Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

Paul Moskal

I think it's fairly close. It's accepted as state-of-the-art science, and it's very powerful evidence in that it's science as opposed to personal opinion.

John Breaux

I think anything that is perceived as parliamentary maneuvering to get out of this is not going to be accepted by the American public, ... It's going to have to be out front. It's going to have to be fair.

Chris Roberson

I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator's Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator's Bill of Rights - in an issue of 'The Comics Journal,' if I'm not mistaken - I accepted it as gospel.

Ben Maynard

I accepted it, because it was something I was really looking forward to doing.

Johnny Rivers

I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.

Kofi Annan

I am delighted that president Bush has accepted to play this role. I know the Pakistan authorities are too. We know that he is going to bring extraordinary leadership and attention to this terrible tragedy.

William Mason

I am extremely pleased these fine professionals have accepted these important positions. Peter returns to Lyric with impressive new credentials, and Scott has been a valued member of the technical team for many years. The fact that they have worked so well together in the past is an added bonus for Lyric; everyone in the company looks forward to this new collaboration.

Angela Carter

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Susan Sontag

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Tacitus

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

Brian Mulroney

He certainly made an important mark on Canadian journalism.

Ryan Gosling

I don't feel like I would be a good mentor. I don't know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

David Bolland

I could see them sort of lay back a little bit. They were sort of like, 'Holy ... what's going on here?' It's a Canadian game we want to play. We want to make sure everyone knows that we're coming out hitting.

Patricia Ross

I am concerned about the U.S. energy industry taking over our Canadian natural resources. We should be holding onto them more tightly.

Al Leiter

Having faced a lot of these Canadian hitters, I certainly didn't think of them as patsies.

Steve Butler

Rising commodities prices definitely contributed to the fortune of the Canadian dollar today. Commodities have been a positive factor for the Canadian dollar in 2005 and the market expects good news to continue this year.

Stephen Harper

If the Liberals are re-elected, this is what Canadians can look forward to, a government pre-occupied with ongoing scandals, corruption and police investigations.

Boris Schlossberg

If you have a continuation of gains in commodities prices, the Canadian dollar will rise. There is some positive momentum going on for the Canadian dollar.

Mark Burnett

If you look at that situation, it certainly bodes well for the future of getting a Canadian on Survivor. Tell Canadians to submit more tapes.

Larry Fitzgerald

He's a great person to be around, ... He's a great influence on not only me, but the whole receiving corps and this whole football team. He's going to help us out in the locker room and he's definitely going to help us out on the field.

Dan Walters

I'd like to thank the Marine Corps for everything they do to protect our country,

Otto Schily

I suggest setting up a corps of specially trained European riot police that can work at an international level to de-escalate problems and, where needed, effectively quell violence.

Nancy Stoner

The corps is not following the law, and drinking water supplies, wildlife habitat and flood protection could be lost as a result.

Spiro Agnew

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Bob Johnson

I spent six years in the marine corps and I think I played three games of poker in those years, ... If we have an out-of-date ordinance, let's look at it and see if it needs to be changed.

John Barry

My intent is not to point the finger. I still have a high regard for the corps. Holding back the Mississippi River isn't an easy thing to do. They've done an extraordinary job at flood control, and that's what makes this all the more devastating. I'm sure the corps is devastated, too. They know people put their faith in them and that faith was betrayed.

Carla Korbes

By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

Phil Klay

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

Manny Acta

I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.

Ned Colletti

His skills are very similar to earlier in his career. He knows how to play, how to win.

Scotty George

I think the market today is just perpetuating the uncertainty we've seen in the last few weeks after it hit its highs earlier in the month.

James Daly

I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.

Luca Colajanni

It had been raining a lot earlier and the track was very wet. He just spun off.

Michael Goodling

We lost to them 2-1 earlier this season, so we know we can play with them. Hopefully we'll rise up and meet the challenge.

Jimmy Spencer

I didn't give, ... Yeah I could have, but hey man it's the last lap. Sometimes earlier in the race you'd roll out of the gas and step on the brake and let him have the lane, but I had the lane and he wanted it and not on the last lap.

Dan DeRose

He is a very strong kid. They probably should have went to him a little earlier maybe in the first half.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Jerry Sullivan

His versatility and value to the offense can't be overstated. If he were healthy for the entire season, even as inconsistent as we were in the pass game, Arnaz would probably have been a 60- to 70-catch guy.

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Kari Appler

I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free.

Harrison Ford

I was always very grateful I was never 'hot,'... In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the hottest, the No. 1, the most adored. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Mike Schmidli

We took up the entire space (of the old Grand Wayne Center). All the side rooms, every inch of it. So now we're all in one area. So much nicer and it's great.

Mike Wallace

What you're saying is that you were a living steroids experiment for your entire career,

Wayne Butler

I think that, with six fish, we?re going to make it through the entire summer without a problem. But whether we make it all the way through (this year)? I?d say we have a 40-60 chance.

Art Hogan

I think the dollar's recovery has a huge impact on the market, when you look at things like gold, which is getting tattooed today, ... I also think it's important psychologically, like when oil finally peaked in the mid-50's.

Jeff Gordon

He wasn't real happy with me, but we finally worked it out.

Albert Camus

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Maria Corbalan

I'm happy. I'm very happy that it's finally going to be done.

Warren Moon

I'm as happy for the guys as if I had played in the football game. I'm so relieved. This franchise has been trying for so long and to finally get there is great.

Greg Olsen

I had a minor medical problem and they said I couldn't go. It took me a year to get well and then I finally went into space. That should just let you all know that you should never give up.

Frank Thomas

I'll finally get some real work in. It will be great to see live pitching for a change.

Craig Biggio

I know he's smiling right now, ... He's overjoyed. We were so happy for him when he finally won the Stanley Cup. We couldn't wait to get through on the phone to him and congratulate him.

Sy Montgomery

I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

David Price

Last night he painted the picture of the night he was going to have.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

John Allen

I had talked to several other guys, but (Jones) was, in my opinion, a better candidate.

Rob Hartman

It's been several years since we've had this widespread of flooding, and we're not done.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Alex Knott

Those are several times more than the average. It shows you that this is going to be a very costly election.

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

Toks Olagundoye

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Rick Riordan

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

Rick Riordan

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Rick Riordan

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

Rick Riordan

I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously

Regis Philbin

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.