Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Dickinson

The Pedigree of Honey/ Does not concern the Bee --/ A Clover, any time, to him,/ Is Aristocracy --

Randy Neugebauer

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Human insulin differs from other mammalian types by having a different C-terminal amino acid on the B chain. The immunological difference between beef insulin and human insulin, which is presumably responsible for the antigenicity of the former in some human beings, is thus limited to very a small portion of the whole molecule.

Benjamin Rush

Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment

Bill Burr

Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He's the coolest. I've never met The [Chris] Rock though.

Jerry Hayes

We can't have the public demanding honey bees be removed.

Lee Price

We can sustain the expansion. Come January and February, people are going to get hammered with huge heating bills. But once they get past that, they'll be O.K. I have no beef with a forecast of 3.5 percent GDP growth next year.

Nadim Khoury

We can sell non-alcoholic beer in Gaza very easily.

Mort Walker

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

Timothy Noah

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Ice Cube

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

Will Sergeant

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.

Venus Williams

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

Nik Nanos

The polling shows there's a very clear gender gap on this. It shows 52 per cent of men support more nuclear power while only 30 per cent of women want more nuclear power.

Doug Beard

The people at the Bradley Center have been tremendous to work with. Our event management experience certainly comes into play.

Ann Smith

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.

John Furlong

We have a new government. Out of respect for the new government, and the new minister, we need to have a discussion with them before we talk in any way, shape or form. They have to have an opportunity to do due diligence on the information we have provided them.

David Cameron

We will reapply immediately with the new site plan. It's our due diligence to maximize this piece of plan.

Rob Brzezinski

We've done our due diligence and we're comfortable with it.

Michael Apted

Michael Apted is a true leader -- in this guild, in the industry and in his craft. His passion, diligence and integrity serve as an inspiration and a model for all our members.

Michael Lombardi

I think this is a volatile league. A lot of things happen over time. You don't always have a true picture of the landscape early on. Doing your due diligence makes sense.

Larry Reed

We get good value out of software because we do due diligence first, but services tend to be significantly more expensive than we expect. Integration of applications is a significant strategic direction that is inhibited by cost.

Samuel Johnson

What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

Bill Belichick

Hank is a smart player. He works hard. He is very diligent. He is a tough kid and he really puts a lot into the game.

Larry Andrews

I don't have any problem with the penalty handed down. I think its fair. We have to be more diligent in the future so this doesn't happen again.

Buck Showalter

We hope that one day Edison makes the progress that Cabrera has made.

Brandee Bryant

We're going to show it on a very unconventional surface. Many unconventional surfaces in the park will be utilized as we project different Thomas Edison films and (images).

William Scranton

And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.

Michael J. Saylor

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

David Anderson

I think it's time to kind of freshen things up and give Edison a new look, keeping up with the times.

Al Boliska

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Milton Berle

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison -- if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Pele

I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.

Cip Sanchez

He put Edison on the map because a long time ago teams had no respect for Edison. I have nothing but respect for him. He and I have the same philosophy - the kids come first.

Ted Forrest

We have to take a look at the tape. We have to go back and examine things. Maybe there was something that we were doing. We were tipping our technique or something.

Marcia Gay Harden

I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.

Mark Land

We're obviously pleased to be finished with it. It's made us better. We examined all of our processes and controls, and I really think we have strengthened our financial reporting and controls.

Ken Holland

He has some damage. He's going to be examined Friday and we'll know more about his status after we get some more opinions.

Ken Holland

He has some ACL and MCL damage, ... He's going to be examined Friday, and we'll know more about his status after we get some more opinions.

Jerry Green

We have to get used to being examined and poked and touched.

Ned Vizzini

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

John B. Larson

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

Koren Zailckas

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Kristy Curry

That was the big question from the media so I guess I had to talk about it. I don't think it was me harping on it but when there is something not going well that seems to be the focus. It wasn't always pretty, but this team has found a way to win.

