Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

It's as formal as trading securities on the stock market.

Angel Rivera

It's a unique phenomenon because hurricanes don't normally form at that latitude and with those temperatures.

J. C. Watts

They're running a minority government, so (Conservative leader) Stephen Harper isn't going to give the opposition a gift in the form of a deficit.

There's a lot of interest in the portable formats and that may just reflect the hectic lives of people.

Arlen Specter

There's been more controversy before this nominee has uttered a formal word than I have ever heard,

These are things that are being tossed around, but whether, how and in what form it will take place, we don't know.

Elvis Costello

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

You should want the highest form of technology and security for your privacy information, and frankly, we don't have that today.

I inhale the words and form a picture in my mind and try to sing the picture.

Michael Palin

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.

For the fool, the mind is a formidable dinosaur; for the intelligent, the mind is an angel.

Steven Berkoff

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

Johan Huizinga

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

Henry Petroski

Form follows failure.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

Jose Saramago

All the scheming and plotting in the world won't result in something lasting, transcendent. Anything that's authentic, that's real, comes in the form of a gift. Even if by accident.

Bob DuPuy

The matter remains on the commissioner's desk. He has given no indication that he's prepared to issue a formal decision,

Bill Walsh

The men are getting larger and larger, and that puts much more pressure on their hearts. When you weigh 340 or 350 pounds and you are moving violently and working your heart, that's a formula for problems.

Hermann von Helmholtz

The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.

Hermann Hesse

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

Louise Gluck

The love of form is a love of endings.

The Ethiopian government is violently suppressing any form of protest and punishing suspected opposition supporters.

Sathya Baba

The Immortal had come in the form of Rama to show the way to Immortality.

Kevin Allen

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

These kids are scared. When you're scared, you're going to form alliances and allegiances for protection.

Mary E. Pearson

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

Bill Coleman

The idea is to have those goals, and then throughout the year, talk about them regularly with your boss. It can be something as formal as a monthly or quarterly meeting, or simply giving them good news in the hallway.

Karen Smith

The idea is to form a habit, to get in the habit of getting out on a regular basis.

A lot of lending is going on in the form of dollars, which is reflecting international interest rates.

Nina Tassler

You've got close-ended stories, serialized storytelling. It should be a nice surprise. The form will be tweaked.

All obstacles to forming a national unity government soon will be resolved.

The general tone of the rhetoric form Gore has been quite hostile.