Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Ham

There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.

Stephen Fried

I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowed to try on the Crown Jewels. He was a great, remarkable man.

Kurt Warner

I was looking for someone that was willing to give me a chance to play the game the way I played again. He definitely allowed me to do that. ... It wasn't necessarily what he had done with quarterbacks in the past, although it never hurts to be a part of a team or with a coach that has had great offensive success and great success with quarterbacks.

Ben Wizner

Kidnapping an innocent man and sending him to a secret location to be tortured is not only illegal, it is immoral. We need a full and complete investigation of a policy that has allowed countless detainees, some of them entirely innocent, to be tortured in our names.

Owen Williams

Know your stuff. That makes it easier to avoid nasty surprises, such as a contract coming up for renewal with no clauses capping price increases in it, when you have allowed yourself no time to renegotiate anything.

S. Hughes

Here's a conference with the Foreign Secretary tackling some of the most controversial issues of the day and people aren't allowed to stay in their seats if they shout any protest, even restrained protest,

Tommy Amaker

He's a good basketball player, certainly he played very well this afternoon. I think that he was the catalyst that allowed them to get such a big lead early.

Lindsay Meggs

His performance was important because it allowed us to rest our pen and use those guys in the second game.

Karen Woodall

Historically, we're not allowed to have more than one migrant issue each session. So overall, we've done very well.

Christine Sinclair

I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

J. Taylor

I don't blame them for organizing. If I was a newly arrived immigrant in this country, because we are all at one point or another immigrants, I would be upset with the rhetoric being thrown around in response to their hard work and efforts in this country.

Silvio Berlusconi

He is already in Italy. I think he arrived overnight.

Bob Capener

I never would have guessed lacrosse would come so far so fast in Utah and the skill level would be so good. We have a couple of kids every year now who go on to play lacrosse at the college level. Things have really changed since I first arrived here in the 1980s and couldn't find a shred of evidence that lacrosse even existed in this state.

Helen Fielding

I recently bought a house in L.A., and I was so pleased with myself. I thought I had arrived and I was going to be glamorous and live in Hollywood and it was going to be marvelous. Cut to six weeks later. The first time it rained the ceiling collapsed,

Caron Butler

I'm just happy because this is such a great situation for me and my family, ... I know a good fit when I see one and from the time I arrived here in Washington, the organization has made me and my family feel so welcome. I'm excited about knowing that my future will be with this team.

Jeremy Lloyd

I knew I had arrived when taxi drivers would say, 'You're that twit on the Billy Cotton Show, aren't you?'

Sydney Brenner

I immediately began to read about bacterial viruses and in October 1952 I arrived in Oxford to do a Ph.D. in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory.

Christopher Lee

You could come in, know the proprietor, know the menu, know what you wanted to eat before you arrived and know you will be treated with friendship and respect and see someone you know.

Yvonne Strahovski

I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.

Denise Mina

Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.

Kurt Braunohler

In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.

Joanna Lumley

I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

Benjamin Watson

The goal is always to play the perfect game. I've just had bits and pieces so far.

John Battelle

As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code - whether it's the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.

Jonathan Brandis

Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.

Cheryl Magnussen

It was a volunteer position and that was her whole life, it would take someone who had that time to commit (to replace her), or it would take a lot of different people getting together who have little bits of time that could work together, because it was done so hugely. That made me think that it's important for people to step up and try to do what they can do for Variety to continue that, and to bring it into focus so the contributions continue to keep coming in.

Sam Kinison

Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

Troy Glaus

J.P. has brought in pitchers and hitters to help out and that's just what we're going to try and do. We're going to try to put this team back to the level it's been before and the level it deserves to be.

Robert Lewis

He led one public life ... but there was a second side, a hidden side to Henry J. Lyons, a side that caused him to be brought here to this seat,

Tony Jaa

I love every type of martial arts, but with Muay Thai in general, I want to see it being brought to the public more. There is no movie that has Muay Thai incorporated into it, so I want to bring that to the public.

Sufjan Stevens

In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I've been thinking about how subjective history is.

B. F. Skinner

This was one of those days where we weren't playing really well and just brought it together at the right time. I give a lot of credit to our kids for staying with it.

