Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Erlandson

Kelp forests may have facilitated human coastal migrations around the Pacific Rim near the end of the last glacial period. In essence, they may have acted as a sort of kelp highway.

Elvis Picardo

I think investors are asking why the Fed acted so quickly and so decisively.

Cameron Crowe

It blew my mind, ... There were two girls who acted out the poster of the movie. They had a little red sofa by the side of the road. One was dressed up in a black suit like Orlando with a black wig and an urn. And the other was Kirsten with the champagne glass and her legs crossed; it was so sweet. I was truly in shock.

Barbara Turner

He just felt like it was our time to do that and that's the way we acted the last minute and a half. We didn't have any timeouts, any time to set up anything, so that was all on us.

Sylvester Croom

He just acted like it wasn't a factor, ... He didn't let it be a factor.

Gordon Taylor

The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of.

George Pierce Baker

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Teju Cole

There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted 'from the gut,' and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.

Phil Ralston

There are so many times that Zach will pass up a shot to get an assist. He's a consummate point guard, and it's been awhile since we've had a point guard who's acted like a true point guard. He's helped Matt get into the right scoring position a lot.

Crawford Falconer

I would not want to over-exaggerate (but) ... they represent a degree of momentum. Let's see whether there is the appetite there to really try and move it forward.

John Furlong

It comes down to what kind of appetite the community has for the Games.

Dick Cheney

It is a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.

Robert Thompson

I think the American culture right now is in a state where we have an unlimited appetite for irony. The great thing about a weird pageant is, if you don't win, is that really a bad thing?

Tracey Gold

I've got a pretty good appetite right now.

Takahiko Murai

Investor appetite for select technology stocks is solid as the sector has paused in the past year.

David Greene

If you look at Macao, you'd say that no one has ever put to the test the appetite for the Chinese for anything other than gambling.

Lauren Zalaznick

Clearly, there's an appetite from Bravo television viewers for increased flow of content that a linear TV channel can't provide. This on-demand push makes great Bravo content that there isn't room for on TV available 24/7.

Isaiah Berlin

Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow - despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.

Robin Urbanski

Right now, the air-to-ground solution is much more economical to us.

Gilbert Brown

In my reality space, nuclear energy is not only a safe way, but an environmentally safe, sound and economical way to make electricity, ... Most people don't have a quality of life a tenth of what we have.

Angela Brown

Some students see that as an economical way to stay in the residence halls,

Donnie Young

When I started out we used to flood this whole plain. We're gonna reach the point where it will no longer be economical to pump water. We may already be there today.

Vaclav Havel

Now we have a sort of economical drying of intellectuals,

Mike Rodriguez

We don't feel that's effective, economical or practical.

Matt Mathes

I can understand why they do it. It's a very economical and efficient way to operate.

Billy Joel

I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,

George Kell

Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Kweisi Mfume

Our minds are open, ... I reached out to George Bush. I wanted him here.

Eddie Jones

If you remember back in 2000, Sam had an outstanding season with Queensland and was really pressuring George for the Wallabies spot.

Will Wright

Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.

Fred Hartsfield

I hope I have had an impact. I'm very impressed with George and how hard they play.

Britt Robertson

You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's such a goofball!

Joe Glover

The jury is still out about what social conservatives think of George Allen.

Zalmay Khalilzad

I think American impatience has to do with the notion that we don't know what we're doing. If we could project that we are moving in the right direction, Americans are ready to be very patient.

James Richardson

Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

John McGahern

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

Gen. Hermogenes

It is presumed that they have already linked up.

Mike Williams

I think we're always going to be linked together,

Epictetus

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do

Monica Crowley

Not once since becoming president has Mr. Obama linked terror aimed at the United States with Islam.

Eddie Jones

There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.

Shyla Nelson

So in that sense, it's a story that really is vitally linked to a staged situation.

Jason Miller

1 out of every 3 professionals on the planet is on LinkedIn.

James G. Stavridis

I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

Bill Bradley

If you're timid in your candidacy, you're going to be timid in your presidency and that's not why I want to be president.

Orrin Hatch

then I have to tell you I think that this presidency will be over.

David Gergen

Think of that, the split-screen sense. That's the problem this presidency has ... it's being split down the middle.

Paul Ashley

Three years ago, the presidency was his to lose.

Jan Balkenende

Now it's up to the presidency to work on its proposals.

Ricardo Lagos

Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege.

Gloria Allred

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

Stephen Hess

The president was still Ike, and the presidency went on.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Richard Bach

So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Travis Walton

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

William Safire

Never assume the obvious is true.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

William Wordsworth

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

Lindy Ruff

He just doesn't feel right. Until we get him through that, he won't be skating.

Chrissie Fit

I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

Saku Koivu

We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Kathy Bennett

I always wanted to know what was wrong. They could never find anything wrong with her until this.

Stephen Dodd

I am just more focussed. He had got me not to give in, to keep going until the last,

London Fletcher

I really didn't know if I was going to be able to play until right before the game,

Craig Roberts

I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Perle

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard P. Feynman

From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.