Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Holden-Ried

'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.

Richelle Mead

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.

Anthony Warlow

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

M. Wolfe

It's alchemy and chemistry and farming and hard work. Really hard work.

Tina Brown

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

Chris Riddell

School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.

Jason Katims

There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.

Catherine Hardwicke

Obviously, 'Twilight' had its own alchemy that was amazing, just phenomenal. Nobody thought it was going to make any money. Paramount wouldn't make the movie. Fox wouldn't make it. Nobody wanted to do it.

William Temple

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

Donna Rheaume

We're in the process of analyzing this legislation. It appears that food experts in Massachusetts were not consulted. We're particularly concerned about a potential impact on local industries such as shellfish and milk.

John Matelski

I have had the pleasure of participating on an alternative database focus group sponsored by Oracle, and based on my participation am confident that they are analyzing all databases, and they will make some determinations as to how other databases may be able to be integrated into the final solution.

Bob Greenly

He has good coverage skills. He sees the ball really well, he covers ground after the ball is thrown and he does a great job analyzing plays.

Leslie Ament

Organizations have spent millions capturing, analyzing and applying customer intelligence with the goal of growing revenues by increasing focus on customer-centric strategy and execution. We believe forward thinking organizations will continue to invest in select technology enablers, process development, performance measurement capabilities and services that empower them to apply customer intelligence towards better decision-making in support of more profitable growth.

Leroy Hood

In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.

Bill Hall

I'm comfortable. It's just making some plays, analyzing situations and knowing where to throw the ball.

Terri Mitchell

I just reminded them that we're a much better team with energy. We had been too busy analyzing (the game), and there had not been enough reacting.

Augie Garrido

I'm looking forward to updating computer systems and video areas. So much can be done in terms of player development with today's technology, such as analyzing hitting strokes.

Augie Garrido

I'm looking forward to updating computer systems and video areas, ... So much can be done in terms of player development with today's technology, such as analyzing hitting strokes.

Ned Yost

He can't hurt it anymore than it already is. When it does hurt, it hurts for about 5 seconds and goes away.

George Packer

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

David Braverman

I think the market ought to be satisfied with the idea that at least there's not going to be anymore tightening. You know, it's only a couple months ago that people were saying the Fed was going to tighten all through the fall. So now that it looks like they're not, people are saying, wow, maybe they'll ease now. But I think that is quite a way off, probably some time next year.

Peter Canelo

I think the market is clearly getting used to the idea that the Federal Reserve is going to raise rates. I don't think it's a question anymore of whether they do it in March or not. If they don't do it in March, they (will) do it in April. The real question now is how much do they do it (and) when they do it.

Mike Clamon

I think the home-plate umpire made a bad call on the balk because the batter had asked for time. And I think that threw Kristen off because she had just given up back-to-back doubles and she didn't need anymore problems.

Calvin Saunders

We just have to get more fire in our game. We're used to jumping out on teams and getting the lead, but now we don't jump out on teams and get leads anymore and that kind of hurts us. We're not finishing very strong, and we just have to play better basketball.

Darren Bush

We're primed and prepared to grow. No one is saying the budget is what we'd like it to be, but we're not in a budget crisis anymore so the opportunity is there.

Michael Parker

I thought we played very well tonight, and the key thing is that we battled. I don't think we could ask anymore of them (players) tonight; it could have gone either way. When it gets to sudden death like that you win some and you lose some, and we were very close to nipping a win down here over the #2 team...very close.

John Shattuck

I think this is not a report that focuses on China anymore than it focuses on any other one country, ... But those who are seeking to exercise basic rights of freedom of religion in China (are being persecuted.)

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.

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.

Brian Reilly

I don't know why they weren't discovered earlier.

Sally Field

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

Jeffrey Wright

He discovered he had a remarkable singing voice.

Michael Molligan

Our normal watering restrictions were put in place during the severe water shortage of the early 1990s. But over time we have discovered that to water more than twice a week is wasteful and does no more good for the vegetation. So what once were water-shortage restrictions are now regular and in-place year round.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Joe Tiller

I would say it's the single most important factor of (a team), ... You hate to put it all on one position, but if you told me, 'OK Tiller, you're going to graduate 21 of your 22 starters. Which one don't you want graduating?' It'd be the quarterback.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move. That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move, ... That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Michelle Reinig

Just the fact that you're on land, and you know there's somebody out there and you can't do anything.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Brett Albanese

There are a lot of species that have not been seen in the last 10 or 15 years.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

David Malpass

What you have been seeing over the last year is the policy of Jiang Zemin, not Deng Xiaoping.

John Santoro

There is more risk in owning longer-dated securities in a period of rising inflation.

Mara Brock Akil

I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.

Peter Gabriel

It's like owning a big playpen and someone else is going to pay for it,

Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Michael Nutter

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

Christine O'Donnell

I am not a clone of Sarah Palin. I have my own thoughts.

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Jane Gardam

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Joshua Hoyt

They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

S. Walker

It was devastating, ... But perhaps had that not happened, we wouldn't be where we are today.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Richard Holbrooke

The situation is as serious now -- perhaps more serious -- than it was in October,

Stephen Carl

Perhaps there is some profit taking before (the Fed).

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Robert Torricelli

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

Eric Haslett

For Sarah to be able to have the time she did was wonderful.

Cheryl Tweedy

I don't think I can have Sarah now. But the other girls, yeah, definitely.

Bruce Willis

Just Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Ashraf Nubani

Just stop the pain, I'll say anything, ... one lash after another.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Josh Fodor

He was stopping everything. We had a lot of opportunities but couldn't get any in.

James Rubin

I don't know who talked first. Let's just stop it, okay?

Mike McBride

He was unbelievable. We couldn't have stopped him with 16 tanks.

Robert Schumann

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

William Devane

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Gong Li

I've been to Cannes 15 or 16 times, and every time I go, there's a kind of soul-stirring feeling.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Tom Lochner

Has it turned the world upside down? Probably not.

Jason Garey

I think it turned out pretty well for me.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Kevin Connolly

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.