Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

Errol Logue

Having accepted her scholarship and doing this will allow her to just have fun and enjoy it. She doesn't have to feel pressure now.

Stephen Roach

Greenspan's remarks appear to be more balanced than in the past. He is moving into closer alignment with what has become accepted practice in most central banking circles. Missing, however, is what a central bank should do in order to avoid the pitfalls of excess dependence on overvalued assets.

Teemu Selanne

Guys have accepted the roles given to them and they do not complain. They are not playing as much as they would in the NHL, but they are not complaining.

Susumu Tonegawa

I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.

Doug Williams

There are so many messages out there that we are not important, that we are just a number. But it shouldn't be like that within a family. That's a place we are accepted and we should be reminded of that daily.

Ramesh Pandey

What we have been doing here in our country is nothing new and far from accepted norms and practices that should provoke the hue and cry that we are witnessing these days.

Steve Mann

He recreated an art form that nobody would tell him. He mastered it and surpassed history. And it wasn't long before he was accepted as an artist.

Steve Crampton

What you have is an alignment of cases -- of the stars, if you will -- in favor of a dramatic shift in the U.S. Supreme Court that certainly holds great promise for the preservation of life.

Russ Blackburn

It could just be the alignment of the stars.

Jim Ledford

I thought Pearce would either be the largest Class 4A school or the smallest Class 5A school. That wouldn't have been good. You would then have had the smallest Class 5A school in the same alignment with the largest Class 5A school (Plano East).

Chuck Long

I thought overall the execution was good on both sides of the football. I was looking for a few things. I was looking for an improvement on penalties over last week, which we did, and better alignment on assignment, which we did. We still need to take care of the ball better, but defensively we created some turnovers, which was plus for them.

Bill Davidson

He was successful when we asked him to throw it. Portsmouth played an eight-man front all game and we are able to block it. We connived a lot of looks for them such as putting our fullback in motion, shifting. We did some thing they probably have never seen us do before. It caused them some alignment problems, but that's what we decided we were going to try to do.

Randy Ort

I don?t know exactly what the alignment is at this point; I haven?t seen the final line on the map myself.

Van Jones

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.

Mike Ricci

In the summertime, we do a lot of video work. With that, I can show them if their head is moving too far or if the ball position or alignment isn't right.

Bruce Thomas

In the first half we had a couple of alignment errors. We corrected that, got the right people in and made plays.

William Holmes

Kevin and Bert won in the primary, and this tells the voters who the candidates will be who appear on the Democratic line on the ballot.

Mark Payne

Kent had a great tournament. He's only been wrestling for three years, but it appears he's being doing it his whole life.

Steve Bartlett

I would think it's something that will deserve consideration at some point. But first, they have to find a deal they're interested in, and nothing at this point appears to be on the front burner. I assume that teams will sit back and make decisions closer to the trade deadline.

Capt. Froomin

I would say the odds are very high that it's a homicide. It does not appear to be natural causes or suicide.

Ken Dunham

It actually appears to be a pretty good design.

Judy Nadler

I think it raises a red flag in the eyes of the public that an individual would make a call to the Governor's Office to seek $5,000 in bail money. There is certainly the appearance that she may have been seeking some favorable disposition to her legal situation by calling the Governor's Office... It calls into question his judgment.

Kelly Flinn

I think it does give the appearance of preferential treatment with respect to gender or with respect to rank,

Carol Stone

I think investors will pay attention to this appearance by the Fed chairman. He will outline the Federal Reserve's own workings. This will be interesting because many speakers from the Federal Reserves have recently discussed the fact that we are going to have a recovery, but it's going to be slow,

Mike Ledford

It certainly appears there is very little control of the procurement cards in the department. It is clear the sheriff is not reviewing what is going on in the department.

Alan Skrainka

I think investors should take a step back and look at the big picture. I think the (Fed) is doing its job and investors should do theirs -- avoid those companies that do not have a track record of growth.

Howard Wolfson

he wants to avoid for as long as possible talking about national issues.

Robert McClure

He wanted to avoid a full-scale food fight. He wanted to make certain that she was not open to strong opposition from the left." ()

Marc Bulger

He definitely hunted me down like that. But it's football. I could've easily avoided him and ran away. But those things happen.

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Bruce Gordon

He is our secret weapon to help young African-Americans avoid gangs. We want to save his life so he can save the lives of others.

David Wyss

Greenspan has had the most successful tenure in Fed history. He kept inflation under very tight control while avoiding any major recessions.

