Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Kapranos

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.

Angela Ruggiero

The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.

Mark Zuckerberg

If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.

Thabo Mbeki

If you read a textbook it will tell you, these are the things, for instance, on the African continent that would contribute to immune deficiency: the various tropical diseases, which because of poor health infrastructure, poor nutrition, general levels of poverty, don't get treated; syphilis, untreated or not properly treated (which as I hear is a big problem, when it is treated and the symptoms disappear, but, in fact, it is not cured and incubates there) that will impact on the immune system. So you have got to deal with these things.

Marilynne Robinson

It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.

Nick Cave

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

Missy Elliot

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Peter Drucker

Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.

Sylvia Earle

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

Sara Zarr

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.

Cliff Floyd

Nothing special - the same old Lieber. He doesn't make mistakes.

Plutarch

When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

Molly Ringwald

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Peter Travers

You're in for something special!

Temple Grandin

In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

Ted Koppel

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.