Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Flinn

I think it does give the appearance of preferential treatment with respect to gender or with respect to rank,

Charles Darwin

Here, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to the great fact -- the mysteries of mysteries -- the fist appearance of new beings on earth,

Bill Swain

He really wants to make this event his first public appearance in Maine. We just love him here and he will get a real hero's welcome.

Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg

David Menlow

The IPO market gives the outward appearance of a rebound but that is a false sense of confidence. The market is firming up and there are definitely upgrades but not all the signs are clear.

Allen Iverson

The first appearance is always going to be the most memorable. This one is special because I'm 30 years old and you hear all the negative things about your game declining and at this point you should be breaking down. I still go out and play hard every night and give it my all. I guess the fans recognize that because they put me in the All-Star game.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality

Joe Bugel

A lot of times it's appearance, how a guy looks. Is his shirt tucked in, what kind of socks he wears, how he walks. That's very, very important. Because you're being evaluated every minute of the day. Every time you're walking through the lobby, someone is watching you. Because we're talking a lot of money, a very important decision.

James Anthony Froude

Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.

Buck Showalter

I wouldn't put any limits on him. He can be a difference maker defensively, one of those guys who turns hits into outs.

Paul Levinson

I think in the long run it's not going to make much difference for CBS.

Bonnie Stewart

He wants to be able to learn. He wants to be able to make a difference in someone's life.

Rick Barnes

He is the difference in this team. We know he is going to give us everything he?s got, and he does every night he goes out there.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

Dean Bonham

Here is a substantial and growing difference between the high and low revenue teams and it's a significant issue. It has to be resolved or they're headed for the kind of disparity we've seen in Major League Baseball.

Carlos Rivera

He's a great person. He has helped us so much this year. You can see a difference from when I first started three years ago.

Norm Gagne

It hurts to lose. What we did, the things I didn't want to see us do, stay out of the box, and that's what killed us. The two five-on-three goals, that was the difference in the game.

Dave Swanson

I think the difference between the haves and have-nots is alarming. Unless something happens, I think the scores are only going to get worse.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Joe Tiller

I would say it's the single most important factor of (a team), ... You hate to put it all on one position, but if you told me, 'OK Tiller, you're going to graduate 21 of your 22 starters. Which one don't you want graduating?' It'd be the quarterback.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move. That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move, ... That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Robert Waters

I think it's a combination of factors like fuel prices.

Paul Posluszny

He was a huge factor in my decision, because I knew I wanted to come and play for a great man like him.

Alan Greenspan

has got to be a factor in determining the propensity of people to spend money.

Keith Greene

There are so many other factors we have to address. Homophobia is something we have to address.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Walter Robb

I would say it was about a month ago and I had an offer in my pocket and I was ready to sell. If I had not been able to find a good parent team, I would have sold. Then we had a meeting with Carolina.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Bible Bible

If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.

Mario Gallucci

His intention was to -- and still is to -- harvest tissue and provide it to tissue banks. What he has done is legal.

Hayes Harbour

The next surprise was when I got ready to harvest some needles some ten years later. You can't harvest anything on that (cost-share program) land. Nothing. Not even pine needles. So, I got out of the program.

Pamela Wilson

The kids have been just wonderful this week, ... They were interested as much in talking about the hurricane as they were the harvest tax in China.

Langston Hughes

Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.

John Bradley

This material does look very primitive. This is material we can work with. We can harvest science from this.

Dr. Colosimo

You're looking at two little poke holes and a small incision to harvest the graft.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Thomas Fuller

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Floyd Hall

Kmart's sales for the month were on plan and we are pleased with our progress in a number of key businesses.

Ewen McKenzie

He is vice-captain and one of our key players so I will be surprised if he doesn't.

Alonzo Sledge

He's a leader. He's not a selfish kid. The key thing is he just wants to win. And he had to step tonight, and he did.

Chad Spence

I thought we had it after that score. But we made key mistakes, particularly on pass plays.

Mike Stebila

I thought that was the key to the game. We wanted to take Deckard out of the game.

Anton LaVey

One of the keys to success is an unflinching belief that there are no rules. Anyone who's ever succeeded has gone on that premise; not buying established procedures, business or otherwise. The naysayers are inevitably left behind amid shouts of 'it cannot be done' and "should not be done'."

James Iandoli

He wasn't here all summer and it would have been unfair to Terrance (Lewis). Terrance is a key part of our offense.

Richard Curtis

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

Julian Callow

They are marked by different traditions and they have a stronger Anglo-Saxon background.

Richard Thompson

They've got it marked where the rock piles are, where you're not supposed to get in with a boat. Otherwise, it's a real nice place to come.

Van Allen

The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.

Dan Popowics

They have marked time by working off the (buyout price) premium and some of the uncertainty.

Jennifer Black

Much of the stores were actually marked down by a hefty 50%.

Nicholas Winton

Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.

Adam Nelson

I didn't notice the rain. I thought it was sunny all day long.

Bill Harden

I'm not going to say how many ways we can wear the uniforms. I want people to notice that we have something different on each time we're out on the field.

Nikki Burish

I'm not going to notice until Tuesday comes around and I'm not going to be able to practice anymore. It hasn't really sunk in yet.

Ed Loyd

All of this was done without any prior notice or consultation.

Wayne Davis

They don't notice a whole lot, especially with it being just a penny.

Tommy Bowden

They ran a lot of pursuit drills. If you noticed they ran a whole bunch. They ran their tails off pretty good. That's while they're dragging.

Robin Wright

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

Jack Clarke

Rats are much more noticeable and destructive than mice.

Dave Brown

(Officer Paul Holey) pretty much took notice of this as it was happening.

Vince Green

When they say plants are closing, they're going elsewhere. And it's not just China; it's Tennessee, Texas, more business-friendly states.

Jerry Baker

They can take their students out and not just talk about it in a classroom, they can go out and actually work with the plants and the shrubs and the trees.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Paul Anderson

We never thought or suspected that these plants would have a problem. Somebody should be doing time for this; that's the way I look at it.

David Robertson

It could come down all at once in the rain storms on Friday, who knows.

Richard Wilbur

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...

Truman Capote

You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

William Gibson

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

Richard M. Nixon

Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.

Rich Mullins

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.

Roald Dahl

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Tori Amos

Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

Robert Lowell

The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Robert McAfee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

Winston Churchill

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

Stephanie Ferlita

If you are able to get though this tournament, you know you've done well.

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Sappho

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Satish Kumar

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Wangari Maathai

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Robin McKinley

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.