Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cory Doctorow

What little empirical evidence is out there points to eBooks and free downloading increases sales on a net basis.

George Akerlof

The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.

Alan Huffman

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

Philip Shaw

A lot of research in intelligence has not been that great. I would hope by this modest descriptive study to put things on an empirical footing.

Adnan Pachachi

The security forces are perceived by many Iraqis as being under the influence of these militias. There seems to be empirical evidence that especially the Interior Ministry have been infiltrated by these forces, no doubt.

John Fiske

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only frontier left is the world of intangibles. Everything else is sewn up too tight.

David Hernandez

Frontier is trying to work with us and they have been very responsive to our situation.

John Conte

Our system of justice is not and should not be a system of frontier justice,

Albert Camus

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Charles Kettering

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Bob Olson

The new frontier is back-office processing done offshore.

Jeff Hill

It's a new frontier for us, and it's good for us to know. Everything's connected. We need to protect what was given to us by our creator.

Dan Shechtman

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

Paul Koretz

the last frontier of bigotry and discrimination, and it's time we put an end to it.

Richard Flanagan

I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.

Juvenal

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

Matthew Storin

Obviously, each of them violates the sacred trust that the Globe has with its readers.

Clive Thompson

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

Anna Kendrick

I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first 'Pitch Perfect' that I don't think ever made it on-screen, so it's not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it.

Mike Quigley

As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters.

Gillian Zinser

I am mad about hats. I collect them as souvenirs from my globe trotting.

Anthony Horowitz

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

Chris Coleman

There's no other place it could be. It's how people around the globe know St. Paul.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Jerry Johnson

We know 'Willie Time' is under two minutes. He's just an ordinary human being for the rest of the game.

Scott Horowitz

We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn to live off the land.

Astro Teller

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

Charles Wagner

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Charles Caleb Colton

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Craig Smith

We know what to do and what not to do because of last year. That's why we're in this position right now.

Bruce McMiller

We know we made a lot of progress last year, but there is still a lot out there.

Tony Russa

We know him and technically a position player can get here the last two or three weeks and that's plenty of camp. I'm sure he's been working.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Charles Prince

We are going to shift the mix strongly to international.

Curt Miller

We were too perimeter-oriented. Toledo played a mixture of defenses and they really had us on our heels. We were just settling for 3s.

Neneh Cherry

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

Maria Alvarado

There are a lot of corporations that aren't paying their share at all. We need a more comprehensive mix of taxes.

Blake Michael

I've always had a fascination about mixing music,

Blake Michael

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

Tom Chiappetta

When you put that mix together, we got our own little world here.

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Paul Fernandez

She used to rely a lot on her power. Now she has a variety of pitches she can mix in.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Don Brownlee

It's a crystalline silicate grain. This is great; we've already got scientific results.

Amy Fisher

It was really interesting, ... It was scientific illustration.

Julia Brown

It's a pretty scientific group, a pretty skeptical group.