Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Perlis

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Dan Farmer

Still, if they offer me a good job under my conditions - which is that I can do anything I want- then, sure. The NSA is not going to change me.

Paul Berg

Notably, some nations have enacted legislation that prohibits genetically-modified plants and animals from entering into their food supply.

Edward M. Purcell

It was a glimpse into some kind of wonderful world where electricity and mathematics and engineering and nice diagrams all came together.

Greg Turner

It seems like college has become more of a social club.

Jim Jones

A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.

Raymond Duncan

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

Margaret Turnbull

This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.

Barbara Dale

Think of the life of the working woman as the decathlon. If you even finish it's a miracle.

Jeff Davidson

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.

Kathleen Tierney

The big question in everybody's mind is whether entities that proved themselves incompetent to handle Hurricane Katrina can become competent by the summer of 2006. So far, we've seen no evidence of that.

Lauren Willig

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.

Paul Thomas Anderson

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

Wayne Blanton

All of those things that get competent teachers into schools, we're supportive of.

Edwin Eisendrath

This just echoes what I've heard all over the state. State employees just don't trust the governor. They don't trust him with their pensions, they don't trust him to hire competent managers, they don't trust him with the state budget.

P. J. Harvey

They have some very competent guards and they love to run screen and rolls. So we will have to be ready for that. This will be a very tough game.

William Wordsworth

And the most difficult of tasks to keepHeights which the soul is competent to gain.

Jay Ellison

A fairly good percentage of young people have only a wireless device. But as the older generation of homeowners move into their golden years, they will be more comfortable with just a wireless phone around the house. They've grown up with improved technology, and they're more competent with it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Sam Brownback

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

Thomas Hahn

He represented kind of the lowest residue of cultural knowledge. The implication is that every English speaker by the 1380s would have known Robin Hood. ... That's a pretty extraordinary idea.

Bob Dixon

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

David Bodde

In my opinion, that has to change. If we are to grow as a region as a tech-based economy, and a knowledge-based economy, we have to embrace those ideas, or at least be willing to be open-minded or experimental about that. It's not a question of are we ready for this in some cultural sense -- enough people are for this to happen. It's one we have to embrace.

Rachel Kaplan

I'm a cultural historian, not just a journalist, ... I feel with these 'Little-Known Museums' you really get a sense of the people through it.

Robert Wilson

In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.

Chris Swecker

Theft of cultural property, no matter where in the world, impoverishes us all,

Noam Chomsky

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.

Charles Henderson

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

David Powers

I think investors are really pleased with what they heard about the future guidance for the second half. We think that the second half will indeed turn out to be better for Intel. It's seasonally stronger for them. At the same time, they're doing an excellent job reducing their cost.

Van Coleman

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting touch from outside. Very, very physical kid around the basket. He doesn't mind contact.

Jason Varitek

He's dong an excellent job. Do I expect him to be perfect all year? No. but he's doing an excellent job.

Mark Basham

I think their products are very good. I think it's going to be an excellent IPO.

Brennan Brown

I am encouraged, ... We had an excellent tournament. We still have a lot of work to do, but there are some good signs.

Steffi Legall

I am extremely happy for Sam to join our staff. He is an excellent teacher of volleyball and he separates himself because of his love and passion for the game as well as his players.

Keith Pelley

He has been an excellent partner, but I told Frank that we are not yet at the point of talking to people for 2007.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Paul Busse

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Denis Diderot

A sketch is generally more spirited than a picture,

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.

Ernie Els

I wouldn't say I missed it, I did not miss it for a good three months. I guess subconsciously I knew I was out. I was going to be out for a long time. I think I just wanted to shut myself off. Not watch it or read about it or anything like that and concentrate on other things in my life.

Dan Chapman

I would try to get here about 6 p.m., get good parking and wait in line.

Mike Huckabee

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

Theo Epstein

had a lot of honest talks in that last week, reflecting on ourselves and the organization and the job, and whether it was right for me and for the team.

Dave Auday

Going into the season, I knew they were going to be the one seed in the Foothills League. I honestly thought we would be the No. 2 team and we proved it today.

Brett Hall

He's been taking input on this from everyone. I honestly don't know what he's going to do.

George Crabbe

What is a church? - Our honest sexton tells, / 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Norm Coleman

We take very seriously the importance of testifying honestly before this committee,

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

Lord Shaftesbury

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

Tom Wall

He was probably one of the most honest people I've ever run across.

Tom Condon

He wasn't going to be satisfied being on a one-year transition tender. Obviously, Minnesota made a very strong offer for him.

Sean William Scott

I love everything Minnesota.

Sean William Scott

The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.

Kevin Garnett

I've always said I'll be in Minnesota as long as they want me. I don't think I can take another one of these rebuilding stages.

Al Franken

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

Kent Hrbek

The people of Minnesota are missing an icon. Paul Bunyan was big. Puck's as big as Paul Bunyan around here.

Michele Bachmann

When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.

Lance Ness

If we don't get this done, the very soul of Minnesota will be lost.

Jesse Ventura

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Mark Zupan

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

Mike Babineaux

They will be monitoring the schools throughout the week. They go in and use a form, similar to the one the state uses when it does its walk through.

Kevin McKenzie

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

Elaine Hanratty

I've seen different schools and interacted with different disciplines.

Sherry Sturner

Every year, the schools were taking another week out of our summers. It was hot. So I said, 'You know what? I've had enough.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Anthony Hamilton

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Ahmed Hussein

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

Joe Pemberton

Her support was important to me, ... I could sense her smiling.

David Newhan

He's a teammate. You're supportive of your teammates.

Gary Larsen

We feel it's safe, we feel it's a viable technology and we're supportive of it,

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

CeeLo Green

I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.