Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Johnson

Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.

Greg Gibson

Ramon ran very well. He broke 17 minutes for the first time.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

William Dalrymple

The old cliche of the cartridges really was terribly important. It was the issue that broke the camel's back, in every sense.

Bob Bell

The old City Hall was in the fire hall, and if a fire broke out, business shut down because you couldn't hear anymore. Gale was well respected and probably could have stayed mayor for a long time after that if he would have wanted to.

Mohammad Farzaneh

So the whole structure is weakened and collapses. Our system ties down the roof joists and rafters to the exterior walls down to the foundation. If windows and doors are broken and the house is twisted on its foundation, the occupants are still safe.

Robert Philips

Texas Instruments' conference call left people pretty cold. That broke the momentum of that group and has spilled over into other tech stocks.

Ron Rose

Sometimes in poker, no matter how you play the hand, you can go broke on it because you have a hand that you just can't get away from. Sometimes it works out that way.

Robert Novak

Tell me why the mayor is worried about fat people when he could be worried about this broken city. He could be putting lights on the streets instead of this.

Matt Walker

Ours is a grass-roots effort, ... We're talking to people, going door to door instead of hiring outside contractors to call people like Mr. Ecke is doing.

Laura Douglas

Our (customer service) call volume has been lower than the typical call volume.

David Mandelbrot

Our announcement today is really a call for participation. We're hoping for more funding from other organizations.

Alan Evans

People say we're a jazz group. But there's no way I would ever call myself a jazz drummer. The only thing that's jazz about us is keeping the need to move forward and evolve.

Marcia Stefanick

People shouldn't be disappointed by the studies. It's just a wake-up call that simply reducing your total dietary fat is not enough.

Gary Locke

People should call us and let us know if they're going to do some burning. That way we know what's going on if we get fire calls.

Jeffrey Tate

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.

Gary Karr

People can go to senior centers, people can call a local number, or go to a local event to get the help they need, ... Because it is clear that some will need expert assistance. We just can't rely on press releases out of Washington to do it.

Debbie Norton

People don't always realize they're running a business. You're actually on call 24/7. If a pipe breaks, your tenant will need to be able to contact you.

Paul Elliott

As a team, I think we're right where want to be (entering the conference schedule). I'm happy with our effort so far.

Kevin Stallings

As I told them right after the game last night, we won our first two conference games last year, then we proceeded to lose four of six. Our response to that game is more important than the game itself.

Joe Sakic

Our conference is so tight, and the play is tight, we are watching the scoreboard every night. Tonight is just one game, and we are in first for a day. We just will hope to continue it.

Jamie Dixon

Our conference has prepared us better than any other conference since I've been around the Big East. I'm not surprised how it has played out because of how many good teams there are here.

Brian Barber

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.

Bill Fennelly

It would be a phenomenal upset for us to go real deep in this tournament. The conference tournaments were created to make money and give teams hope. The Big 12 can make the money, and we'll have the hope.

Derek Dougan

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

Joe Dumars

That's what we all have to live with, because we've set a very high standard here. We've been at least to the conference finals three straight years and we've been a 50-win team four years in a row.

Avery Johnson

We hope we're back, as like any Western Conference team that's going to playoffs. But we've got too much work to do.

Kenneth Prewitt

are groups not likely to use the Internet.

Edward Lincoln

So there's a different group of people managing the Japan relationship.

Bill Cowher

I've been waiting a long time to do this. This is yours, man. This is special group of coaches, a special group of players and I was a small part.

Kevin Wilson

Things have changed; we have a different group there. We have to put them (offensive linemen) in better positions, and we're going to do that as a team.

Joe Bline

This is a tremendous run for any group of kids.

Shelia Smith

This is the first time we have ever reached the second round here. This is a different group than what we've had in the past, but we still seemed a little nervous today.

Lao Tzu

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

John Orgren

This group of 60-year-olds is probably the healthiest and wealthiest group of so-called retirees ever.

Karin Leary

This group knew they would not be making the trip upstate if they lost today and that was huge for them. They knew this could be it and they were not going to let that happen. They know where they want to go.

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Gerard Kennedy

This is a serious problem that should not be left unchecked,

Brad Johnson

The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

David Moorcroft

Essentially, what she left on the table at the TSX, they're making up for it here.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Sarah Kendall

Did he have weapons with him when he left the house?

Gary Smith

Corporations left and right are dumping their obligations and promises.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Shane Doan

To get momentum like that is huge. We've got to find a way to keep it going. We've let it slip away too many times.

Brian Brohm

We got that momentum going, got in a rhythm, and you saw (that) once we get into it, we can do pretty much anything we want to, ... We've got to get into that rhythm every game.

Marlon Brando

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

Frank Sharry

I'm a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.

Kasey Kahne

We had momentum. We've had momentum all weekend long.

Dick Powell

When it starts to move it will make a lot of noise and it will move and have a lot of momentum and take anything in its way out.

Hannah Arendt

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Matt Smith

People think snow is the sole reason we go out, and it's a total misnomer.

Jennifer Lee

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

Lauri Ward

People think it's going to make the room look bigger, but it's going to make it look worse.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Craig Newmark

Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.

Jack Gillis

Our sense is that people don't have enough put away for a rainy day.

Lee Miller

Other people tend to value you the way you value yourself,

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Robert Orr

This is not some technical or arcane requirement.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Burton Richter

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Carol Burnett

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Janis Joplin

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games...

Bella Thorne

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Bill Hicks

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

Charles Bukowski

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.

Duane Chapman

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Alistair Cooke

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

Angie Harmon

And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having trouble with a scene, I'll just go over to him and be like, "I have no idea what's happening here. What are we doing?" He's just been such a wonderful sounding board and, obviously, he's a tremendously talented actor.

Danny Glover

Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from (the) death penalty were Afro-Americans or Hispanics. (Bush) promoted a Conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.