Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hartford Courant

Algebra was my particular nemesis, ... This gave me a strong feeling of frustration, a feeling of being unwanted. As a result, I cannot honestly say that was a particularly happy period of my life.

Richard P. Feynman

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.

Mike Flanagan

If you are devastated first thing in the morning, day in and day out, you're not thinking about Algebra II.

Shelley Hennig

I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.

Lea Barrett

For the first time for any state test, 100 percent of our students passed the Algebra I test. We had 13 scores over 400.

Debra Robinson

I don't want to see any damage to reading and algebra programs.

Reed Jackson

I don't think they can do as well if they haven't had algebra I and II and geometry, and are avid readers. Our counselors make sure these kids know they have to have the proper courses to take the test, but we do not discourage them from taking the test if they haven't had those classes yet.

Tim Allen

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Marvin Minsky

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

Dennis Patterson

It apparently was a similar type deal. They operated the same pitch, the same approach, no matter the government level.

Tony Blair

Having read in the papers that apparently I was warned of the chaos that was going to ensue in Iraq, I actually got the minute Jack sent me. It didn't do anything of the sort,

Alan Feldman

Here we watch it minute by minute. When you force it underground, anything is possible. Apparently that's a risk the NCAA is willing to take.

Chris Rankin

What is believed at this point, based on information obtained after the accident, is that she had a flat tire, and she apparently stopped the car in the traffic lane, ... From the preliminary investigation, we believe she stopped in the northbound lane and she had her hazard lights on.

Mark Valley

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

Meaghan Jette Martin

I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.

Sheriff Fewins

He got fairly well intoxicated and he got upset about something. He apparently pointed the shotgun at the kid and pulled the trigger. Fortunately, it wasn't loaded.

Ira Goldstein

Passions were definitely running high for people who remained in New Orleans. There is a large part of their lives with they need to rebuild from scratch. It has apparently has resulted in widespread frustration, which has made rebuilding efforts that much more challenging.

Flavio Gonzalez

Our operators found a valve that was turned off after work had been done on a meter. The valve apparently was damaged because it looked like it had been opened, when it was really closed.

Klaus Toepfer

I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,

Ron Kaufman

I think that he approaches government differently than perhaps his predecessors, but I don't think it has anything to do with the White House, per se, but his management style.

Scott Gottlieb

There is a disconnect between the investment we're making in discovering treatments and the result in practical treatments that are reaching patients. We think that there are scientific approaches we could be taking that would help us learn more about drugs in a shorter time and for less cost.

Gary Shaw

Today, I have signed a 'platinum chip' world-class champion whose persona transcends sports and approaches folklore in the Philippines. I feel privileged that Manny has chosen me as his promoter.

Aburizal Bakrie

Partial approaches to donations only causes more burdens.

Tom LaSorda

Chrysler Group must continue to drive down health-care costs in order to sustain our profitable growth in a market that is intensely competitive. Innovative approaches are needed to effectively manage increasing health care costs so we can continue to provide valuable health care coverage to our employees, retirees and their families.

Vladimir Putin

I have to say that this discussion showed that the differences in our approaches in the very fundamental areas are much less than that which unites us,

George Crumb

In general, I feel that the more rationalistic approaches to pitch-organization, including specifically serial technique, have given way, largely, to a more intuitive approach.

George Crumb

In any case, the task of finding fresh approaches to opera and to choral music will be inherited by the future.

Jeremy Siegel

I was looking back on when Nixon resigned and actually the market held up very well around those days. It began to tank actually after Ford came in as president and the economic news began to dim.

Drew Gilpin Faust

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.

Thomas Galvin

I think we're returning to the inflationary worries which is more painful for interest rate-sensitive (companies) and less an issue for technology. It's a similar rotation that began yesterday (Thursday). People are concerned about inflation.

Roxane Gay

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

Shaun Treacy

It goes back 2 or 3 years when we began to see quite a large growth in our event business including meetings, conferences and banquets. Our whole business grew quite dramatically over the past couple of years and we felt we were running out of space.

JD Salinas

I thank Mr. Garcia for a good race and for bringing Hidalgo County this far. I've already began researching several issues that I consider critical to residents here, and I am ready to get to work.

Eric Matthews

It has been a privilege to work with Nate the last four years. He began turning our program around and the kids respect him. The number of kids out for the team says a lot.

Lindy Ruff

He's built for the game. He's got good tools at the back end and he's a very good defender. We've never given him a set role. He began to play well on the power play and he gained a lot of confidence from that. That confidence came from him knowing that he would be in the lineup night after night.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.

Kenny Williams

There are so many formulas, equations and theories in this game right now, ... I'm sorry, but I'm getting confused. We had to go back in time and come up with some things that have always been timeless in this game.

Muhammad Iqbal

God is not a dead equation!

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.

Brandon Roy

When we won here, Salim Stoudamire didn't play. To take him out of the equation is doing a lot. Last year, he played and we didn't win.

Roger Penrose

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

Eric Young

She was part of the equation that got me back so quick.

Gary Chase

Given the combination of recent share price weakness, especially in relative context, and slightly increased revenue assumptions, we see improvement in the risk-reward equation for LCC.

John Augustine

Just as the brokerages are often a harbinger for things to come in the financial sector, the exchanges will probably fit into that equation of forward- looking financial sector indicators, and they'll revolve around the volume trends.

Robert Fisk

The Americans must leave, the Americans will leave and the terrible tragedy is the Americans can't leave because that is the equation that will turn sand into blood.

Jack Horner

Historical science is being left in the dust.

Yasuo Fukuda

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Reza Aslan

The New Testament is not a historical document.

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Sarah Sutton

I like the stories with the historical themes.

Pam Iorio

We need a whole matrix of measurements, ... Right now, we can't say what our strengths and weaknesses are. We don't have the data.

Mike Lieberthal

He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying.

Mark Prior

I don't know what adjustments I could make. My mechanics to me are about as simple as you could get.

Chris Bootcheck

I'm at the point now where I'm pitching in sequences; I'm pitching in sequences of two and sequences of three. It is not about my mechanics and it is not about my stuff. It is about competing.

Bob Gibson

It was just a natural thing for me. I don't know that I really worked on it. At some point every pitcher is in the same position in his mechanics ? how you get to that point will always be different.

Bryan Price

We want him completely healthy, and we want his mechanics sound. Until that happens, he won't pitch.

Brad Hennessey

A win is always satisfying, and my mechanics were better in L.A., but I made pitches when I had to -- and I just wish I had one pitch back. What are you going to do?

Ben Quiles

She's amazing. She locates well, and her mechanics are unbelievable. She's a smart pitcher.

Jason Isringhausen

I think I have my mechanics back in order. Things are going in the right direction. It doesn't look like it totally, but to me, they are.

Alan Furst

Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.

Brian Carlwell

I think we proved that we can play with tough teams. I don't feel like we were lucky. I feel like we won the game.

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Sage Rosenfels

I proved to myself more than anything that I could play in this league,

Carlos Arroyo

They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what makes them the No. 1 team.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Ewen Bremner

I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.

Mike Hass

Even after the years I've had in college, having proved myself, everyone still wants to see something else from me.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagin'd

Greg Zandlo

They know it's volatile, but if there's going to be quantum growth, that's where it's going to be.

John Polkinghorne

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Stephen Hawking

We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Gwendoline Christie

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

Kevin Flanagan

In San Diego, we don't try quite as hard.

Elliott Smith

I may not seem quite right,But i'm not f**ked, not quite.