Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Kay

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

Bill Maher

I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

Benjamin Hoff

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

Camilla Luddington

I definitely have curves. I dont intend on losing them.

Chaske Spencer

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

Fred Zimny

It's just tricky. It's an extremely technical track and extremely fast down there at the bottom. If you get something wrong in a curve, it's just the way the curve sends you. You get shot up to the roof.

Kevin Flanagan

A lot of curve flattening trades had to be reversed.

Richard Yamarone

For all intents and purposes the Fed is going to move at a measured pace whether that word is in there or not. And now, the longer end of the yield curve should react more to Fed moves.

Lee Sterrey

It's only a learning curve for a lot of them as this is their first trip.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Trot Nixon

We started off sluggish. But we fed off our fans.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Trevor Hoffman

When your horse is out there and pitches his butt off, my job is to nail it down, ... We would've liked to have fed off Jake's energy. The kid threw the heck out of the ball.

Mark Vitner

There is no operating manual that says what a neutral fed funds rate is, but the Fed knows that it's higher than 3 percent,

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Brandon Boyd

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

Kevin Tynan

Whether longer term that actually makes a difference, I have questions about that.

Eric Schmitt

We're going to see a longer PC lifespan,

John Murtha

Absolutely, we're the target. We're the enemy, ... (The Iraqis) are a proud people, they've been around a lot longer than we have. They've going to win this themselves, they're going to settle this themselves. They have to, there's no alternative.

Jason Scott Lee

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

Arrian

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.

Tanya Harris

This is a major declaration of intent. We no longer want to be talked about--we now want to do the talking for ourselves.

David Winstead

It's no longer there, and we couldn't find records of where it went or didn't go. If you don't know who took it, you can't get it back.

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

George Voinovich

They should be measured on it and if they don't meet the standard, they get docked for it.

Kara Carney

It's not tangible. The passage of time is measured differently.

William McCorriston

This is a treasure and probably could never be measured in just terms of money." ()

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Jeffrey Benjamin

You are measured by whether you take personal accountability, or not.

Ken Roberts

What is measured improves, and what isn't measured doesn't improve. It's an incentive. Providers don't want to be at 85 percent when their neighbors are higher.

Michael Hawley

Turns out that no one has measured the wind speed at the summit,

Juliana Hatfield

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Deborah Marshall

We have no plans to move at this time.

Chris Bell

When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.

Sean Smith

We started picking up the pace and that's the type of team we are.

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Arthur Golden

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

Sean Dillon

They picked up the pace for us defensively.

John Naveaux

They started putting a lot of pressure on us and that's not a pace we like to play at.

Joe Tucci

It is very difficult, with the pace of technological development, to go it alone.

Brett Casey

It really helped. The more you get into the game; you know what's going on and where people are going to be, and the pace of the game.

John Hawkes

The speed of the race is a concern. There is not a lot of pace in the race,

David Katz

You don't know who's going to win until they actually win and by the time stocks react to that, it's too late.

Al Goldman

What has been going on is a very sharp reaction to a slowing economy.

Rolf Elgeti

We're seeing a technical reaction to yesterday's sell-off. But, I think we'll be seeing more selling Thursday and Friday.

David Davis

They say you react seriously as you do practice, ... so this is one thing that we do with the exercise.

Steve Miller

There was much more reaction than we expected.

Matt Fletcher

It's all or nothing. You just have to react and go for it. You have no time to think, you just react. In the 300 you have to react and know what you're doing.

Sergei Markov

They react to the music. The artistry, the inspiration of the musicianship comes first.

Kevin Bailey

There's a wide variety of reactions in trauma situations, so I would say, yes, it could be,

Rafael Marquez

It was going on through the game. His reaction is understandable.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Steve Johnson

It's not really whether they have an ordinance, it's how it works,

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Barney Frank

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Carlos Castaneda

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

Agnes Repplier

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Carl Jung

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.