Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Thomas

That would be a disaster because there would be no pressure on anyone to move forward. In the absence of broadly defined and accepted standards, we have to find a way to interconnect systems while at the same time continuing to refine and define standards.

Marguerite Gardiner

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Neil Buckholtz

This research is intriguing because it associates genetic risk for dementia with twins' cognitive deficits, even in the absence of dementia. The differences in cognitive deficits between identical and fraternal twins are also important, suggesting that the twins who were more similar genetically had the greater risk.

David Briggs

There basically is an absence of sellers in the market. It seems the market is a little ahead of itself, but people are reluctant to sell. People are still putting money to work here in the market.

William Wordsworth

Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant / Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air / Of absence withers what was once so fair?

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy

Michael Hearst

We were working on, at the very end, how do you demonstrate the absence of ants? This is more of a control program now.

Max Mathurin

We will continue to assume our responsibilities and find a way to continue the electoral operations in his absence.

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Shannon Currier

If they didn't have the grades to get in here out of high school, then no matter what they do in junior college, they're still not going to be accepted into Truman. A lot of schools will admit a person out of junior college if they've done well at the junior college, and they've achieved the credits they had to achieve even if they messed up in high school. That's the difference.

Ridley Scott

I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.

Rod Stewart

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

Chris Mihm

I've never seen anyone score 62 points. That third quarter was something else. He was scoring at will.

Orrin Hatch

I've never seen anyone do a better job. You have made a very, very strong presentation here.

Forrest Bell

I've never known anyone with as much capacity to remember, care about and minister to other people.

Mike Richter

I've never met anyone who's a bigger fan of other people's success than him. I think that's a unique thing to his personality and that's an empowering thing, particularly to the young guys in the organization. He is interested in how people are doing and not just as a team, but personally and what contributions they are making and what he can do to make them better. It sounds unimportant, but it's a really subtle and special thing that comes from him.

Joan Smith

I've never met anyone who describes himself as a motorist, a noun that conjures up a chap with a moustache and leather driving gloves in an open-topped roadster.

Micky Mallette

I've never met anyone as special as Maggie Dixon, and I'm positive I'll never meet another person who can even come close to matching her love for life or her love for people. Even though we only knew her for a short period of time, we'll always carry her in our hearts.

Ben Street

I've probably been out there when it's been 15 below to 20 below. I don't think anyone will beat Mac on that one.

James Browning

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Ed Rollins

It would be a very big mistake to think John Spencer - no offense to John, who I guess was a decent enough mayor - to move him to a level of where anyone is going to take him seriously as a U.S. Senate candidate. Unfortunately, John Spencer wouldn't know which side of the Capitol the U.S. Senate meets.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Todd Bradley

I feel the time is right for me to move on to another challenge.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Frank Murkowski

If you tinker with it you so do, as I've indicated a long time ago, at your peril.