Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul D. Boyer

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

Michio Kaku

Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It's just applied Newtonian physics. After repeatedly falling on my rear end, I realized it was harder than I thought. But it had an upside. That is how I met my wife, who was ice dancing at the Rockefeller Center ice rink.

We think that this technology has a lot of other applications. It can be applied to a whole range of problems that require tight linkage between data and computation -- tsunami warning devices (where you have a lot of data coming in and you have to make quick decisions), homeland security applications, medical imaging systems and so on. So there are a lot of other potential applications for this kind of technology.

Robert Runcie

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Sepp Blatter

The regulations will also be applied for this World Cup. At the first sign (of racism) there will be a deduction of three points, then we are finished with the problems of discrimination.

James Morgan

What is important for Applied Materials is to prepare for change and focus on building a great global growth company.

Stephanie March

What I've learned is that makeup well applied can really last all day. I've had makeup on for 17 hours with minimal retouching. Once it's on me, and I start, I don't want to be touched again.

We knew about this vulnerability a month before the worm emerged, ... If companies knew to scan even their perimeter machines, they could easily have seen this vulnerability and applied this patch and not be affected. I think what we're going to see is a new awareness around this and, as a result, new emphasis on planned vulnerability scanning so they have a fixed process.

There is no surgery involved. It's like a contact lens with hair injected into it. Then using medical adhesive it is applied to the person's head.

Robert Pozen

There is no single rule that can be applied in deciding whether or not to limit new purchases in a given fund,

Those policies never went through the proper administrative review process, were not subject to public review or comment and were never reviewed by the appropriate legislative committees. But they were applied as if they had been.

Orrin Hatch

This vote should have been 100-0. But 78 senators applied the right standard in evaluating a judicial nominee - a nonpolitical standard - and that's a good sign.

We feel our system can be very beneficial to the people of Hong Kong and Singapore when used as part of a comprehensive bird flu containment strategy. It is our understanding that government officials in Hong Kong and Singapore would be interested in seeing if our system can be applied in different areas of the poultry processing cycle. What's particularly beneficial about our system is that it is designed to be flexible and to accommodate different needs of different governments. Therefore, we believe our system will be able to accommodate the requirements of this market.

Mitchell Hurwitz

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There's so much that we have yet to do -- the hunger in the world, the sickness in the world, the poverty in the world. We must apply some of the great talents that we've applied to space to all these problems, and get them done, and get them done in the spirit of what's the greatest good for the greatest number.

There's a good possibility that those people taking trips that have applied for a passport, or a passport renewal, won't know that their passport has been cancelled, or isn't being taken care of.

Baron Davis

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

When you apply that much pressure, it takes a lot of energy. We applied in the first quarter and it worked. In the fourth quarter, we put the full court back. If we could do that the whole game, we would.

The precautions we take with dangerous chemicals should also be applied to seemingly innocuous items, such as Tylenol, cold remedies and even vitamins. Pill vials should be securely closed, hidden away and stored at a height young children can't reach.

Donald Rumsfeld

The pressure applied on terrorists and insurgents is having an effect,

Steve Bruce

The problem we have is that we are too honest in the Premiership. The rules are applied to the extreme. We all know the referee was right under the laws to show the red card, but I'm convinced he would rather have shown just yellow. It killed the game as a spectacle because in the first half hour I thought we were fractionally the better side.

Unfortunately, this is not that uncommon. So I kind of applied my creative thinking skills and my engineering skills to the problem.

Many researchers have joined the field and applied the LED to many new markets such as mobile phone screens, LED TV, and LED Lighting.

Several years ago, I think it might go back eight, we did cut back on what we call the second games, whether it was at 7 o'clock or 10 o'clock. And that applied to everyone. But Montreal, because of their longer existence than Ottawa or the teams out west, would have felt the effect more. It was a budgetary thing at that point.

J. J. Johnson

Send the families to us, ... We don't have much for older adults without children, but we can help families out financially with benefit checks and food stamps. Those who haven't ever applied for food stamps will still be able to fill out an application.

The place where it's especially being applied is where we should stock certain fish.

Bob Love

We're concerned some of the good owners might be penalized if this is applied too broadly. If the sweeps are in response to complaints or code violations, we're all in favor of that. We're in favor of safe, sanitary and clean housing.

We're concerned an unfair standard is being applied as to cleanup.

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

Steve Miller

Obviously as we get into our discussions going forward, the reductions that GM has made are going to be naturally applied to the Delphi situation,

Nobody else has applied for it. There isn't any reason we shouldn't get it.

Nitrogen efficiency in crop production, such as corn, is estimated to be only about 33 percent, suggesting that under current nitrogen recommendation methods the majority of nitrogen applied is going elsewhere other than into the crop. On top of that, it's becoming more of an economic penalty to over-apply nitrogen.

Denise Mina

I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!