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.

Ranbir Kapoor

I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

Angela Knight

We have always wanted to fix a meeting and this has been arranged for Friday. Shell have treated the private investor very badly indeed. There are a considerable number of private investors in Royal Dutch Petroleum who have not taken up the offer.

Jack Straw

We've discussed that, we are hoping very much that a visit can be arranged as soon as convenient but no date has yet been fixed,

Shar VanBoskirk

You can change dynamic elements and layout so not only does one person get a unique offering but it's also arranged differently.

Michael Perdue

We have a team arranged to go tomorrow (Saturday) or Sunday.

Dr. Grossman

Nine-eleven made me a more emotional person. It arranged people's priorities.

Dave Brubeck

On my way out here, I was writing all the way on the plane, ... and as soon as I got to San Diego, I arranged with the symphony to find an old practice room in their basement. It's better than two-thirds completed. I'd say four-fifths.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was several times at the White House and once I arranged for a chamber group of the Boston Symphony to play at the White House.

Albert Einstein

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

Donald Trump

Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.

Phil Gramm

The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?

Barack Obama

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Jim Vogel

The $3 billion size should keep it comfortably within an already crowded 5-year sector. Speculation that Fannie would choose a 3-year may have been thwarted by the glut of 3-year sovereigns this week.

Alan Rosling

The $3-billion investment in four projects will employ thousands of people and generate billions of dollars of foreign exchange for Bangladesh.

Peter Lowy

The acquisition creates new opportunities to further reinvest in and improve our portfolio, enabling over US$2 billion of new redevelopments to be initiated in the next four years.

Dennis McAlpine

The $8 billion (rental) business isn't going to disappear. This isn't buggy whip time. Everybody's got a DVD player.

Dmitry Medvedev

The $60-$80 billion target by 2010 is, therefore, quite attainable, I think.

Chad Clanton

The American people already have serious concerns about the Bush-Cheney administration giving Halliburton $7 billion in no-bid Iraq contracts,

Chuck Zito

One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.

Bonnie Bassler

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

Carl Sagan

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

Bill Bryson

Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.

John Gearhart

We could have made tremendous progress in getting these cells toward clinical application if federal funding had been available.

Peter Nygard

I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine was not able to cure her. If I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me.

Jesse Pichel

Micro fuel cells are years away from commercial deployment, but considerable R&D is underway funded in part by the military to power portable communications equipment in the field.

Ravi Chandra

We can pattern a surface with single-stranded DNA containing a specific nucleotide sequence, then coat cells with single-stranded DNA that contains a complementary sequence.

Austin Smith

We're already talking with the bio-technology and bio-pharmaceutical companies about taking these cells into screening systems for new drugs. Hopefully that will come to pass within two to three years.

Giancarlo Esposito

Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and mediation practice.

Colin Morgan

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

Dan Hendricks

The overall plan has always been to get there. Luckily, we've been improving and he's doing well. Once we get through Saturday and everything goes well, we'll start planning on from there.

David Friedman

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Victoria Osteen

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

Nayvadius Cash

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

Ray Charles

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Elton Brand

That would mean a lot. All the hoopla about who's better goes out the window. It's right there on the court.

Rosamund Pike

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Vikram Seth

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Evel Knievel

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

Kyle Brown

That would have been meant a lot. Seven hundred and one yards, that's a lot. That's something special. Just think if we don't make some of the mistakes that we did.

Jan Eliasson

We have worked through the families, the travel agencies. We've sent ... up to a hundred people to go through the hospitals.

Octavio Paz

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Mario Andretti

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Samuel Butler

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Holly Black

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

Dennis Flynn

We talked about this a hundred times ... how do you stop a V-bed?

C. S. Lewis

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C. S. Lewis

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Michael Greco

The ABA position is that some of these provisions are so invasive of individual liberties that there has to be a sunset provision. They're offensive, I think, to democracy,

Skip Holtz

Today was a teaching day. We were able to spend the majority of our time on individual work with a corrective mindset. We had the opportunity to throw it around a little more and key on execution.

Robert Waterston

We're really looking at an individual evolutionary event, and this is spectacular.

Pierre Omidyar

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

Larry Jackson

Most of them have an individual drive, knowing they have to come in at a state level.

Tom Taulli

I think this will be a volatile stock. Individual investors should be wary.

Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

Clint Eastwood

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

John Pickett

The 8,200 level has become a point of support for the Dow,

Gary McCord

That would kind of level the playing field." ()

Dean Laidley

We have come from well back, when you talk about a level playing field. Some people in the media have very short memories.

George Voinovich

We have to level with the American people.

Yusli Yusoff

We've done an independent survey together with SGX to try to ascertain the level of interest. The survey results have been quite positive.

Tom Gorman

We've dismantled this organization and in doing that, you have to dismantle multi levels. We've done it at a local level and a state level.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Charlotte Bronte

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Chris Bosh

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

Charles Scott Sherrington

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

Amy Heckerling

I always get hats but never have the nerve to wear them. Hats are a thing that are really stylish, but you have to have the confidence to pull it off.

Alan Furst

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Kimberly Schneider

We are taking samples to our testing facilities. Subsequent tests have indicated it's not a nerve agent.

Charles Bukowski

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Sevyn Streeter

I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.

Nicholas Negroponte

I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest,

Steve Ellis

It's a $2.4 trillion budget. There's work for everybody.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Rudy Gay

That will be a ways away. Whenever that happens, it happens. Right now it's just me and my team.

Jesse Berger

For me the play is about preservation and transformation as ways of storytelling.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.