R. Robinson

There are so many things to learn and it's not just a source of amusement, but it is sometimes hilarious. Not too long ago they brought in this woman who was about 70 and she was naked as a jaybird out directing traffic on I-65.

Paul Williamson

There are so many community leaders who came here to go to college and have stayed and given back to the community. Flagler College brought us here.

Dan Gilroy

I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

Ryan Tucker

What we haven't had here in the past is a quarterback who has some confidence about himself. Somebody that comes in the huddle and takes control, is confident enough in the offense to make O-line calls if he has to. That's what he's brought to the table.

Eleanor Groden

They will tend aphids like little cattle that they farm.

Marsha Daughenbaugh

It's another effort by cattle producers to produce high-quality products for the consumers in the U.S..

Bible Bible

And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

Dennis Laycraft

Because feeder cattle flow to where the feed is the cheapest, a lot will depend on what happens this summer with the weather.

Jose Pena

We are expecting more hot weather, but even if it starts raining right now, it would take a long time for grass to grow tall enough so cattle can graze it, ... We would need at least 40 or 45 days of moist soil conditions.

Lee Mendelson

We thought we had destroyed Peanuts . It just didn't work. And the network didn't like it. It was too slow; we had used kids' voices and that jazz music.

Karl Turner

I will never get over this. This has just about destroyed me.

Richard Engel

The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.

Jose Serrano

They killed children. They killed innocent people and destroyed poor people's houses, ... It's the world's most discredited guerrilla movement.

Dan Grossman

The Senate took the fine work Rep. May did in the House of Representatives and destroyed it.

Philip Hoffman

The movie is about knowing that somebody has lost his soul out there, somebody has destroyed a part of himself. ... The minute he saw Perry Smith, the outcome was inevitable that two men would die -- one literally and the other figuratively.

John Gifford

The most important shipwrecks in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, I would say probably 95 percent of them, have already been destroyed by treasure hunters over the last 30 or 40 years.

Rusty Ladd

Salazar destroyed that little girl's body, just destroyed it.

John Park

It was a nice getaway, just like a little cabin. A lot of my members are distraught because they made something for everybody and some yahoo goes in and destroyed it for everybody.

Pascal Lamy

It is the Europeans and the Americans that must budge,

Richard Flanagan

I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.

Michael Caine

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Chris Tomlinson

I feel I've lost ground. I got to 22, I'd been to the finals of the Olympics, the Commonwealths, Worlds and Europeans and you think, 'This is it, 23, time to do it.' I'm now 24 and time moves on.

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

William Robertson Smith

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

William Jennings Bryan

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Willa Cather

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Willa Cather

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

Wangari Maathai

Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

W. S. Gilbert

Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I don't eat carbs after 17h00 and I drink skimmed milk.

Bob Dylan

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

E. B. White

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

Danny Garcia

Milk Duds. It doesn't' bother me that it gets stuck in my teeth or anything.

Tina Fey

Then she took out a speculum the size of a milk shake machine. Even Michelle Duggar would have flinched at this thing, but I had never seen one before.

Mason Cooley

Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Cai Wu

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.

John Buchanan Robinson

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

John Buchanan Robinson

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Epictetus

You lose only the things you have

Michael Isikoff

The news comes in code, and mostly the silences speak.

Hamadoun Toure

They are mostly unidentified combatants killed with machetes.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

Cate Blanchett

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

John Carr

You mostly come to these things to support other musicians,

Ernie Els

Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.

Eric Holder

Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

Rose George

We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater into oceans turns freshwater into the less useful salty stuff, and desalination is expensive.

Steven Sacks

You could do projection work onto these other buildings. You'd need permission, of course. Unless you own them.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Graham Cluley

The worry is that the problems with the patch may have prevented it from being successfully rolled out onto some vulnerable computers.

Jack Messman

the window of opportunity for migrating will be when Vista comes onto the market.

John Updike

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

Stewart Hall

You got a lot of people targeting 1.12. People are hopping onto the train.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Jonathan Burns

What we're talking about here are relatively small co-pays.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Ian Hart

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.