Pan Yue

Green GDP deducts ecological and environmental losses. It is able to more fully test and measure the quality of economic development and avoid false achievements.

Christine Whitman

has literally, we believe, avoided the spread of this very malicious virus to personal computers throughout ... the world.

Dick Hill

I think it's a good, balanced budget, and we could always amend it,

Tustin Amole

He can make those kinds of statements in a classroom provided he gives a balanced point of view. We're trying to determine whether or not he did that.

Tony Stewart

It's like, what if you get a set of tires that aren't balanced right or a driveshaft that's vibrating. That could create a problem. You try to think of every possible scenario of what can make you uncomfortable and try to come up with a solution for it.

James Worthy

Hatred would be a strong word, ... We really respected each other. A lot of people didn't realize that the Lakers and the Celtics had the utmost respect for one another and probably feared each other the most. We knew we were equally talented and we knew that we balanced each other out on the floor, and there had to be an edge.

Frank Taylor

He's a balanced gorgeous horse. He looks just like Forestry.

Christine Harforth

Her performances display great subtlety and musical integrity. Critics praise her remarkable range and richness of tone, balanced by a soft touch and refined pedal technique, which enable her to bring out in her playing, elements of the music not noticeable in the score.

Charles Johnson

He's a guy of high moral integrity, and a guy who I believe in, quite frankly. ... I think it's unfortunate that a balanced story has not been told.

Mike Ward

Her freshman year she scored some, but this year she's done a real nice job shooting the ball. When she was younger, she would get in a hurry and not finish. She's better now at getting balanced and hitting her shot.

Steve Cook

Historically when weve gone into a program like this, weve had engine developments that start right off the bat. Instead were saying, lets focus our new propulsion development on much smaller-scale efforts. Lets also have back up plans in case it doesnt work out. Its a balanced risk versus reward that weve laid out here.

Bruce Baker

He was a banker's banker. He saw banking not just as a business and a profession but as a way to give back.

Vance Law

Going by the game stats we give up another big inning. Walks and timely hitting by them pretty well spelled doom for us. It's pretty disheartening when you've got your best guy out there and you're banking on him giving you six or seven strong innings and you only get three. We just feel like he was forced out of the game early with walks. I won't say with control, I'll say with walks.

Koichiro Suzuki

I think it's foreign investors who are aggressively buying banking stocks now ... in order to factor in Japan's economic recovery they are buying the most liquid Japanese stocks -- banks.

Richard Bove

I think it's clear that the banks that are more tied to the retail sector are going to have a much tougher quarter compared to those with diversified positions. The banks in the retail sector have to deal with interest rate compression, loan volume will be tougher, and they don't have the trading or investment banking that are hot now.

David Thwaites

I thought we would have been lower -- maybe the U.S. will follow Europe higher. I don't think there's a fundamental reason for it, other than what's going on in the banking sector.

Edward Gramlich

I think that Greenspan does have a very good intuitive sense of the economy, and the hardest thing with central banking is dealing with turning points,

Vincent Farrell

I think the basic fundamental underpinnings are very sound. The banking system's sound, there's no near-term crisis to be had. It doesn't mean the stock market's not overextended - which I believe it is and is due for some sort of setback. But I don't think it's 1987 all over again.

Mark Prince

We're proud of our heritage in West Virginia, and we're proud to move to a brand that has a long-standing place in our country's banking history. Through expanded products and services, our combined company will make banking even more convenient and efficient for Chase customers in our region.

George Bernard Shaw

What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fighter pilots were banking very quickly. And I saw them fire two warning flares in the direction of the single-engine plane,

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Kirk Walters

He's a real vocal guy for us. He's a central part of our defense and our offense.

Alan Greenspan

History has demonstrated that implicit in any removal of power from central planners and broadening of market mechanisms -- as would occur under WTO -- is a more general spread of rights to individuals,

David Resler

It could be a drag on earnings...something that delays the revival of profits so central to the revival of the economy itself.

Darrell Smith

It is a good idea and it would be helpful to have all the information you need in one central location.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Jon Katz

I think the new reality that's converging all this is, you have on the one end this culture of extraordinarily gifted outsiders who have patched together the Internet. And then there's the rest of the world -- business, education and politics -- that suddenly has woken up to the fact that they desperately need the Internet. It's very important. And so they become sort of central while still not being in the mainstream.

