Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Ray Pollock

'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.

Jim Edmonds

What we have now at the Port of Houston is a collection of docks that we operate and a variety of cargoes. At the port, there are 200 trading nations and 1,000 ports that deal with Houston.

Rick Rashid

Going forward, we plan to develop a countrywide mechanism with the Indian department of science and technology for spatial data creation, collection and dissemination that can be used for multiple applications such as disaster management.

Derrick Brooks

Going up in my collection with all my other stuff.

R. Ingram

It is a fine, well-centered collection of materials for the history of science.

Steve Lee

We are extremely proud of our collection of historical railroad equipment, which is the largest of any U. S. railroad, especially our steam locomotives.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I think that the collection is very much sophisticated and very woman. It's elegant, not at all sportswear. But it's very much like daytime, but elegant.

Patricia Stevens

I was always enthralled in Latin American art. I even got to work on a collection of Latin women self-portraits. They were so beautiful.

Melissa Peterman

I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how not to be perfect.

George Hodgson

I would sign up for the view that industrial, 'old economy' stocks could well be the next to move higher. But I don't see a definitive move until we see some of the economic data in July.

William Dunkelberg

Katrina does put a wrinkle in the outlook. But the survey data indicate strong third and fourth quarters.

Greg Schulz

Keep track of the patterns. This won't stop just one instance of data loss -- this is for recognizing ongoing issues with your security.

Sam Stovall

I think investors want to see improvement in the economic data so that the feeling is that the Fed doesn't need to lower interest rates. That in itself is a positive.

Alex Li

I think investors have their eyes onto...the host of economic data for next week, which will probably be more exciting than this week's.

Jim Zeigler

It can be a watershed district, it can be a school district, it could be another state agency. Just about anybody, if we have good samples, can submit data and we would use the data for this program. So when we talk about who's contributing, it's a really wide range of folks that are doing that.

George V. Higgins

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

Marten Mickos

There are specific situations where an existing database is too expensive, too difficult to maintain or is for some other reason nearing its end of life. That's where migrations make sense,

Larry Ellison

We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.

John Ashcroft

I would say that Mr. Thompson and Mr. Olson are very outstanding individuals, whose records of public service, including service with this Department of Justice, are exemplary records. But those are not my announcements to make, ... Those are presidential appointments and they will require, in each case, the confirmation by the United States Senate.

Boris Schlossberg

Katrina's effect was far less destructive than initially feared. The true extent of the damage, however, may not be known until next month when the Labor Department will make adjustments to this preliminary reading,

Stephen Miller

Just smoke everywhere and everyone busy. The fire department running around.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

James McDonough

I think it really puts the department on very solid footing to do its missions and do it in a streamlined and effective manner. This is a very healthy and very positive realignment.

Jerry Moran

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Sibel Edmonds

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.

Larry Ellison

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Mary Berry

What we want to find out is how do you get police officers like Officer Volpe on a police department in the first place.

Morris Gleitzman

Kids aren't political, but around 10 years old, they are beginning to develop the moral grounding that might later, in their teens, develop into their first real political perspectives.

Steven Liu

I wouldn't be surprised to hear of more acquisitions in other developed markets in the near future.

Mark Bailey

Kansas as a whole is mostly rural. How can we develop this model in a much more rural population? How do you do this in Hays, Great Bend, Salina? That's the next big issue.

Robert Taylor

I think it is probably wise that we are together meeting right now because of the war on terror, and this disaster we had down in the Gulf is all the more reason we should get together and talk about and develop a legislative package that assists the men and women of the Guard in the future,

Tony Russa

I actually think the wins in the minor leagues are more meaningful. You're developing prospects.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Newt Gingrich

He is purely and simply the most important developer of effective management and of effective public policy in the 20th century, ... In the more than 30 years that I've studied him, talked with him and learned from him, he has been invaluable and irreplaceable.

Jorma Ollila

Half of the mobile phones sold this year will be sold in developing countries.

