Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

Wen Jiabao

There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.

Wesley Morris

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

Ezra Taft Benson

God's revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark.

Nancy Astor

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

Steve Alford

That was the best he's cut all year and against a very tough defense, too. That was a complete effort out of Adam tonight.

Jon Wagner

That was a great match. Adam scored late to tie it up, but lost on a last second reversal. Adam wrestled well, it was just one of those things.

Patrick Fugit

My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.

Fisher DeBerry

We have to play for 60 minutes. Adam Fitch gave us a spark, and we made a run at them.

Michelle Bachelet

We have to look at how much the coffer holds to calculate the percentage rate by which we can increase it.

Bob Hamilton

Most definitions of a 100-year event were calculated before Ivan and Katrina. At this point, are the 100-year criteria good enough?

Christopher Seeger

Merck calculated cardiovascular warnings would cost the company 50 percent of its profits through 2006.

Joseph Miller

We have our database set up to calculate the time a practitioner spends with patients in general. We've recently put in place a note/charting system by which we can calculate time, including the initial evaluation, casting, scanning, alignment, and fitting. We can pull that information in the future and, say, look at the time practitioners are spending on casting, or on evaluation.

Saxby Chambliss

We haven't had time to calculate what the losses are,

Rory Kinnear

Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.

Harvey Gantt

Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.

Roger Simmons

I wouldn't even start to calculate the odds of him winning a big jackpot like that again. He said he wanted to be a billionaire, so I guess this is one way to try it.

Cindy Hockenberry

Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money over a five-year period. You would divide it into five equal parts and pay taxes on each of those parts which significantly reduced your tax bill.

Tony Fernandes

The pilots cannot get over the fact that I have a cup of coffee with the guys who carry the bags. My secretary will (even) go out and help clean the planes if we are running into a delay.

John Kyriakopoulos

The outlook for the Fed policy is clearly data dependent. I cannot see much downward correction to the U.S. dollar over the near term being driven by the data.

Beeban Kidron

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.

David Hewson

The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

Donald Norman

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Don Young

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Alice Walker

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Idina Menzel

I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing.

Isco

When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I went.

Garry Hynes

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

Glenn Tipton

I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

Zadie Smith

It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

William Shatner

I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

Walter Smith

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

Wendy Kopp

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

Iyad Allawi

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

Jane Lindskold

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

Niger Innis

We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.

Christopher Koch

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Louis C. K.

Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary.

Joseph Brodsky

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

Anne Miller

AN IMAGINARY AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN FROM THE INSIDE,

Nicholas Eberstadt

To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn,

Rickie Lee Jones

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Jose Ramos

I thought I had made it. I never imagined I would be here marching.

Stephen Hawking

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Kim Martin

I have always imagined that I am Jim Craig.

Karen Knight

This was not something that was expected. We never imagined we'd be working with this population.

Charlie Williams

He was very well-respected as a major league ump, but I always imagined it had to be tough for a young African-American to work his way through the minor leagues in the '70s,' Reed said.

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

T. J. Miller

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

Gabriela Sabatini

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

Blake Mycoskie

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

Joseph Estrada

Why would they include me in that mess? I know nothing about issues involving him,

Chris Ahearn

We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.

Chris Ahearn

We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means, ... What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.

Luis Aragones

But all the players who have not been included know that they can return to the side if they prove themselves on the pitch.

Stella Young

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

Raza Rabbani

I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.

Charlie Higley

I agree, that since this has come up, it would have been appropriate to include more disclosure.

Tara VanDerveer

Ideally, I'd like to have an eight-or-nine player rotation, and I'd like to include another perimeter contributor.

Brene Brown

Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism

Martin Pyykkonen

That 6 percent plus or minus is about where they're stuck at.

Adolf Rosenstock

I was placed for a negative number but minus 8 is a shocker.

Gerald Cohen

But whether payrolls come in at minus 10,000 or plus 10,000, it won't tell you that much.

David Sedaris

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

David Morrissey

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

Agnes Varda

When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

Charles Spurgeon

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Chris Christie

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

Betty Who

I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!

William Shakespeare

Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!

Bill Watterson

Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?

Danny Meyer

Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.