Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Weinberg

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Mike Ruddock

I have explained my position and given my personal views in my own words, which I hope has been useful to the board and avoids further unnecessary speculation or any false impressions, which could undermine my personal position or that of the board.

August Krogh

In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would be extremely interesting to know just how the giraffe avoids the development of filtration oedema in its long legs.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.

Marc Falcone

If Lake Charles avoids a direct hit, devastation to the primary feeder market could have a negative impact as coverage from business interruption insurance is not certain.

Charles Schumer

I'm going to do everything I can to try and craft a compromise that avoids a lengthy trial,

Alan Greenspan

This schedule change avoids a meeting that spans the terms of two chairmen,

Jimmy Schaeffler

It's something the industry avoids discussing, even though it is a huge problem.

Pamela Falk

takes the pressure off the United Nations with regard to North Korea and avoids a contentious debate about sanctions at a time when talks with North Korea had stalled.

Donald E. Graham

I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.

Dwane Casey

Kevin did a masterful job of rebounding. We have to have somebody to help out on the boards in the paint.

Christopher Wray

Kenneth Lay is charged with abusing his powerful position as chairman of the board and CEO and repeatedly lying in an effort to cover up the financial collapse that caused devastating harm to millions of Americans.

Dave Newton

Kenneth didn't have a lot of numbers offensively, but his presence on the boards was felt out there and I think defensively he made some contributions as well. So did Will before he fouled out. He was playing some pretty good defense and scrambling around out there, causing some havoc.

Michael Lee

Keeping the historical integrity of the neighborhood is kind of what we've been doing. There's actually been a lot of discussion of whether we should go before the board anyway, even though we don't have to.

Bruce Nelson

Just walking on board brings up a lot of wonderful memories.

Mike Montgomery

Keith is a guy that I'm relying on more, having been with Keith for a year, to be the guy that's my sounding board during a game-type situation. Keith knows our personnel and John's just working his way in. I'll probably end up relying more on Keith.

Kathleen Sebelius

just the latest in a series of troubling decisions by the Board of Education.

Tyson Cottet

Joey had 14 boards for us, and didn't have any fouls, which was nice. Brandon was 7-for-11 from the field. He did a great job for us.

Kristy Curry

We explained to all of them they were going to have to get their feet set, square their shoulders, be fundamental and knock three's down.

Donald Knuth

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

Marty Schottenheimer

As I've explained to him, his first priority is to his family.

Don Meredith

The mother explained it to a teacher at the school who didn't know these were gang colours, ... The kids were being recruited through their colours.

Bob Woodruff

After I explained that, he recognized his statements don't apply,

Harold Geneen

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.

Alexander Groschke

The share price can only be explained by takeover speculation.

Jan Baran

The securities issue is potentially lethal for him. He has not yet really explained why he did this at this particular time.

Jeffrey Lurie

The way it was explained to me was, by rule, if players throw punches, the official is obligated to eject the player.

Paul O'Neill

Harvey said that people are going to certify, and if they falsely certify, it's going to be fraud, and they're going to go to jail, and we think that's the right step,

Wayne Gandy

I think we were moving it pretty well. We killed ourselves with turnovers and false starts.

John Jay

If people are still trying to find out why things aren't working, they're on a false treasure hunt. Because the reason why things haven't gone well lately is because of the injuries, plain and simple.

John Cornyn

I personally find that not only false but condescending and really inappropriate.

David Sanborn

I hope this doesn't sound like false humility, because I don't mean it to, but I'm just a member of the band.

Bruce Silverglade

The Internet is a veritable minefield of false and misleading claims.

Justin Vernon

The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

Ezra Taft Benson

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

Andy Anderson

The farmers received false information a long time ago. There was all kinds of misinformation put out there to them about this 40-acre thing, and what they could do.

Estelle

Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

Craig Patrick

John is a big, strong winger who is a proven and consistently productive goal-scorer. His presence further strengthens the group of forwards we're assembling here in Pittsburgh.

Tony Nunan

There is a high probability of further disruptions in Nigeria as we haven't seen the end of the attacks.

Chris Brathwaite

We're in the game now. Obviously we don't want to tip off our competitors, but yes, the season will grow more promotional as we get further along.

Charles Coles

We told the kids not to (panic) because if you do, they're going to get further in the lead.

Leonard Hamilton

I think we're a little further along. We have a better understanding of our system.

O. Henry

I think we should refrain from further comment.

Vinnie Robinson

It goes further than St. Patty's or the month of March. People come out proud of heritage.

Bud Selig

I will review all of the material that is relative in every way. At some point in time I'll have further comment, but until that point in time I will have no further comment.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Katori Hall

I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.

Amelia Torres

What we do when we investigate mergers is that sometimes we might feel the need to get more information on a given product or geographical market and we have to get that from the companies.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Dana Quigley

I taught her everything she knows, ... She played with me last year, and look what's happened. I hope I have the same impact on Tim as I did Paula.

Bobby Cox

He was awesome. Whatever he did, I hope he keeps doing it.

Patrick Beverley

He didn't tell me he was returning, but sometimes you just get that feeling. I still hope he comes back.

Deke Thompson

He keeps reminding us of what's at stake. If you do get in the tournament, be ready. Hope for the best, prepare for it and if the worst happens, oh well.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Grant Heslov

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Tucker Max

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Willa Cather

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

Will Smith

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Mike Bellotti

I think that we've probably, more than any other time than I've been here, addressed specific position needs.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Al Groh

He's a very responsible kid, and he took his position very seriously,

Tom Lehman

I'd like to be in a position to give my spot up if I had to.

Mila Kunis

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Adam Ereli

It undermines the right of Kenyans to information.

Ken Leavitt

That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Rose Kennedy

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Tyler Cowen

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.