Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Erickson

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Leonard Mlodinow

The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

Joe Biden

This combination of benchmarks and regular public accountability would go a long way toward convincing the American people that they are getting the facts in Iraq and that we have a strategy for success.

John Garfield

There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.

It's a good start, obviously. It's the only convincing win we've had in an opener for the last couple years. Credit that to the great senior leadership and those guys are doing their jobs.

I tried to find work that felt convincing ... work that had a personal attachment.

Meg Rosoff

People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.

Susan Hill

It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

It was another one of those games where it just didn't feel like we had a real convincing lead. They were a very scrappy team. They didn't have the greatest shooters or the greatest post men, but they hustled very well.

That's not to say it's not challenging, ... but the team is making a convincing story.

Ben Nelson

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

There is considerable and quite convincing evidence that that could not have happened.

Don DeLillo

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.

Duncan wasn't all that convincing at the end of the day.

Tokenism creates short-term ticket sales but that kind of fan won't stick with the team. Unless the product is good -- and is viewed as good -- they won't come back for a second, third and fourth game. It's not just about having a good product, it's about convincing them they have a good product.

John Walsh

This woman was very convincing, just like many kidnappers are very convincing and very disarming, ... America's Most Wanted.

We've got a great team without Elena, but I'm having a hard time convincing the kids of that. That's not to take anything away from Elena, but I think we've come to rely on her too much. That's what happened tonight.

William Blake

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

The problem is convincing students to give it a try. After that, the game, properly introduced, will sell itself.

Kofi Annan

Leaders in the region remain engaged in the process of convincing President Saddam and the Iraqi leadership to disarm and cooperate with inspectors,

Wilhelm Ostwald

Nevertheless, the experimental proof is so much more convincing than such a general consideration that great weight attaches to it in any case.

She's a big-time player. I just have to keep convincing her of that.

no convincing evidence that homeopathy was superior to placebo, whereas for conventional medicine an important effect remained.

Stephen Fleming

Statistically it's convincing enough, but I think the tale of the Test shows that it was really about the morning sessions, about the new ball, about getting through that tricky period.

Nasdaq is really a mixed bag. The Fed debate is why the market can't put a convincing rally together.

I called him a few months later, and he credits me with convincing them to do this. I told him that the fans would love to see them and they would have a great time.

I don't want to just scrape through (for a victory) in this game. We need to play well and have a convincing win to have any hope of doing well in the playoffs.

Pierre Omidyar

A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things. They'll have an idea and they'll say - they'll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it can't be done... the first is even more dangerous and serious. It's convincing yourself that it can't be done.

I suspect they will not have a neutral bias; they will indicate risks are on the downside. I think we will, on the production side, see better numbers in the second half of this year, but I don't expect any convincing improvement in the labor market before early next year.

I think that they're (school district) going to have a lot of trouble convincing the court that they've evaluated enough, because they just haven't.

It is important that the EU (plays) its part in convincing the U.S..

He exploded down the stretch for a very convincing win.

Overall what was presented to us was not convincing and satisfying to us,