Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Leakey

I think it's the most important find in view of human evolution. I was really looking for tools, but we never found any at the site.

Charles Scott Sherrington

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.

Richard Barton

In general the preferred conformation in the crystalline state is that which would be predicted by the principles of conformational analysis.

Sydney Brenner

In my final year I failed Medicine, scraped through Surgery but got a First Class in the third subject, Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Derek Harold Richard Barton

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

Louis Leakey

The crocodile was laid stomach upwards to be cut open. The stomach contents included bracelets, beads, necklaces, and indications of human meals.

Richard Barton

There was an enormous literature of stereochemical fact which had not been interpreted properly in its three-dimensional aspects.

Rupert Sheldrake

The mechanistic theory of nature is a theory of nature, and one that I think is wrong, or at least too limited. It's not an eternal truth.

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Jean Miller

He is the comrade around whom the party people can coalesce. He should be chairman for life.

Jennifer Dunn

He justbrought the party together. All I had to do as party chairman was say,'Remember what Ronald Reagan would say on this issue,' and it was done.

Trevor Rabin

I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA.

Edward Leamer

I think it's a very good thing. I never understood why (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan was encouraging people to go into short-term mortgages, because of the risk they entailed.

Allen Sinai

I think that Greenspan will rank as one of the most effective and innovative Fed chairman that we have had -- a home-run champion.

Marion Hammer

I think the chairman is telling us where he intends to go, to put it politely.

Ron Bonjean

It is clear that we need a new chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission immediately. Sen. Lott is disappointed that Mary Sheila Gall, who is a clearly a qualified candidate, has not been confirmed by the Senate due to personal partisan attacks.

John Silvia

Labor costs were one of the key inflation concerns cited by Chairman (Alan) Greenspan in his latest testimony, ... Our outlook reinforces his concern.

John Davidson

To get a real turnaround you need to have a turnaround in earnings. The jobless claims number today probably keeps (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan on task in terms of lowering rates.

Ron Sims

King County has completed a remarkable financial turnaround that any corporation would envy.

Dave Griffiths

Kim worked hard over the summer to become more of a complete player. She's played varsity since her freshman year and with such an young team, her experience is starting to pay off.

Dan Saferstein

Knits are a great way to keep warm and show your school spirit with your school's colors. It's easy to match gloves, hats and scarves for a complete look.

Landon Donovan

I would not say it is greatest moment. I would say it is the most gratifying, ... It's been strange. I am used to everyone telling me how great I am and how wonderful things are. This year has been the complete opposite. It's validating and gratifying at the same time.

Dan Fink

Jake had a great sophomore year. He was the focus of everyone's scouting report, and he was still able to get his looks. He is turning into a complete player as he continues to work hard on his game, and more recognition and team success are in the near future for him.

Jack Campbell

Kelly made everyone else better tonight and that's tough when you've got that scoring mentality. She was the complete player and played within herself.

Jose Gil

Jorge is the complete package. He is a great team player. We wanted him to always have the ball, but he constantly was finding ways to get it to the open guy. He's very unselfish.

Michael Robinson

Joe has complete control of this team, honestly.

Rene Syler

I think it's about time that a thorough and complete and public explanation be given for the reasons that we went to war in Iraq,

Rory Bremner

I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at the time.

Tiffany Anderson

If you like name brand, you know Edinburgh is the place to go, they've got plenty of them.

Norman MacCaig

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Prince Philip

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?

Prince Philip

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

Prince Philip

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

Prince Philip

If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.

Shahrukh Khan

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

Martin Henderson

My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.

Dennis Lillee

Just the other day he told me Dougie Walters had phoned. I thought, 'that's good' and he said, 'yeah, he offered me his liver. I said no thanks, I'll take my chances.

Pao Xiong

He offered me a lot of cash. I just called my supervisor, and he ran off.

Wayne Wilson

He was offered scholarships by Colgate and Niagara, but he wants to be an engineer, so he picked us.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Z. Sheppard

I offered my services, but they were declined. Of course, they had (Catholic actress) Helen Hayes,

Peter Phillips

International partners, such as the FBI, have indicated and offered their services in facilitating the Caribbean's preparation for the World Cup.

Bebe Neuwirth

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

Roy Harper

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

Lori White

If Qwest offered voluntary overtime, I think they'd find enough people to take it,

Ron Howard

We're not going to think about that at all because we've got Southern Utah to worry about.

Woodrow Wilson

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Sarah Addison Allen

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Ric Keller

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

Willard Scott

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Wilbur Smith

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Walter Scott

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

Yogi Berra

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

Vince Gill

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

Rod Wright

I was just as surprised as anybody, ... I didn't know if I was going to make it.

John Putnam

I wouldn't be surprised if they walked away.

Michael Long

I wouldn't be surprised if they surprised us again.

Jim Hickey

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he starts,

Kobe Bryant

He can play. I think he's been a surprise to people. Now I don't think he's so much a surprise anymore.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Martin Brodeur

I think we'll surprise a lot of people.

Michael Morris

I think we all were surprised by the price.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

The best university is the university of life.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Ken Robinson

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

Peter Cook

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

Paul Keating

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

H. Judd

This is the only university I've been to that doesn't have campus-wide recycling. In a way it's embarrassing.

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.