Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

William Cavendish

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Barack Obama

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.

F. Sionil Jose

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

Antoine Halff

We have an economy that has shown signs of slowing. With energy prices at extremely high levels -- and now moving above those levels -- this is kind of a double whammy,

Gilbert White

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

Takumi Tsunoda

The output figure was below expectations, but it doesn't change our view that the underlying expansionary trend continues.

Brian Kernighan

Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.

Dennis Christopher

I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

Rep. Joyner

We need to increase the salaries of our teachers because we're $6,000 below the national average. And that just will not cut it.

John Spinello

Today the flows have changed. We did see some selling this morning of the back end of the Treasury market and perhaps that's just a little disappointment that the stock market didn't go further below 10,000.

Charles Baudelaire

To lepers and to outcasts thou dost show - that passion is the paradise below

Deanna Anderson

We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there.

Kris McKoin

We've looked at some studies from out West, and typically schools that fall below 100 students don't stay open.

Marsha Blackburn

We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.

Mike Shern

We're just not playing good hockey right now. We need to put out a good enough effort to win a game. We need more kids to out there and make things happen. I need some light bulbs to start going on in their heads.

George Benson

One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.

Allen Ginsberg

We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.

Scott Simms

Now that fluorescent bulbs are more commonplace, that's one piece of the picture that's contributing to savings.

Steve Jobs

And you guys were putting Java in light bulbs and everything else,

Dennis Richards

It would be great if we would get so much stuff that we have to send another trailer down in November, ... We know as time passes there will be different needs, things like light bulbs and lumber. We will probably continue for six months to a year, as long as they still need our help.

Mario Batali

It's more interesting to talk about the whole lily family and say, did you know that lily bulbs are also part of the onion family? It's like the stream-of-consciousness way I think about food when I'm just cooking it.

Claude Shannon

by staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder to read.

Don Yaeger

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Vince Gilligan

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Judith Butler

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Jess Gomez

We have to wonder if there is a true community need for another program, given the limited number of liver transplants that are performed each year in this area. If you have two centers competing for 40 to 45 patients a year, will either one get the needed volume of patients to ensure excellent outcomes?

Rick Smolan

They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.

Avery Johnson

We have three centers and none of those guys can do any cameos at small forward or point guard, so that leaves the rest of the guys. We need them to play now.

Ariel Sharon

We will remain in the centers of the cities,

Patrick Rothfuss

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.

Deborah Lewis

Most locals understand, but some don't. The reason why we enjoy the lifestyle we do is because of our tourism-based economy, ... I think it stands to reason that that's why visitor centers exist in any community it's that you hope to have that kind of a sales impact on a visitor coming through to get them to stay a day longer.

Richie Sambora

When you're sick on the road, it's the worst. That's when you become the most vulnerable and neurotic. You become scared. If I had a cold or a chest infection, and I had to sing all those high parts, there was stage fright.

S. Walker

I'm still grateful I get the honor to put my country's name on my chest as a coach.

Marvin Minsky

I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.

Stacy London

A lot of women don't realize that even a small heel helps you throw your shoulders back and keep your chest up; it really does make a difference in the way you present yourself. It changes your posture and makes you look more confident.

Chris Higgins

Without a doubt, without that inserted in her chest I would have come back from the grocery store and found my wife dead.

Ryan Klesko

Nine times out of 10 he hit you right in the chest (on throws).

Connor Rabinowitz

I was scared. I mean, no one's going to get excited when someone tells you they're going to have to cut your chest open and take out your heart.

Brandon Stockton

I was shocked at first. I was suspecting he was going to hug me or something, and I got the chest bump, too.

LeBron James

I don't remember getting elbowed in the chest or pushed. It was something I never felt before.

Tyra Banks

I used to really panic about finals. I didn't understand the concept of how you could have one test that encompasses the entire semester.

Yoko Ono

To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

Vince Vaughn

I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.

Ellen Key

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

Annie Leibovitz

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

Brad Goreski

Going into 'Details' magazine to pitch concepts for a potential photo shoot was one of the most nerve-wracking things I had ever done. I didn't really know what one did in a pitch, how they were structured, etc., and that freaked me out big time.

Robert Bixby

That would undermine the whole concept of fiscal discipline.

Charles Carrier

We need to have tax relief for those who really need tax relief. The concept of tax cuts is fine, but we want it targeted.

Mark Zuckerberg

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Bonnie Tyler

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Scott Nelson

We have also seen large operations that think hosted model makes more sense.

Robert Owen

We have very large classrooms, ... And we're already under-resourced ... the school is overwhelmingly poor.

Carl Cohn

The pattern that you will find in the people I appoint is they have extraordinary people skills,

John Mitchell

I suspect it's a pattern you will see here.

Jonathan Day

It comes down to what the rainfall patterns are,

James Montier

Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail,

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.