Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Krogh

In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would be extremely interesting to know just how the giraffe avoids the development of filtration oedema in its long legs.

Charles Schumer

I'm going to do everything I can to try and craft a compromise that avoids a lengthy trial,

Dennis Patterson

It's a short meet, so anything can happen. Garcia is getting on some live horses for some top barns, so he might have a good shot to pull off an upset if he avoids suspensions and injuries.

Don Murray

This avoids the scenario of a 17cm pair of scissors ending up sewn into somebody's abdomen,

Jack Layton

This avoids the holiday election that nobody wants,

Mitchell Ribitwer

It's a fair deal because it avoids any more trauma and misery for the Weinstein family.

David Adelman

The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.

Michael Chertoff

The whole point of this program is let people decide the fate of their own lives, ... And I think that avoids the whole issue of someone coming from outside and saying, 'You must do this' or 'You must do that.'

Larry Harvey

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

Christopher Brooks

I was in the process of tying it to my fishing rod, when I turn around and this Coast Guard boat was right behind me, ... It was the one thing I was hoping for and I guess it was like, 'Oh, well, here they are.'

Mona Sutphen

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Elliott Sadler

Kevin's done a great job, ... He's been the man behind the scenes for the last two years. Everybody's been behind him the last two weeks and things are going really well.

Alison Parker

Kids who commit serious crimes shouldn't go scot-free. But if they are too young to vote or buy cigarettes, they are too young to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

Ron Prince

I wouldn't read too much into who's doing what with what group. We're trying to get all the quarterbacks the opportunity to play with different combinations. It's only what's fair to them when you're going to be behind a group that hasn't been blocking together but for two weeks.

Robert Gamez

I would've made a double bogey but I double-chipped, ... The wind caught me on my downswing on the first shot and I went long. The guys behind me hit good shots and came up short. The wind switched that quickly.

John Jones

I would say that we won when we had to win and did what it took to win (in the first half of district). I wouldn't say our wins were pretty, but we have to put that behind us.

Tony Hunter

I would say that the point behind this is very simple.

Martin Bartenstein

I would say that the matter is not entirely behind us. We have got to draw conclusions from this.

Ken Perkins

Is Wal-Mart also hurting its business? I think cheaper products at the discount stores did have a marginal impact on the company's sales.

Matt Kenseth

He knocked me out of the way. I thought if he had a run on me, had me beat, that would have been OK. But he drove extra hard and knocked me out of the way. I thought it was a cheap shot.

Mike Smith

It is a lot cheaper than the real thing. But they aren't cheap by any means.

Chen Huiqin

There is great optimism in the market just now, especially about the banks, so people are picking up cheap deals for the long term.

Bob Garner

To fish 365 days a year, it's pretty cheap stuff - you can't get much cheaper than that.

Hugh Johnson

It has been a solid performance, but there's still a healthy level of skepticism because stocks aren't cheap right now.

Helen Darling

I think they will be looking. It seems to be a cheap fix.

James Riley

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

Craig Venter

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.

Dave Lewis

Hopefully we get way over what we have 150 percent would be great farmers wouldn't worry about the water no talk about shutting off irrigation we really need the water so hopefully it'll be a good year.

David Macdonald

Instead of wholesale adoption, we are seeing at most experimentation. Worldwide farmers have good reason to be wary.

Justin Vernon

I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

Seymour Cray

Parity is for farmers.

Feng Jianzhong

The main purpose of this is to do solid work for the farmers and not to increase their financial burden.

Chief Ogden

It's not just luck. The homeowners, farmers and ranchers are doing what they're supposed to do.

Mike Cahill

It's a farming town. ... The rich people there are farmers - like it used to be in Sonoma.

Luxon Zembe

Pre-planting prices are a production tool to influence farmers' decisions. But the government has been dithering on this. So farmers have tended to shift to uncontrolled commodities such as horticulture.

Greg Beck

There would be thousands of farmers with nowhere to take grain.

Susan Molinari

When I first got here, every time you'd say breast feeding on the House floor there would be a snicker. This has been happening since creation. Can we finally get a grip on it?

