Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Naim

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth.

Glenn Tipton

It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Ze Frank

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.

Zac Efron

I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.

William Shockley

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

William Shawcross

It is so basic as to be mundane, but in disaster relief, all the good will in the world can go to hell in a hand basket if the logistics don't work. In Ethiopia at the best of times, the logistics are difficult. It is a huge country - about the same size as Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma combined. It is also a transportation nightmare.

Will Yun Lee

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.

Warren Stephens

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

Timothy Noah

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Clay Shirky

The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind.

Samantha Power

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

Mimi Kennedy

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

Chris Seeger

Metro should study the democratic process before they study a way to get around it.

Dick Gephardt

We in the Democratic Party feel strongly that the people in the middle, the people stuck on the bottom, are the people we need to be giving the majority of this tax cut.

Kevin Hassett

Pork is the inevitable feature of the democratic process.

Jason Willett

On the Democratic side, we've had somebody looking at it for a long time. From the party's perspective, when you've not had the governor's office in 10 years you're ready for a race like this for quite some time.

Fernando Ferrer

forward to campaigning with him, and a united Democratic party ... to take on Mike Bloomberg as we head into November.

Yanis Varoufakis

The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.

Isamu Akasaki

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Giles Foden

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Zubin Mehta

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

Bernard Berenson

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Antoine Lavoisier

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Bertrand Russell

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

Bertrand Russell

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

Gilles Villeneuve

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Paul Stoddart

That was the happiest day of my life, not just in Formula One. Full stop. Proudest day of my life,

Platon

I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.

John Crawford

You'll remember a formula but you can't remember how to use it,

Jay Payton

We get two hits one night and nine runs the next. If someone can come up with a magic formula on why that happens, he could make millions. That's just baseball.

Nick Heidfeld

I won't be able to start the next Formula One race.

Ron Rubin

It doesn't do any good to formulate rules if nobody can live with them. If we had our druthers, we'd like the old rules that we didn't have to watch at all.

Michael Chertoff

Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.

Yale Hirsch

Those new stocks haven't really helped all that much, but I don't think they've actually hurt all that much, either. Their formula for picking stocks isn't the end-all, but it's what people know.

John Carroll Lynch

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

John Walters

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

Dr. Christakis

What it shows is that people are interconnected, and their health is interconnected, and seeing a person you love suffer, seeing them ill, harms you.

Joe Baca

School violence is a serious problem that endangers students, interferes with learning and harms our communities, ... My legislation will help make schools safer for students throughout the United States.

Cecil Beaton

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

John Anderson

We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

Robert Full

It doesn't look like any real animal, but all of the principles are there.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Paul Omodt

They've got to go through the whole proposed settlement in there.

David Lennon

That is false. They have proposed nothing to us other than threats, concessions and substandard conditions.

Edward Hennessey

There was no relationship, there was a proposed relationship,

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Cooter Failla

I wish it had been a unanimous vote but we had some outstanding candidates.

Jim Hall

I won't vote for it for any reason.

Hal Brown

I still have concerns, but I'll vote for it,

Dick Gephardt

one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress.

Joseph Biden

Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.