Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Wald

We have to get rid of those atomic weapons, here and everywhere. We cannot live with them.

Theodore William Richards

Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.

Ernest Lawrence

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean energy. It is a healthy energy.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God,

Von Hardesty

What he wanted to do was close a vulnerability to the West; to have an intercontinental, long-range bomber equal to the B-29, which became even more crucial after 1949 with the first Soviet atomic weapon.

Albert Einstein

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into it's international affairs, which without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Sergei Ivanov

Lowering the threshold for use of atomic weapons is in itself dangerous,

James Logan

Years ago, how do you think they made the atomic bomb? ... By having people with the brains to do it.

Octave Mirbeau

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

Jacques Chirac

there are currently no bombs capable of functioning on the French rail network.

Bob Hope

The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life.

Ariel Sharon

What 6,000 bombs (attacks by Palestinians) didn't do to my home and my village the government did.

Bill Joy

A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

Antonin Artaud

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Julie Gold

From a distance, We all have enough, And no one is in need,And there are no guns, no bombs and no disease, No hungry mouths to feed - God is watching us, God is watching us, God is watching us, From a distance

Jane Yolen

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

John Styers

I had lived and worked in London, and was familiar with the Tube stops where the bombs went off,

Anne Wright

There is no doubt about this with Cindy -- she started the movement, she'll finish the movement.

John Shanley

We?re here tonight thinking about Cindy Sheehan and how she needs support. Perhaps the president can come out at some point and explain to her how come her son died.

Kendall Jenner

I think Cindy Crawford is awesome. I love her style.

Joseph Williams

I am tired of hearing Cindy Sheehan trash America.

Lance Bass

Well, how about Cindy Crawford? We would love to see one of the supermodels,

Dave Byron

The organization is shocked and saddened. Cindy is a very popular county manager with the employees.

Tom Matzzie

We have good technology and good databases. It means you can organize people quickly, easily and cheaply. It means you can ride the media phenomenon of the moment, which is what, in some ways, Cindy Sheehan has become.

Cindy Sheehan

Why don't you put this one on the front page? Cindy is proving herself a nut, but you are suddenly silent concerning her.

Barry Alvarez

Just me and Cindy in the room - yelling, ... They banged on our door and asked, 'Could you please quiet down?'

Thomas Bulfinch

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.

Toni Collette

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

Tarun Das

Very comprehensive. He has covered everything that drives growth, that drives development.

Lynsey Addario

I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

Blake Mitchell

We started off decent on offense with that first drive but we went down hill from there, ... They had a great defense. They covered our receivers well and defended the run well. They shut us down.

Linda Bell

We spent hours trying to determine what the top 25 stories are and what the impact of these was, ... We're really going back to the vault and putting new tops on stories we have covered for so many years.

Preston Manning

Where I think we're headed is a system of universal care, where everybody is covered ... with two tracks for delivery, and two tracks for payment. It's not a question of private versus public, but what mix of the two is appropriate.

Liu Bolin

When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.

Mike Moran

She described him as being covered in feces.

Leslie Cockburn

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

Kate Reardon

By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

Esperanza Spalding

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

Eduardo Sanchez

Many of these kids were not exposed to floodwater,

Jan Bowman

Many of our youngsters will never know this musical heritage unless they're exposed to it here.

Shigeru Omi

many people have been exposed or potentially exposed.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. --Worgum Slupsky

Richard J. Roberts

I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting and sequencing.

William Wordsworth

More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure,/ As tempted more; more able to endure,/ As more exposed to suffering and distress.

Dan Barnett

This was not a bathing suit scenario. This was a grown man exposing himself to an 8-year-old girl.

Matthew Nable

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Rachel Sklar

For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

Sevyn Streeter

Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.

Ban Ki-moon

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

Hussein Chalayan

Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.

Brady Hoke

I think we all have to be a little more sensible about what we're trying to do. There is something to be said about exposing your program to the nation, but playing three BCS teams a year? That takes its toll.

Paul Watson

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

Wayne Krivsky

He's a quick-read guy. We're exposing him to all phases of the operation. We'll see where he fits in.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Farid Abdulkadir

There is no need to hide the reality from the world.

