Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Wynn

I'm killing two birds at once, so to speak. Animal-based food kills people. This way, by going vegan... we get healthy and save animals. I'm being selfish, too, because if I can get my employees healthier, we cut down on sick days and gain more productivity.

This software models any contagious disease. Basically, what we can do is to give the model the characteristics of any contagious disease, such as bird flu, foot and mouth disease or SARS.

To be honest with you, I had a couple of good up and downs for par towards the middle part there when the wind got a little bit swirly. So making pars was good. Then the birdie at the last and not making any bogeys was key.

Toward sunset, waterfowl by the thousands converge on the main impoundment, so long as there's open water. The sunset return and sunrise liftoff are about the only movements we can predict snow geese and tundra swans will make. When they may arrive, where they go to feed and how long they stay at Middle Creek are strictly up to the birds and closely related to weather conditions.

We should concretely enhance our sense of urgency and responsibility in the prevention and control of the highly pathogenic bird flu,

We are still facing great challenges of bird flu control.

The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. And the small screen, where late the sweet birds sang, is now awash with repeats, reruns, rejects, replacements and reversions to the primitive.

The United States is a huge country. There are millions of birds on the move -- but we're going to work smart.

I should make clear from the outset that we do not know if the bird virus we are seeing overseas will ever become ... a pandemic.

Alan Feduccia

The whole thing had become circular -- birds are dinosaurs, so whatever we find on dinosaurs that looks like a rudimentary feather has got to represent the origin of feathers.

We target the bird-nesting islands. The birds bring the line in from the Gulf fishing piers.

We monitor the situation and we have not discovered any unconventional respiratory diseases in humans suggesting bird flu infection. Monitoring is underway in all districts of southern Russia. Luckily, no confirmed bird flu cases in humans have been reported.

Trying to get one of those birds and the snails together is problematic. So I suspect that some type of wading bird, with a cargo of stowaway snails tucked into its feathers, was blown off course by a storm and deposited the snails on these islands.

With all this rain and the wet weather, we already have mosquitoes developing and adults flying. There are eight positive birds in the state and half of them are here.

Confucius

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from making nests in your hair.

We had a strong first 10 minutes and the rest of the first half was very ordinary. Mentally and physically we just weren't there, and we only had ourselves to blame for that. The second half was better but the bird had flown by then.

We've had our bird feeder smashed a couple of times, but we never saw what it was. We kind of figured it was a bear,

Rachel Carson

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Up to 10km away, all the birds have been killed.

We don't want to take any chances, and we don't want to cause any bird death. But we have people call the next day, 'Why did you turn the lights out early?' You can't keep everybody happy.

Dick Thompson

You have to put this in perspective: there have been 180 million birds that have been killed because of this disease and yet we've identified fewer than 200 human cases.

At this point in time, there's no plans to do surgery to remove that bird shot.

At the moment Switzerland's goal is protecting its poultry from bird flu.

George H. W. Bush

At this moment there is no pandemic influenza in the United States or the world, but if history is our guide there's reason to be concerned, ... In the last century, our country and the world have been hit by three influenza pandemics, and viruses from birds contributed to all of them.

There's going to be another influenza pandemic. History teaches us that. We don't know if the current bird flu is the start of that, we don't know when it will hit. It could happen soon or it might be years off,

There's not this pressure on them of seeing Larry Bird or Isiah Thomas or Jerry West circle the court like was the case last year. The impact they're going to have is now going to be in the college game.

The transmission link between migrating birds and domestic ones has to be cut off before the virus has a chance to get into a host.

Michael Moore

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Nikita Khrushchev

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Nora Roberts

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

Myron Scholes

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

N. T. Wright

The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.

Sergei Eisenstein

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.