Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Tina Brown

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

William Kent Krueger

Readers anticipate that a significant element of every story will be additional exposure to the ways of the Ojibwe. The truth is that I enjoy this aspect of the work. Although I have no Indian blood running through my veins, in college I prepared to be a cultural anthropologist, so exploring other cultures is exciting to me.

Yehuda Berg

With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'

Ernest Walton

The discovery that light elements could be disintegrated by artificially accelerated particles gave an additional impetus to development work on the various methods of producing them.

Maelle Gavet

The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.

Brad Nisbet

The overriding upside to the acquisition for Sun is that they now have additional 'feet on the street' who are extremely well-equipped to sell enterprise storage solutions. Yes, they have focused on tape in the enterprise, but we have no reason to expect that these additional salespeople cannot leverage their expertise on the disk systems side, taking advantage of Sun's broad disk storage systems portfolio.

Joseph Tiberi

The pay cut that the company is imposing on our members is significant and will inflict hardship on our members. But we welcome the additional time it provides us to secure a long-term contract with Northwest.

Barack Obama

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

David Clarke

The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.

Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Zaha Hadid

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Vince Cable

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Brad D. Smith

Customer-driven innovation was at the core of Intuit's first product, 'Quicken,' and it continues to guide us as we look to solve new problems in areas like mobile payments. Products like Intuit 'GoPayment' and the IntuitPayment Network are helping small businesses get paid faster, keeping cash flow strong and their business healthy.

Victoria Osteen

Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

Alice Walker

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

Stan Magee

The allegations were all baseless, without merit, highly suspect and I am very surprised that the TEA even bothered to get involved in making a judgement call in areas that were governed by our own board operating procedures.

Laura Stromberg

We are on track to gather the signatures we need, as well as a wealthy buffer because some signatures will not be valid.

John Tkacik

China's primary objective is to maintain North Korea as a buffer zone.

Padraig Harrington

I had hoped to build a buffer going into the last round but that was not to be, ... There is still a lot of hard work ahead, but I'm still happy to be right in front.

William Rehnquist

We strike down the floating buffer zones around people entering and leaving the clinics because they burden more speech than is necessary to serve the relevant government interests,

Ryan Russell

Writing a buffer exploit is not the easiest thing in the world, but I've seen plenty of people do it.

Alan Miller

The fact that much of our supply of nitrogen fertilizers is imported should somewhat buffer the direct impact of Katrina's damage to natural-gas production capacity, but in the short run, nitrogen prices could increase,

Stephen McDonald

This would be a policy change for tribal government. We could take commercial-size timber from the buffer zone as part of a fire management project.

Simon Wardell

Supplies are ample and stockpiles are rising. We're still lacking spare production capacity but the market is fairly happy that there's a good buffer in place in the form of inventories.

John Karevoll

But when prices don't go up as fast, you don't have that built-up equity like you did before. People won't have that buffer the way they did a year or two ago.

Chris White

That was the defining thing to me about the whole trip - man did that, not Mother Nature.

Kristi Johnson

We have been working hard on defining our tourism focus and marketing it.

Max Lawson

We are really depressed. We are left clawing our way back to commitments made three years ago. When we start defining success as simply standing still, that's a terrible situation to be in.

David Hopkins

For me, this is one of the defining images from that period of history.

O. Winston

For the short run, gasoline prices are going to be the dominant element in defining the economy.

Bruno Julliard

Today is a defining victory but there are still many issues outstanding.

Bill Cowher

I think it does in a lot of people's eyes. To me, it is a lot more about the journey than the final destination.... But in a lot of people's eyes, it is the defining part of a career.

Robert Shaffer

We're in the middle of the integration test cycle. There haven't been any surprises installing the system. Just defining rules and policies, trying to determine how everything should work.

Steve Harmon

Very few have been successful. Nuance is really defining voice interface.

Siti Supari

We don't distinguish between the three, ... But how they got infected is still unknown.

Babatunde Osotimehin

We reckon that about 50,000 infected people are now receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment nationwide.

Mikko Hypponen

But at least you know someone on your premises has an infected phone.

Vera Wang

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

Kary Mullis

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

Daniel Blumenthal

Treatment for those infected is not very good. Many people have died,

Maria Cheng

We know that mammals can be infected by H5N1, but we don't know what this means for humans.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Bertrand Russell

Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?

Rodney Stark

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

David Phelps

Members are very much scrambling to see what's going to happen,

Patrick McHenry

I thought it would take years for a new member to become a player, ... It's better than I expected.

Lambis Nikolaou

I was the only one of the 104 members who did not vote.

Mark Morton

To become a member of the National Organization you have to stand an inspection.

Jenni Allen

I was pleased with representation on the committee. There were a variety of different opinions and we've successfully incorporated every member of the third-year class.

Gorden Blain

If I'm going to be a member of Rivals, they want the message boards. If I pulled the message boards, then I would be lopped off the network.

O. J. Simpson

I think it will do very well ... As with most compromises, there are parts they like and parts they don't.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Ken Thompson

We're an International truck dealer, sales, parts and service.

Tuppence Middleton

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

Tela Mange

We don't know what parts are going to be implemented or how we are going to do it yet.

Erich Merkle

Someone has to make sure Delphi's parts are not interrupted.

Julie Johnson

Our own rendition of the show is made up of parts of three different scripts of the play.

Jim Hunter

We just want to make sure we have a good, safe race. It's really more of a precaution than anything.

William Cooper

We'll know more when we can do more testing, ... This is strictly a precaution right now but it's better to be safe than sorry.

Bill Oliver

We're sorry that this happened. We take every precaution to prevent these things from happening.

Jim Hunter

We want to be safe. It's more of a precaution than anything else.

Pat Gallagher

Security isn't so much a problem in the school, but this is another precaution that we can take.

Fred Smoot

We're just taking a precaution to make sure I'm ready for Sept. 11.

John Asher

It's prudent to take every precaution you can.

Ricardo Zuniga

In every previous use of the team and its facility, there has never been any kind of exposure. Every precaution is taken to make sure the work is done in a safe and secure and sanitary environment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

Scott Mills

We can't go out and be everywhere, ... With the public's help, we are taking these 'grows' down one by one.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Jack Evans

There are not even any discussions about it taking place around here.

Geno Auriemma

I think she's taking it pretty seriously. You know, it's that time of the year.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

Mark Cuban

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

Robbie Tobeck

He's kind of in the zone right now.

John Gibbons

He was in command. He was down in the zone all night.

Rick Renteria

He was up in the zone a little too much.

David Lange

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

John Goodwin

Some of that is a construction zone now,

Jeb Putzier

That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.

Chris Hovan

You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment.

Pat Metheny

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly