Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Heywood Sanders

We're talking about a market where convention centers are giving their space away. There clearly will be winners and losers.

Ronald Neumann

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Paul Bauer

We have never been 5-0. One thing I can say about this team is we have been in some close games, but find a way to win. I am real proud of the kids tonight because we played without (senior running back Nate) Robinson for most of the fourth quarter. A lot of our offense centers around him, but the kids stepped up.

H. Hart

What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to hijack four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon at 9 a.m. on September 11, we are not accountable, ... In the Money.

Michael Barry

We're seeing continued development in New Jersey's urban centers in response to an ever-increasing demand for luxury residences near mass transportation. Mixed-use development is the byword People want retail shops and services at their doorstep; they'd like to be able to walk rather than drive.

Frank Turner

What Lincoln wants to do is to create a mixed-use urban center. One of the questions the plan commission needs to consider is how many and how big and where should urban centers be the most appropriately located.

Tod Marks

With these candies, it's all about the fillings. The centers just exploded with flavor, and unusual flavors like tropical fruit and key lime pie.

Robert Redford

As San Francisco holds a special place in my heart and is one of the nation's great centers of independent film, I am particularly excited to have found such a perfect home for Sundance in this city.

Victor Conte

way less significant than the consequences that I mete out every single day for crimes that are far less significant.

Niki Tsongas

We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions.

David McGrew

We have no option but to win. The consequences of losing are catastrophic.

Hubert Williams

Whenever you have a situation like this going on, management has to rise to the occasion. You have to have some consequences for this kind of behavior.

Tony Blair

All of us are trying to manage the consequences of change,

Gene Russianoff

This is a necessary consequence of maintaining the system.

Talat Masood

This imbalance now gets even worse as a consequence of America's total and all out support to India.

Jennifer Green

They should talk to their kids and realize that teen drinking really is a problem that can lead to serious consequences including death.

William Blake

They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.

Charles Francis Richter

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.

Charles Francis Richter

The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It was originally envisaged as a rather rough-and-ready procedure by which we could grade earthquakes. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Charles Francis Richter

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

Charles Francis Richter

[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.

Charles Francis Richter

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

Bill Maher

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.

Edgar Cayce

If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.

Bill Gates

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Charles Kuralt

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

Lou Costello

Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Costello: That's what I want to find out.

Reggie Theus

It's everything I thought it would be. Us winning at Pacific and Louisiana Tech winning. Fresno State played Creighton very strong. It bodes well for us in general.

Chris Denorfia

It was a total surprise. I had a place to live in Louisville and everything. It was a shock. I just have to get as ready as I can and try to stay up here for a while.

David Stern

It was important to the Hornets and the NBA that we maintain a presence in Louisiana in anticipation of a return to New Orleans next season.

Barry Hinson

Now let's go to Louisville and win us a trip to the Big Apple.

Charles Taylor

I've been through about 12 hurricanes in Louisiana and nothing was ever this bad,

Robbie Berg

We are urging all residents from south Texas to Louisiana to keep watch.

Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Isaiah Stanback

Louis was going to surprise a lot of people, but he wasn't going to surprise us. What he did in that game, he can do more.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

E. O. Wilson

There is no population in there. It's deserted.

Fernando Tuesta

For a population of 100,000 it is sufficient to survey 600 people.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

Glenn Maguire

Progressively, the skill set of the population is growing.

Chen Xiwen

Our development of the countryside should support an agricultural population and an agricultural economy.

John Arvin

The robin population is variable from one winter to the next.

Gary Speed

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

Tracy Chapman

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

Jared Ingersol

With this region being as strong as it is, it was important for us to get off on the right foot.

Wang Guangya

The region is already complicated, we don't want to make it more complicated. We are not so enthusiastic about more resolutions.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Joel Sawyer

As we would like to appoint someone from every geographical region of the state, with only three appointments, we're not always going to be able to do that.

Edward Lincoln

They think there is a lot more going on in the region than that.

Dr. Etienne

This is the most inequitable region in the world.

Quincy Lewis

Any region win you can get, especially on the road, is good. We'll take any road win we can get.

Craig Drury

The teams in our region know he is a shooter, but I don't know if the teams up here do.

Grant McCasland

Once you win that, you concentrate on winning the regional championship.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Bill Moyers

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Charlaine Harris

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

Charles Rangel

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

Charles Schumer

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.