Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Arthur Eddington

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my methods. Apply them.

Art Buchwald

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Arthur C. Clarke

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Aristotle

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

Denny Green

Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,

James Lind

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Bruce Montgomery

Different VCs have different sweet spots for where they want to invest.

Neil Diamond

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.

Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Emile M. Cioran

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Chris Bauer

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

C. S. Lewis

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Billy Wilder

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Deb Caletti

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

Biz Stone

Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

Benny Hinn

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

Charles Kuralt

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.