Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Shubin

This is not some archaic branch of evolution. This is our branch of evolution. This is our wrist. This is the evolution of our neck.

Octavio Paz

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

Charles Rossotti

To improve service, the IRS needs to break out of its technological time warp from the 1950s and 1960s, ... In the long run, this new partnership will help us replace archaic technology with the modern tools we need to deliver top-quality service to taxpayers.

J. A. Konrath

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

Hankus Netsky

I was raised to ignore it. It was something my mother's generation saw as an embarrassment. It was corny and archaic and not pushed as something an up-and-coming musician wanted to learn. My mother wanted me to write Broadway shows.

Cynthia Payne

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

Seamus Heaney

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.

Gary Jennings

I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.

Bob Weir

They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.

Edward Kennedy

Judge Pickering's record reflects a hostility to civil rights and a vision of the Republican Party that reminds Americans of a painful time in our nation's history, ... Those who lack a strong commitment to our nation's fundamental ideals and principles do not belong in our federal judiciary.

Harold Mentzer

It belongs in Petaluma, as far as we're concerned.

Samantha Shannon

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

Norman Rockwell

Guess I never really belonged in Westchester. I was never really happy there. But the hard-dirt farmers in Vermont-when I got with them, it was like coming home.

Gary Sheffield

I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.

Jim Tracy

He's a good little offensive player. He looks like he belongs in the majors. This kid knows how to play. And he's a winner.

Ilham Patu

Her family said a number of chickens belonging to her neighbors had died suddenly before she fell ill. So, she must have contracted the virus from the sick birds.

John Barrow

I think the district belongs to the voters who live there and vote there, ... I'm too busy doing the job I was elected to do to focus too much on an election that's over a year away.

Rocco Buttiglione

We are firm on this point: what belongs to the Italian people must be returned to the Italian people,

Raoul Vaneigem

We must discover new frontiers... People have been standing for centuries before a worm-eaten door, making pinholes in it with increasing ease. The time has come to kick it down, for it is only on the other side that everything begins.

Michael Ledeen

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

Andrew Strauss

I just can't imagine a guy who's made more than 70 international centuries turning up at Lord's and getting booed.

Annalee Newitz

Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.

Samuel Gompers

The day for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward, when their rights and their wrongs would be discussed ... that the workers of our day lay down their tools of labor for a holiday, but upon which they may touch shoulders in marching phalanx and feel the stronger for it.

Dimitar Sasselov

It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.

Graham Shear

This (decision) sends entirely the wrong message. English football have lost the message that a footballer is an employee, it is more like the master and servant of centuries ago,

Marguerite Gardiner

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit

Edward Kennedy

in what now seems a very different and distant time.

James Norton

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

Nostradamus

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

Louise Leakey

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

John Smith

The more I think about what I did, the more lucky I feel today. It has been two years now and it is already a distant memory.

Isabella Bird

The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.

Mia Farrow

To meet in such a distant place. It's so random. Isn't it grand?

J. Perelman

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring

David Newman

I encountered a lot of people who were very distant and uncommunicative and misleading and self-contradictory. On the other hand, I did find doctors who were extraordinary and remarkable.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. It looks like to me he's not patient. I'm just letting him play and not think about it, see if he can work his way through some of these things.

Mick Jagger

It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Bryan Bridges

We're playing smart hockey. You don't want to be sitting back and letting the other team pressure you when you have a lead.

Trace Adkins

I thought the song would be a hit, but this is something else. It has taken on a life of its own. I?m just standing on the side letting it be.

Carl Jung

This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes." I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to. "The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, start a family, see my family? Yes. Yes to all of it." I try to swallow but can't, try to speak but the words just won't come. His hands sliding around me, grasping me to him, he lets go of the vial, allows it to fall, to crash to the ground. The sparkling green liquid seeping out all around as he says, "But mostly yes to you.

Richard Bach

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

William S. Burroughs

According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.

William James

Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.

Sarah Addison Allen

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

Margaret Keane

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

Andre Leon Talley

Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

Francoise Gilot

I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.

Mike Jackson

There are still archaeological places (on the island) that are significant to our tribe culturally.

Chris Lee

It has a dream-like quality that takes you to places that don't exist,

S. Walker

In a lot of places this would've come off hokey because there's not the tradition this place has. It works here because it's not contrived. It's genuine. It's real.

Felicity Huffman

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

Rick Morris

I know that it is coming, such as paving places in Crusader Court, but we don't know the schedule and that's not under our purview.

Simon Baker

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Chan Gailey

I told the team there's a lot worse places to go than San Francisco. It's historical. It's something they'll remember the rest of their lives.

Jonathan Swift

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

Chris Jones

The theater now is in more places than we thought.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.