Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig.

Navtej Sarna

This consists of 68 tons of relief materials, which is made up of 5,000 blankets, 320 tents and 4.5 tons of plastic sheets.

Mark Twain

Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smo

Harlan Miller

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Jerry Larson

Once we're done with the testing phase, then we're ready to start the launch campaign. That consists of having the rocket motor delivered, processing the motor and its igniter, and getting the rocket ready to go.

Patrick Carney

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

Source Unknown

Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

Sorin Cerin

This is of what consists in my opinion the irrational of our own existence, to look at our destiny always from the past.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things.

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Warren Moon

This is a big year for him, ... He's in a group of exceptions to the rule. This is his team. Everything is in place. Yeah, I'd say it's a big year.

Thomas Fuller

There is no useful rule without an exception

Carlos Delgado

This is a very unique opportunity. It is once in a lifetime and you have to make exceptions and adjustments. I am proud of being Puerto Rican, and we think this is a big deal.

Tom Davis

There's always exceptions to the rule, ... but I think when you're looking at guards that don't shoot a great percentage, a lot of it is confidence.

Yvonne Taylor

Anything we're required to keep is an open record, unless there are exceptions in state or federal law.

Proverb Proverb

Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.

Dean Neary

The scientist in me makes it my preference that you try one variable or supplement at a time for each medical problem. The exception is taking a multiple vitamin-mineral supplement. That's always a good idea.

Rob Spear

The rivalry helps our recruiting. We're very competitive with them in most programs. With the exception of football.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Laurence Sterne

For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Xue Chongde

As I recall, we could have over a hundred adoptions within a month (at that time).

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

Josh Billings

I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else

Ziyi Zhang

The word 'world' for me is really hard. A hundred times later, I was able to say it.

Campbell Mercer

This is for a hundred years. It's going to be an old project. We're going to get through this just fine, and next year's going to be even better.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed.

Chogyam Trungpa

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

Antony Sher

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

C. S. Lewis

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Alan Rudolph

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

Alan Kay

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Charles Sanders Peirce

My language is the sum total of myself.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Benjamin Hoff

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

Scott Weiss

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

Sen. DeFronzo

As a legislator, I think we have some legitimate issues.

Grady Bennett

Savage here, Savage there. He's the whole package. He's a legitimate back.

Brad Buckles

These were products that were going out and replacing sales of the legitimate product made by the musicians.

Todd Wilkinson

You never know how it's going. It seemed like a legitimate gamble.

Donna Lopiano

There's no legitimate reason the sexes should be separated in racing. All Patrick is doing is showing that she belongs.

Jonathan Band

The problem at a theoretical level with Title One is that it targets technology rather than use of technology. By outlawing technology, you outlaw legitimate uses, too.

Bob Martinez

But we told Mike we're not going to back off on what we see as our legitimate role as a party.

John Owens

Since we're not making money, I think there is skepticism that is out there and it is legitimate skepticism.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Michael Chetcuti

We're going to restore the original part of the building, not so that it is historically correct, but for other uses.

Donald Rupe

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

Haruki Murakami

Original manuscripts are private information. Like personal letters, there are parts I don't want other people to see.

David Ayer

'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.

Lee Tien

This is not within the scope of the original testing.

Tracy Letts

Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn't wind up doing the film.

Bob Dylan

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Jill Lepore

'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

Andi Anderson

We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.

Ben Roethlisberger

We still see ourselves as the underdogs. We always have. If people want to pick us, they can.

Steve Sullivan

We were being embarrassed. We were being intimidated, we just sat and told ourselves that we can outplay them.

Denny Rinehart

We're going to throw ourselves right in there, headfirst, and see what we're made of right from the beginning.

Greg Kraft

We're going to find out a lot about ourselves this weekend.

Proverb Proverb

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Gloria Starr

We're ruining ourselves around the world by using inappropriate verbiage and symbols.

Jeanie Simpson

They must be anticipating problems, I don't know. They'll let us fend for ourselves after a while.

Matthew Green

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Bill Maher

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Bill Bailey

Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

Charles Frazier

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

Philip Shanks

It's just devastating. I don't have another word in my vocabulary for it.

David Crystal

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Carl Sandburg

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Charles R. Swindoll

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

Edward Abbey

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Edward Herrmann

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Clive James

The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

Duane Chapman

I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.