Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kettering

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Andy Hertzfeld

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

Vinton Cerf

Of course, I've done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I'm on the board of a number of small companies.

Vinton Cerf

People need to be exposed to what the various problems are in various parts of the business. And you can become isolated from that in a large company.

Vint Cerf

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

Vint Cerf

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

Mariah Carey

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

Hugo Gernsback

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

Wilbur Wright

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Dave Roberts

Khalil and I talked about it, ... He's just extremely confident that he can hit it out in this ballpark, because no matter where you hit it, it can go out of this ballpark. That's not the case in our park.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Nigel Worthington

Johansson is a player that we have monitored for some time but with all transfers it is a case of waiting for something to happen and it being right for the club and player.

Patrick Guerriero

John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not mentioning Mary Cheney.

Douglas Johnson

Judge Casey said his ruling was dictated by a 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling in 2000, which held that Roe v. Wade protects partial-birth abortion.

Mike Ford

I suspect that this is another case of a senator hyperventilating on a Sunday talk show.

Neil Miller

I think I solved the case myself in jail just by sitting up there and thinking about it, the many holes that I found.

Richard Perle

I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.

Phil Gramm

I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other occasions, in those 15 cases where there was an impeachment in the House and where the person impeached did not resign first.

Kevin Thomas

He was just crushing them by the end of the year. That was about as dominant as I've ever had a horse. Just to win at the Meadowlands is something, and the way he was doing it up there was special.

Ali Larijani

Iran has prepared itself ... they will get a crushing response if they make such a mistake.

Jarrod Saltalamacchia

I hit .400 or something the rest of the way. I was crushing the ball. Everybody seemed to think it had something to do with getting married. I don't know. I'm usually better the second half. I was just having fun.

Paul Di Filippo

The juggernaut that is steampunk, like Dr. Loveless's giant mechanical spider in the 1999 film version of 'The Wild, Wild West,' seems capable of crushing all naysayers.

Hosni Mubarak

All the numbers from all the governorates indicate a crushing victory for the crescent, ... This means that hopefully he will win with a huge margin.

Martha Hill

It's the sensation of an elephant sitting on the chest, crushing it, a coldsweat and pain running up the left side of the neck and down the left arm,

Aidan White

This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Bob McKillop

Dials hurt us, primarily on the offensive glass. That's where his crushing baskets came.

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Jeff Nigbur

It rolled off the left side of the road and landed on its top.

Johnny Whitaker

the only way he could have landed where he landed was if he jumped.

Jeff Quackenbush

We like where we landed on the bracket. Now we just have to go out and make the most of that opportunity.

John Carver

Twenty years ago, I didn't have a passion to do lighting. I started on stage, worked my way around and landed in lighting.

Zhang Xin

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

Mathias Rust

I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Marquand Manuel

When Peter landed I was the first person he called. I've been on that side of the new Marvin regime so I understood everything he was going through. I just told him to let bygones be bygones. They're moving forward, so you have to move forward.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

Kamika Smith

Rocks were landing right on the viewing area.

Michael J. Massimino

In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon landing was right up there with the Mets in the World Series. So it made a, a big impression on me as a little kid.

Sam Mendes

I froze for a bit, in truth-for about six months after the Oscars... There were lots of scripts landing on my desk.

Lauren Worsham

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

Richard Zuschlag

We won't go into the Superdome landing zone until security is restored.

Pattie Boyd

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

Jim Peters

The planes they have there are all low and slow. A safe landing rests solely with the pilot.

Linda Relis

I was so nervous, I couldn't watch till the landing was over.

Roger Martin

I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Samuel Rutherford

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

Wallace Stevens

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Warren Beatty

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

Saint Augustine

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.