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.

Tony Judt

I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.

Isiah Thomas

I would say that right now we're pretty satisfied with where we are. I don't think we will be actively out shopping and trying to make a deal or anything like that.

Hannah Storm

J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.

Alan Milburn

It cannot keep patients in the dark. It has to take patients into its confidence. It has to actively earn the trust of patients in life and it has to actively seek the consent of relatives in death.

Peter Berg

Greenwich has always been a great place to grow up, attend school, raise a family, retire actively and grow old gracefully,

Steve Hildebrand

Harkin's good with organized labor, teachers, seniors and environmentalists. And when he endorses, he doesn't just endorse, he actively works for you.

John Brewer

Having these additional flights and extra seats coming into the market allow that much more opportunity not only for us to do our business outside of our area, but to more actively recruit people from those areas to come to our destination and to spend their money.

Steve Williams

Having attended the World Trade Organization's Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, we must make sure the many trade agreements now being actively negotiated by our government do not put U.S. sugar farmers at a disadvantage in the global marketplace. The world sugar market is the most distorted commodity market in the world, caused by the dumping of surplus sugar from countries that don't want to play by the same rules as U.S. farmers.

David Novak

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.

Keith Aubry

In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years we were sure they were here.

Elizabeth Blackburn

The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves over and over again. More and more cancer biologists say stem-cell-like cells in cancers are the most dangerous.

Paul Holmes

It's a diabolical bill. It put the financial body of the government in charge of deciding what is endangered, instead of biologists and scientists.

Kenneth Kamler

When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have any encounters with crocodiles. You should stay away from them!

James Rothman

As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So I wasn't inclined to take a biology course. But my father insisted, and maybe what he had in mind was that, if there were no jobs in physics, I would end up being a doctor.

David Bell

The snakehead is an exotic species capable of surviving and reproducing in Kentucky, ... They are top predators in their native range and we are worried about them. They are reproducing in Maryland and their biologists are tremendously concerned. They compete with native species and that is a giant negative.

Mary Dawson

Biologists need to get out there and find some living ones.

Joseph Monninger

Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit a stream, the odds are good that the waterway is in excellent condition.

Glenn Branch

Biologists are split on this point. A lot of scientists regard natural selection as one of the means through which God accomplishes his ends in the world.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Randy Barnhill

Jack was getting after it. We decided to switch him around and move him up front (from the midfield), because he can score when he's got the ball.

E. Hicks

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

Marty Schottenheimer

He wanted to finish, but I decided it was time to give Michael a few shots.

Dave Jones

He could have done anything else, but he decided to come out for track. I'm proud I got to be his coach.

Sam Jr

He decided to wait because he knew he was going to get some interest late. It was a very good decision for him to wait.

Raul Cisneros

He decided to take them up on the offer.

Patrick Mouratoglou

He decided that his parents had to come. Marcos is someone who likes to share.

Saeb Erekat

He decided not to go to New York because of the (Israeli) handover of the (Gaza) settlements and the security situation.

James Schamus

We looked for the places that sophisticated moviegoers seek out to find things that interest them. These are the people who are engaged with the world, who are informed about the big conspiracies going on out there.

David Kirk

I'm passionately interested in the media and want to be engaged in it,

Mads Mikkelsen

I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.

Tom Kehoe

I hope the village gets engaged in it because there's a lot of serious things going on.

Bernie Sanders

Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

John Bolton

The negotiating process ... is like making sausage. It isn't necessarily pretty. It takes a long time, and that's the process we're engaged in.

Robert Hemenway

That is a phenomena we're going to have to work on. The collegiate model that Myles is talking about won't work if we don't get a renewed vigor on the part of the presidents to be engaged in the NCAA.

Robert Hemenway

That is a phenomena we're going to have to work on, ... The collegiate model that Myles is talking about won't work if we don't get a renewed vigor on the part of the presidents to be engaged in the NCAA.

