Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Roberts

There are many areas where it appears I knew a lot more when I was 25 than I know now, when I'm 50, ... I certainly wouldn't write everything today as I wrote it back then, but I don't think any of us would do things or write things today as we did when we were 25 and had all the answers.

If we get far enough along, it's possible that we may have a candidate or two who might appear before the council (in executive session),

Russell Crowe

If we didn't have a great bad guy, we've got no movie. If we don't have a villain that appears to be physically threatening, then we don't have a film.

If these numbers turn out to be accurate, this appears to be the largest scam of retail investors ever. It certainly eclipses the high-profile boiler-room cases of the early 1990s.

It didn't appear to be rotten. We don't know why it failed.

It didn't appear to be intentionally set. It was possibly electrical in nature.

It did not appear he was wearing a seat belt.

Mariella Frostrup

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

Sathya Baba

Let me tell you, I have never suffered nor will ever suffer ... only when I take upon myself the suffering of others do I appear to the suffering.

Jack Horner

Mary, a former student of mine, and I just broke bones up, dug things out of them and just destroyed bones, and she's very good at that, ... Mary's discoveries produced what appeared to be blood tissues and red blood cells, very similar to what we see in modern day ostriches.

We know he had suffered some injuries to his arms that appear to be self-inflicted.

Elizabeth Gaskell

We were none of us musical, though Miss Jenkyns beat time, out of time, by way of appearing to be so.

Harry Shearer

We were never on strike. The day that story appeared in Variety newspaper, I was at Fox doing vocal services for that week's show.

OPEC has a history of trying to jawbone the market. It appears OPEC is trying to take a little steam out of the rally and keep prices under control.

People are dressed rather informally. It does appear that there is a better and more constructive and more pragmatic atmosphere to work on these problems than there had been in the past.

Barbara Boxer

People are concerned about fairness and justice at a time of sacrifice. ... Your sacrifice appears to be nothing.

People are breathing a sigh of relief that ... New Orleans appeared to be on the weak side of the storm.

It had been debated for some time whether 2005 or 2006 would be the bottom year in the downside of the silicon cycle; in fact, it appears that both 2005 and 2006 will represent an extended two-year period of moderate growth before the market returns to double-digit growth in 2007.

Jay Feaster

There are many more buyers than there appear to be sellers.

David Frost

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.

David D. Burns

Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head it off at the pass. Instead, they try to persuade the patient to change, or to do the psychotherapy homework, while the patient resists and 'yes-butts' the therapist. The therapist ends up feeling frustrated and resentful, and doing all the work.

Francois Truffaut

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

Hermann von Helmholtz

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.

Hill Harper

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real.

Don Kardong

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

Elizabeth Jagger

On bad days, I like to wear something colourful so I strike attention. That's how I appear confident to others - and how I get confident.

Frans Lanting

The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

Barton Gellman

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

Marilyn Monroe

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'

We call him the pencil-neck geek type of person but I think so many of us relate to him because he's maybe insecure but he tries to overcome it by appearing more macho than he really is, more brilliant and more intelligent, a tough guy but deep down he is insecure. Plus I think he's just the nice guy a lot of people just like to associate themselves with.

When Quest was introduced, it redefined the segment with its emphasis on combining car-like performance, innovative style, sporty appearance and exceptional practicality and versatility. The enhancements for 2007, which represent one of the largest mid-cycle investments in Nissan history, make the Quest more flexible and accommodating than ever -- keeping pace with the evolving needs and desires of minivan users.

Greg Collins

While subscriber growth remains strong, especially in developing regions, the revenue opportunity for the infrastructure vendors appears to be more muted as the market moves from coverage driven investments to more incremental capacity spending. We forecast that increases in WCDMA revenues will more than slightly offset declines in GSM-based infrastructure. The CDMA market has matured such that it is prone to the ups and downs of upgrade cycles, but should see modest growth through the scope of our forecast.

While partly the result of a rebound from hurricane disruptions, the rise in Texas' leading indicators appears to be signaling a sustainable pickup in economic activity.