Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Gibbs

Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

Nancy Gibbs

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Etienne Lavigne

The 2007 Dakar will definitely go ahead but we will do everything in our power to prevent these sorts of accidents happening again.

Etienne Lavigne

The 2007 Dakar will definitely go ahead. But we will do everything in our power to prevent these sorts of accidents happening again.

David Waltemeyer

We can't know the number of accidents that haven't occurred.

Verdell Pettey

We've had Mayo One land there several times because the accidents were so bad.

George Stavropoulos

We have to maintain a level of smoothness. Sometimes there are accidents on stage, and sometimes we will perform with the audiences. The key is to make everything look easy.

Richard Rose

Most of them don't understand what's going on. To them, it's just freak accidents is what it is.

Roberto Reveles

We just did not feel comfortable with people being out there stretched out in single file where they could be subject to accidents and possibly expose themselves to provocation from outside groups.

Xavier Becerra

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Timothy Noah

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Tim Cook

Our whole role in life is to give you something you didn't know you wanted. And then once you get it, you can't imagine your life without it. And you can count on Apple doing that.

Ice Cube

Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.

Ismail Kadare

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

Giovanni Agnelli

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Gerrit Smith

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Giles Foden

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.

Gilbert White

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Steve Kinser

I was glad to see Kraig win the Nationals the other night, ... I probably would have given him a pretty good race if I wouldn't have crashed (in a preliminary race).

Alex Merry

I was shocked that we had a 3-on-0 after their defenseman fell down. I knew that if I crashed the net something would happen.

Alexandra Picavet

I think it's more the mystery that everyone is intrigued by the fact that here's this plane that crashed more than 63 years ago, and there's still somebody up there.

Graham Hancock

Whether Earth was deliberately terraformed, in other words, or whether it was seeded with the spores of life from crashed comets or whether, indeed, life arose here spontaneously and accidentally, it is reasonable to hope that we might find traces of the same kind of process on Mars.

James Norton

I crashed my bicycle on the way to my first date with my ex-girlfriend and was cautioned by the police.

Leigh Steinberg

The fact that one plane crashed is tragic, and my heart goes out to those who are affected. But automobiles crash every day.

Daniel H. Wilson

'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there's the Terminator.

David Blaine

I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar's, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.

Nick Swardson

For me, honestly, one of the first movies I did I was always pounding coffee, and I crashed so horribly. So I've kind of weaned myself off. You keep getting second and third winds. But for me, I've stopped doing energy drinks or any kind of stimulant. I just kind of go natural.

C. S. Lewis

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

Bette Davis

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.

Anthony Storr

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

Bill Vaughan

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

Bill Vaughan

Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.

Bill Vaughan

Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

Bertrand Russell

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

Bertrand Russell

All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Dave Ramsey

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

Ashok Kumar

The picture doesn't look pretty. It looks like all the territories disappointed.

Dan Veru

The outlook looks better as the market looks to the next six, nine months.

Carl Safina

If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.

Carl Sagan

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Bill Bryson

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

Ashley Tisdale

Hey, it isn't bad that I look young.

Ashley Tisdale

My look is a very individual look. I love Pink, but I don't really dress like Pink.

Ashton Kutcher

Looks fade, don't get too attached.

Sara White

He just wanted to play football. He would have played for free. But luckily we had an agent.

Marcello Lippi

Luckily we were able to win. It's so important to start off well.

Romulus Whitaker

Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes.

Alma Drunick

Luckily the police saw what was going on and stopped it.

Alma Drunick

Luckily police managed to notice what was going on.

Steve Box

Luckily nobody was harmed. The Oscar nomination has cheered everyone up.

Joe Kalb

Luckily I got a step and luckily it rattled down.

David Ferrell

We don't like to slow it down. But luckily it went our way.

Donovan Nelson

Heber Springs was one of the better teams there, but luckily we matched up well with them.

Ruth Ozeki

I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.

Leslie Mann

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

Eddy Grant

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

Kevin Rahm

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

Katie McGrath

I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.

Radhanath Swami

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

Tom Wolfe

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

Tobias Hill

The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out.

William Shakespeare

Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, it is a comforter.

Mike Melson

Once we have the person in our sights and they see us, we seldom have a struggle.

Ron Peterson

Very seldom it happens, but occasionally it does.

John Hume

He seldom errs / Who thinks the worst he can of womankind.