Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Roberts

Few people have any concept of what it's like to experience the extremes of the Southern Ocean . The relentless frequency of the gales and storms left little time for recovery.

Francis Parkman

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.

Mads Mikkelsen

First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.

Barton Gellman

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

Peter Kinder

Figure out who the interest groups are that represent your positions and keep in good contact with them,

James Stewart

Film itself is very technical, and I think you need this period when things are a little out of control for it to work right.

Experience in many countries tells us that by accumulating foreign exchange reserves, eventually the monetary policy consequences could be big.

Sergio Garcia

Expectations for lower inflation in the first half of March were confirmed toward the end of the session, helping the market maintain its upward tendency.

extremely overvalued and confront a high risk of a future price correction.

Paul Theroux

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind

Export values for minerals just look too low to us. It may be underestimated or just that the full effect from higher contract prices hasn't fed through yet, though it's been a few months now.

Exporters are gaining as a strong start to holiday sales eased concerns over any sudden slowdown in the U.S. economy, which has been a worry.

Export demand is really solid now. Japan can count on overseas demand as long as global economic conditions remain favorable.

Alain Prost

The real problem is that it (F1) is in a permanent state of conflict,

Chris Cooper

The real problem in the process isn't that these costs soared out of control, but that they were grossly underestimated from the beginning.

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

Bob Bennett

There are a lot of people, like Senator Dole, that are concerned about her as a friend and as a reporter. And Judy has a lot of friends.

Kellen Clemens

There are a lot of guys on this team that are putting up big numbers. But the only number we're concerned about is the number 7, as in getting to 7-1. If we get there, then it will be No. 8.

Chris Leak

There are many ways you can lead, ... I just try getting guys and talking to them and just trying to get them confident in themselves.

Mariella Frostrup

There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one of them. If you're convinced that it's the key to your happiness, there are routes open to you, whether with the help of modern medical science, marrying into a readymade one, or through fostering and adoption.

There are many types of avian flu, so to determine what type it is and get our results confirmed we have to send the samples to Italy.

There are many things they can do to improve conditions that don't cost any money.

There are many, many different stories. This could be a fabulous historic site. With the nice concentration of Fort Laramie, the Oregon Trail ruts and the Sunrise Mine, I think this could be a really good heritage tourism area. There is enough here for a special trip to these places for tourists.

There are not many people within the WWF that I am contact with.

Ian Hislop

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

David D. Burns

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Florence Welch

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Cate Blanchett

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

David Plouffe

And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.

Dixie Lee Ray

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

Donella Meadows

Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.