Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Valliere

He needs to restore investor confidence, ... It's extremely unlikely he would say anything that would be viewed negatively by the markets. He's going to make it clear that we are not looking at the abyss and we are not looking at a major recession.

Lewis Mumford

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed

Terry Goodkind

The first law of reason is what exists, exists;what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principleall knowledge is build. He said that was the foundation from which life is embraced. He said thinking is a choice, and that wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they means to discover them. Richard said reason is our only way of grasping reality - that it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking - to reject reason - but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.

Marshall Wittmann

They looked into the abyss and saw this whole thing falling apart and realized they needed to get something done over a serious issue. It was a rare moment of government at its best, and it's not clear how long it will last.

Daniel Waldschmidt

They say don't look down in life. That's just not reality. Sometimes you have to look straight into the abyss where danger, pain, and frustration seem likely to crush your dreams. You must continue forward. This is the moment where you choose your destiny.

Antonin Artaud

I myself am an absolute abyss.

Francois Rabelais

The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

Stephen Vizinczey

Women cannot always flow, and even when they do, they well up slowly, while men are quick as torrents - they are primed by nature to burst forth at different times... the twenty-minute gap, the abyss between the sexes.

Alan Skrainka

I think investors should take a step back and look at the big picture. I think the (Fed) is doing its job and investors should do theirs -- avoid those companies that do not have a track record of growth.

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Hector Jimenez

What we were not able to avoid today, just like yesterday, was volatility. We have to see how investors receive the information (about Iraq and the budget negotiations).

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Mark McClain

I think we can avoid bankruptcy. But people are going to have to step up to the plate and deal with the realities of the financial situation.

John Reid

It is not a matter of casualties, but a matter of trying to avoid innocent casualties of terrorism.

Jack Horner

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

Craig Anderson

Kids are basically little learning machines. Whatever the content is in front of them, they're going to pick it up.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Nobbs

I talked to the umpire after the game and he said he thinks its nerves. We can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just they don't know how to get ready yet. Basically it's coming from long days in school, and coming out and not really knowing what to expect.

E. P. Thompson

It breaks my heart to realize that the culture has basically transformed the church rather than the church confronting the culture and trying to transform it.

Leonard Little

It basically was a teaching session this year. It wasn't a thing where they came out and beat us up every day. We basically learned the position, and learned what we needed to do on every given play.

Larry Taylor

It basically took my life away. I don't really care if I see daylight tomorrow.

Michael Bird

It basically takes the 'block' out of the block grant concept.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

Anne Kelley

The bedrock of all this is: Do an audit.

Omar Bongo

This decision reminds us that the threats and challenges encountered by our world require collective responses, ... The UN is the bedrock and the indispensable tool for building a system which is multilateral and effective.

Edward M. Lerner

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

Steve Squyres

For Opportunity, we're going to continue south through the etched terrain, studying bedrock as we go and heading toward Victoria crater.

Daniel Petrie

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

Ken Robinson

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Brett Johnson

It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially.

Dan Shechtman

I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

James Hogg

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

Pierre Fermat

I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Michael Steger

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

Herb Grace

Kevin Lynch was huge tonight, especially on the post. He gave us a great effort and is the heart and soul of our team.

Frank Robinson

Hector has been a nice, pleasant surprise with another great effort on his part tonight. He has pitched four good starts. I don't know how he does it at this stage of the season. He seems to thrive on it.

Steve Kellar

This was a good game for us in that everybody played and everybody scored. It was a good, solid effort on everybody's part.

Dwane Casey

He's just made a concerted effort going to the boards. It's called him being a great player.

George Haddow

It comes down to leadership, and this effort is without a leader. I don't think they understand how to do this at the top level.

Gerald Myers

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Doc Rivers

I thought some guys gave good effort tonight, but some have their luggage in mind on the plane already. Turnovers and shot selection killed us.

Agnus Berenato

I think we really battled them. We did not lose this game because of a lack of effort and I think that's really important for us.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Trisha Goddard

You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.

Tracy Morgan

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

Samuel Gompers

Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.

Rebecca MacKinnon

In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.

Jim Fassel

I'm trying to tweak things, ... because we've got to get our running game going. It's the foundation for us.

Mandy Moore

I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.

Marcus Aurelius

The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

Thomas a Kempis

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Chuck Hillery

Kim was kind of limited with fouls. She hit some big free throws down the stretch.

Ed Pendt

I yelled at (Scheffer) as she was going by to go to the hoop. She went to the hoop, got fouled and made the free throws.

Gary Mills

He didn't shoot a great percentage this year, but he always makes his free throws when the game's on the line.

