Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sushmita Banerjee

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Dave Bike

We can't let them play their up-tempo style. We won't be able to run with them. They are playing well, despite having lost three, 1,000 (career) point scorers from last season. They haven't really missed a beat. We need to slow this game down.

Ashraf Laidi

Today's trade figures are a stark reminder to the structural deficiencies of the U.S. economy and the reason for our negative dollar outlook for the year despite (its) recent bounce.

Philip Reeve

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Paul Muldoon

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Peggy Lipton

Despite 'Mod Squad's hit status, I never really made the inner connection that I was contributing.

Dave Taylor

Most IT Managers have seen an increase in the number of mobile or field workers by around a third, but despite this increase, they are expected to manage these workers with inadequate tools.

Danny Sullivan

Microsoft's problem is that despite having all this stuff, they haven't really budged their share of search.

Julie Cordova

I thought I did okay despite the lack of training, but one of my listeners told me that while I thought I was playing music to take a break, I was actually recording!

Chuck Palahniuk

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Anthony Chan

The overall weakness was so pervasive that it would be silly to completely dismiss the devastating weakness of this report.

Frank Mateljan

We have the option to proceed with the citation or dismiss it.

Hannah Kent

I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.

Gary Link

I won't surmise from that that we've been 100 percent dismissed from the committee, because as soon as I would surmise that, I would misinterpret what someone had said to me. But that's accurate. We will not be involved in any of the meetings.

Colin Morton

I would be surprised if someone was willing to pay at this price for the stock. I am pretty cynical, but I am loath to dismiss it completely.

Mike Blouin

I don't think you dismiss out of hand an independent, nonpartisan report from an entity that's looked and used the same factors to grade all 50 states as something that's totally erroneous.

Raul Garcia

I did not know. If I would have known, I would have dismissed him immediately.

Gore Vidal

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Bruce Douglas

The rates as obscene as they may sound are, in relation to the risk, nothing.

Lamar Whitmer

I just think it's obscene to scare the public with public safety cuts. They need to prioritize the budget.

Bill Rosendahl

The word 'vagina' is not an obscene word and we're not in a position to question the First Amendment.

Roland Barthes

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

Peter Morici

We're starting to get into the zone where if this persists its problematic,

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

E. F. Schumacher

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

M. Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Bo Burnham

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Brian Greene

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Bill Owens

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Walter Jones

I think so. This is the ultimate goal.

Donald Trump

I say God is the ultimate.

Donald Trump

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage