Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Carl Jung

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Edmund Wilson

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Edna Ferber

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

Berenice Bejo

I feel very honored and special really. You can't imagine, to arrive at the Oscars when you arrive so low, and you can't go further than the Oscars.

Bill Gates

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Bob Seger

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

Charley Pride

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

Bobbi Brown

Beauty is the result of realizing what is special about you and not focusing on the things you don't like.

Richard Wilson

What's special about Rosebud is we're watching these in a darkened theater,

As you can tell, she is a playmaker. She is a real special player.

It's just like any other event. There is no need for special arrangements.

They don't feel like they need special representation.

There isn't much that isn't special about Kita.

Jim Calhoun

It is special. It's even more special because of what's at stake.

It really is a special park. I like it better than any of the other parks.

Jeff Bagwell

This is what we wanted to do, ... We wanted to be part of something special here in Houston.

It's a tremendous achievement. It's especially special for those staffers who won for the first time.

It was their special place for a long time.

Billy Gillispie

It was a real ugly win for us, and that's what we specialize in.

It was a special voyage. The Concorde was really an important part of my life.

It was a special tournament for us. Everyone stepped up for us at various times.

We know, at this time of the year, special teams is everything.

Don Adams

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

As a team, we always think there's something special about us, because we've been together for so long.

Andre Tippett

The three teams that won (the Super Bowl) overrule us in a lot of things, but we were the first Patriots to go. That was a special year, 1985.

Robert Palmer

The special use arrangement has been cumbersome to administer.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams let us down. You have to thrive on special teams and we didn't do it.