Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which seems to give the lie to this claim, is more the exception that proves the rule.

Steve Aoki

I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'

There are leasing conferences held around the country every quarter at which mall representatives and national business representatives get together, ... The May conference, which was held in Las Vegas, drew 30,000 people. It's become a very sophisticated process. The tenants now have real estate brokers and lawyers who represent them. They want to get the most bang for their money.

Robert Benchley

There is something about saying "Ok" and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into feeling that he has just pulled off a big deal, even if he has only called the telephone company to find out the correct time

This was the first time I've seen writers at 'World News Tonight' banging away on electric typewriters.

What scares me is that we have so much to do and we are so far behind. I think we need to make sure to do everything we can now to get as much bang for our buck.

What? Ridden on a horse?''Yes''You're using coconuts!''What?''You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together!''So?

Taslima Nasrin

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

George Smoot

When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.

Edgar Winter

When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.

Elisabeth Moss

I heard that people were really interested in the new haircut, which I think is so funny. Great haircut, I really like it. It goes great with the time period. And I was super, super, super-happy to have my bangs swept to the side rather than straight in front of me, which I dealt with for three seasons. I'm very, very much done with that.

Evan Parker

It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.

Elmore Leonard

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.

Gary Jennings

When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.

We led wire-to-wire, but it came down to the end and we got the last shot. To give credit, Chehalis is a physical basketball team. There was a lot of banging and pushing. We held our own, but it was not an easy night to do that.

Sharad Pawar

We have been invited to play two Tests and three one-day internationals in Bangladesh and the tour would take place after the World Cup.

You hit a bunch of keys at random to see why the system seems to have hung; you don't realize that the system has turned off echo so that you can type your secret encryption key, ... I've seen people try for hours to bang the keyboard in the exact same way.

You have to give Southern credit. They guard very well. There was a stretch there where they were banging down 3s and our shots were going in and out.

J. K. Rowling

Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.

Fred Hoyle

The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.

Kate Bush

Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van

I continue to think that we provide a real bargain, compared with other counties. People get a lot more bang for their buck here than they do in other areas.

Billy Donovan

I believe Corey will play, how productive I don't know. Lee I just don't know. There's not going to be a constant banging (as opposed to football), so I'm hopeful of getting him back as soon as possible.

Jason Gillespie

I am naturally very, very happy to get the century because I thought the Bangladesh bowlers were not that bad.

Office buildings and government buildings have surveillance set up. Online, it's pretty easy pickings. A lot of servers aren't secure, and it's not like you have to be super-sophisticated to learn how to hack into the site. You get a lot of bang for the buck.

Hal Sparks

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

Any discontent that might be there is part of the report, ... I want to know if taxpayers are getting the biggest bang for buck.

Raina Telgemeier

I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.

Right now, this is the worst serving team I ever had. But we're going to keep banging jump serves, and by the end of the year, we'll be better.

Jim DeRogatis

Bangs at his best jumps off the page, grabs you by the collar and says, 'Listen to this,' ... Let It Blurt.

Bangladesh was very much like Nepal or Thailand or like Indonesia before their respective insurgencies broke out ... because all these governments were in denial,

Adam Gilchrist

Bangladesh is underrated, but the team came out and stood up to us.

Bangladesh is an improving side. We are the underdogs.