Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Wolfe

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Craig Venter

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

Ed Ratledge

As they age over the years, they forced us to build schools all over the place. Then you had to build houses for them, and now we're going to have to build health care facilities for them. Everything they do is of such a scale that you have to pay attention to it.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.

Charles Morrison

At our age we don't take any chances.

Matt Robinson

At that age (teenagers) are trying to figure out who they are.

Steve Erickson

At the age that I was when I stopped reading comics, and with a set of talents that would seem to mark a future comic-book auteur, my son has had only a passing enthusiasm for the medium.

David Bergen

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.

Evan Osnos

At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future disposition of his soul. Traditionally, after he dies, a search party of senior monks would set out to locate his new incarnation, who is most often a boy toddler, who goes on to be trained as a monk and a leader.

Terry Rischel

Old tin toys, old radios. He has little soldiers, old board games, transistor radios, luggage, classic luggage. We have way more than what we could put in this studio so we could do this studio many times over with his collections.

Pat Flaherty

I think you've got to try to limit their touches as much possible which is difficult with their size. You have to try to keep them off the boards and out of the paint as much as possible, which is easier said than done.

Bobby Bowers

The (Florence County) delegation did them (Florence 1 board members) a courtesy giving them the right to come up with a suggested plan, but the delegation is the supreme school board.

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Marc Cherry

Certain actresses really don't like to wear bras. And we try to accommodate them as much as humanly possible.... So we've done a lot of blurring.

James Loy

But, ... we can now do so effectively and when necessary so as to make certain that we get these vessels to stop.

Khurshid Kasuri

But what the president offered today was that, as a starter, we could have it in certain areas,

Talat Masood

But there are of course certain people, an important segment, which think he has compromised too much.

John Burnham

Burgoyne, he had style, a certain charisma, and charm and humor about him.

Roy Romer

But even if I were not term-limited, I would say I need to move on anyhow, ... There is a certain freshness you need as governor and none of us need to be growing stale in office.

Michael Clarke

But God is there and He's good ? I'm certain of that.

John Mack

Basically, with few exceptions, we have missed the alternative class. There's certain products we've not been involved in that we should be involved in and will invest in.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Angie Martinez

Always keep things in perspective.

Nikola Tesla

Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.

Miranda July

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

John Ruskin

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

Mark Twain

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

Mark Martin

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

Ken Shaw

So if you sell a $100 contract, you get $50 the first year, and $30 per year after that.

Karen Henderson

So if you replaced 10 of these per household, you'd be saving $540, which is quite a savings.