Famous Quotes & Sayings

Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.

Robert Hewison

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

Vic Snyder

There are over 50,000 seniors in central Arkansas that are eligible for extra financial help with their medications under Medicare, but have not applied to receive it,

Tony Fadell

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

We were able to work out some kinks and came back and changed some cars around and applied what we learned.

Dhani Jones

With TV, it's the same way as preparing for the game of football. To get better at football, you have to watch the film and watch those who came before you and played the game, and yes, the first year you come in as a rookie and you're not gonna be as good as when you come in as a vet, and I applied that in the same way to 'Ton of Cash.'

Alex Steffen

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

Zac Goldsmith

The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify different levels of wine quality and provide the reader with one professional's judgment.

Baron Davis

We stepped our intensity up, played better defense, applied the pressure,

Eric Topol

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.

Kirk Hammett

The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.

We are confident that our broad technology solutions position applied to outgrow and outperform the industry and deliver strong financial results.

Tremendous pressure was applied on both the Agriculture Department and the USDA to go to a Plan B.

We've been getting sick for 25 years around here. But to see him and how much he loves the team and wants to win for this club, that was one of the biggest things he had going for him when he applied for the job.

Over the last 20 minutes they really applied the pressure. The game ended with them in our goal area.

Our price objective is based on a 40 times PE (price/earnings) applied to our new 2005 earnings per share estimate of $1.35.

George Freeman

Some of you may have applied to multiple schools.

That doesn't happen in 99 percent of the companies in this country. Even companies who applied to our top 50, if you look at the bottom of the list, very few African-Americans, Latinos or women stand an equal chance of being promoted.

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

I think the standards are being applied to everybody indiscriminately, without regard to their abilities.

It is an awesome event for the kids. The Physics Olympics allows them to use the physics they learn in class and to see it applied in many different ways.

Dan Brown

Last year during the hurricanes, we would go over and help out as much as we could. I really enjoyed the work and so when the openings came up, I applied and got one of the spots.

Antonin Scalia

I saw nothing amiss in that friendly letter and invitation, ... I surely would have thought otherwise if I had applied the standards urged in the present motion.

I rushed to him and applied the Heimlich maneuver. After he recovered, he thanked me and introduced himself as Robert Chu.

I was disappointed when I didn't get job but that happens in this business. He applied for the job just like I did and I came in second, I hope I came in second. I'm going to be fine with whatever I choose.

I thought we did really well, ... We had three applicants for this program. We applied with three (farms) and got all three.

It is impossible to resume the six-party talks under such provocative sanctions applied by the U.S. upon the DPRK. This is the stand of the DPRK.

Jonathan Swift

Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them

Claire Tomalin

I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.

Mae Jemison

I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.