Susumu Tonegawa

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

David Paulison

Katrina is the largest flood disaster in our nation's history, and it requires us to take a new look at how we process flood insurance claims. Our mutual goal is to get families into the recovery process as quickly as possible.

Tom Mann

Katrina is one of the most disruptive and challenging disaster in American history,

Charles Morgan

It also pays dividends for our state. When we have some type of national disaster or a manmade disaster, we can get video fairly quickly.

Suzy Pelican

Going in without a list is usually kind of a disaster for most of us. You're going on hunger and a whim and not planning well.

Davitt McAteer

Historically, investigations of mine disasters in the United States have never involved the families of the victims. That era ends today.

Dave Soule

It is great to get a win like this to start the season after last year's disaster. The team has grown up from last year.

Tom Page

What do I think? It's wonderful. A strike would have been such a disaster.

Bill Bakamus

We tinkered with disaster there a few times. It was a fast-paced game. That's fine with us. We're versatile enough to play that way.

Boris Yeltsin

Today, a day of mourning, a new disaster hit us, ... Terrorism has declared war on us ... Terrorists are trying to scare the Russian people. They are trying to demoralize the state.

Tasneem Aslam

We take the last statement of the Indian spokesman welcoming our initiative.

Buddha

He is able who thinks he is able.

Ron Edmonds

Pittman is tough. She's an outstanding player. I'll vote for her as an Indiana All-Star.

Daniel Hope

Intense study with Indian musicians such as Gaurav Majumdar and Zakir Hussain has inspired me to rethink my view of instrumental sound.

Pranab Mukherjee

If the plane lands, it will be obstructed from taking off. We will also intercept it in the sky to prevent it from leaving Indian airspace,

Dee Brown

I'm just looking at Indiana on Sunday. You just have to worry about yourself. You have to win and see what happens.

Jamie Bell

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

Robin Reynolds

Indian Wells was missing 10 of the top 15 players. And Miami (which is a mandatory tournament) missed some players.

Larry Noble

Indian tribes have become a political force, and they have to be looked at that way with regard to political contributions.

Sean Carroll

The mechanisms that make the small differences between species are the same ones that make the big differences between kingdoms,

Paskah Suzetta

The mechanism is still the same in 2006 but in 2007 we will replace (cash subsidy) with a conditional subsidy and we will allocate some Rp4 trillion.

John Robertson

The mechanism is relating the wrong things. The scarcity problem is not being addressed.

Felix Rohatyn

The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.

Kenneth Langone

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

Kevin Yates

I thought that we made some strong swims. There were multiple (personal-best times).

Charles Moore

In the same way that it's multiple sources, it's multiple solutions.

Jim Goetz

If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

Neal Shusterman

...You know something, don't you?" "I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific." "Just answer the question." "True/false or multiple choice?

Kevin Hause

It's really subjective. For the foreseeable future, we're going to have multiple formats.

Will Strauss

They are used when you have multiple video streams and you have to translate from MPEG 2 to MPEG 4 for several streams.

Rob Senseney

They were more multiple offense. I'm more of a true spread guy. It's a totally different philosophy.

Lauren Conrad

When you do multiple things you love, it doesn't feel like work.

John Irving

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

Jason Hanson

Keller had a big game. It was someone we didn't really plan on.

Bo Ryan

He'll be able to play as a post player and a perimeter player. That equates to a four, possibly a three, but at this time, we don't plan on playing him as a five.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Kenneth Chenault

My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

Stephen Fowler

Having a plan for an end-use would help.

Andre Ward

He's a tough kid. Somebody has to go (down), and I don't plan on it being me.

Jim Bowden

I think you have to plan that he will not be back this year and be pleasantly surprised if he is.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Jim Parker

We're in the process of making plans for this Sunday and beyond.

Greg Taylor

We can do science at every step of the way (during the project's expansion).

Richard P. Feynman

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

Richard P. Feynman

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Richard P. Feynman

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Richard Power

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Richard Dawkins

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

Richard Dawkins

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Richelle Mead

Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

Reshma Shetty

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.

Ronnie Dunn

In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

Ron Conway

Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them.

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...