Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert White

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

Takumi Tsunoda

The output figure was below expectations, but it doesn't change our view that the underlying expansionary trend continues.

Brian Kernighan

Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.

Dennis Christopher

I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

Rep. Joyner

We need to increase the salaries of our teachers because we're $6,000 below the national average. And that just will not cut it.

John Spinello

Today the flows have changed. We did see some selling this morning of the back end of the Treasury market and perhaps that's just a little disappointment that the stock market didn't go further below 10,000.

Charles Baudelaire

To lepers and to outcasts thou dost show - that passion is the paradise below

Deanna Anderson

We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there.

Kris McKoin

We've looked at some studies from out West, and typically schools that fall below 100 students don't stay open.

Yoshihiko Noda

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Ivar Giaever

If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

Ian Watson

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

William Kamkwamba

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

Vivek Wadhwa

The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.

Elizabeth Warren

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Elizabeth Warren

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Gallagher

Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

Zinedine Zidane

My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.

William Cullen Bryant

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.

Zubin Mehta

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

Chris Bohjalian

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Walter Kirn

The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

Francis G. Slay

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.

Robert Sullivan

The alternative is to take what are frankly some of the neediest people in the city and turn them out into the street.

Steve Owens

That will save the city hundred of thousands of dollars over the life of the loan, plus the closing costs.

John C. Calhoun

Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.

Neal Asher

I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

Candice Johnson

The association will work to negotiate a contract that will cover everybody.

D. James

We have always stated our desire to do a long-term contract with the Colts, or work out a trade.

Lavan Gopaul

We've got seven normal trading days until futures closeout and there is a large open interest on the March contract of about 200-odd thousand. It is probably going to be one of the largest closeouts with the result that we can see rollovers and a lot of them.

Veronica Barrett

We're working to the contract, which means we're still working to last year's contract, and we're not putting in any extras. We're working the time that we are contracted for, and nothing more.

Alan Mulally

We're very pleased with today's contract ratification by our machinists and look forward to their return to work,

Tim Waters

We're unhappy about it. The contractor failed to meet his schedule.

Paul Tonko

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Eve Ensler

When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you sustain a future without vitalised women.

Christopher Dixon

The overall sector is being destroyed in the wake of Omnicom.

Colin Farrell

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

David H. Murdock

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

Denis Napthine

The Greens will threaten the future of our strong economy. They will destroy jobs and put Victorian families at risk.

Rick Perry

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

Robert Fisher

We can't just destroy a resource for the sole purpose of getting it out of the water. We have to be responsible and treat it as a resource.

Malala Yousafzai

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature

Mike Connors

Half the inspections we do are in the construction industry because of the high fatality rates.

Teri Barbera

We have no idea who fired the fatal shot.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

Michael Lopez

Latinos have the highest increase in fatality rates of all populations. Safety has to be a top priority.

Michael Chiu

If the collision is attributed to road racing, this would be the first such fatality (in Bellevue) in well over 20 years.

Robert Thompson

Obviously, we are disappointed. We never want to see fatalities go up. Even one fatality is too many.

Jimmy Barros

It had the potential to be the worst ledge fatality we would ever have had. There were six people and they were all right there. And for one reason or another, she fell one way.

Cristiana Salvi

Turkey is seeing a fatality rate of 20 percent which is lower than the fatality rate observed in Asia, which was around 58 percent.

Aidan Gillen

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

Clark Gregg

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.

Larry Price

That was the major flaw in the whole thing.

Paul Vallas

Middle schools are flawed organizationally. They simply don't work.

Stephen Fleming

Winning the toss is a good start. As we know, the super sub rule is a flawed rule and we have to make the most of it.

Eric Simoni

It doesn't surprise me that our guys (came back). We had our chances. We had them on the ropes. You've got to play flawless to pull off that comeback.

David Harsanyi

Whether you're a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick.

Astro Teller

We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.

Adriano Giannini

I grew up a very open and free mind, but also with the flaws of a look on life with too much liberty than people normally have.

Drew Barrymore

Don't show your flaws.

Carrie Underwood

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

Rickey Henderson

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

Greg Bender

Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and comes back the next day. Here, the students stayed together and were able to keep talking in the halls and the restaurants and lobby.

William Shakespeare

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

Pete Rose

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

Jim Boeheim

Most of the people in the Hall are on a different level from me,

William Shakespeare

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

William Shakespeare

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

William Shakespeare

Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

William McDonough

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

Ralph Klein

The $72 million that was spent on the two auditoriums, the Jubes in Calgary and Edmonton, was spent in the inside of the auditoriums to make them more performance-friendly. All of the seats point into the stage so people will have a wonderful opportunity to see the performances unimpeded,

Humberto Moreira

The 65 trapped people remain inside the mine.

Raymond Carver

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

Marlon Wayans

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

William Williams

Time is a storm in which we are all lost. Only inside the convolutions of the storm itself shall we find our directions.

Dondi McGowan

We wanted to make it a half-court game, because we couldn't run with them, not all night. (The inside game) was the advantage, and we tried to use it as much as we could tonight.

Darren Mathews

We wanted to go inside to Liz. We just couldn't get it in there. And we had a tough night shooting from the outside.

Gerry Byrne

Most of the other awards, quite honestly, they're more inside the industry, ... This is meant to reach out and touch the consumers.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Mike Wallace

Whether it's $200 or $300 is not going to matter. Nintendo and Microsoft are going to sell every machine they can put on the shelves.

Rick Cooper

Ninety-eight percent of the work is done by machine. Machines make up for 1,000 people.

Steve Ruggiero

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

David Sedaris

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Cheech Marin

You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger.

Ranbir Kapoor

Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.

Weldon Kees

pioneered the promotion of avant-garde film in America.

Ice Cube

A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.

Brad Shaw

It's probably the most fantastic, unusual promotion I've seen at a casino.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I'm not very good at promotion.

Nevada Democrat

We're willing to work through these amendments. If they want to have these votes, we'll have the votes.

Sara Evans

We're very willing to look into it, but we're still at a very preliminary stage.

Bill Walsh

We aren't willing to concede it won't be ready.

He Yafei

We are willing to import more U.S. goods.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Brooke Niquette

We're so young, but we're willing to learn. We can do well.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.