Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. Hurley

This was on par with a space launch today. This was on par with someone going to the moon. It was the cutting edge of technology. The fact that it was done here, in the backwaters of (what was then) Virginia, is really interesting.

Thomas Miller

Here we had someone who had blatantly failed to follow the plan for the sake of cutting costs.

Mark Nore

I thought we played hard, but I thought we had too many mental breakdowns. We weren't making very many reads, we weren't cutting hard to the ball.

Richelle Mead

Lucky Charms?” I asked. “Magically delicious,” he explained. “Requisite for any sort of building project.” I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. “This isn’t a date.” He cut me a scandalized look. "Obviously. I’d bring Count Chocula for that.

Russell Crowe

If I'm creating the composition, it's easier for me as an actor because I've just cut out the middle man. Because I've created the composition and now I'm in it, I already know exactly what I want to get out of it. So, bang!

Travis Pastrana

Some of my best friends are tattooed from head to toe. Some would never think of it. Some are rocking a mullet and a moustache and others are clean cut. It's funny that you don't need to speak the same language or look like someone to fit in.

Rick Riordan

He could still see the dragon just fine. It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking bronze plates. Its claws were the size of butcher knives, and its mouth was lined with hundreds of dagger-sharp metal teeth. Steam came out of its nostrils. It snarled like a chain saw cutting through a tree.

Rhonda Britten

Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room to have different feelings than you. No more assigning hidden motives, prejudging and cutting people off before separating fact from fiction.

Virchand Gandhi

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Sarah McLachlan

I have to sort of get myself back out there and this is sort of out of the frying pan into the fire.

Mike Nelson

We go from the frying pan right into the fire. It doesn't get easier.

Tom Robbins

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

John Heywood

Out of the frying pan into the fire. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Richard Dawkins

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

Woody Guthrie

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Rod Serling

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Gary Brown

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

Marshall McLuhan

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

Bill Watkins

I think it's more of a panic on their part, ... It's not natural, what they're saying.

Simon Perry

It got to the point where there was panic over nothing. But don't panic, it's not going to smash anybody.

Mary Quant

I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

Robert Towne

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

Roger Caras

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Walt Whitman

What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

Rick Riordan

Hope survives best at the hearth.

Rose Tremain

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Ian Cooke

If you tend to think that sewage going into a brook is a big deal, then this is a big deal. We're not in a panic over it, but we'd like it fixed.