Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

Isabella Bird

I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.

Ismail Kadare

I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.

Giraldus Cambrensis

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Yuri Milner

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

Virginia Postrel

Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.

Virginia Postrel

Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.

Abraham Lincoln

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Ezra Taft Benson

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

Roberto Moreno

We have thousands of kids, Hispanic kids, who are at the doorstop of arguably the most extraordinary mountain recreation terrain in the United States and never participate.

Shaw Wu

Today, they're arguably the strongest company around in terms of their technology ... their customer base and their brand name.

Doug Mirabelli

It definitely had that playoff atmosphere. It was two guys, going head-to-head, that are arguably our No. 1?s right now.

Alan Trammel

It is easy to second-guess me, but it was my call. I'd like someone to give me a guarantee that David Ortiz wouldn't have done that to Nate Robertson. We're talking about someone who is arguably one of the best players in baseball.

Keating Holland

Many Americans did not watch the speech. Those who did were 2-to-1 Republican, so most were arguably already in the president's camp.

Jeffrey Logsdon

Management makes a very impressive presentation of taking this company and building what is arguably the last pure-play franchise in the filmed entertainment business. Certainly the chairman of the firm has a history of turning companies around, and there's no reason to think he won't do that here too.

Nicholas Martin

Like the city of Venice, everything has been said about August Wilson, but what demands repetition is that he's arguably the finest playwright of the second half of the last century. And that with Lorraine Hansberry, he is responsible for making the real black experience part of the American consciousness.

David Janollari

It feels to me like arguably our best move of the year.

Provost Hobson

We received more state appropriations than the previous biennium. But with growth and inflation, we arguably didn't gain funding. That left us with a seriously deteriorated student/faculty ratio.

Xun Zi

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Don Knauss

Litigation is completely inappropriate and unfounded in light of the ongoing discussions between the company and all our bottlers to respond to a major customer's request for the benefit of everyone. We are extremely disappointed that a few individuals are attempting to hijack those discussions.

Val McDermid

I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.

Joseph Cella

When it comes to debates over public policy and issues, Dean should be welcoming the voice of America's churches, not attempting to silence them.

Scott Wright

We received a call from the BB&T in Mount Holly from one of the tellers. They recognized a female subject that was at the bank attempting to do what they call a check deposit split scam.

Sam Flood

We're always attempting to balance the sounds of the race with our commentators' voices to give viewers the best experience possible. It's something we're very aware of and something that we're always trying to improve.

Aden Darity

We're not the antidote. We're not attempting to be the opposition choice.

Mitchell Ribitwer

Chris, in his mind, was basically on a mission from God. He believed in a higher authority. His mother was not going to stand in his way. He was attempting to stop the abortionists. He was attempting to stop the pornographers. He wanted to save children.

Lance Armstrong

I look forward to leading this team and attempting to give the great folks at Discovery a yellow jersey. I'm more motivated than ever.

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vikram Seth

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Zubin Mehta

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Ellen Key

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

Gail Kelly

I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.

Geoff Hoon

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.

Michael Dell

The 55 percent growth is very consistent with what we've seen over the last 14 years,

Jonathan Fulton

That was a great experience. The thing that I realized was that the game isn't any different, it's just that everyone's more consistent and the pitchers are around the plate more. That's really the only difference. Nobody was real overpowering.

Sean Murphy

We just didn't play well. We just weren't consistent on offense, which makes it tough on defense.

Chris Renner

We hadn't played well in two games here, but we're not the same team we were then. We have been improving each game. We're more consistent on offense, and we played great defense.

Angie Krebs

We were so consistent throughout the entire game. It was great to see.

Kevin Stallings

We've had consistent breakdowns, especially offensively. Unfortunately, some of the same guys are making the mistakes.

Fidel Ramos

We have been very consistent in our position that the labor issues be better addressed by the International Labor Organization, ... and that the human rights issues be taken up in the political arena.

