Famous Quotes & Sayings

Candice S. Miller

Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens being released back into the society which, of course, is an unacceptable outcome for our communities.

Buzz Aldrin

We're number one on the runway.

Bryan Cranston

There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.

Jason Gann

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

Janet Fitch

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

Janet Fitch

I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked...

Ernst Mayr

There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population but that are of great advantage to the population as a whole.

Ernesto Zedillo

What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

Ernest Borgnine

I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.

Gareth Gates

Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.

Gareth Bale

I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

George C. Williams

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

George Carey

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

Hayao Miyazaki

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Hayao Miyazaki

It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

Gretchen Rubin

The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.

Herman Kahn

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

Herbert Spencer

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

Herman Melville

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

Herman Melville

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

Herb Alpert

It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

Henry David Thoreau

In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.

Jerry Garcia

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

Jeremy Bernstein

The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer...

Grover Norquist

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

Graham Greene

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Graham Greene

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

Gifford Pinchot

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

Georgina Chapman

My family is my number one priority.

Harriet Martineau

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ...

Hugh Downs

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

Howard Zinn

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.

Hannah Arendt

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.