Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Margaret Millar

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Michio Kaku

Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an imaginary sphere. But recent theories indicate that it may actually be physical, maybe even a sphere of fire. But I don't trust any of these calculations until we have a full-blown string theory calculation, since Einstein's theory by itself is incomplete.

Neil Gaiman

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Melissa Etheridge

I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.

Lauren Weisberger

a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

Tom Anderson

Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.

John Grisham

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

How we did it before wasn't a fair comparison. It wasn't an apples to apples comparison.

If we want apples to eat all year round then this is necessary. And the product is still good for you.

It's hardly ever apples and apples when you compare No Child from state to state. We don't know why some of the states may not have to count the kids they don't test in their equation. That's the challenge with trying to make a federal law that's one size fits all and then have locally controlled schools.

It was apples and oranges. We wanted to give both films a leg up.

It's apples and oranges. The press is there to report on the General Assembly.

It's apples and oranges comparing that building to this (YMCA) building.

It's one way to look at it. There are always some bad apples out there, trying to do things for personal gain.

Insurance companies, we know, need reasonable adjustments but we shouldn't tempt the bad apples in the barrel.

Robert Wyatt

I'm very pleased with the body of work we presented, ... really an apples to oranges.

If you make a promise, you are responsible for your own promise, ... Unfortunately, there are a few ... bad apples who have abused loopholes ... to avoid funding pensions in a way that shows they are responsible for their own promises.

Jack Horner

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

J. B. Priestley

We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

J. B. Smoove

You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gripe.

I have to acknowledge that it's a different construction and Morrison has portables. It may not be apples to apples. We don't have energy management at Morrison; we're working on it now.

J. D. Salinger

I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

Hannibal Buress

My nephew's always crying. I'm like, 'Dude, why are you crying? Your life is great. All you do is eat apple sauce and take dumps. That's your day.

Guy Kawasaki

Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.

Gwen Moore

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

a couple of rotten apples that need to be dealt with.

(Proposition 66 and the Reform Three Strikes Act) are like apples and oranges.

It's a nice crop of apples out there. The apples are a little smaller because of the lack of rain, but maybe a little sweeter because of the warm dry weather.

Gary Hamel

Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.

Elon Musk

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

You never know how many apples there are in a seed.