Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Warren

Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those.

Mahmud Abbas

We have before us an opportunity to relaunch the peace process, an opportunity provided in the aftermath of the disengagement in the Gaza Strip and parts of the northern West Bank ,

Don Carty

With the economy weak and fuel prices still relatively high, we and the rest of the industry were experiencing a very difficult financial quarter even before the September 11 attacks. But the attacks and their aftermath further weakened traffic and had a staggering effect on our overall financial performance.

James Rubin

We are obviously engaged in a serious discussion with (Pakistanis) about their security in the aftermath of this decision by India to test, and how our relationship with them could be enhanced.

Boitumelo Mahlangu

We are now trying to help pregnant women who are also caught in the aftermath of the floods. Sick people cannot even get to the clinics because of the high level of waters surrounding their homes.

John Zogby

The president has managed to do early in his second term what his father did in just one term: go from record-high approval numbers in the aftermath of 9/11 to his present numbers.

Jerrold Nadler

I witnessed firsthand what happens when the federal government fails to protect public health after disaster strikes, ... The long-term impact on human health -- and public confidence in government -- is devastating. Sierra Club's report is a wake-up call that it could happen again, and I confess that I am concerned for the rescue workers and residents facing the aftermath of the Katrina Hurricane. We need a full investigation of what happened at Ground Zero and what our government plans to do in all future emergencies.

Maajid Nawaz

I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.

Melinda Shiraki

It felt like someone was pounding on the window. But it was the aftermath that was shocking.

Nat Wolff

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

Philip Shaw

The announcement was bang in line with market expectations.

Pierre Lueders

That was probably the best combination until this one. And that one would have been first-second if I hadn't fallen into the sled, slipping trying to get in, then banging into the wall on the first turn.

Joe Baldarotta

We were good all over the ice really. We were all over them, but we couldn't bang one by him. We played well and came up with nothing.

Mario Andretti

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later.

Sandra Cusack

We have all this information that tells us when we learn something new, like a new language or a new instrument, we get the biggest bang and the brain grows.

Kaley Cuoco

My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.

Kevin Hall

You can expect to see him out there banging that drum.

Richard Roby

It definitely was messing with his mind a little. Once he got the lid off, it helped his confidence. He can bang and rebound . . . He's a guy you want to have on the court.

Peter Scolari

My mother sent me lithograph years ago at the height of my television success. It said, 'When your cup runneth over, watcheth out.' I never got over it. There's something so cosmic to be inferred in that. Not necessarily anything bad, and not necessarily anything good.

Hortense Odlum

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.

Albert Einstein

I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

Eden Ahbez

We're not earthly beings any more… we're cosmic beings.

Bradley Chicho

Shine like the day I set cosmic eyes on you, friend, by the light of the sweet squash in my lovely laser broom.

Atharva Veda

THERE are three types of knowledge: Knowledge of matter-energy; knowledge of mental energy; and knowledge of cosmic energy.

Charles Soule

I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a very dark comedy book, whereas 'Red Lanterns' is more of a cosmic saga that has some jokes every once in a while.

John Ortberg

Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.

Carl Sagan

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

Carl Sagan

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

Carl Sagan

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature

Howard Bloom

How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded, bathrobed guy in the sky was supposed to have pulled off? If there was no God who said 'Let there be light,' where did we get all that light?

Howard Bloom

How does the cosmos create? That's not just any question, it's 'the' question. It's the God Problem.

Carl Sagan

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

Carl Sagan

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

Carl Sagan

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Carl Sagan

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Vikas Swarup

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

David Walton

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

Carl Rogers

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

Ken Conway

We have always raised our levels of preparedness when hosting teams with elements of disappointing spectators, but in the Bulldogs case, history proves the problems are Sydney based.

Bill Porter

Usually the soft elements rank higher than the cost. They may not pick the cheapest. We've seen this in many cases.

Brian Cook

It is close, there are only one or two elements we need to iron out.

Bob Elsner

I'm here to help the organization get some of these elements done that have long tails.

Chancellor Schüssel

We are not threatening, but we want to get more positive elements in the framework.

Marie Osmond

Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.

Gholam Aghazadeh

We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.

Kevin McCloud

Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.

Vinod Khosla

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

Dudley North

It will be objected, That the Home Trade signifies nothing to the enriching a Nation, and that the increase of Wealth comes out of Forreign Trade.

Phil Angelides

There is no justification for these executives to pocket over $300 million in payouts for just engineering a merger, ... enriching themselves at the expense of shareholders.

Shahid Kapoor

As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.

Eli Broad

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

Steve Noyce

In a week's time when the disappointment is gone - the experience is going to still be very enriching for us as a club.

Michael Fitzpatrick

With Iran indicating on Thursday that they would not stop enriching uranium, fears of sanctions surfaced which probably prompted fresh speculative buying.

Mark Ronson

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

Carlos Garcia

Typically we'll see the results of a heavy snowfall the next season.

Joe Arbona

You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop.

Rob Portman

We've got some heavy lifting over the next three months,

Jason Alexander

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

Richard Hastings

We're already seeing heavy markdowns particularly in apparel,

Adrian Smith

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Halle Berry

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

Cary Sherman

Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation. But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action.

Constance Marie

After having a baby, there will inevitably be something on your body - a mark, a scar or some loose skin - that wasn't there before.

Jim Rash

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

John Barton

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

Michael Silver

If I rely on the user to remove metadata, a lot of that metadata is inevitably going to get through. It really needs to be automated.

Paul J. Meyer

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Olivia Thirlby

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

Danny Boyle

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

Alva Noto

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Seamus Heaney

I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.

David Nabarro

And then there will be an interval of perhaps six months until we have a reasonable quantity of vaccine.

William Cowper

How soft the music of those village bellsFalling at intervals upon the earIn cadence sweet!

Rick Moranis

The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I like intervals and spaces in my music. There's just something about Dixieland.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Ann Druyan

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Bill Belichick

We executed it pretty well, ... I thought we could have done all right in the 3-4. We just got off to a rocky start.

Amanda Hoffman

We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.

JoAnne Graf

She had a rocky first game. But Tiffany has really responded.

Lester Pines

It was a description, frankly, of Rocky Rococo.

Glenn Plum

The elk rut is one of the most spectacular wildlife opportunities in the Rocky Mountains.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Andrew Coburn

You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

James Woods

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.