Mike Kudla

That was a low point for us. We had to either go up or down from there. We responded to that. Where we are now, our starting point was really that game. We just grew from there and it was one of those deals where we got better each week.

Vasco Moreno

Me-too deals will occur or at least be proposed but hopefully the market will prevail and tell managers such deals won't be executed.

Don Gher

I think this is a ground-breaker for them. We'll see what the implications will be. ... There are probably more deals on the table.

Anthony Reyes

I was expecting to go three. It's one of those deals where it's your first day. Nothing is going down.

Doug Leggate

It doesn't take long in this price environment for these deals to pay for themselves.

Kirsten Borgstrom

We do know people are looking for those deals and discounts, looking to save dollars wherever they possibly can.

Grant Teichman

We really want to see what the difference is between the way a permanent president deals with the different constituencies opposed to an interim president.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division; this is why, in the history of religions, priesthood has always maintained dissensions and hindered the freedom of man. But the principle of life unites, it deals with the v

Hedda Hopper

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Paul Fleischman

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

Gerry Wright

It explains where these things come from in the first place. This work could prove to be extremely valuable to the drug development process.

Juan Guzman

He has to be questioned ... he has the right to be heard, to be listened to, so that he explains his participation or non-participation in the events.

Richard Conway

He explains the decisions, which is important to our people because if we fail to prove something we can be better prepared next time,

George Feltenstein

For years, there has always been speculation, does this footage exist, so we have a piece that actually explains what it was and we do a recreation of it. For fans of the film, that's a big, important thing.

Nayvadius Cash

I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.

Sarah West

Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices.

Nassau William Senior

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

Jeff Bell

Success is a journey, not a destination, which explains why I'm not there yet

Irwin Cotler

Judges look at the gravity of the offence and the responsibility of the offender in determining sentences,

Charles Caleb Colton

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Arthur C. Clarke

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

Albert Einstein

Gravity is a response to geometry.

Lee Smolin

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.

Robin Bell

Over the lakes, the pull of gravity is much weaker, so we know there must be a big hole down there.

Douglas William Jerrold

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Benny Johnson

Well, when do we talk about it? They don't seem to understand the gravity of this.

O. Henry

The moon buggy is lighter in space because there's less gravity there.

Stephen Hawking

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Luis Walter Alvarez

When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.

Brian Greene

We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.

Chris Hall

The fluorocarbon particles are pretty small, and you don't want those sitting in your lungs.

Gary Apodaca

We just didn't come ready to play; I could see it when we were warming up. We were there physically but not mentally, and we had a long talk after the game.

Miguel Angel Silvestre

I studied physical therapy, and I started to study theater because my aunt is a theater director.

Bob Gansler

Just his physical presence (6-foot-5, 210) scares the you-know-what out of you.

Hannah Simone

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

Domhnall Gleeson

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

Ricardo Patton

I think I'm playing too many guys. I need to find a rotation that will play physical in a physical league.

Tina Martin

We'll get those results, brace her, get her into physical therapy and see if she'll be able to play in the tournament.

Dave Duncan

To be a vert guy, you have to train and put on your gear. It's physically demanding.

Jon Gruden

You'd have to take a big yellow excavator to get me out of here. I'm here for the long haul, unless someone comes and physically removes me.

David Hilbert

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

Antony Garrett Lisi

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

Ben Stein

There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

Daniel H. Wilson

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

Elizabeth Moon

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Edward Witten

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

Albert Einstein

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

Albert Einstein

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Michael White

Tomorrow is going to be a big physics day.

Phil Everly

My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.

Jason Rich

We've been winning, losing, winning, losing. We've got to string wins together.

Aldous Huxley

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

David Joy

We'll see if Goldman can keep that string going.

Eddie Van Halen

I boil the strings so they stretch.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

David Platt

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

Jules Shear

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Jules Shear

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

Myron Scholes

I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.

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.