Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that we're like ants trying to discover humans. Ask yourself: Would ants ever recognize houses, cars, or fire hydrants as the work of advanced biology?

Myles Munroe

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

Mike Gillespie

He's advanced beyond his age in terms of his coolness and composure. He'll give up hits and people will score, but he just doesn't all of a sudden spiral into a mess.

George Allen

I think the president ought to meet with this mother. What I would say to her is her son will always be remembered as a great hero and a patriot, advanced freedom in Iraq and the Middle East, has made this country more secure.

Scott Fosgard

The purpose of this agreement is to focus on advanced and emerging technologies. Fuel cells had been our focus for the last 7 years.

John Glenn

What impresses me every time I come in and see this thing, ... is how fast aviation advanced beyond the Wright brothers. If you think it was only about 15 years until they were dog fighting over France in WWI...

Jonas Prising

We are experiencing growing pains in the U.S. as we shift from a skills-based economy to a knowledge-based economy. Note that the top five jobs that are hardest to fill all require advanced training and skills.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

Rohan Gunaratna

It is more advanced than training. It is almost like doing the operation so that when they go to the real operational theater, they will be a hundred percent confident.

John Mogg

In the Union we tend to feel more comfortable with legislation that provides a bedrock and a confidence to our consumers.

Harvey Pitt

Investor confidence is the bedrock of our markets,

David Strathairn

In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.

Sung Sohn

The bedrock of consumer spending and confidence is employment. The expectations of more jobs has boosted consumer confidence.

Donald Sumpter

The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.

Anne Kelley

The bedrock of all this is: Do an audit.

Charles Ruff

The attorney-client privilege is the bedrock principle of our legal system, ... The confidential nature of the attorney-client relationship is no less important in government than in every other context where it exists.

Ed Cange

That's pretty typical of how we like to win ballgames. One night someone will score more, and the next it's someone else. That is the bedrock of this team.

Jim Steets

When they blasted the bedrock in the late 1960s to early 1970s for the construction of various facilities, they created seams. Do they know exactly where those seams are? I don't think they do, but the seams created flow paths toward the river.

Chris Simms

I would say our will to win, our belief in ourselves when the game is getting tight. Last year, we were in a lot of close games but for whatever reason we just didn't find ways to win them.

Mike Massucci

I always believed we would have a good team, but that's all it was, a belief. Tonight is proof that we can be a good team. This is more like what I expected. We have a team that can play fast, and we have a lot of players who can contribute.

George Balle

He did not suffer from a poor education; he suffered from the belief that he had a poor education.

Jim Smith

He considered himself an anarchist, and his core beliefs were developing and supporting people's right to freedom.

Tim Davis

Gupta's work interests me because I think we share something in the sense that we have a belief in the language of our chosen materials and objects.

Bill Bryk

He's a competitor and has great belief in himself. You can tell that on the mound. He's got that look in his eye that he's going to get the hitter out. He has something that you're born with, something you can't teach. He has the heart to be a top-notch Major League pitcher. He expects to win and has a quiet confidence. He doesn't get rattled and has a chance to be a top-of-the-rotation guy.

Maya Angelou

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope.

Alastair Clarkson

He's got belief in himself and we've got belief in him, so we move forward and he's playing and he's looking forward to the challenge of playing on Kingsley.

Joseph McCabe

Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not "personal magnetism" that makes him a power with the young -- the older are mostly driven to his gatherings -- but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting.

Amber Bowman

I would say this is a turning-point in our season we want to come in this weekend and show them we're a different team and that we've improved a lot since the last time we played them.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Mark Donahoe

There are signs out there that the market is discounting this (economic improvement) six-to-nine months out.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

James Leal

What would BBVA do with Lloyds? Will it improve the cost/income ratio, which is already very low? There are lots of unanswered questions there.

William Butler Yeats

For men improve with the years;And yet, and yet,Is this my dream, or the truth?

David Ganey

He showed improvement all season long and that paid off with a trip to the state tournament.

Kevin Johnson

I think it shows in our free-throw shooting. We were 12 out of 26 from the free-throw line. It took us too long to get into our offensive sets. We will improve on that by next season.

Kevin Williams

I think their new offense is pretty good. It's an improvement, but it will take some time to get running.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Richard P. Feynman

The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.

Trudi Canavan

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

William S. Burroughs

A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.

Virchand Gandhi

According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous.

Woodrow Wilson

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

Woody Allen

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Jason Collins

Guarding Shaq is not a one-man job. It's going to be by committee.

Joseph Lowery

Here's a man who may have a major-league arm, but he's got a bush-league attitude.

Lynne Abraham

Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich wife ... he has a magnificent house. He has the method, the means and the money to make his escape.

Shannon Flaherty

Here you have a man running for national office, and he's not qualified to be a precinct chair.

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Woody Allen

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

William Wycherley

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

William McFee

The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.

William Galston

You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

Will Cuppy

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

Will Ferrell

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things ...

Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Richard P. Feynman

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

Richard P. Feynman

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Richard P. Feynman

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

Richard P. Feynman

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

John Oliver

When he (Shaw) wrote 'Pygmalion,' he was really making a statement about social classes.

Richard Land

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

Tracy Pollan

I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.

Sandy Carter

Your social platform will become the motherboard of your business.

Rocco Buttiglione

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

Robert M. Pirsig

A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.

Rod Stewart

I don't have any social life or anything.

Ronald Reagan

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.