Nile Rodgers

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

Carrie Underwood

I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

Carl Sagan

We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

Beth Riesgraf

I would say, being a parent is what makes me vulnerable. Loving someone so much it scares you. Knowing you'd do anything for them and then realizing there will come a time when you have to loosen the reins and let them figure it out on their own, and then trusting that you/they are making the right decisions.

Benjamin Rush

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

Chris Chambers

That was with no promotion, without people knowing that the show was there.

Claude Julien

That was uncharacteristic of him. For me, it's about him knowing we've turned the page on that and that we just want him to use his skills.

Charli Turner

We have the mentality and we understand the expectations that have been set. Knowing you can do it and actually doing it are two different things, but for now, I know we can repeat from last year.

Michael Mills

Members and VIPs don't have timed slots. We have no way of knowing when those people will show up.

Laurie Zoloth

You always have the problem of dual-use in every new technology. Steel can be used to make sewing needles or spears.

John Brady

He just threaded needles everywhere. He threw darts.

Bob Dylan

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.

Alberto Martinez

Needless to say we had nothing to do with that. We are wondering who did it.

Cindy Osbrink

Needless to say, we are devastated. She had everything going for her.

Fong Piau

Needless to say, the potential in Jakarta is immense.

Dick Vermeil

Needless to say, I'm very, very proud of how well they played.

Steve Stirling

The turning point was the second period with all the penalties. We took some silly, needless penalties there.

Don Roose

We seem to be on pins and needles with energy.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.

Bobby Burton

Ninety percent of the time, it is reflective of success.

Ellen Gerton

Ninety percent of them are doing something better every game. Now, hopefully, that we have a program they have something to work towards; we're just two steps shy of having all of it put together.

Bob Smith

Ninety percent of people don't even know this thing is even in their car.

Mary Malone

Ninety percent of me thinks there was a Pope Joan.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Betty Comden

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Eddie Perez

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Arianna Huffington

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

Richard Eyre

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

Simon Travaglia

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Sathya Baba

Whoever makes me the sole object of their love, merges in me like a river in the ocean.

Maya Angelou

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Ellen Thorsen

I look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. The shadow is often more interesting than the object itself.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Ramana Maharshi

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Brad Kullman

We haven't had anything to proceed on yet.

Steve Serbati

We're not tearing down the old bridge, so traffic will proceed as usual.

David Sykes

He has spoken about several opportunities and I am not sure what he will proceed with.

Li Yizhong

With the proceeds from the A share issue, we will be able to fine-tune the integration of the company's upstream and downstream operations.

Akira Suzuki

Our case, we used the organometallic compounds. Additionally, we need one important element, that is base. Without base, the acidic coupling reaction using organoboron compounds cannot proceed nicely. So, that is very important point in our cross-coupling reaction.

John Kyl

We recognize to proceed would ... result in a vote that would not be successful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Rick Jandreau

Unless we get an injunction, we can proceed with the timber sale process.

Joseph Abood

If he regains competence, then the state can proceed with their case.

Connie King

I was the one who saved the town.

Bruce Bochy

He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs.

Hines Ward

He saved the year for us with that tackle.

Sheri Mowles

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.

Coolio

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Adrian Rogers

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

Eddie Jones

Pau has been doing it for us all season and he did it again. He saved us.

Alice Walker

Anything we love can be saved.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Cecelia Ahern

Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends.

Cecelia Ahern

Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.

Bill Bryson

And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don't mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry.

Arsene Wenger

As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!

Chiara Coletti

We couldn't be more sorry for the total stress this has caused.

Marianne Severson

We were so tired after all of the attention. In fact, I really feel sorry for the movie stars now. I have an inkling of what they go through.

Pat Nixon

I would feel sorry for her if she did.

Dennis Wilder

He just said this was unfortunate and I'm sorry it happened.

Edmund Spenser

Oft stumbles at a straw.

E. F. Schumacher

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

M. Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Bo Burnham

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Brian Greene

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.

Cheryl Conway

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence.

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Louis C. K.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Elie Wiesel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Thomas Harrison

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

Crystal Candy

It was very well lit. We have a lot of witnesses and there's the surveillance camera.