Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Krogh

In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would be extremely interesting to know just how the giraffe avoids the development of filtration oedema in its long legs.

Charles Schumer

I'm going to do everything I can to try and craft a compromise that avoids a lengthy trial,

Dennis Patterson

It's a short meet, so anything can happen. Garcia is getting on some live horses for some top barns, so he might have a good shot to pull off an upset if he avoids suspensions and injuries.

Don Murray

This avoids the scenario of a 17cm pair of scissors ending up sewn into somebody's abdomen,

Jack Layton

This avoids the holiday election that nobody wants,

Mitchell Ribitwer

It's a fair deal because it avoids any more trauma and misery for the Weinstein family.

David Adelman

The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.

Michael Chertoff

The whole point of this program is let people decide the fate of their own lives, ... And I think that avoids the whole issue of someone coming from outside and saying, 'You must do this' or 'You must do that.'

Larry Harvey

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

Natalie Cole

God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

Patrik Elias

We've got to keep believing in us. We know that if we play our game we can be successful.

Leonard Perry

I think we have our kids believing now that we are talented enough to win some games. We improved during this game, and I'm looking forward to Saturday's game. I fully expect to win this game on Saturday.

Sheldon Souray

I think believing is the first thing because momentum is a funny thing some times. You get momentum and luck and things start happening and you just get that feeling.

John Cohen

We made some great defensive plays when it really mattered. You work out of those situations some times and you just start believing its going to happen and tonight it did.

Kelsang Gyatso

Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.

James Randi

I don't doubt the sincerity of dowsers, but even after we've demonstrated that they can't produce results that are any better than chance they'll still go away believing in their abilities, ... It is like the mother whose son is caught shoplifting on tape. She wonders why someone would want to frame her child by producing a fake video.

Greg Puhalski

He scored 34 goals in juniors (with Kingston of the Ontario Hockey league in 1997-98). He's more than capable of scoring 30-plus or 40-plus goals in our league. He just needs to get it set in his mind, and I think he's believing more and more than he has that ability.

Peter Ueberroth

he had heard from several IOC members who said they were confused at the time of the voting, believing softball was merely an extension of baseball, and now regretted their vote.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Phil Harrison

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Richard Feynman

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

Maurice Allais

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

Randy Mayes

I was born into it. I had gone to court and watched him work and he seemed to enjoy it.

Tie Domi

I was born into business through my father. I was one of those kids who always wanted to be around his father when he was working. I used to be a fly on the wall when my dad went around. He had plazas, laundromats, that kind of thing. Just not to the extent that I'm doing it.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Amy Jones

Kevin wants to change the course of his life and just get out of the industry. It was his decision. It's a life choice.

Richard Applegate

I would try to talk to your employer and see if they would change the investments, ... You might as well try if the choices stink or the offerings are really expensive.

Jeff Murray

Jack Reynolds (the developer's attorney) told me that a simple language change in their development proposal resulted in the need to rezone the site. They changed the language from 'senior living' to 'age-restricted' and apparently, doing so requires a rezoning if they want to develop the site in the way that they propose.

Robert Boswell

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

Mike Stoller

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

Al Bowman

Just to put that in perspective, a traffic ticket is a summary offense. It happened years ago in college. I think, obviously, Mike has changed quite a bit, as we all have, in these last eight years or six years. I'm sure he's not proud of these.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Dan Saferstein

Just when you think to expect the usual, you see straw truckers, fedoras and cowboy straws come out and change the trend.

Otis Williams

I'm not impressed with the state of music and the lyrics, guys on stage grabbing their Johnson. That's why people still cling to (old) Motown. It's music they can listen to with their kids.

Ben Hatfield

The families, much like the people working in the command center, are clinging to every hope.

Plato

A kiss, and touch of lips; not strange my Soul should cling - Strive to cross, weep to turn, and starve with me poor thing

John Ciardi

It's not a how-to-do-it school but more nearly a confessional in which people who have spent their lives at the writing process itemize their failures while clinging to their hopes.

Trish McDermott

You think that these tools are for the young and the older you are, the more you cling to tradition.

Nikki Blahusch

It's something for the lip color to cling to.

Nur Misuari

It will take a lot of persuasion ... that's why I am not promising a miracle at all. We should be prepared for any eventuality because these people will cling to these hostages tooth and nail, I'm sure.

Tyrus Thomas

It was just my nature. I never cling to people at first.

Robert Kiyosaki

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Samuel Johnson

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

William Blake

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Rodman Philbrick

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

Robert South

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.

Saul Alinsky

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

Rohinton Mistry

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

Roger Scruton

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Stan Ross

Kaiser does a great job with communicating to his defense, really showing experience. Kyle sees the outside shot extremely well and has come in from day one and competed for time.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Georgi Parvanov

I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Jacques Rogge

He is sleeping extremely well and I am sleeping extremely well.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

Paula Gianino

What we have is a growing extreme movement of pharmacists who don't want to dispense, but who even refuse to give back the prescription and refuse to tell the patient where they can get the prescription filled.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Greg Behrendt

This life is yours and no one else's, and if you spend your time looking at other people's pages, you'll never get anything done.

Gong Li

My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Thomas Lynch

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

David Clarke

He wants ten inches. Right in the middle of the fillet.

Susan Jovanovic

He'd be out on the track, running on his sled in the middle of the night.

Aaron Nieckula

Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80. I told him to work the middle and pitch to contact.

Lynn Kimbrough

It could be something criminal. We're in the middle of the investigation.

Adam Mueller

We're pretty pleased with where we're at. We're right in the middle of it, and it's going to be a very important weekend for us.

Larry Wortzel

We're in the middle of methodically moving through this.

Todd Wilkinson

We're in the middle of it. We're rolling now. There won't be any let up.

Henry Winkler

I think this is the most important depository in the Middle West.

Liz Miller

I think we're in the middle of this painful period and we're just going to churn around for a while.

Bill Russell

They have the right to protest, but are misguided in the views.

John Gage

provides this administration with an opportunity to rethink its misguided wholesale privatization policy.

Christine Teigen

People are still under the misguided impression that models don't eat. Not sure about the other girls, but I do!

Greg Boyle

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.

Jane March

Incredibly, I've been mistaken for Kylie Minogue many times. People look at me, and you can see them thinking, 'She's somebody - but I don't know who.'

Helen Humphreys

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

Paul Valery

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Daddy Yankee

The shooters had mistaken me for someone else.

Edward M. Lerner

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

Scott Berryessa

Many mistakenly think that equates to a 6 percent salary increase.

Rebecca Solnit

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Mikhail Bakunin

Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

Peter Murphy

[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

John Green

I don't see any point in nihilism...just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

John Dewey

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

Jimmy Carr

Say what you want about the deaf...

Alan Moore

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

David Foster Wallace

Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.

Ambrose Bierce

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Tyler Oakley

I remember having 100 views on a video and being like, "I don't have a hundred friends." So that was a moment.