pilots are the last major labor group to reach a preliminary agreement (except for striking mechanics who have been replaced) and the largest source of labor savings being sought by the airline.

Anne Bronte

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

Mitchell Reiss

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

Paul Scott

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

Bernard Cornwell

I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat.

Anne Perry

I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine hours a day, six days a week.

Anthony Powell

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Mike Wilson

I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience.

Anthony Powell

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Nicholas Mosley

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

William Cavendish

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

Patrick O'Brian

The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

Helen Suzman

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

Robert Shaler

Possibly, too, many were entirely cremated and will never be identified.

Li Zhaoxing

China-Japanese relations are facing difficulties and the responsibility entirely lies with the Japanese side,

Walter Legge

I have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.

Steven Fisher

I entirely see this as an issue for government right now. Until the government says, 'Here are the standards, and here are the regulations,' the ... (shipping industry) is sitting still and waiting, out of fear that if you make an investment, the technology will be declared insufficient in the future.

Dusty Baker

If it went away entirely then he'd go away entirely and he wouldn't be himself. Everybody needs to be themselves. His fire is what makes him Big Z.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Kristy Curry

That was the big question from the media so I guess I had to talk about it. I don't think it was me harping on it but when there is something not going well that seems to be the focus. It wasn't always pretty, but this team has found a way to win.

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Gloria Gaither

When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

Clive Thompson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Bryant McKinnie

That will make our line a lot better, especially having Birk back. Having (Hutchinson) next to me is going to make me a lot better.

Jane Austen

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

Jane Austen

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

Jane Austen

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

Jane Austen

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

Tony Blair

I think their real problem is that they have still not recovered from Mrs Thatcher going,

Gerd Langguth

Mrs Merkel has always been underestimated. She has an uncompromising will to succeed. She always seems to know what to do next and then get on with it.

Cecil Beaton

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

Carrie Fisher

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

Edward Gibbon

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Cory Doctorow

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

Protagoras

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Jim Carrey

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Neil Gaiman

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Larry Wall

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

Seth Godin

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

Ovid

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.