Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Adam Brown

If you look at all the speakers after the last Fed meeting, they've all held to the same line: Inflation is running on the higher side of where they're comfortable, and the growth effects from the hurricanes will be temporary.

David Card

Immigrants come in and the industries that use this type of labor grow. Taking all into account, the effects of immigration are much, much lower.

Martha Stewart

I'm sure it's had effects on me, ... I may talk about it. I may not. But I think that I'm just really looking forward to what we're doing. I'm looking forward to the next few years of great productivity and great growth for this company.

Wendy Wright

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple use -- if a woman uses it more than once.

Howard Silverblatt

All the big effects of the hurricane didn't happen.

Jim Egan

We really don't know what population effects have in terms of water quality trends.

Adolph Gottlieb

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

Bryce Kaneshiro

I thought we were going to score one before the end of the game. We had a lot of opportunities on the long throw-ins. We just didn't put it in. I'm extremely proud of my guys.

Tony Battie

It hurts to lose, but we had a good run. We would have loved the season to end on a strong note, especially here at home, to keep that winning streak alive. But it just didn't go our way tonight. We played extremely hard, but just didn't get a break.

Mark Bennett

There is huge potential for this kind of technology in Africa. It's new, but it's extremely appropriate because there are no copper-wire phone lines in much of Africa, and half the people there have never touched a phone - and never will. People are already contacting us about getting into the systems that are going up, but the question is the rate to do it so it remains sustainable.

Mark Bennett

There is huge potential for this kind of technology in Africa, ... It's new, but it's extremely appropriate because there are no copper-wire phone lines in much of Africa, and half the people there have never touched a phone - and never will. People are already contacting us about getting into the systems that are going up, but the question is the rate to do it so it remains sustainable.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Thomas Piketty

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Carlos Mencia

Going there is paying your dues. You always have to pay your dues. . . . You've just got to do it. Maybe I come from a working family. Maybe it's the voice of my mom saying, 'You've always got to be nice to people.' I look at it as saying it's going to be fun. Those people are going to be really, really happy.

Mark Calcavecchia

I thought somebody would shoot 7- or 8-under for sure, maybe even 9-under.

Champ Bailey

I was a little shocked with the recovery I made so fast. I didn't think I'd be able to do anything today. I thought maybe tomorrow, but not today.

Matt Rawitzer

I was just trying to stay even par or maybe 1-over on the back 9. I thought that would probably get it done after the way I played on the front.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Louv

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Richard Louv

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Richard Francis Burton

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Reginald Delk

I don't know. We're soul-searching right now, just trying to get a win.

Shay Espinoza

I don't know why, but that's what they were trying to do: take my baby.

Russ Ortiz

I could see that they were serious, ... Winning's important. I wanted to be a part of what they're trying to accomplish.