Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Leakey

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

Sir Eddington

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Nature seems to have taken every precaution that these, her choicest treasures, may not lose value by being too easily obtained.

Paul Nurse

I enjoyed my time at primary school because my teachers made the world seem such an interesting place and encouraged my innate curiosity.

Antony Hewish

My first research was concerned with propagation of radiation through inhomogeneous transparent media and this has remained a lifelong interest.

Gregory Bateson

Of all these examples, the simplest but the most profound is the fact that it takes at least two somethings to create a difference.

R. Laing

It is a pleasure to me to run up to London and enjoy the collections at the National Gallery, South Kensington, and the Royal Academy.

Sydney Brenner

My parents would have preferred me to become a surgeon or a physician but were most understanding of the ambitions of their son.

Rupert Sheldrake

Well, I'm always hoping to hear from interested chemists and protein chemists, because I'd love for these experiments to be done properly.

Cam McLeay

Having listened to family, friends, and everyone else, without exception everyone encouraged us to continue.

Paul Vasconi

I have to admit, I wasn't encouraged at first.

Robert Towne

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

Joe Morford

The underlying trends look positive, and I'm encouraged by stability in the margin and strength in loan growth.

Karen Doering

The ultimate goal is to make sure that no other person has to experience this type of discrimination again. We're not encouraged the goal of the litigation is satisfied by these actions.

Princeton Lyman

You've got the general problem of poverty and lack of government capacity. In Africa, everyone is encouraged to privatize, but there is a very important role of the state, strengthening oversight and regulatory mechanisms as you open up the economy. We've gone far in one way, but not the other.

Melvin Watkins

All the things we've been through this year, under the circumstance, I wanted to thank the team, hug them. I encouraged them to go back and be students. You can't just stop your life.

Bill Davis

Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me.

Mike Riley

It's been a long time since he's competed, but I'm very encouraged by it. Marcel had a good feel for it from the minute he walked in here, and he still has it.

Larry Brown

I thought with this young team he was vital for us, ... I wouldn't have enjoyed watching him play handicapped as he is.

Drew Johnson

I thoroughly enjoyed the meetings. It gave us an opportunity to get together and look at the issues we felt were appropriate.

John Reed

I thoroughly enjoyed my years at the newspaper. It was a fantastic, wonderful experience, and I had the opportunity to work with some really excellent people. I leave with a heavy heart.

Wade Miller

I thoroughly enjoyed my 11 years playing for the Winnipeg football club.

Lisa Kelly

We've been through a lot together. We always had fun. We were just a group of friends who enjoyed doing things together.

Henry Ian Cusick

I was a theater actor back in the U.K., and you knew the whole play, so you could plot your storyline and character. And then I did 'Lost' and didn't know, and it was kind of frustrating, but I enjoyed it.

Billy Donovan

I think it was a great experience for our players. Obviously, it's hard to prepare for the White House on such short notice, but I think they enjoyed themselves on the trip.

Aaron Boone

Underrated by who? I think he's an underrated player, period. I've just enjoyed playing with him and getting to see first hand how good he is.

Wladimir Klitschko

I can fight 12 rounds, no problem, as you can see. I enjoyed the fight.

Zhuangzi

Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.

David Rakoff

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Jessica Pare

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Julie Brown

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Jan Murphy

I think we've done just about everything that can be done on a school vacation.

Ruben Blades

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Umberto Eco

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

David Walton

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

Kristan Higgins

I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

David Chase

I don't know. When I talk to people, they seem to want it to come back. If somebody wants to watch another show, that's great.

Dominick Romero

I don't know what that was. Zone or man, it didn't seem to matter.

Craig Bellamy

He doesn't seem too worried about anything or overawed,

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time