Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Jared Diamond

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Thomas Harrison

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

Richard Lloyd

People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I'm gratified it stuck to the wall.

Steve Jobs

Apple had a terrific quarter -- we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players,

Gerald Andersen

The tie business went into the doldrums in the mid-1990s. Now there is definitely a dress-up trend among younger consumers.

Bo Ryan

The three of us appreciate where we came from and how we got here. There was no one that received a job here, among the three of us, by privilege. You had to get something done somewhere as a coach on your own.

Larry Eustachy

I've always been a firm believer that we could find quality athletes within the state of Mississippi and be extremely successful. I think we did that this season by signing players who we believe are among the best in the state.

Jose Oquendo

I wanted to give him one at-bat, because a lot of people came out to see him. But then I planned to go to Eduardo Perez. It meant a lot to him. He'd had among the fewest at-bats on the team.

Joseph Rotblat

We appeal, as human beings to human beings. Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open for a new paradise; if you cannot there lies before you the risk of universal death.

Brigitte Boisselier

I believe that we indeed have been created by intelligent beings -- those beings coming from space ..., ... Usually, people have a little smile and say, 'Well, she's crazy thinking about that.'

Liz Murray

But they can change and I should help, and they are human beings and they can do it to, but they just need that right perspective and the right programs and resources in front of them.

Michel Faber

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

Norm Roberts

Gray his huge. He's one of the biggest human beings I've ever seen. But he's done a great job getting his body in shape.

Jim Calhoun

He is without question one of the toughest human beings I've ever met in my life. He's streetwise and loveable all at the same time.

Kate Millett

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

John Shanagher

He has to hear that we're human beings and that our father, son, mother, whoever, were human beings.

Jack Terry

The camp was liberated, but we as human beings were not. That was the saddest day of my life. For the first time, I thought about something other than putting food in my mouth. I realized I'm 15 years old, and I have nobody. I belong to nobody. Nobody belongs to me, and I belong nowhere.

Dag Hammarskjold

The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

Publilius Syrus

The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted

Walt Smith

Defensively, we did a good job with adjustments in the second half. Offensively, we have enough speed to hurt people. We are also pretty big up front, but they never contained Marco tonight.

Donald Brownlee

Scientifically, that's great, because there's been lots of discussion of whether comets contain minerals or glass.

Keyon Dooling

It was tough. Defensively, we didn't contain Wade or Shaq.

Mick Jagger

As I got to him he showed me the paper and I saw it contained some white powder.

Manson Hill

(East Hall) is so strong it's hard to contain them. But I thought we did a much better job in the second half.

Bernie Sanders

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

Darwin Walker

We wanted to contain Vick and I felt that for the most part we did that. He got us a couple of times, but we stayed after him.

Rich Brennan

We wanted to contain Pryor and holding him to 11 was big for us.

Shane Warne

There have been little tiny things where England have outplayed us, ... With 20 runs more, we might have won the last Test. And even at Old Trafford, if we had contained England to 25 fewer runs we probably would have won.

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Tammis Groft

Sometimes he would go back to sites that had already been excavated, and he would use his own methodical methods and discover great new things that people had just really overlooked.

Mary E. Pearson

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Elizabeth Holmes

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

Thomas Friedman

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

John Lasseter

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

Will Rogers

Wrigley was the first man to discover that American jaws must wag; so why not give them something to wag against.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Jacques Rogge

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

Jason Robert Brown

You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.

James Patterson

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Baltasar Gracian

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Brian Blair

is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.

Dylan Moran

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty

e. e. cummings

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Abraham Lincoln

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

Andy Borowitz

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.