Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Shubin

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish. The shoulder, elbow, and even parts of the wrist are already there and working in ways similar to the earliest land-living animals.

Richard Platt

We are particularly interested in recognizing unusual patterns of illness at the earliest possible time.

Theodor Mommsen

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Paul Theroux

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

Adam Clayton

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

Alan Alda

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

Sam Walker

It is, on our records, probably one of the earliest ones, as far as our recorded history goes, in 126, 130 years.

David Sanborn

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

Margot Asquith

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

David Dye

We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.

Ed Looney

I think it's a devastating illness, it's an illness that if it's not treated, it will end up that the person's whole lifestyle will be affected.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Thomas Mann

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Paul Larsen

People like to think mental illness means insane, when thats just not true. There has to be a social conscious-wakening around it.

Pete Earley

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

David D. Burns

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

Marianne Williamson

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Rassie Erasmus

We have to win to regain momentum. Winning is all we are interested in.

Reese Witherspoon

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Mary Ellen Mark

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Jeff Fisher

We have to look at lot of things. We are interested in doing it, but whether we pull it off remains to be seen.

Jonathan Day

It comes down to what the rainfall patterns are,

David Mitchell

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

Bertrand Russell

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Bill Hicks

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

Bruce Lee

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

Albert Einstein

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

Albert Einstein

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

Brian Gibson

patterns or something in it to try to resolve this issue.

David Garcia

We're urging people, particularly on Padre Island, in the strongest possible terms to evacuate.

Korey Rowe

It didn't seem possible and it took a long time to sink in.

Mark Warren

We are doing everything possible to treat the water,

Nick Harper

I was trying to get it as soon as possible and get to where there were no defenders, find a clearing, and score.

Asaf Shariv

We have to prepare for the worst possible scenario.

Yuri Andropov

Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

Michiel Huisman

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

Pete Carroll

If I'm lucky, I can see 7-8 possible recruits at these meets.

Mario Theissen

I think it could be possible but in the end it's a sport.

Cecelia Ahern

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

Mike Owens

I wrote 'white, back of wing.' It was unusual enough that I wrote it down.

David Hockney

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing unusual about love.

Bobby Farrelly

In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

Mark Grossman

It is kind of an unusual thing to see happen.

Dan Hill

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

E. M. Forster

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Deepak Chopra

Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.