Dottie Kastigar

Lots of barns out here to hide in. And these are people who don't necessarily want to be found. They still have a lot of pride.

Thomas Kinkade

She was my high school sweetheart. I hide an 'N' in every painting.

Rig Veda

One should never lie to hide one's mistake.

Ben van Berkel

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

Bill Gosnell

We can't stop (the pandemic flu), and run from it and hide for a year.

Sarah McLachlan

Why are there so many songs about ravens, and what's on the other side? Rainbows are visions, but only illusions. Rainbows have nothing to hide

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Bob McAdam

We were being attacked. We wanted to hire people who knew how to respond.

Catherine Keener

The people who make those movies tend to be studios, because they need a lot of money to do it, and those people don't hire me.

Luis von Ahn

Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Cynthia Lowery

We have hired some young people. If you hire somebody without experience, it's going to be lower.

John Cottreau

We don't have any equipment. We would hire it and right now that's still to be determined.

Carol Farley

We're going to hire a lawyer, ... It's the only thing we can do.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Mona Williams

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

David Justice

This was a team that really loved each other. It's rare that you find a team that really pulls for each other, that really loves each other.

Gretchen Rubin

I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits.

Kathryn Lasky

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

Robert Krulwich

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

Justin Timberlake

She had a passion for what she did, ... She loved to work and she loved to make music.

Ronald Williams

She really loved her neighbors there. She made a lot of friends there.

Angela Ross

She never complained about it. She loved those kids.

Linda Thompson

She loved to travel with me and my sister. If we called and said we were going anywhere, we had to take her along.

Patricia Bryant

She loved to talk to people; even people she didn't know.

Alan Lakein

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Keyes

In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population.

Charles de Gaulle

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Charles de Gaulle

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Charles de Gaulle

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

Charles Dickens

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Charles Stanley

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

David Morrell

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

Charlie Crist

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

David Suzuki

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Jared Bernstein

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

Chris Chocola

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chloe Bridges

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

Chinua Achebe

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Cheryl Strayed

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year. We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

Kevin Brownlow

To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.

Kathleen Sebelius

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Maurice Williams

Whenever you see your quarterback on the ground, especially rolling around in pain, it's not good. We get paid to protect him. That's what we want to do and when we don't, our week is long.

Christopher Plourd

She paid it all off, but somebody never picked up on that.

John Schwartz

Legally, this is referred to as an increase. There's no two ways about it on the ballot. However, if you look at the preamble, it says this proposal would reauthorize the levy. That tells taxpayers this is something they have paid before.

Robert Reich

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Mark Chmura

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Jim Watzin

LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.

Michael Crichton

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

William Scranton

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Cynthia Nixon

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

Farrah Fawcett

It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Nancy Reagan

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

Rachel Carson

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

Walther Bothe

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Edsger Dijkstra

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Jon Purnell

There are only so many resources that can be allocated to these programs.

Sue Densmore

You have more resources than you can probably imagine.

Brent Nelson

We're trying to make sure that the residents that are out there have the supplies and resources that they need, and that they are safe.

James Lyons

Firefighting resources are stretched thin, ... We may be requesting resources from other countries.

Mary Daubert

We've got the resources should they need it.

Trevor Harris

We'll have the same water resources 40 years from now, that we have now.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Jennifer Dunn

We've tried to make it very visual and interesting.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Astro Teller

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'

James Simpson

We all tried to get the word out any way possible. Did it help? Who knows. For all we know, the chopper was already on the way. But it did get attention, and now they're safe.

John Foxe

We did a variety of things. Nothing that hasn't been tried before.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Agnes Repplier

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Charles Sumner

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Brian Johnson

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Diane Abbott

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

H. Hunt

I'd like to see them do more of this so we don't have to go to Cocoa Village all the time.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

Adolph Green

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

Daniel Defoe

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Jim Butcher

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Patrick McGoohan

We all live in a little Village,

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Ron Wood

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

Nas

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

Josh Pais

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Jack Reynor

My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.

Rick Pitino

Why don't we just go to New York and we'll see you there?

Thomas Wolfe

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.