Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Francis Richter

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Charles Francis Richter

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one's reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at any time. But if you have a good reputation, you know, you can usually find somebody who can - who thinks they can use what you have to offer.

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

Fran Lebowitz

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.

What we have to do at this point is wait for (Supervisor) Arne (Nordstrom) to assess the situation. I hope the Town Board finds a way to continue what's been started.

What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom.

Scott Skiles

We did what we had to do. We needed both of these games and we got it done. They won at home and we won at home. We know going into the series we have to win one in their building assuming you win at home. This makes it a series right now. We'll go down there and do our best.

We are deeply saddened by the death and injuries, and our prayers are with our guests, associates and their families. We have relocated guests to other accommodations in the city. We will determine when the hotel will re-open following the investigation and evaluation of the extent of the damage.

William Campbell

When I found out what ship I had been assigned to, I immediately went to the ship's website and researched it.

When a paper comes in from South Korea, you have to make the assumption that they are telling a true account. It is not a system for policing. It's a system for detecting whether the science seems good. It cannot be a system for policing.

Sumner Redstone

We have made a strategic decision that the future of Viacom lies in maximizing the value and potential of our core entertainment assets. The sale of our education, professional and reference publishing businesses will further refine that focus on software-driven entertainment, unlock the substantial value of these undervalued publishing assets for our shareholders and dramatically improve our capital structure.

Wole Soyinka

One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.

Lars Peter Hansen

It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.

We are happy this is all behind us. All throughout these negotiations, which resulted in a civil settlement, we sought to assure the jobs and futures of all the very talented people at the Strong companies and to enable Strong Funds to continue to serve its many investors.

We didn't document any breeding. A lot of folks had an assumption there would be a lot of nesting birds seen during the summer.

Laurence D. Fink

To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.

Bobby Scott

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

Orison Swett Marden

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

Bobby Ray Inman

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

Billy Porter

I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

Ali Babacan

Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to the E.U. But it is, in fact, an asset that can help the population deficit of the E.U. and the economic growth of Turkey.

Andy Cohen

The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth has been my greatest asset and my biggest Achilles' heel.

Rupert Sheldrake

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

Oliver Ellsworth

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

Oliver North

There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

William Bligh

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

We want to congratulate Fred on a tremendous basketball career. Fred is going to be an outstanding asset to this organization whether it be working with the basketball staff, or using his business skill set to help us on the corporate end of things.