Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold Pinter

Mr. Bush and his gang do know what they're doing, and Blair, unless he really is the deluded idiot he often appears to be, also knows what they're doing.

Mentally, we are impure and black, but outwardly, we appear white. We imitate those who stand and serve at the Lord's Door. They are attuned to the Love of their Husband Lord, and they experience the pleasure of His Love. They remain powerless, even while they have power; they remain humble and meek.

One positive is that S&P earnings so far have looked better than the year-earlier period. Granted, comparisons are a lot easier as companies take less write-offs, but it's still something that's encouraging. I don't think we're going to have a big profit recovery, but we'll have the appearance of improvement.

One may appear naive or illogical but it's not naivete or being illogical. It arises from one's faith.

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

Pieter Zeeman

Of course the light source must be very restricted for the large number of beams corresponding to the various kinds of light to appear separately.

OEM revenue was light as demand for business PCs remained slow in the quarter, and we remain guarded about near-term growth. However, PC demand appeared to pick up late in the quarter, and with the launch of Windows 2000, we are excited about the opportunity to help customers migrate to this new generation of platform products.

Mike Smith

I think they've got a pretty interesting growth story. They appear to want to drive the bus pretty fast. They can support that with their balance sheet.

It is an extraneous business that Reynolds Metals had. It does not appear to be a core business,

It is always an honor to be invited to appear with the Vice President of the United States.

Paul Johnson

I think there's a lever on the side of your chair that might make you appear a little taller than you are,

I think there will be a high rate of participation. Most parties appear to have decided to back the process and fight on the election battlefield,

January trade numbers appeared stronger than expected, in line with global growth momentum.

Casey Kotchman

Jeff appeared to me that he had it. If I thought I could have caught it, I would have. I though he had a better chance of catching it than I did.

Jay has been valuable in the growth of KKZN not only on-air but because of his personal-appearance work.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote all these heavy, tuned-down guitar riffs and I asked him if he wanted to play the guitar solo on it, and he was pumped to do it, ... That was the first time I appeared on a record with Dime, and now this. I just wish this wasn't the way it had to happen.

Large FBI foul-ups used to be extraordinary events, yet now they appear to be deteriorating into regular occurrences.

People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.

People need to use public transportation because our roadways are overloaded with cars. Roads appear to be like parking lots.

People need to be much more vigilant in looking at e-mails. Just as with the original Love Letter virus, the e-mail will appear to come from someone you know.

People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one.

Dan Stevens

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. I was a pretty difficult teenager.

John Seabrook

Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.

Some of the studies use what appear to be obsolete data or data whose quality cannot be verified.

Some of the December strength and January weakness appears to be related to Y2K precautions; the (Federal Open Market Committee) will need a lot more evidence of a slowdown in consumer spending than this to convince them that further tightening is not warranted,

Richard Engel

Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.

Some investors focused on domestic demand-led sectors, while high-tech firms appeared to be weaker due to lingering worries over the firmer yen.

That creates the appearance of government for sale. It feeds a growing public suspicion that campaign donors are treated differently, that they're given favors in state government. Of course that has an enormous corrosive effect on public confidence in our state government.

That doesn't appear to be the cause in this case but it is still extremely hazardous.

Louis MacNeice

My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.

Mary Shelley

My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.

My mission here is to seek the release of all political prisoners including Abiola, ... That's the direction in which they appeared to be moving when this untimely event intervened.

Many factors weigh into the final decision as to which players appear on the protected list. Economics today are a bigger factor than ever before. The desirability of any player is ruled by the salary he demands and the length of his contract.