Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Koo

Having the infrared data from Spitzer allows us to measure the star formation rates very accurately because we are no longer blinded by dust.

Ridley Scott

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

Steve Scott

We maintain that we can do a better job of accurately portraying what's going on in a courtroom if we can use the best tools available to us.

Tom Herman

He needs to trust that his footwork will take him to the completions. If you don't take the proper footwork, it's hard to throw accurately and on time.

Martina Rupp

Roche is confident the advertising accurately and appropriately reflects the clinical findings.

Drew Peck

Optical networking is exploding, and the market will experience tremendous growth during the next decade. As we noted with Digital Subscriber Lines, few important technologies experience smooth and steady adoption cycles. Customers cannot accurately calculate the exact rate of adoption, and the inevitable result is inventory imbalances.

John Hanning Speke

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.

John Mackey

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

David Williamson

the true effect of this drug I'm not sure if we can determine accurately from the study as it was designed and implemented.

Don McKinnon

I think the plea is falling on deaf ears.

Matthew Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

O. Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Joseph Tacopina

She's pretty much totally deaf now. She can't hear me. We have to write things back and forth. Anything I have to communicate with her now has to be written.

Paul Carvel

Sign language is useful to the deaf but vital to the Italians.

J. D. Salinger

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

Jewish Proverb

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.

Siddha Nagarjuna

Who is blind, dumb and deaf will live a peaceful life of a hundred years.

Indian Proverb

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Tom Turner

I think its important that kids have homework about every night,

Alex Wood

He had done his homework on me. I like that. He was serious about me.

Donna Shalala

It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.

Peter Lynch

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

Silas Lee

He's someone respected for doing his homework on issues. He's viewed as a very serious, very studious person.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

Olivier Martinez

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Shekhar Kapur

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

E. Hicks

We don't like the media. They're portraying him as a selfish person.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.