Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Changizi

Company logos, for example, are meant to be recognized, and we found that logos have a high correlation. Shorthand systems, which are meant to give a note-taker speed at the expense of a commonly recognizable system of symbols, do not.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Janet Jackson

Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

Blaise Pascal

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

Edmund Hillary

We had so much in common [with June Hillary] that we just carried on with life as we had been doing. It wasn't easy, but it was - I realise now that it was the only thing to do.

William Wordsworth

Turning, for them who pass, the common dustOf servile opportunity to gold.

David Gee

Common sense will tell you that we're only going to get more of these as people get more desperate,

Ronald Reagan

Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Craig James

Providing the economy continues to grow and earnings continue to rise and look set to continue to rise then we are going to see the share market respond to that, and indeed that is what we are seeing in terms of Japan.

Duane Grant

The work they do continues to be on the cutting edge of bio-energy.

Claes Fornell

The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.

Parris Glendening

The fact is, if water consumption continues at the current rate, there is only a 35-day supply in these reservoirs.

Ian Blair

At the moment we have nothing that links the two groups, but the investigation still continues and there is an intuitive view that says that each group of four are so similar that we must have concerns, and we do.

Howard Dean

Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses; we are on the ballots,

Mark Warner

We need to look at what is going to be the long-term future of our Guard when states need to rely on these soldiers for emergencies and the nation continues to rely on them for overseas deployment.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Steve Camp

The crimes which I'm guilty of were several years ago and nothing since.

Mark Potok

I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes. Anti-Christian crimes are exceedingly rare in the South. It's more likely to be teenagers or a mentally ill person.

Howard Safir

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,

S. J. Rozan

The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

Luo Gan

We need to launch a crackdown on organized crimes and evil forces, and enhance anti-corruption measures to prevent them from undermining China's stability.

Mark Godsey

The database is very important on solving old crimes and new crimes. It's also important for protecting innocence.

Jeff Kline

To say there's no more of a heinous crime, you must not be reading the newspapers or watching television because there are all kinds of stories out there of little girls getting taken and killed. I can think of thousands of crimes that are more heinous.

Lee Feinstein

A week's delay is no problem, but if this falls apart, it's a problem. This is the essence of the exit strategy. Without this, it will be hard for the U.S. to point to Iraq as a success.

Gary Keith

DeLay has been a lightning rod for people for the last three or four years.

Paul McMasters

Delay and denial are routine and regular except for the most routine of information.

Manuel Miranda

Delay always harms a nominee. That's the No. 1 rule of nominations, but what they could do in a week when most people are on recess, I'm not so sure.

Jim Leach

A delay does not serve well the North Korean people,

Michio Kaku

Saturn is not going away, ... Neither are the planets. What's the rush? Why not delay our space probes a bit, make them smaller and more sophisticated and use solar power?

Marvin Kalb

Is it the leadership of the House? Is it Hastert? Is it DeLay?

Bill Watterson

We've had a few, but considering the length of the delay, it has not been bad.

Dick Armey

Tom DeLay has not even engaged in a formal vote count,

Terry Austin

We regret and hate to lose an industry of that caliber.

Aziz Ansari

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

Ayn Rand

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

Jamie Dimon

I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.

Cesar Chavez

Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.

Cesar Chavez

I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.

Alain de Botton

Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.

Aimee Mullins

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

Janet Street-Porter

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Brandon Cruz

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Augusten Burroughs

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.

Channing Tatum

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Tom Cole

The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.

Kirk Hammett

The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.'

Larry Coker

There's always been talent in South Florida, it just didn't stay here.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Mark Shields

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

George Mason

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Frances Townsend

Two in South Asia, two in Southeast Asia.

Edward Abbey

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

David Attenborough

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

Studs Terkel

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

Patricia Briggs

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

Mort Sahl

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

Merv Griffin

I will not be back after these messages

Cassandra Clare

Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head.

Bum Phillips

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I’ll know I died in good health.

Freddie Mercury

It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd get back, somehow.