Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Mossberg

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

Bill Calder

The Pentium name is the quintessential name of the gigahertz era. The gigahertz era is over.

Brian Kernighan

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

Rick Perlstein

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Nick Jonas

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

Frank Press

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Graham Davies

We've moved on through tape recorders to video, through to multimedia computers,

Ralph Merkle

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

Pat Metheny

I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

Gwen Moore

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

Menachem Begin

Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.

Patrick Modiano

Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.

Phil Klay

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

Charles Blood

I think they probably should have canceled this week for lack of interest.

Rosanne Cahn

Manufacturers are still selling a lot in the United States but their lack of pricing power in the top-line really puts a lot of pressure on them to become more efficient.

Robert McCann

We are not where we want to be, not for lack of effort, but because the process simply takes longer to produce results than any of us would like.

Gwen Moore

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Bill Bradley

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Joe Mihalich

That whole team is on a mission. They have the senior leadership and they can win this.

Jessie Evans

We need to have more patience. We need better leadership ... especially from our perimeter players.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Maryann Mitts

We just didn't connect. We didn't make the plays and they did.

Kelly Sears

We just didn't come up with the plays at the right times.

Brian Hill

We had our chances. That's what it comes down to in tight games. Who is going to make the shots, make the plays at the end of the game.

Rhett Bomar

We have the plays that will work and we know what to do.

Derrick Coleman

We were sluggish, and they just made more of the toughness plays than we did.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

Derek Hall

We will replace the projectors, we will review our security system in the building, and see what we can do.

Mariella Ruocco

We can replace the car, we can't replace you.

Ellen Bogard

We're going to replace them all just to make sure.

Randy Huth

We used to have a singer but he didn't work out and we never replaced him. We all do vocals on the record, and live, we, me and Joel, split it up.

Roy Green

We won't replace him, we'll just watch him as a (Missouri State) Bear.

Doug Cole

Other things can be replaced ... but not photos.

Kathleen Patterson

What we take out today takes 30 to 100 years to replace back into the aquifer. You can use 10,000 to 20,000 gallons (of water) on even a small lot. Micro-irrigation uses about a 10th of that.

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Alan Alda

No one can replace a unique person like Peter.

William Shatner

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

Sebastian Horsley

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

Lily Chatterjee

One strange thing about the rain? It reveals all of the leaks.

William Penn

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Madeleine M. Kunin

When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Rodrigo Santoro

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Tommy Gibbons

We are functioning in a support role for the county.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

O. Singh

He has not said what his role was. If he is responsible then he should be booked, and the sooner the better.

Cal Jillson

For most voters, schools are the No. 1 issue,

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Randy Copeland

Sir, two of those schools aren't even under our jurisdiction.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

John Koskinen

A third of the schools are still working to get those systems done.

Kevin McKenzie

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

Mark Zupan

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

Justin McNaull

It's all over the map. Here in the D.C. area, schools don't get out until Thursday, making for a very short travel period.

William Mezger

Most of them are students and don't work at other times of the year.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Brian O'Reilly

We don't want to penalize students for something that was not their fault.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Steve Ferguson

What we want to do is make sure that students who come to Bloomington are already prepared.

Kenny Perry

He's a tremendous kid, a tremendous student of the game,

Becky Lofstead

He was a 4-point student from what I understand. Just an outstanding student.

Kevin Knight

I'd like to see every student be a part of their school, whether they are in sports, band, drama, or any other ac-tivity,

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Bette Davis

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Arsene Wenger

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Arsene Wenger

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

Mary Quant

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Catherine Johnson

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.

Peggy Smith

Some teachers are better with adults and some aren't.

Dave Craig

Saturdays we always have a lot of browsers -- teachers and tourists.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

David Blunkett

My sense is that there is a new understanding, yes.

Gene Orza

My understanding is that Pedro, very frankly, is doubtful.

Crystal Chappell

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.

Ray Nelson

My understanding is that he didn't have a weapon when he was arrested,

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.