Famous Quotes & Sayings

Constitution Bench

Considering that the essential question of public importance has been invited in the matter and the High Court had granted leave to the state to approach the apex court...We grant leave in all matters and direct the same to be placed before the Constitution Bench.

Noam Chomsky

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

Carel Schaik

Ape cultures are real. I think it's time to stop doubting that they exist.

Helena Bonham Carter

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

Bo Burnham

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

K. A. Applegate

That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

Tom Vincent

Reading it will help explain why small-town elections are best-served tending to their own knitting and not trying to ape the national stage.

Sarah Hall

Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland.

Tim Johnson

Apex opened our eyes to the fact that we need to do a better job of selling ourselves and our company in other markets. We need to get out in front of people.

Tommy Franks

I don't know Senator Kerry's plan for victory,

Craig Jenness

In our view, all communities of Iraq have won in these elections, all will have a strong voice in parliament. We hope the elections will be the start of a new process of strength and unity in Iraq.

Stephen Harper

It has fallen off because we're in the summer and not having an election,

Jill Carroll

Iraqis in the street are saying that the Shiite-dominated government planned it that way. The elections gave people hope for an improved life, but immediately after the vote, the quality of life declined.

Jemera Rone

In essence these are multi-party elections in a one-party state.

Ahmed Nazif

If there are demonstrations, they will be sabotaging the elections,

Alex Salmond

Their whole by-election plan is in tatters, which is no surprise because everything Mr McConnell puts his fingers on usually collapses or turns to dust.

Ali Kerimli

The fact the OSCE is criticizing the elections in Azerbaijan will help strengthen the position of the Azeri opposition.

Anne Mills

The fear is that the tension will result in new elections and Turkey won't be able to put in a strong anti-inflation program.

Tyler Hansbrough

He left a really goofy voicemail. I can't really explain what he said. He just screamed into the phone.

Source Unknown

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Todd Pratt

He's dirty. There isn't much to explain when you see the numbers out there and how quickly he went through the lineup.

Jerry Kelly

He seemed like a wonderful guy. It's impossible to explain something like this and what may have gone wrong for him.

Jim Parkman

I think it's more harmful than it is good. Most defendants say, 'Put me up there, and I can explain everything away.' And that doesn't happen.

Mark Boudreaux

We take these issues very seriously. We realized that we needed to do a better job of explaining how the industry works.

Donna Karan

He was really the one man who was the voice of the designer. He understood us as designers, and then he could explain us to the consumer.

Pablo Picasso

I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand my explanation, but you will not understand the picture.

Ronald Utt

I am baffled. This is not incompetence. This is willful. That is the only way I can explain it.

Andrea Martin

I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Rig Veda

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

Will Peterson

Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

Luke Donald

Knowing I have played well here before helps a lot.

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Pat Callahan

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Rachel Bicego

Knitting is the fullest, but we're still taking more registrations. If anything, (register) as soon as possible though.

P. G. Wodehouse

Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

Beatrice Lillie

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

Debbie Macomber

I love the way knitting brings people together.

Amanda Seyfried

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

David Hudson

If you look at the national numbers, we're doing very well in our economy.

Al Nash

If you like wide-open spaces and a sense of the Old West and pioneering spirit, there's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Harold Bloom

I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Whately

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Richard Avedon

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Truman Capote

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

Truman Capote

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Richard Darman

Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Chris Richards

I was just trying to get out of the way and that turned out to be a two-goal swing. That was the game, the difference.