Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page, others did, and I'm flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it - and it said, 'Neil deGrasse is an atheist.'

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Veronique Keyser

The death of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Roma, is in no way comparable to cartoons or the burning of flags. We cannot talk to you if you deal with this in this manner.

Rip Hamilton

You know you're doing it right when you feel burning in your hips and nothing in your groin. It gets my hips and my groin all on one page. I had groin trouble early in my career. I was using too much of my groin because my hips were tight.

Sylvia Plath

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

Theodore Roosevelt

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Wilferd Peterson

Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.

John Tierney

Someone needs to rescue France from its self-proclaimed malaise. Close to a quarter of its young people are unemployed, but they're too busy burning cars to look for jobs.

Sydney Smith

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Kirby Dean

It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.

Gary Bardini

The rise won't be as high as we saw a week ago, certainly not as high as we saw three months ago.

Walt Czaicki

This (Greenspan speech) is certainly a dose of good news, coupled with the fact that we may be getting closer to a resolution to the election.

Michael Vick

This goes to show how far we've come since 2004. We were playing a great team like Philly on a Monday night with everybody watching. That's what you play the game for. We certainly stepped up to the challenge.

Anthony Chan

This gives the Fed license to continue executing monetary policy. If they see any signs of slow growth in employment, industrial production, or retail sales, they certainly have the green light to make another cut. They have total flexibility to do whatever it takes to prevent a recession.

Mike Slive

(This) could certainly serve as a structure for a different format.

Kurt Ebenhoch

We're constantly assessing competitive landscape to make sure our product is priced competitively.

David Hallberg

Because of the way I'm built, I constantly have to strengthen. This is sort of a ritual: I put on my tights first, and right when I'm about to put on my costume, I get down on the floor, and I plank.

James Comey

Just as our adversaries and threats continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI. The key to this evolution lies with our greatest assets: our people and our partnerships. Every FBI professional understands that thwarting the threats facing our nation means constantly striving to be more effective and more efficient.

Mark Schultz

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

Geddy Lee

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

Carter Burwell

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.

James Adamson

Martha has been a terrific partner. I've gotten to know her well of late, ... I can only see her strengthening her relationship with us...I counsel with Martha. She's constantly helping me search out ideas.

Mats Sundin

It feels all right. You have to constantly wipe off the water, but it's something you have to get used to, ... I'm going to have to wear it for the next three weeks, and hopefully I can keep it on for the remainder of the year.

Norman Black

We provided masks and gloves to staff and constantly updated them on the location of new cases.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Jeff Holland

Quite honestly, I don't know anything about (the fungus). I guess it just reiterated the fact that it's important to be careful.

H. Hunt

The sad fact it is could have been anybody. My feeling is that whoever is involved in this is still walking free.

James St. James

I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.

John Manion

This is special, ... The fact that you have a game with two teams undefeated this late in the season is rare.

Melanie Sloan

The way that they've presented it makes it look more independent than it in fact is, and that's misleading.

Bob Keller

This does underscore the fact that West Nile is a potentially fatal disease.

Mike Schofield

Folks don't suddenly become tax hawks once they get to Austin.

Toni Cade Bambara

Old folks are the nation.

Jim Carley

She's interested in folks trying to find ways to be altruistic. She's trying to find ways to get them involved.

John McGary

I think there'll be a little more pressure on the governor's folks and Senate Republicans to move in our direction.

Scott Ishikawa

I think the racetrack has been a great outlet for folks who do want to race in a safe manner, rather than on the freeways.

Ron Sugar

I think every level, every individual and your leadership in this community, and in this state and the national leadership, I tell you, my respect for you has risen enormously to the highest level. I tell you here, that we're proud to have the folks from Mississippi as part of the Northrop Grumman family.

Mike Blouin

People here take primaries seriously. These are the folks who make the party work.

Gene Taylor

Some of the folks from Louisiana may have gotten greedy in some of their requests,

Dave Foreman

Some of our local folks are not the type to step right up and say help me. They're the type to say never mind, we take care.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Peter Cohen

I feel that so much has happened that I didn't think would happen. I'm shocked. My judgement has been wrong for two years.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Romola Garai

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Denzel Washington

When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' ... Everything that has happened with this film and this moment is about the love that has come from him.

Branny Vickory

I don't know what kind of impact this sentencing that happened back in '91 had on his behavior.

Robin Williams

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Stuart Sternberg

Other than what happened on the field, it couldn't have been a more successful home opener.

Terry Austin

We regret and hate to lose an industry of that caliber.

Ayn Rand

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

Jamie Dimon

I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.

Alain de Botton

Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.

Aimee Mullins

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

Miley Cyrus

My whole thing is, haters are gonna hate, but haters are also going to click on your YouTube video just to watch it, so I don't really care. You helped me break the record. Even if you were watching just to hate on me, and now I hold the record, so I win.

Connie Willis

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

Billie Jean King

I hate being called a homosexual because I don't feel that way. It really upsets me ... Being gay can happen in any walk of life, in any world. If you have one gay experience, does that mean you're gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you're straight? Life doesn't work quite so cut and dried.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.

Aldo Leopold

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...

Andrew Young

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

David Chang

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Daniel Webster

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

Bonnie Mathis

Land is now water on their (BVM) property,

Buzz Aldrin

The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.

Jeff Goodell

Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?

Gil Scott-Heron

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

Harriet Martineau

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Charles Bukowski

My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.

Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

Deepak Chopra

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

Dionne Warwick

I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.

Steven Spielberg

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Jonathan Galassi

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

Jon Postel

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.

Spike Jonze

Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.