Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Hunt

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

H. G. Wells

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

We are 12-2 in dual meets this season and ranked eighth in the state, third in Class A.

We're losing a very good senior class. Losing Matt and Zach leaves us with two huge holes to fill.

We are opening an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified materials related to the NSA.

Howard Shore

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.

Imelda May

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

Ivar Giaever

While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Yeah, classic rock is our station of choice. It's part of the vibe here. It fits pretty good with our target market of 25- to 55-year-olds.

Johnny Damon

Yankees fans do expect to see Jeter, A-Rod, myself and Bernie Williams. But with this Classic going on, we had to lose some players for some time. I understand the sign, but hopefully we'll put on a showing for the U.S. team.

Yale's proud legacy of leadership shines through with this class of honorees,

We are glad to have a class in the computer room and unhappy if we can not.

We are known for our sense of high fashion and classic runway style. . . . People forget that you are selling the clothes and not yourself. Some troupes' shows look like music videos. We stick to the clothes.

William T. Vollmann

Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'

Therapeutic substitution - substituting one product for another in the same class - just hasn't happened yet.

O. J. Simpson

There is a very strong cultural manifestation which is very unusual. It is also quite common to have one member of a family in the middle class while the rest is dirt poor.

Os Guinness

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

Chen Ning Yang

The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous.

Christine Woods

I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.

Denise Mina

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

Daniel Suarez

I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

Kim Basinger

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time

Charles Wang

The proposed combination of CA and CSC would create the next-generation, world-class information technology services provider that will lead our industry into the next millennium,

The prom is coming up soon, and it's really important that the junior class sets up a good dance to honor the seniors.

The project is classic sprawl. They are going to create so much pollution and devastation in the North Livermore Valley that no environmental group is supporting it.

We have had a season that exceeded my expectations. We finished the regular season with 20 wins and six losses. We won the Seacoast Class L championship.

We have a new class of software that really is about information integration.