Robert H. Connelly

I think that if the tribe can demonstrate that this site is central and essential to its religion, it has a good chance of success in this case,

Lee Mercer

I think the big thing, and we already knew this, was the increase in number of people who are food insecure and hungry on the Central Coast.

Duncan Fletcher

Key has had a shoulder operation and Shah has a knee injury which didn't look too serious at first but a closer look has shown it is a far more serious.

Nancy Griffith

Keith's niece was doing makeup for the movie and invited me to the set. I fell in love with 'Our Very Own,' which comes out this fall, ... I told Keith I wanted to write a song for the movie. We got together in L.A. and in 20 minutes, it was done. I think 'Our Very Own' makes a great closer to 'Hearts in Mind.' The movie is set in the mid-1970s in Shelbyville, Tennessee during a massive depression that spread throughout rural America. It is a lovely study of that culture in that time. The words of the song say it all.

Shakira

I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

Chad Anderson

This was a good confidence-builder for us. It gets us one step closer to the playoffs.

Cynthia Harris

What we have noticed is people are traveling closer to home.

Bill Watterson

Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, brash, always looking for life on the edge. He lives entirely in the present, and whatever he can do to make that moment more exciting he'll just let fly . . . and I'm really not like that at all.

Ron Frascht

I think it's going to be a much closer meet than in some past years.

Alessandro Piero

I think it's fair that Lippi makes his decision closer to the World Cup and not now.

Rob Spence

I think it's closer to what we expect the offense at Clemson to be. I think there was much more mixture, different types of plays.

Robert Hall

Our long-term goal is to minimize dependence on fossil fuels, and we will get there by deploying a wide variety of new automotive technologies in our fleet.

Rod Nilsestuen

Ingenuity will enable us to solve pollution problems, promote economic growth and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

Owen Feltham

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

Ted Stevens

American dependence on foreign oil threatens our national security,

Sherwood Boehlert

This bill, more so than any provision in the recently-enacted energy bill, will lessen that dependence,

Julius Wellhausen

The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent.

John Shimkus

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

Fadel Gheit

Our economic dependence on oil is much less than it was even 10 years ago. If inflation comes, it won't be as big a hit as it was in the '80s.

Tom Harkin

Our escalating dependence on foreign and non-renewable sources of energy is heading us down a slippery slope.

Sara Barwinski

It amounted to an excessive waste of resources and the destruction of a community.

Cindy Sheehan

I think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn't have a permit.

Gareth Jones

I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

Hosni Mubarak

heedlessness of all values and laws and its excessive rejection of peace and challenging the world.

Woody Harrelson

Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Richard Le Gallienne

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Samuel Johnson

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

William E. Gladstone

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

Joseph Allen

God's timing in moving me down here was perfect,

S. Walker

Today I said, 'I'm not moving my truck'. I said, 'Ask one of the neighbors. I'm not moving my truck'.

John Graves

I think we're moving toward that as the norm.

Bill Hall

When he comes back, I'll start moving around if need be.

Carl Jung

Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me. Even though there's no use. Even though it's futile. Even though it's way past too late.

Carl Jung

The only reason I lost, the only reason I failed to get what I want, is because the monster is me, there's no difference between us. It makes all the moves, calls all the shots, while I'm just along for the ride, with no idea how to pull the brakes or get off.

Carl Jung

And just as I start to move past him, my hip accidentally rubs against his, and his face is so close, and his eyes so deep, that I can't help but lift my fingers to his smooth, sculptured cheek. Then without even thinking, I close my eyes, lean in, and kiss him.

Alan Black

This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

Two Chainz

The independent route was the best move for me. But I think I've maximized everything I could do independently. I've done everything out the mixtape market. I think getting the big machine behind you is the next stage when you've maximized the independent level.

Edwin Whipple

Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Plaxico Burress

We've got to get things in order off the field, too.

Richard Dawkins

Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

Richard Dawkins

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

Richard Dawkins

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply assume in order to derive the rest of their understanding ... have to be assumed. You can't provide a rationale for why those numbers are there. Physicists have calculated that if any of these numbers was a little bit different, the universe as we know it wouldn't exist.

Richard Whately

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Desi Arnaz

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

Bobby Knight

Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.

Randy Pausch

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Todd France

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Daisuke Takahashi

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Nancy Hinrichs

I don't get real vocal in a meet, but in practice I can get vocal.

Randy Carlyle

He had been scoring a lot in practice and we talked to him about it three weeks ago. He delivered.

Kurt Koeppen

He had to do so many performances at each level, not just practice, but performances.

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.