Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norwegian Proverb

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Mike Levine

The faculty have been working hard on this for a year now. We are starting a school improvement team which consists of faculty, parents, and students.

Navtej Sarna

This consists of 68 tons of relief materials, which is made up of 5,000 blankets, 320 tents and 4.5 tons of plastic sheets.

Michael Specter

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig.

Harlan Miller

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Patrick Carney

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

Source Unknown

Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things.

Radha Mitchell

I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.

Ali Landry

describing how he wanted to kill a member of his family. And he wanted to come and tell me the whole story as soon as he got out and how he did it. So it was just really scary for me for a while.

Les Claypool

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

Christopher Darden

Sometimes I have trouble articulating some things or describing things in a way that I think is necessary. But I never run out of ideas.

Dwight Schultz

The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?

Gabrielle Zevin

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

Tom Waits

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Rodney Harrison

Well, he's a fiery guy. He's very competitive. He's high-spirited, he's emotional. ... I guess he's similar to me. It is like describing myself,

Eleanor Catton

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

Wendy Lee

I think it's a good thing. Any diet that restricts healthful foods in vitamins and minerals is not good in the short term.

Mary Quant

I have been on a diet since 1962.

American Society

I can go on a Twinkie diet and if it's restricted enough I will lose weight,

Ciputra

I am healthy because of my strict diet. I can eat anything, but I don't eat everything.

Cathy Nonas

He had the most popular diet that ever existed, ... He was not just a doctor, he was a businessman. He made his diet into an industry, and it made him a very wealthy man.

Karin Michels

Researchers are finding more evidence that diet early in life could play a role in the development of diseases in women later in life,

Breine Stevens

If you're worried about weight gain, diet pop should be the least of your worries. I've never heard of this study and therefore would question its validity.

Rick Peterson

If you want to lose 15 pounds, it's not fair to get on the scale the first day of your diet and be discouraged if you didn't lose any weight. If your process and frame of mind are correct, then you'll lose the weight. It's the same thing with Jorge. He's learning the process, and soon he'll see ? we'll all see ? the results.

Joel Fuhrman

Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life.

Ray Arvidson

I wouldn't be surprised as we move uphill that we find a section of the rock, in fact, that was modified in a shallow open-water environment. We haven't found the smoking-gun evidence for that yet.

Jack Boatwright

There are still places where you can see evidence of the 1906 earthquake. You just have to know where to look.

Ken Tower

What would make me more optimistic is if there was evidence that money on the sidelines is being put to work. But I'm not convinced.

Michael Shermer

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

David Scott

He's a liar, in the view of the commissioner, except when it comes to his evidence about what he and Mr. Pelletier did together.

Mark Schneider

It is actually one of the really strong pieces of evidence in the report that we should be celebrating.

Wesley Clark

I think the evidence of the mass graves is confirmation of the terrible wrong done here.

William Brennan

There is a lack of evidence in this case.

Brian Doyle

There is more than enough evidence that we have good security these issues were addressed quickly and efficiently.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Robert Ringer

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Samuel Johnson

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

Walter Lippmann

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

Chris Patten

The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,

Jodi Picoult

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Lev Grossman

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

Mariano Puerta

It's very probable that I won't be able to go to Shanghai,

Jim Harrington

The long and short of it is, that these raids that are taking place are illegal, no probable cause.

Irwin Redlener

Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Susan Johnson

In Illinois, there are very scattered reports of true influenza.

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

Mark Simoneau

I haven't seen any signs of complacency on this team,

Barry Alvarez

I haven't seen any frustration. I really haven't,

Phil Garner

I thought we were going to him today, but they told him (Saturday) he could not play. I suspected that was going to be the case.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Charles Camarda

In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!

Steven Spielberg

I've always been interested in UFOs.

Tom DeLonge

I just wanna see a UFO, really

John Podesta

Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #‎ disclosure of the UFO files.

Dan Hill

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

Mark Grossman

It is kind of an unusual thing to see happen.

Robert Pattinson

It's always been strange to me that someone can say they're a vampire fan. I'm not a non-fan, but it's such an unusual thing to be a fan of. That's like saying, "I love zombie movies! I just love 'em! They're my favorite!" That's more of a psychological problem than being an actual fan.

Lise Lareau

It's unusually complicated and it's all about the hockey.

Harland Braun

It's conceivable that the D.A. could find that there is not enough evidence. It would be unusual, but this is an unusual case.

Mario Monti

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

David Arnold

It's not unusual to see significant snowfall in March.

David Hockney

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Thomas F. Wilson

Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely.