Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

Susanna Moore

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

Stephen Rodrick

There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.

Strobe Talbott

Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- 'citizen of the world' -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Paul Dolan

There is no artificial cutoff on signing long-term deals.

Frank Thomas

We talked. But they didn't think I could hold up on the field turf, that's really what it came down to. With an injury like this, it's not ideal playing on an artificial turf surface.

Andy Coburn

I think beach nourishment is used to help sell housing projects and protect the towns' tax base. People have this idea of the Outer Banks as a wild, wind-swept destination and an artificial beach will take away that lure which in turn could hurt the economy.

Tom Walsh

I think that it is wrong. I haven't said this one time in 21 years of prosecuting, but I guarantee the appellate court is going to reverse it. It's the worst opinion I've seen - it has no basis in law. All he's doing is setting up an artificial roadblock in our attempt to bring her to justice. He is a judge, so I am not going to say anything disrespectful.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

Douglas Elliott

I suspect that there will be some mix of taxpayer subsidy and increase in premiums that attempts to partially recoup the losses.

Jane Friedman

I think it's a great attempt to popularize the book business, and boy, do we need it. It's a good thing, as we try to expand our readers, to put the public into this. I think it's important to have the consumer not only buy the book, but confirm that this is the best book of the year.

Laila Sadler

It also seems to be in distress. It has made two seemingly deliberate attempts to beach itself.

George Dunlap

He left a man on the ground dying, and he didn't attempt to render aid.

Sally Schneider

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.

John Curran

There are so many machines connected to the Internet, you will see ... attempts to sweep a whole range of Internet addresses looking for hosts that have weaknesses. It's like testing doorknobs.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Robert H. Schuller

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

Peter Kretzmer

It assures that the Fed continues to not buck what was built into the futures contract, and will move by 25 basis points in September.

Bill Belichick

I also coached the secondary and Tom coached the receivers, so we worked together on a daily basis with each other,

Lance Armstrong

I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.

Charles Ruff

What you have before you is nothing more than the product of a rush to judgment, ... How should you respond to the (House) managers' belated plea that more is needed to do justice? You should reject it. You have before you all that you need to reach this conclusion. There was no basis for the House to impeach. There is now, and never will be, any basis for the Senate to convict.

Lonnie Nasatir

Having a top member of an organization that continues to spew out hate on a regular basis made it impossible for us to continue to serve.

Keith Foulke

Going out and getting people out on a regular basis is my main concern. I felt like I did that. Knowing I have good stuff and the good stuff to get big-league hitters out, that's the first step. And today it was a step in the right direction.

Anton Corbijn

For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.

John Norris

Historically, the Fed stops when the inversion of the overnight rate to the 10-year is about 30 to 40 basis points.

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Jim Leyland

Kenny Rogers made the All-Star team this year. He's 50-some games over .500 lifetime. He brings a lot to this party. I think we got a tremendous deal here.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

J. Nicholson

Ken Holland brings a wealth of experience in preparing a team and he has had great success in selecting championship teams.

Keyanna Jackson

Kendrick, I love you and miss you. I just want my baby. Please bring him home.

Rich Manning

Kelly and Jena bring with them so many positives for our soccer program. They're talented soccer players with good experience. They will be ready to contribute right away. They fill needs for our team. They demonstrate great teamwork. They are positive people. And, in due time, they will be good leaders.

Greg Jones

Keeping streamlined and up-to-date is crucial in this business. Without the capital investment to bring our entire production line up to speed, we'd never have gotten there.

Jeremy Foley

Keith is just flat-out outstanding. He is a tremendous administrator and will bring passion, great organizational skills and a strong work ethic to that role. He is one of my closest friends. This is a grand slam for the University of Central Florida.

Tom Doyle

Keith brings a level of professionalism to the team that will help us get to the next level. He has been working with NBA caliber players and knows how to get these guys ready to play at that level.

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Jack Wyant

I think it'll be nice because we get the courts all to ourselves. It's our show.

David Cardwell

I think it is a very diverse court that represents the diversity of Florida.

Kim Clijsters

I think I stayed very focused and very patient throughout the whole match, ... Even when I was 4-1 up, I was playing really well at the start. I was moving around, just from side-to-side, opening up the court a lot.

Jerry Summers

He (Cooper) does maintain his innocence and will defend himself in court if indicted.

James Thurber

He is perceived to be a liability at this point, and it's not just what comes from this particular court case.

Brad Buckman

There are so many memories from that year. Playing the regional in San Antonio was one of the craziest environments I've ever been in. It was an unbelievable situation. Then walking on the court in front of 50,000 people at the Final Four was something else. I've never been in front of a crowd that big.

R. Robinson

I would say that it (the visit) is not guaranteed yet,

Chris Scelfo

What matters is we're playing. We'll play in the parking lot at Popeye's. I guarantee you I'll play in the parking lot at Wal-Mart if that's where they tell us to play. That's all we have is football. We've lost everything else.

Roger Ferris

There is no guarantee we will get anything.

Gary Cooper

We're only looking to have fun. It will be fun. I can guarantee that.

Mark Johnson

I will be nervous, I guarantee it, but hopefully I'll get over it real quick.

John Campbell

There are no renderings, ... All they have are pretty pictures of cactuses that I guarantee there will be less of when they're done (developing).

Bob Levy

If we could guarantee it would make a difference, we would care. But you know, he's just doing what he's doing, and that's the way he is.

Buddy Pough

I can imagine what kind of ticket it will be for our fans. I don't know how many seats we'll get, but I guarantee you it won't be enough.

Joe Girardi

I can guarantee you that Miguel Cabrera will be in the lineup. Other than that, there aren't a whole lot of guarantees.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Kerry Sutton

We've been told there is a video of the identification process, and in my opinion we should have it by now.

Umberto Eco

Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

William James

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

Tucker Max

Opinions are projections.

Winston Churchill

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

Wim Wenders

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

William Strunk, Jr.

Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

Richard Howard

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Bob Hartley

It was like a photocopy (of the second period), just reverse it.

Willy Wonka

So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

Willy Wonka

We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

David Braverman

Whatever volatility we've seen today can be attributed to oil.

Pat Binns

We just haven't seen this before. It's disappointing.

Ariel Sharon

I have begun, with my colleagues, setting up a new party,

Gilbert Arenas

I'd been setting up my team all night, ... I'm going to win the game. That's what I do. . . . They didn't say it was going to be easy.

Richard Greenberg

The implication is that these settings would actually be hospitable to life,

Veruschka von Lehndorff

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

Simeon Rice

So we accomplished one mission. We're setting out for many more.

William Ramsay

(This is not about) setting up some supranational scheme.

Sam Aiona

There are various interpretations of the new law. It is setting us back.

Kevin Henkes

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

David Leslie

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.

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.

Grant Heslov

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Graham Elliot

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

William Hazlitt

His worst is better than any other person's best.

Trick Daddy

I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy.

Richard Pryor

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.

Salma Hayek

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

Whitney Houston

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Rudy Giuliani

Hillary Clinton's been the worst violator of cyber security so far in the history of the United States.

Walter Raleigh

To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.

Gurinder Chadha

If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what I tell girls, and what Beckham's about: you can do it, you can do it better, and you can do it in the way you want.

Steve Gordon

I know it's the worst thing you can do. I didn't really need the gas.