Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vikram Seth

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

William Strunk, Jr.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Louis E. Boone

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Peter Thiel

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

Chris Mooney

We couldn't contain Dean. A couple of times we played very good defense on him, and he made really hard shots.

We can't let Kelley get to the outside. We have to contain him. He will probably get 20?30 touches, and rightly so.

We know that there has been some excellent work by governments and nongovernmental organizations in the wake of the tsunami -- the speed and scale of the response meant that lives were saved and many predicted outbreaks of epidemics were contained -- but it is not enough.

We have the same feeling, the same strategy on how to contain nuclear proliferation.

We have the names of the officials who gave the orders and those who executed them. Everything is contained in these documents,

Rose George

Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.

Mark Mothersbaugh

'To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

We had to stop the run, keep (David) Johnson contained and not let them hit the long bomb. Today, it went well. The way I look at it, we're 4-0 and two more wins we're in the state playoffs. If we keep winning we'll make the Prep Bowl, but I don't look forward to playing them again.

Using the term multi grain or seven grain doesn't necessarily mean that a product contains whole grains.

Pierre de Fermat

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

Scott Drew

With other players, you can get into a situation where you can take them out of a game. Richard Roby? You can't contain him. You just have to hope he misses some shots and keep defending him as well as you can.

When we went a goal up it was dreamland. We knew they would come at us in the second half. We could only contain them so far.

Firefighters were able to contain it to that back bedroom.

Emily Dickinson

Experiment to me Is every one I meet If it contain a Kernel? The Figure of a Nut Presents upon a Tree Equally plausibly, But Meat within, is requisite To Squirrels, and to Me

The provisions contained in this plan will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure necessary to meet energy needs through future decades, easing dependence on unpredictable foreign oil markets, and creating thousands of new jobs for American workers.

Amy Tan

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.

William Ruto

The Government wants to kill democracy by registering more parties while it has failed to contain hunger and insecurity.

Reticulocytes are terminally differentiating red blood cells that do not contain lysosome. Therefore, it was postulated that the degradation of hemoglobin in these cells is mediated by a non-lysosomal machinery.

We've got to get him stymied and contained somehow, and then we can pin our ears back and focus on getting Henry as uncomfortable as possible.