Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

Chuck Palahniuk

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

Abraham Lincoln

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

Colin Angle

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead to an actual product.

David Byrne

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Marina Ottaway

The policy of the Bush administration concerning democracy-building always proceeded along two tracks, with rhetoric that was somewhat far-reaching accompanied by the second level of actual diplomatic contacts with Arab countries, which have been very cautious.

Bee Wilson

In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

David R. Ellis

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

Zadie Smith

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

Wendy Kopp

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

David Byrne

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

Brooke Burke

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Natasha Trethewey

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Ninette de Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Steve McNamara

That was the only blight on the game. It was a good, tough hit-out. We got out of it exactly what we wanted to get out of it.

Scott Graf

That was the hit that really got us going. When Theresa hit that homer, it picked everyone up. That was exactly what we needed at that point of the game. We needed somebody to step up and Theresa did just that.

Marsha Lowry

We need to know exactly what we can expect to see from the agency.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

Vidya Balan

I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?

Pat Coyle

We have an eight-player rotation and those players are going to play. If I can keep their minutes in the 20s instead of the 30s, I'll do it.

Margot Robbie

I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.

Paul Lancaster

We have to look for the pass more, too, instead of settling for the 3. When the 3 is not going, we can go to penetration.

Jeff Katz

We're working on solutions instead of just rehashing the problem.

Ranulph Fiennes

Will I spend my life in a wheelchair? Tottering around my lounge, instead of running up mountain passes or navigating glaciers?

Andy Roddick

I thought he played great, let's get that out there right now. He really took it to me so I was playing reactive instead of active.

Mitt Romney

I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what I believe.

Gretchen Rubin

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

Julia Glass

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

Woody Norris

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

Anthony Kiedis

Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.

Jules Verne

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

Thomas Heatherwick

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

Alan Alda

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

Ed Perry

We will never be able to replicate what WJDA did, but we will try to do our best.

Brandon Gray

It would be an extraordinary success if they were able to replicate that in every city. It would be a mega-blockbuster.

Steve Wagner

If it works, and I know it will, we need to look at how to replicate it elsewhere.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.