Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

David Hilbert

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science

Henry Ford

There are some branches that are closed, but as I said 90% are still open.

Vladimir Ustinov

Therefore, other branches of the same case were separated into individual criminal proceedings.

Sandra Miller

This means, even when our branches are not open, students can still get homework help.

Keith Brown

They're branches off the original technology fund. In the next several years, we see accelerated opportunities in those two areas.

Nikola Tesla

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Antonin Scalia

a serious inability of our political branches to conduct international affairs.

Jill Pendley

Reaching skyward; no longer leaning,we grow well and strong,our friendship reinforced, in the knowledge thatwhether the branches intertwine or grow apart,we will always be able to find comfort,knowing fate has lent us strength in each other.

Charles Horton Cooley

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

C. J. Mahaney

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

Angela Merkel

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

Tony Robbins

Your current situation is no indication of your ultimate potential!

Rick Baker

I have always tried to stay current.

Karen Walker

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

Kris Kristofferson

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Mark Pearce

That's even in effect a crap-shoot to some extent, because you're dealing with springs, currents and those sorts of things where you might have 6 inches of ice in one spot and you walk 20 feet, it'll be down to 2 inches,

James Cox

He didn't go very far. The currents there tend to pull you under and keep you there.

Tim White

There will always be ebb and flow. In between Lord of the Rings and King Kong there were probably people who were making a living doing commercials.

Joanne Hayes

There's a windy, strong northerly ebb tide making rescue efforts difficult, ... Very soon, most likely it would be a recovery effort.

Jane Addams

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Walter Matthau

You can't do it with strangers. It takes about five years to get into the ebb and flow. If it's not working after five years, get rid of them.

Skip Prosser

There's not much to say. We're obviously at a low ebb right now. We have to find a way somehow within ourselves to fight our way out.

Amy Levy

There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings.

Mark Ruffalo

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.

Hillary Clinton

I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

Claude Noel

I don't really mind the penalties but I don't like losing the rhythm. I like the rhythm from playing 5 on 5; we generate things then. Losing a man hurts our ebb and flow.

Dean Duerst

We are looking forward to being at home again. We have not played a home night game, so I hope there is a great electric atmosphere. I'm hoping we will get a lot of students out, which would be great.

Carlos Ghosn

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

Tom Pierce

We want to put the outside electric service underground, and it took three months to get a state permit for the 5-foot run.

James Hartman

We have no electricity, no public water that is safe to drink, and no telephones in most areas.

Bill Gates

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

Elizabeth Ryan

We found ourselves with no water, electricity or phone for weeks. We needed to rebuild the entire infrastructure.

Keith Schwer

We're not a heavy user of energy. You may start to see an impact on electricity (rates) because we use gas for generation plants.

Jim Sanfilippo

It's energy. It's not just gasoline. People are looking at their gas and electric bills. Talk about stunned silence.

Mark Stutz

It's not like electricity where you turn it on and all of sudden it's there.

Rusty Hardin

This is the most silly, thin-skinned motion I can imagine.

Peter MacKay

There's a lot of possibility that there could be a motion (on Thursday) that could be tantamount to confidence.

Mike Degory

The talent's there. And the togetherness is getting there. If you start putting all the wheels in motion and all pieces together, it's a pretty good-looking puzzle.

John Callas

The motion was very small, but it was perceptible.

David Decker

We'll just step out on the highway, motion them off to the side.

John Lasseter

Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.

Bob Witeck

We know it because of the arts. The public has voted with TV dials and with motion picture dollars.... They are saying, 'If it's original and quality, I want to see it.

Norm MacDonald

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

Atharva Veda

Nothing comes, and nothing goes; this play is all set in motion by the Lord, the Sovereign King.

Charles Dickens

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Charles Dickens

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

Charles Dickens

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

Charles Dickens

The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

Charles Dickens

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

Charles Dickens

It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

Charles Dickens

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Janet Anderson

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.

Scott Gomez

It seems like it's early. But it isn't. We need these points.

David Hazel

It seems like it made the song better.

Jeffrey Cohen

It seems like a wonderful thing to do.