Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Anderson

As an alternative I'd like to propose that we consider an ordinance that states specifically how many car spaces per residential spot. You should base that upon some mathematical formula of the living area, bedroom area or occupancy load of the house.

Sophie Hannah

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

Larry Brumley

Randy came to work 18 years ago in development in Dallas, so he was in the development area until about four or five years ago. So, he is very familiar with the development operation at Baylor and with our constituents.

Serge Brammertz

Progress has been made in the critical area of cooperation with Syria.

Chan Gailey

Probably the strongest area of our football team is our defensive line, with guys who have played quite a few plays. We have great expectations for Darryl Richard.

Alessio Vinci

Personal belongings are scattered around the area here. There are two huge craters, one on the road and one nearby.

Clancy Spicer

Ours is a recreation area not influenced by weather.

Harry Wadsworth

Ours is a fairly open area with buildings. There are not a lot of trees, which is probably good.

Mike Byers

Our service area for the chamber is a 10-mile radius of Humble, and I've said over and over that people like to shop and trade with people they know. I truly believe that if you need a product or a service, you can find it in the service area of the chamber, and if you can't, then we need to find those folks and get them into our community.

James Marsters

Details in the mcguffins had to be worked out, but it was there. It was a good idea. I'm not going to tell you, because I didn't think of it.

Ben Goldacre

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Patty Shea

There's really nothing to worry about, it's not really the outcome or anything like that. It's really about what's going on the field, and some of the things that I'm really happy about is they're playing the game at a more sophisticated level. It's the details that are going to make the difference.

Roger Toussaint

We thank riders for their patience and forbearance. We will be providing various details regarding the outcome of this strike in the next several days.

Pete Carroll

We've been talking, and we had a more significant discussion (Wednesday). That is why I am willing to say something in a general sense. There are no details to give. We're in great shape, and things worked out really nice.

Donald Knuth

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

Tite Kubo

I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details. ~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

Patricia Highsmith

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

Louis Kronenberger

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Doug Dacar

Environmental issues have always been important to me.

Ray Kurzweil

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

Simone Weil

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Stewart Brand

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Ron Finley

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

Michael E. Mann

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

Ramez Naam

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

Michael Shermer

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

Allan Bristow

The big thing is where to set up offices and where to play games. We want to make sure that the first two weeks (of workouts) we're in a facility where we feel comfortable.

Jeff Anderson

We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled.

Robert Lesley

There's no place in Carson that you can find another residential facility that will be four stories.

Mark McDonald

We talked to the architect, Darin Prost, and he showed us the plans and what the facility was going to look like.

Sean Hayes

We'll have a class-A facility in four to five years.

Joss Whedon

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

Rick Abbott

We figure if we are going to have a holiday tournament, we need to make it a large one. With our facility we can host more teams and not be overcrowded.

John Eickman

For the horse people, the facility will be a substantial improvement and everything will be new.

Ryan Crocker

It is a 4.5-million-dollar facility and it is state of medical art.

Jeffrey Brown

I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.

David Shore

We've resisted a lot of weird stories because they don't fit the show.

Andrew Walpole

We are hopeful he will be fit for the first Test.

Bobby Robson

Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes

Rafael Benitez

Crouch is okay now. He's played a reserve game, where he performed really well. He's been training normally and he's now fit and ready for selection,

Catherine Campbell

We wanted one place where Jamie could fit in with everyone else, where it wasn't as noticeable he was different.

Kelly Holmes

We'll have to wait and see whether I am fit enough,

Marco Basten

We'll have to see whether he's fit in time. I can't make a prognosis about that now,

Leigh Matthews

Every player who is fit and well is playing particularly when we don't have to travel for the first week.

John Bunting

I've never seen so many flags fly in a game.

Stephen Colbert

Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

John Wayne

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

Kurt Woerner

I can't imagine someone walking onto that site and not having red flags go up. Someone missed this big time.

James A. Baldwin

It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

George Washington

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

Chrissie Hynde

If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.

Jesse Ventura

If you buy the flag it's yours to burn.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

John Vessey

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Thomas Harris

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Scott Weiland

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Steven Morrissey

You are bound to pick up influences.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Wang Jisi

beset by more profound differences than any other bilateral relationship between major powers in the world today.

Jennie Finch

I've faced more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.

Michael Ondaatje

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Maya Lin

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Fred Hoyle

I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.

Isak Dinesen

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

John Locke

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

Bill Doran

Weather patterns change; we need to be prepared for that.

The Mighty Hannibal

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

Kent Thompson

To make this season feasible, I've got to go out and raise another $300,000 to $400,000.

Brian Rose

We don't think the BOJ will raise rates at all this year.

Peter Cardillo

Very well managed, ... I just yesterday raised it to a 'strong technical buy.'

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

Shawn Miller

He started to raise it and we all ran. We scattered. It was panic.

David Rosen

I didn't inquire about any costs. If I did that, I wouldn't have had time to raise money.

Walter Mondale

Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

W. Clement Stone

Stand up. Raise your arms. Repeat after me: I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

William Williams

so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.

Justin Dentmon

I've never seen so much red in my life.

Mel Sachs

It would still be red when he landed.

Logan Dance

Your skin will turn red if you're not careful.

Jase Robertson

When in doubt, figure it out. That's the redneck way.

Bill Wright

Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.

Kimball Brace

Every other state has made some efforts. New York is kind of sitting out there like a big red thumb. New York put a target on itself.

Matt Hasselbeck

We fizzled when we got in the red zone. That hasn't been characteristic of our team. That's not us.

Fran Theos

The Red Cross, as did a lot of other groups, worked very, very hard.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Peter Hook

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

A. Hodge

They are 4-0 for a reason. We know it is going to be a true test.

Cesar Chavez

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Demi Lovato

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

Dean Koontz

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Eckhart Tolle

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Jan Lindholm

To some extent, this is also true in China.

E. B. White

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

Kate Looby

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

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.