Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

Paul Moskal

I think it's fairly close. It's accepted as state-of-the-art science, and it's very powerful evidence in that it's science as opposed to personal opinion.

John Breaux

I think anything that is perceived as parliamentary maneuvering to get out of this is not going to be accepted by the American public, ... It's going to have to be out front. It's going to have to be fair.

Steve McClaren

I was very surprised, very shocked and very disappointed. Really, it was accepted reluctantly on our behalf. But as always, you only want players who are happy here, who want to play for your football club, and Mark has made it known he wants to move on, so we have reluctantly accepted that.

Bill Schwartz

I went through a challenging review process by the school's review committee. They offered me the job, and I accepted it.

Lupita Nyong'o

I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.

Madeline Albright

I was 11, and I do remember being very excited, but also a little scared, because I did not know whether I would be accepted in this new land,

Chris Roberson

I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator's Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator's Bill of Rights - in an issue of 'The Comics Journal,' if I'm not mistaken - I accepted it as gospel.

John Deane

I would suspect you will see activity (at the site) in the next two weeks.

Jim Harrison

It can (rise and fall) in feet; it's not instantaneous, but it's very noticeable. Any up-and-down activity like that just puts another stress on the environment and the uses of the river.

Larry Rogers

Harrisonburg has a strong economy, possibly the strongest economy in the Valley. That's where this activity comes from.

Tony Stewart

It's very easy to get caught up in everything that's going on and just daily stuff being a distraction. When you have all that taken away from you, your daily activity becomes a lot more subtle, and you appreciate it all a lot more.

Mark Epstein

I think the important thing, and the lesson to be learned from England, is that cautionary, very cautionary behavior and activity is mandated in this case.

John Challenger

With M&A activity up, we're seeing more condensing of things like duplicate headquarters, banks on adjacent corners, duplicate warehouses, ... It's definitely something that's going to fuel more downsizing in 2004.

Lara Rhame

With M&A activity picking up, productivity growth will stay robust, and that means continued new efficiencies, and a lot of that will overshadow new job creation.

Dick Cheney

I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time, ... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

Minoru Tada

I think we'll see a pickup in market activity in the afternoon, but for now market participants are reluctant to take positions ahead of Bush's address later in the morning.

Alex Cintron

I was in shock. I was happy, though. (Arizona) didn't have the confidence in myself. They were looking to trade me and I came here to Chicago. It is going to be good for me.

Melissa Arms

Kim couldn't have done that routine better. She had a great week at practice and came in very confident.

Jay Lapidus

Joey did a good job of fighting. He did a good job of being aggressive. We have a lot of confidence in him and he came through for us today.

Robert Hammonds

Joel played with a lot of heart, tonight. He didn't score when we came over here last time. He really got after it and we have to have that out of our seniors.

Peter Doherty

Joe kept us in the game in the second period, then he came out in the third and gave up a couple of real beauties.

Ron Nelson

Josh was a little off tonight. He was probably trying a little too hard because he knows a lot of those guys. But Matt did exactly what he's capable of doing. He came in and gave us a good four innings.

Bill Brooks

Josh is still pretty young, but he gained so much experience from his dad. When I found out his dad came in I knew that would be a good team. His father reminds me of Charlie Wingate, who was a good trainer for me. That's a big plus for Josh.

Gary Walker

I talk to him all the time, ... I just tell him, 'That's what you came here for. You're a first-round pick. You're going to be fine.'

Randy Jackson

It actually came off as a nice kind of package. I actually liked it, man, I liked it.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Gary Anderson

Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.

Vince Young

Just like those other guys, you've got to start somewhere. They are close to me, and I know they won't hurt me. And they are intelligent. I have the last say-so on everything, but they know what I want and the things I'm trying to accomplish.

Lee Terry

Just pick you out a tree to stand under. I usually stay here pretty close to the truck. They don't seem to mind that.

Sarah Krycinski

Jordan gave it all he had. It was good time for him, close to a personal record.

Chris Simms

Joey and I have a very close relationship; we talk about routes like that all the time. When we come up to the line of scrimmage in that situation, we have two routes in mind.

Brian Cashman

Joe has a great deal of trust in him. Joe has worked close with Ron for a number of years, and he's been talking to him for three years about replacing Mel when Mel decided to retire. This is the man he wanted.

Frank Castillo

J.P. got a pretty good look but it just didn't drop. The games in this district are so close that it comes down to making plays and making free throws.

S. Walker

I think it really (threw us off). Some of the girls didn't know whether to play on them or play off. It slowed the pace down a lot and that's what kept the score close until we went on our run, and that forced them to play a faster game.

Syd Barrett

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Thomas Dolby

If you think back to the '70's, there were these new tools, with very few people using them in pop music. There's a real parallel with that now.

Thomas Dolby

If you're Take That for example, you don't need to be seen in the studio. But they have their own fans, and their fans would like a way to get closer.

Thomas Dolby

I'm actually more interested in the other half of the world, because I wouldn't like to be excluded from any of this technology.

Robin Gibb

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

Tina Charles

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Damon Albarn

Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

William Booth

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Ovid

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

Natalie Coughlin

I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

Lewis Black

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Lucy Larcom

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

Eric Thomas

I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Austin Carlile

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

Thomas Nagel

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.