Samuel Barnett

I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

Austin Peebles

It actually got to where he wasn't saying 0-0 anymore, we'd wait a few seconds and then one of us would say it. I don't even think he noticed, he was so focused on the game. It was kind of funny.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Bob Wallace

I talked to him a few nights ago. He was scared, and that's not like him. He's a positive guy.

David Garrow

It is not surprising in the least that a president from Texas would nominate an SMU graduate to the Supreme Court, ... It would have been surprising for JFK.

Noam Chomsky

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

Source Unknown

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

Al Jourgensen

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

Peter McPherson

On campuses, we should have students that graduate that are comfortable working with people different from themselves, who are comfortable in an international kind of arena. That's 21st-century America.

Eric Benker

Nothing would make me happier than sitting in the bleachers at Fitch watching Jesse graduate some day. That would truly be the moment of a lifetime.

Rick Comer

That's strict. I graduated high school with a 3.3, so I could've come to the game, I guess.

Tom Joyce

It was never intended to be a refinancing bonanza. It was never intended to be a windfall for graduates who have already benefited from the taxpayer subsidies of the Stafford program.

Bill Whyde

Where are all the kids who graduated the last 25 years? There is nothing to keep them here.

Michael Cristofaro

They (the Institute for Justice) want people to remain in their homes.

Steve Maviglio

The Rose Institute is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party.

Maeve Binchy

I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Wayne Wonder

Well, Japanese fans braced me since 1991 that was my first time I have been to Japan. So I know that Japanese fans has supported me over the years. So it just a lot of love and Wayne Wonder will release more music, more music and more music!

Wladimir Klitschko

Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation everywhere. Water quality is affected. We all eat the same fish. We use products from all over the world - if something is contaminated, it will cause harm.

Zhang Ziyi

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

Vladimir Putin

I would like to inform you with great satisfaction of a new step forward on establishing partnership between Russia and Japan

Sam Abell

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Sadako Ogata

Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.

Sadako Ogata

Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.

Yoko Ono

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

Charles M. Schwab

In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.

Louis Pasteur

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

Mohammad Afzal

We are not confirming it until laboratory tests come out.

Roberto Heras

They told me the news at the end of October. The only thing I can think of is that it is a laboratory error,

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

Bill Newman

These experiments are recorded side by side in his laboratory notebooks.

Dick Thompson

Those viruses are in a WHO reference laboratory and are being studied.

Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Jacques Monod

There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.

Elizabeth Blackburn

In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.

Joan Roscoe

It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a professor of English. Her writing is wonderful, wonderful writing.

Walt Whitman

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

Charles Johnson

wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

John Barth

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

Todd Solondz

When I was making Storytelling, I couldn't watch while the violent sex scene between the student and the professor was being shot. It was too intense.

Wystan Hugh Auden

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

Charles Johnson

(Brown) wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Pankaj Mishra

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

Robert Huber

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

W. Somerset Maugham

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

Michael Chang

In the 1980s and 1990s, no one wanted to touch a narrow-focused antibiotic, something that treated one or two things. Everyone wanted to pursue broad, across-the-board antibiotics. That's all changed.

Bill Simon

I really just want to pursue other avenues, ... I got a lot accomplished in my tenure here and I wanted to try new things.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Viggo Mortensen

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

The best university is the university of life.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Ken Robinson

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

Peter Cook

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

Paul Keating

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

H. Judd

This is the only university I've been to that doesn't have campus-wide recycling. In a way it's embarrassing.

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Richard Dawkins

If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?

William S. Burroughs

The word is now a virus.

Luc Montagnier

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.

Dick Thompson

These are not our viruses and this isn't our information.

Ron Krantz

We are considering doing virus scanning on all incoming e-mail.

Nathan Wolfe

We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

Paul Virilio

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Avicii

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres

Mikko Hypponen

I've worked with viruses for 15 years and things have been getting progressively worse. This year is going to be bad.