Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hanson

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

Denis Johnson

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

Dave Talbott

Michelle's strengths as a player are her accuracy and precision. She has an all court game, plays the ball very tight and can hit winners on open balls. Her excellent footwork and balance allow her to cover the court extremely well, and mentally she is very tough.

Karl Rove

will not call into question the accuracy or completeness of anything Rove has previously said to the prosecutor or the grand jury.

Ernie Accorsi

Yes, ... That's the QB I saw at Mississippi. All the qualities were present: poise, quick recognition and release, crisp throws, strength and accuracy with the long ball. But mostly command.

Ernie Els

Basically, it takes the best player who's on form to win this tournament. The conditions here, maybe, make more difference than at a lot of places. When it gets a little firmer, the second shots become probably the toughest on Tour because the greens are very small and there's only certain areas where you can go with your second shots. In that regard, it doesn't matter longer or shorter hitter. Accuracy is at a premium.

Ray Rodriguez

If a client or the media ask for statistics, I have to have the data to back it up. People are coming to me for accuracy and this has gotten to the point that it's slowing me down.

Helen Mirren

Her Elizabeth is so genius. It's just fabulous and, in its comedic, excessive way, there is a lot of accuracy there.

Wade Wilson

He showed that he's very confident in his body. He didn't show any hesitancy with his knee. His arm is as strong and as quick as ever, and his accuracy has definitely improved. If anything, he looks better now than he did a year ago.

Nabil Nasr

The picture is going to change, it has to change. Definitely there are some healthy areas, but overall the trends are not good. It's time serious attention is given and not just lip service.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.

Fran Dunphy

We need to keep him off the glass number one. He's stepping away from the basket and making jump shots, so we have to pay attention to that detail. When he does post up, he's got some pretty good inside moves as well.

Kwame Brown

We have watched a lot of film. When I was coming off the bench, other teams were not paying attention to me and now they are still not trying to play me. I think Kobe and Lamar are doing a great job passing the ball to me when I have a guy sealed.

Sendhil Mullainathan

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.

Marlon Wayans

Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.

Michael Arrington

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me?

Patrick Ness

I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

Russell Smith

I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

Kelly Corrigan

It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that doesn't roll off the tongue like 'YouTube sensation.'

Stuart Witt

The FAA is now finding that the statutes as crafted don't fit. So now they have to be very liberal in their interpretations of the law in order to accommodate the emerging technologies.

Lee Whitnum

I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.

Stuart Miller

Our strategy, as we have navigated these market conditions, has been to use locally crafted strategies in a measured and orderly fashion to keep inventory levels very low while keeping our home-building machine working.

Lee Raymond

History teaches us that punitive measures, hastily crafted in reaction to short-term market fluctuations, will likely have unintended negative consequences.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

Peter Abrahams

We've crafted a product that people are really going to relate to.

Charles B. Rangel

America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.

Ian Schafer

This is the kind of thing that a lot of folks talk about. If you're really going to put video online, let's make an effort to create things that are crafted specifically for the medium.

Donald Johanson

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

Victoria Osteen

You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

Carl Sagan

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Art Bell

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

Phil Mauney

That way we can compile a detailed list to go by.

Avery Johnson

We couldn't be where we are had we not gotten those guys. There's so many little ways, detail things, things that don't show up on stat sheets. You need your stars. But their roles are very significant for our team.

Scott Clark

Typically, industrial operations have an in-house energy management group that can go a long way toward determining their needs but can't really do a detailed feasibility study. So, they need to come to consultants like us.

Marty McOmber

We're working on something for next week, but the details we're still kinda hammering out.

Jim DeMint

While the exact details of the trip are not released until after the fact due to security concerns,

Noreena Hertz

Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

Evan Kohlmann

You have some from poor families, some jobless. You also have individuals that come from wealthy families, that come from a life of privilege and substance and material goods and material wealth.

Igor Ivanov

on goods that may be used for humanitarian problems in Iraq.

Peter Thompson

I would have thought maybe that's the sort of information we might be hoping to get from people who are actually moving hazardous goods through our jurisdiction. We have some pretty tricky areas, particularly in West Vancouver. You're right in the midst of residential.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Michael Niemira

I think initially the industry will try to keep the discounts more narrowly focused. The problem is, if sales don't pick up, retailers will start to spread out discounts to those goods not selling as well.

Vajira Premawardhana

If they are going to run a higher deficit, then they will have to resort to higher borrowings, pushing up interest rates and fueling inflation. Whenever there's inflation, spending on manufactured goods comes down.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Ricardo Garcia

We're going to do it a little different. We're going to trade goods for services.

Esme Bianco

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Jonathan Huie

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.We give our own meaning to time as to life.

Srikumar Rao

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

Michael Brown

Having a moon is just inherently cool, and is something that most self-respecting planets have.

Joe Larsen

He has an inherent right to review that document.

Madhur Bhandarkar

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

Eliot Spitzer

Risk is inherent in the market, ... We all understand that and we thrive on that; what we don't tolerate is fraud.

Ronne Froman

She's honest. She's open. She'll tell you like it is. She has this inherent quality of knowing what's right. She takes it all very seriously.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.

Dan Gelber

I think it will be a lasting legacy, in a sense, because he has so many picks.

Joschka Fischer

For me this is the end of a period of my life lasting 20 years, and a new beginning.

Ed Rollins

I do not think it is a lasting issue. I think it is just a series of things that this administration has done that makes it look like they are not always forthcoming.

Jane Goodall

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

Dale Carnegie

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

Deepak Chopra

The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

Elijah Cummings

Since 1987, the month of March has been designated to give special prominence to the women who have made lasting contributions to our society.

Latin Proverb

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule

Benjamin Netanyahu

lead to a real peace, a lasting peace, not a minute-long peace.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people paid the price of corruption.

Fabio Barbosa

We have that right and we paid for it. We're not going to give it up without compensation.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

Claudia Smith

I worked all my life, paid for my house, just remodeled it and then boom. It's hard. There's nothing to do. I don't know what's next.

Chris Hall

I was very pleased with Michael's performance in only his second paid outing.

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Aaron McGruder

It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Peter Brimelow

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Isak Dinesen

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Jay Baruchel

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

John Ford

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

William Banting

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

Waris Ahluwalia

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.