Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

We are the custodians of life's meaning.

Jim Lea

They are great custodians for her, and this is where we think she should stay on a permanent basis.

Paul Holmes

We will be looking to have an electronic flow of information out of ThinkFolio to TradeSmart, and then back from TradeSmart to ThinkFolio, which will then generate soft trade details into the Icon system, which can then be enriched with settlement details and static data details before those trades get sent via Swift to either HSBC or other third-party custodians that we might use,

Edward Levi

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Richard Olson

Rather than always looking outside, why not have a program that trains custodians at lower levels?

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

Tony Crescenzi

The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes.

Carl Sagan

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

Carl Sagan

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

Antoine Lavoisier

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

James Niosi

We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit.

Bob McMurray

We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.

Mark Rosenker

We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail.

David Rosenberg

With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside.

Carl Sagan

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Art Bell

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

Marty McOmber

We're working on something for next week, but the details we're still kinda hammering out.

Jim DeMint

While the exact details of the trip are not released until after the fact due to security concerns,

Karl Swanson

We haven't received any details of the auction, ... We'll be happy to see just how they intend to do it.

Alan Wolff

It is far less in several respects than what we were seeking, but it is something we've accepted. The details may shift. Let the two governments work it out.

Frances Townsend

The problem is you can't share these details when you have operational leads. It takes time.

Rick Homans

It forces us to work out the other details involved with the spaceport in terms of the state land office, which actually owns the land.

Dennis Wiese

We have sufficient petitions in hand and we have finished the details for our announcement tour.

Yahya Jammeh

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

Henry David Thoreau

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Ben Elliot

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Donald Norman

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Chris Jericho

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Donald Trump

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

Naomie Harris

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

Bill Clinton

The advocates for either side are under enormous pressure, and, of course, they're being pretty snippy with each other from time to time.

Hannu Toivonen

That was a game that was up for grabs for either team. It's a tough loss. We have to learn not to take that many penalties.

William Safire

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

Chino Moreno

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Mike Gonzales

With the electronic age, we wanted a way to help keep our members informed on what is going on.

Jim Barnes

Who knows? Maybe eventually I'll be doing my nightly read with an electronic device. It's hard to imagine, but a lot of things are hard to imagine, but then they come true.

Peter Nelson

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access.

Peter Nelson

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in the electronic village all the village-idiots have internet access.

Philippe Petit

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.

J. Hoover

We can get electronic test results back within 24 hours, ... Teachers will be able to use the results right away to help with the curriculum.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

Frank Barnaby

Those impurities do muck up your centrifuges. It's not a problem if you want 3.5 percent enriched uranium for power plants, but if you go to 90 percent these impurities are a major problem.

Bill Green

Just since the gas prices started to go up, they've enriched the state coffers by about $16 million just from the increase,

Paul Leventhal

Ten thousand centrifuge machines are needed to produce enriched uranium.

David Blunkett

In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.

Joshua Cohen

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

John Howard

There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not.

Don Rickles

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Jeff Jackson

The penalties were an embarrassment. That's not hockey. There was no flow to the game.

C. S. Lewis

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

Cecelia Ahern

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

Wayne Thomas

That will be really special, and I thought it would be nice for our members. The music is really beautiful, and hopefully they will feel God's grace flowing through them.

Steve Hutchinson

We've gotten to where we just flow with the play. But that's going to be tested this week.

Vince Carter

We're really starting to gel, starting to move. We've got our flow going as a starting unit. It's good to see.

Cheyenne Jackson

I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

Barack Obama

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

M. Wolfe

We have to live in the real world and in the real world we generate trash,

Paul Williams

Val IT provides well-researched guidance that helps organizations select investments with the potential to generate the highest returns.

Jeff Gross

My better sense tells me (that many) stoplight tickets issued to metro Des Moines residents and unsuspecting visitors will generate some discontent, if not serious outrage.

Rick Smith

You can have the most incredible speed ever, but if the path and space relationship are off, you'll hit it all over the place. If you don't have the ingredients to try to generate speed, then you need to play within yourself.

Rhys Ifans

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

Tom Foley

We generate $1 million a day in taxes for the state.

Bill Pecoriello

I think Pepsi is in a great situation. Pepsi could get this done at $90 per share now and really generate some shareholder value.

Jean Baker

We need to have these kinds of perhaps unpopular views of a major American icon presented to the public.

John Silva

John was an icon in this community. People looked up to him.

Hendrik Poinar

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

Denise Miller

One of the issues is that our icons are not yet our icons.

Mike Darnell

Having a true New York icon like Regis ring in the New Year from Times Square is something that we are already celebrating.

Aaron Stanford

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

Chord Overstreet

I dont want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I dont want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.

Chloe Sevigny

To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

Brian Kernighan

If you don't understand viruses, phishing, and similar threats, you become more susceptible to them. If you don't know how social networks leak information that you thought was private, you're likely to reveal much more than you realize.

Dolly Parton

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Noreena Hertz

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

Jon Wilkins

We have also negotiated with Royal Mail that, instead of the paper process by which they sign for receipt of mail, they will sign our drivers' pocket PCs, which means the information can go straight on our website.

Mark Zuckerberg

It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

Scott Horne

Typically the rule with respect to publicizing information is that if it's information that a person could obtain by sitting in the courtroom, then release of that information through the media is allowed.

Joe Torre

We have a lot of information to digest.

Mark Fulghum

We've got some information, but we've got a long way to go. We still have a lot of unanswered questions.

Jim Rogers

We're waiting to get more information from Canada, at which point we could be able to scale back, ... We just need that information.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Jim Morgan

When that tsunami hit, they sent planeloads of supplies and U.S. soldiers. Where's our help?

Susana Almanza

It has sent a frightening wave of terror throughout the community.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Leonard Underwood

If they got trouble, they would be sent here and I would put them to work. But they weren't here very often.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Carrie Underwood

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

Byron Scott

We were soft. That's why we got down 12-0. We were soft the whole game.

Vincent Cannistraro

If anything is a soft target, it's that.

Mike Sanford

I don't think it was 10 to 12 yards. We were soft on Spencer.

Kevin Sneddon

Just really disappointed in the third goal; it really took the wind out of our sails. That was just a really soft goal.

Dickie Moore

He talked hard, but he had a soft heart.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Dave Barry

In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.

Catherine Bell

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Anthony McFarland

We've been a little static in the preseason, but tonight we took some steps forward.

David Packard

To remain static is to lose ground.

Jean Piaget

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

Michael Foley

All of a sudden there was a lot of static and it went blank.

William Saroyan

My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision.

Blake Shelton

Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Wally Szczerbiak

It's a big-time opportunity. In this day and age, you never know why trades are made.

Dennis Hastert

We're willing to look at offsets if there are viable offsets,

Felipe Calderon

He didn't come because he does not have viable proposals.

Dolly Parton

There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

Ricardo Patton

If we don't go, I don't know that it will be because of this one loss. But I still think that we're a viable candidate.

David Letterman

This Hillary Clinton scandal has to do with emails. All I get are emails for Canadian Viagra.

Andrew Zimbalist

I don't think contraction is a viable option.

David Miles

There's not that much viable agriculture in this county.

Gaby Hoffmann

I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

Richard Notebaert

I like to think of this as a Viagra for competition.