James Blake

He didn't get many free points on his serve and I was getting some on mine,

Jakob Bohme

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

Carl Forti

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

Friedrich Muller

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

David Barron

he said. ''He significantly narrowed the scope of constitutional protection. It's an unfortunate turn in constitutional law.

Travis Xiong

It is a lot more complicated than it seems. Back in Laos, there is no law on when one can marry. Only reasonable ages.

Tom Angell

We've been trying to repeal this law ever since it was passed in 1998.

Carolyn Brown

I think the ACLU may be able to support the law here in Kansas. It is being written in a way that does not take away the right to assemble.

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Peter Andersen

Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.

Proverb Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Jason Young

Law of averages. We've played pretty well in some of them and had some not go our way.

Rev Musyimi

Law enforcement officers were also seen to be wanting by the public.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

Jeremy Newberry

I think the life expectancy for offensive linemen isn't great. For me, having young children, it's a somber thought. But it's part of the job.

Charlie Chaplin

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning!

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Matthew Glotzbach

We're in the first inning of an extra-innings game. By no means are we at the point where search is perfect.

Ed Howat

I think that number is staggering. It means a lot to have a rate that high.

Jonathan Turley

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Josh Sharpless

I was a lot calmer and relaxed this time. I didn't feel like everything was going 1,000 mph. It just seemed like a normal game. I didn't have the butterflies this time around. I just went out and pitched.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Clive Woodward

We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,

Vincent Farrell

I think technology stocks are in for a correction, but it's a perfectly normal correction. This is a seasonably weak period of time.

Michael Steele

I don't know that much about the club, the membership, nor do I care, quite frankly, because I don't play golf.

Billy Donovan

He got back to playing the way he normally does.

Mark Tate

I think it's a skill to be able to take a penalty kick. There's a lot of pressure to step up there and take that shot.

Richard Matvichuk

We've got to play better and stay out of the penalty box.

Luiz Scolari

Was I the only one who saw a penalty on Nuno Gomes? Didn't you see that?

Mark Jones

It was a stone-wall penalty and it could have been very costly.

Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Glen Hanlon

The shots were 8-1 at one point and 13-3 and then we had a penalty and we don't kill it. I think that was the story of the game.

Jozef Stumpel

Right now, I don't understand what is a penalty shot.

Clay Peterson

If we wouldn't have had the time penalty or we wouldn't have had the wreck, we would have won that division.

Don Waddell

I always say the players pick this team, not us. You can't have a team of 12 first-line NHL players. You need role players, checkers, penalty killers. You can't just take the 12 most skilled forwards.

Rob Enderle

The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.

Rob Conway

Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.

Richard P. Feynman

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.

Richard Whately

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Richelle Mead

It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.

Russell Hoban

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

Russell Banks

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Ronda Rousey

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.

William S. Burroughs

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Diane Jacobowitz

He refused to sign the petition. He didn't want any part of it.

Sadaharu Oh

I was disappointed but it's up to him to decide. It was not a surprise that he refused since he had been hesitating for such a long time.

Don Moreland

I thought Walker just stepped up and (turned on his game) in the second half, just refuse to lose.

Marcus Aurelius

He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse

Johnny Hardesty

I refuse to cry, ... This is supposed to be a spoof of a makeover show.

Bobby Bowden

I refuse to back down. Who can you trust more than your family?

Alberto Sanchez

They refused to come, and three times they told me they were not doing that service any more.

Bob Melvin

I've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.

Al Goldstein

I refuse to be silenced.

Ryan Kwanten

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

Rose Byrne

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Samuel Morse

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Sasha Grey

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Ursula K. Le Guin

When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.

Roselyn Sanchez

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

Rod Stewart

I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?

Trenton Lee Stewart

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

Morgan Brittany

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

Kyle Petty

I never thought I had to live up to Richard Petty, ... I never had to live up to anything but what I expected.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

Alexa Von Tobel

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

Aneurin Barnard

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

Brian Kerr

But I think Richard will be alright. I don't think it's too serious.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Ving Rhames

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Xavier Niel

Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Michael Assael

His thinking was a little off and too complicated.

Luke Ridnour

I thought about him, but I was thinking more about the 2-for-1.

Alex Jones

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

Sharon Stone

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

Kurt Ritchie

I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.

AJ Michalka

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

Rob Zombie

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.

Rob James-Collier

And there are lots of moments when I think, ‘What am I doing as an actor? I can’t act!’

Rob James-Collier

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.

Louis Freeh

I think we have the tools there. I just think we need more resources,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Rick Riordan

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus

William J. Clinton

[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.

William Howard Taft

The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.

Werner Heisenberg

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.

Robert Pattinson

I'm just a tool, I'm just a big, hard tool.

Rick Springfield

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

Neale Donald Walsch

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.