Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Desmond Bernal

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

Kara Swisher

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

Kent Haruf

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

Peter Hain

We have a situation ... with the police facing attempted murder and police facing violence which is on a scale that we haven't seen for many years,

We have I.D.'d the man and will attempt to interview him and see what his intentions were.

Kenneth Branagh

I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.

Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.

We really feel there was a lack of oversight and failed responsibility for disclosure of compensation practices. There was an eleventh-hour attempt to come up with corporate practice guidelines, but, in our view, it shouldn't take a proxy threat to get action.

We're adamantly fighting any attempt to transfer pollution from North to South, from rich to poor. These ships are moving precisely because the environmental and labor costs in developing countries are much less than they are in the developed countries.

The fact that only one of the six proposals actually contemplated a salary cap exposes the union for its true motivation - to do everything necessary to precipitate a fight in an attempt to preserve the status quo.

John Williams

The fact of the matter is (Brazil's) currency had to fall. The whole (Brazilian) economy and interest rates were being held hostage to the currency. You had to keep interest rates high, and therefore hammer the economy in an attempt to hold the currency up.

The fact is, I was not sent out to question what British intelligence might have, I was sent out to question the allegation that Saddam Hussein had attempted to purchase several hundred tons of uranium oxide from Niger.

The people in the bush feel they own the RFDS and it's their service and that ownership comes from local management. Most people get very few services and the one constant that's been in their life has been the RFDS. Any attempt to change the way it's managed is quite confronting to them and they would resist considerable change.

A. S. Byatt

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

Miranda Hart

However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn't.

Nina Garcia

I firmly believe that 90 percent of the confusion that women feel when they are attempting to put together an occasion-specific ensemble is caused by fear: fear of breaking the 'fashion rules,' fear of violating some long-forgotten tradition, or the basic fear of looking bad.

Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions of knocks on the vault door.

Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

We probably did foul them a lot, but 37 attempts to 10 attempts is a fairly large disparity.

Ray Brown

Well, I think that I've been learning how to, attempting to learn how to write for a trio. I've sort of taken a page out of Duke Ellington's book. I watched Ellington over the years and it didn't matter who got in that band, he found out what they could do good and then he wrote for them.

William Cobbett

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Brian K. Vaughan

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

P. J. O'Rourke

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

David Whyte

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

We're not going to attempt it, we're going to do it.

We're not engaged in any improper attempt . . . to get proprietary information.

We actually prohibited the attempt by Visa to impose a similar rule in Europe,

To bring it up now, as an attempt to gain leverage and a better settlement during the divorce, is just reprehensible.

We're attempting to help people move through the pilgrimage from being victims to being victors for the Lord,

We're attempting to drive a wedge between red state senators and liberal interest groups.

We're attempting to contract for materials, such as rock, super sand bags, cranes, and also for modes of transportation like barges and helicopters, to close the gap and stop the flow of water.

Feist

'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

Ambrose Burnside

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.