Terrence Gabriel

I think the Qualcomm report may be dampening sentiment and Compaq's report is somewhat mixed. It does seem that disappointment over the Qualcomm report is feeding into the tech stocks.

Greg Johnson

I think the opportunity for flies to pick this up may be feeding on saliva, but we're not 100 percent sure.

Bo Ryan

We try to get to the line a lot, no matter what. We did a much better job than in some other games of getting position and making post feeds and getting people off their feet or out of position. That's how you get to the free throw line.

Mark Stevenson

We took a lot of feedback from people who were in the event. ... They wanted the route to be more difficult.

Daniel Gibson

When he's out there knocking down shots, we feed off him.

Paul Byrd

I think we feed off that. These games count. That (emotion) is the way it should be.

Mike Dwight

I think what had been described as the feeding frenzy is over. And things might slow down to merely good-to-excellent.

Dr. Young

I do a lot of C-sections in my practice, so this was nothing different. The puppies were about two weeks premature and didn't have hair. We were able to revive the puppies. I tried to get them to nurse on their own, but they wouldn't eat. I had to feed them with a syringe. It was a lot of work for me, getting up every two hours to stimulate them and feed them by hand.

Sathya Baba

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Timothy Ramey

There is a lack of innovation, lack of reinvestment, and lack of news in the category. We're not recommending any large-cap food names.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Gilbert Arenas

We've got to realize that these people lost everything they had. For some people they didn't have food or water for days. I'm just trying to do my part and help out as much as I can.

Sara Schmitz

We substitute foods that are on the menu with a doctor's excuse. With 20,000 kids, it's impossible to be short-order cooks.

Thierry Breton

I think being interested in food security is modern and necessary,

Daniel Boulud

I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.

Phil Biston

I think that's the type of food people want at that time, especially when they're out.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Jim Murphy

I think the government ought to stay out of other people's business.

James Tien

I think the government could do much better.

Jeff Ward

This is aimed at those small and medium-sized livestock producers, ... This could be a valuable tool for them.

Collin C. Peterson

It's time for us to keep better track of our livestock as they cross borders.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Harland Braun

He's being well-treated and he's getting his regular medications . He said it's ... like some of the parts that he's played.

Julie Johnson

Our own rendition of the show is made up of parts of three different scripts of the play.

Michele Lee

In 'Seesaw,' I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I don't get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

Jack Santino

In some parts of Europe, they'd look for bears.

Claudia Schiffer

I only want to do small parts for now.

Paul Erlich

The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts

Valentino Castellani

It will be one of the most important parts of the games.

Mark Jones

It's a pretty comprehensive plan. There's some parts that play off one another and are supportive of one another.

Henry Ford

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Mike Quigley

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

Lewis Carroll

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Jodie Foster

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Beezer Molten

Here, all waste will be viewed as a recycling opportunity.

Mary Johnson

Without the Wheelchair Recycling Program, we can't do what we do.

Janet Fitch

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Sending Minerva to the surface did not work.

Sunita Narain

Sending in the commandos sounds very hip, but it isn't the whole solution.

Ron Gardenhire

Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

John Lelangue

But we'll be sending a competitive team to the Giro.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

Luis Suarez

My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.

Brad Wilkerson

He can hit. It's not like you're sending an out up there every time.

Jose Ibarra

I think it's great. We need something on the south side.

Edmund Hillary

I am hell-bent for the South Pole-God willing and crevasses permitting.

Woodrow Wilson

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Wilbur Smith

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Jackie Miller

In southeast Kansas, a lot of them are part-time,

Katy Mixon

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Laura Carmichael

I'm from Southampton.

Joe Slovo

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

Steve Johnson

Democratic, market-oriented Taiwan is a thorn in its side.

Jason Wu

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

Annette Lu

Taiwan is democratic.

Jeremy Lin

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

Zig Ziglar

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

Wyndham Lewis

Where there is abundance you can afford waste.

Kenneth Clarke

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

Khaled Hosseini

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Jack Welch

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

Henry Ford

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

James Richardson

If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.

Johnny Carson

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

James Beard

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.