Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Hynes

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

David Kay

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

Enrique Garcia

That was a sad case. These cases are really made by people coming forward with information.

Rick Santorum

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love.

Matthew Quick

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

Allan Urlis

Typically, when there's damage to the weatherhead and the meter box, the city inspector would need to look at it before we could reconnect. But in this circumstance, where there are so many cases like that, the city inspection is not required before we restore service.

Stacey Gabriel

Today the prices have dropped in many cases to a fraction of a penny per genotype, and we can do millions a day. This is the difference between not being able to do the studies, and getting them done rapidly and well.

James Roth

Time is of the essence in these cases in gathering and sharing information, and anything that slows that down is distinctly unhelpful.

Ezra Taft Benson

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.

Chuck Grassley

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

Jeanette Woods

I wish we were being able to put counselors in the schools rather than policemen.

Carla Martin

I was unable to get counsel at all. This is an adversarial proceeding, but I am not represented.

Sharon Kesselring

I still have a mental health professional there, and she indicates there are still dealing with family issues and providing the counseling needed. There will be another mental health professional from another part of the state that will be providing respite to that person, too.

Bill Duffy

We'll get legal counsel to deal with (the lawsuit). That's par for the course.

David Katz

Those of us who engage in lifestyle counseling might be inclined to pat ourselves on the back over these findings.

Bradley Hunter

I would counsel people not to think that the sky is falling.

Benjamin Franklin

Good counsel failing men can give, for why? He that's aground knows where the shoal doth lie

David Maxwell

We can't logistically supply 19 counties with water and essential supplies.

Eddie White

We've lost some good teachers, because we've had highly qualified teachers and other counties have sought them out,

Ron Moore

Wind systems are so new we don't have anything in our zoning ordinance that addresses this type of electrical generation. There are counties in Illinois that have wind energy systems. Those are Bureau, Henry, Lee, McLean, and Mercer. McLean County, I believe, is going to be producing the largest wind energy system in the state, if not the Midwest. I think that's somewhere around a $300 million project.

James Lee

Just because of printing schedules and corrections to ballots, every election there are a few counties that aren't ready to go.

Matt Maguire

Those counties that don't have them have a tremendous competitive disadvantage.

Michael Toner

We are interested in reviewing any and all procedures that were undertaken to cross-reference these registration updates with pre-existing voter registration records in your county, and with the counties in which these voters previously resided.

Adam Warpinski

I think I have a new perspective, a new image, an open mind looking for new solutions and using those that have been tried in other counties and cities.

Main Street

we don't see the involvement we'd like from the counties (but) we need all the sectors.

Carl Laundrie

We figure we can get the information from other counties and the Florida Association of Counties.

Elliott Abrams

The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments.

Joe Solmonese

The American people deserve justice, not prejudice. With judges like Pryor on the courts of appeal, the Supreme Court is more important than ever.

Dave Lipe

We just did that because we have more courts here than they do at Granite.

Mariano Puerta

Today's win will help me to make it to the Masters Cup in Shanghai, ... I think I played good today. I'm working a little on my serve and moving toward my backhand because these courts are fast.

Peter R. Grant

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

Peter R. Grant

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

Nan Aron

Judge Roberts has advocated diminishing the role the courts play in enforcing individual rights and freedoms,

Xiao Yang

The problem of overwhelming caseloads in many courts is in dire need of improvement.

Laura Williams

We have to trust the courts to work it out in a fair and equitable way.

Tim Burton

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Gail Carriger

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

Gillian Armstrong

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

Ellen Key

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Edward Norton

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Elaine Stritch

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

Don Marquis

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

Ian Mckellen

What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.

David Hanson

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

Nayvadius Cash

When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.

Carl Rogers

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We have always said we want friendly relations with other countries,

Gary Chase

We have a great rivalry with Weston. It's a friendly rivalry, but a good one. It'll be exciting.

Stan Mikita

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt, ... This is just a friendly match.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

Don Freytag

Wine is perceived as untouchable and intimidating, and young people are turned off by the imagery of a nose in the glass. It was not served up in a terribly friendly way, and we saw that as an opportunity to be different.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Christophe Barbier

He has profited from the riots and the protests.

John McCarthy

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

Alain Badiou

We have the riots we deserve.

Tony Martinez

It was crazy. It was like the L.A. riots all over again.

Rudyard Kipling

And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!

Sophie Lowe

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Ken Park

I think I'll be here until they toss me out.

Juvenal

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Edgar Guest

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

Bobby Flay

I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl - using only enough to glaze the leaves - then toss.

Ally Carter

She looked at him, watched hum toss the remote on the table and say," So maybe I'm going to handcuff myself to you the next time you decide to take a stroll.

Cormac McCarthy

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

Grimes

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

Eugene Mirman

I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.

Mae West

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Kacey Musgraves

Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Oswald Chambers

We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

Oswald Chambers

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

Oswald Chambers

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Neil Young

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Mark Twain

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

Jay Leno

106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.