Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

Stephen Green

You've vested authority in your executive director. Two minutes ago when you adopted those bylaws, you empowered him.

Michael Barry

You have a situation where the board made a commitment to the shareholders and adopted a policy in response to the clear majority of the shareholders. Now, they're turning their back on that and with impunity just disregarding it.

Emma Biel

My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother asked Dad to please keep the children together. He did.

Lleyton Hewitt

He played a lot looser than he's normally played in the past. He's playing more like in practice, where he has always been a great player where he's very flashy and doesn't take it all seriously the whole time. I think he's adopted that a little more in his matches.

Michael Gould

If Endnotes was adopted university-wide, CSU could turn out the most competent secondary research students in the world. It will increase student and faculty research capacity and productivity because it is flexible and saves time by integrating programs.

Billy Graham

If every church in America adopted a family, it would solve the problem of how to house and help so many evacuees,

Marvin Harris

If everybody adopted a peaceful, loving, generous, non-competitive lifestyle, we could have something better than counter-culture - we could have the Kingdom of God.

Orrin Hatch

I am opposing my own relative so citizens of Utah will finally have a real choice since Democrats have adopted so many Republican policy positions in recent years,

David Powell

The wording was that monetary policy is still stimulative, which implies further rate hikes down the line. And this morning, when capacity utilization was released, that definitely augured well for another rate hike.

Don Kirkman

You want growth - it is a clear indicator of economic health. But you don't want growth that is so rapid that it outstrips your capacity and your infrastructure.

Dennis Dykes

The real focus is going to be on whether it's spent effectively. Obviously they (the government) feel that they have the capacity to do so.

Joseph Badaracco

The people in power are the people who are constantly able to discover new and relevant knowledge, which is really tied to the capacity to learn.

Ahmed Zewail

In the 1970s, what I, as a young foreign student studying in the United States, found most dynamic, exciting and impressive about this country is what much of the world continues to value most about the U.S. today: its open intellectual culture, its great universities, its capacity for discovery and innovation.

Afrojack

When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted to book me because he liked my music. I played a couple of songs that made people dance. To me, that rush has always stayed the same.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

Jeb Bush

You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody's lunch.

Sandy Skrovan

While the world waits for Wal-Mart to collapse under its own weight, Wal-Mart waits for no one, demonstrating a remarkable capacity to manage the retail lifecycle and keep right on rolling.

Felix Rohatyn

Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

Jeff Davidson

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.

Frank Turner

Now, students and faculty can all learn about this great writer firsthand,

Neal Stephenson

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

Susan Blanchard

That's a huge impact on the program and a huge impact on the quality of faculty we can recruit. If we tell them, sorry there is no space for you to do research, they're not going to come here.

John Bolton

We're looking forward to Monday, ... We are prepared to be flexible on format and process.

Lesley Nicol

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

Bruce Lee

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Guus Hiddink

We have picked a squad that is flexible and will be able to adapt,

David Gross

We think that that's inappropriate, ... The genius of the Internet is that it has been flexible (and) private sector led.

Kenneth Relihan

It is kind of a flexible kind of situation.

David Cole

They have moved from a rigid culture, to a much more lean and flexible company.

Gord Ash

We don't know where; we don't know when. That's one of the flexible parts of the equation. Obviously, you'd like it to be at higher levels because of the competition, but you don't want him pitching in 35-degree weather.

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Rob Enderle

This is a potentially market-changing event. My sense is that this is going to increase Apple's market share dramatically.

Brian Hall

the utilities savings more than make up for the increase in your monthly mortgage.

Doug Tumen

You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you should run no more than 22 next week.

Alan King

We could see a small increase as a result of that.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

The reason for the rise is the increase in the geo-political risk premium because of the situation in Iran.

Robert Kiyosaki

The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.

Burt Rutan

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

Janet Reno

I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Ron Perlman

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

Vernor Vinge

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Stan Sakai

All my knowledge comes from research.

Richard Hamming

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Ted Nelson

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

Henrik Lundqvist

It was one of the most important saves of my career.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Louis Garrel

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Richard Skaggs

Some of the students were still out of control.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

Steve Foster

this could turn into another Waco ... we don't want to get into that.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?