Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Scott Sherrington

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.

Richard Barton

In general the preferred conformation in the crystalline state is that which would be predicted by the principles of conformational analysis.

Richard Barton

There was an enormous literature of stereochemical fact which had not been interpreted properly in its three-dimensional aspects.

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Emily G. Balch

Another very interesting trend which it is not easy to classify is the growing repudiation of coercion, especially of violent or physical coercion.

Sir Eddington

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Louis Leakey

During our first night in the new camp a number of lions came round to investigate. The lions contented themselves by roaring at us.

Sydney Brenner

I spent 20 years sharing an office with Francis Crick and many new and exciting ideas (both right and wrong) were generated from our conversations.

Gregory Bateson

The processes of perception are inaccessible; only the products are conscious and, of course, it is the products that are necessary.

Joey Carew

Jamaica is also strong with talent, and this makes for a very competitive and exciting contest.

Bryant Young

He's a very electrifying player, an exciting player to watch, definitely. I think he could be an exciting player in this league.

Arnold Palmer

I think it's going to be exciting for me and it's going to be somewhat sentimental,

Lisa Hammond

I think it's an exciting opportunity for him. But as always, the timing couldn't be worse for us.

Melissa Lundgren's

I think we're all tired. It's going to be exciting for us all to be home.

Gisele Bundchen

I think 25 is a great year; I think every year is a great year, ... I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up. Twenty-five is so far, so good.

Steven Gerrard

I'm looking forward to it, two exciting games,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting - I can't be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do.

Terry Allen

I'm sure that will be an exciting day in Cedar Falls.

Susan Danly

Here is someone who sits in Maine and works here in Portland, but this show takes you to San Francisco and takes you to Rome through imagination and architecture.

Gary Hall

I think that Francis Marion did the same.

Barry Bonds

I just feel like I want to go back to San Francisco and be with these guys, ... I'm ready to go home.

Mario Batali

I lived in San Francisco from '84 to '88.

Jeremy Allen White

I mean, 'Girls': I love 'Girls,' I watch 'Girls.' But it's a show that's very coastal. People in New York and people in L.A. and people in San Francisco will watch it. But I think in Middle America, for the most part, it probably isn't watched as much.

Mark Twain

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco

Patrick Larvie

The home is where I am. If I think that I am 'away' from home at any stage then I will go crazy. If I think of San Francisco as my home and Hong Kong as away from home I will never be happy,

Eugene Kennedy

From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.

Mark Schmidt

We started off too slow and didn't seem to have our legs. I think they were itching to play because of the time off, and it was hard to get back into it. But give St. Francis credit. They made a run, and we didn't do a good job stopping it.

Joe Monahan

He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.

Jon Hurst

There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.

George Foster

Here we'd like to think they can start to think about the ideas we're teaching, but their main job is to perform on the field.

Bob Garner

The purpose of the newsletter is to supply the reader with a reliable supply of seeds made up of proven motivational ideas and strategies that can be immediately put to use.

Mike Moore

I think they will respond to our ideas in Shanghai,

Rob Enderle

It is one of the more interesting ideas that has come up of late. And one that I think has the potential to really transform the way we play with the Web.

Carl Jung

You and I are meant to be. It's the only thing I'm absolutely sure of. And while I have no idea what to expect, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back.

Monica Procar

We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.

Newt Gingrich

Ideas precede reform. If you can't think it, you can't say it and you can't do it.

Pete Carroll

Just my game-plan folders (are saved). I have a stack of those through the years. I'm not a big memorabilia guy. My office may look cluttered, but it's not from memorabilia.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

David Goldberg

Lasers are very much like computers. They don't like to get bounced around. And a rental laser is in a van going from doctor's office to doctor's office every day.

Andrew Forman

We may just open our own transition office.

Charlie Leonard

He was in the office at 7 a.m. this morning.

Ryan Holmes

HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.

Richard M. Nixon

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

Wallace Stevens

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

William Howard Taft

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.