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.

Zac Goldsmith

If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'

Wen Jiabao

China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force.

Wesley Clark

People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.

Donatella Versace

You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

David Zayas

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

Noah Baumbach

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

Hines Ward

That was a rocket. I made an adjustment on my route. He had to make an adjustment and somehow he got the ball to me. That was amazing.

Rich Schneider

We couldn't adjust for the offense they showed in the second half because they hadn't shown it. They did a very good job of catching the football also but we showed we could move the ball too. We needed just one more first down.

Ted LePage

We know the defense had to play hard because we were going with two different quarterbacks. We needed them to step up, and we're pleased with their effort, especially against a set we haven't seen. It was a great adjustment by our kids.

Thich Nhat Hanh

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

I don't stay out that late. I never really stay out that late. I used to, and after a while you begin to realize that a little sleep works wonders, you know?

William Kirby

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

Vitruvius

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Ezra Taft Benson

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ellen Key

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Robert Hayes

The overwhelming bewilderment begins with the scores of competing plans that are being offered,

David MacGregor

The $20 bid was a little bit of a surprise. It reflects a high level of conviction in synergies and sends a pre-emptive signal to other bidders.

Malcolm Speed

We have already received bids from six to seven countries who are willing to play host to the (Twenty-20) event.

J. Horton

We couldn't complete our drawings, which meant we couldn't get bids for the work.

Charles Sanders

We have two bids in each side. As far as I'm concerned that's very good.

Craig Hamilton

We'll put the project out to bid and carefully examine the bids when they come in.

Mindy Chambers

Typically, we refer issues to the prosecutor when we find instances of misappropriation of funds, something that rises to the level of criminal activity. We don't think we saw that here. We saw places where monitoring wasn't great and bid law compliance wasn't great.

Charles Cook

We reviewed documentation. Mr. Lee had the lowest bid on four of the five contracts.

Cheryl Hines

My biggest fear is that no one will bid on my envelope, ... So have pity on me and bid on it.

D. James

Whoever likes Jordan is going to bid high.

Ian Watson

That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.

Gwen Moore

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

Val Kilmer

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

Colin Morgan

It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

Ernest Walton

A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.

Graham Colditz

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

Reg Empey

The people are fed up with politicians and the cost of keeping this place (the assembly) open.

Andrew Alberts

The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.

Gary Hanson

The out-of-pocket cost is usually about $50 to $55 a day (per inmate) that we pay to another county to rent the space, ... But we also have to pay for our officers' time to transport them and the cost of transport, like fuel costs.

Lord Falconer

We made estimates of what gains we could make. We made some gains but we did not make the gains that we had hoped to make.

Mark Grossman

I think most people understood that estimates for the year were way too high. When the estimates come down to reasonable levels, that's when investors look to get back in.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Drake Johnstone

If they exceed estimates for this quarter, which I think they will, and raise guidance for the upcoming quarter, investors would be more favorably inclined to Microsoft.

Gretchen Dykstra

Until you go out into the real world, the estimates are just that.

Mike Rann

World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected,

Joe Haworth

We did lose possibly as much as two million gallons onto the beaches. We're still doing the estimates on that. We don't know how much could possibly have made it to the ocean. We know some did.

Margaret Gatz

Our finding confirms the higher estimates that have been suggested previously.

Mark Bryant

I think a payrolls number that varies widely from estimates will shake up stocks, ... But as long as we're roughly in line with forecasts, there probably won't be much stock reaction.

Craig Bryson

The $64,000 question: nobody knows where the rest of the funding is going to come from.

Shawn Gumataotao

We're working with Mr. (Juan) Flores to find funding for payroll.

Travis Reindl

When state funding goes up, tuition increases go down. States are putting more money back into higher education. We don't know how long that's going to last.

Joanne Vavrek

We have only restored 81.5 percent (of the 2002-03 funding allocation) this year.

Judy Batusich

We haven't been able to secure any funding yet.

Dave Coleman

I hate to see the funding cut, but it will probably be.

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Henry Nutbrown

I think in the end, it's inevitable we'll be talking with all of our funding partners.

Mike Parks

I have been told that we should know about the ITEP funding within the next three weeks.

Sean Linville

I'm a Husky (football) season-ticket holder myself, and I still think he should be playing baseball.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

Clyde Guinn

Part of being a long-term holder is don't do anything you don't want to live with for a long time. The first tenet of that is don't overpay.

Paula Radcliffe

It's very special. It's right up there with running the world record. It's important as world record holder I also show that I can win major titles as well.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. is not the holder of truth.

Robert Lloyd

We don't want to be the holder of services intellectual capital.

Christo

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

Brent Trout

We need to have this project done before the school opens.

Paul Park

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'

Jennifer Connelly

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

Viktor Vekselberg

We are not shutting down all our projects while we wait for an answer.

John Mara

I will walk away from this project rather than put a roof on it.

Chris Anderson

We do wish to try to have as many different students' projects shown as possible.

Jim Wolfgang

We don't have any project that repeats what's going on in the classroom. All this is value-added.

Steve Ford

Had the residents not done (what they did), the project would not have been what it is,

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.