Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Beranek

It also helps that Chinese contractors tend to do the work on their projects.

Hu Jia

I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is by placing dissidents under house arrest.

Bill Gates

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Peter Thorne

I don't know many companies that have made a lot of money in Chinese banking, but clearly the potential is there.

Bob Graham

I am extremely pleased that the Chinese are releasing our servicemen. It was unfortunate that they didn't do this several days earlier.

Alan Greenspan

heed fully the Chinese position on exchange rate reform.

Zhiwu Chen

Having Chinese leaders come to Yale is a good way (to create) more understanding between the two societies.

Robin Williams

The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.

Hoop Scheffer

He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.

Mary Heininger

Henry Ford was an innovative educator, environmentalist and engineer and therefore his estate is a symbol for UM-D.

Richard P. Feynman

In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.

Richard Dawkins

The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.

John Lomax

Right now, our nation is in somewhat of a crisis. We don't have now and are not producing now enough engineers to keep the United States competitive in a global market.

Jim Benson

Our motor performed flawlessly during that flight, ... But we beefed up the engine even more.

Ronald Jr

His father looked out and saw a turbine engine turning right outside his window.

Nancy Lewis

If there are engineers out there looking for jobs, we have the resources.

Kerry Sieh

If nothing ruptured, then that's really good news for the engineers who were trying to make it in fact so that it wouldn't.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Mario Batali

I think that the rise of a group of people called the slow food movement is doing a lot to try to protect and preserve traditions.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Truman Capote

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

Raymond Chandler

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Woody Allen

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

William Wordsworth

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

William Shakespeare

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Robert Venturi

Main Street is almost alright.

Kip Winger

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Steve McDonald

Our main strategy is to secure America's borders.

Tanya Lysacek

Our main role is to be supportive caregivers and parents.

Richard Goodfellow

Our main priority is to get our staff working, and that is what we are seeking to do.

E. B. White

Our main goal, obviously, was to get sanctioned in Nevada,

Nicky Hilton

Our main demographic is 12 (years old) to 30 (years old), but I've had women in their 50s come to my signing wearing pieces from the collection.

Steve Harvey

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Richard Owen

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

Richelle Mead

See? Things are already looking promising.

Rose Macaulay

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Whitney Cummings

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

William Congreve

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

William Cowper

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

Wayne Dyer

When you have a choice whether to be be right or to be kind, choose to be kind.

Van Morrison

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Stokely Carmichael

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.