Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irish Sayings

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

Juan Somavia

The real challenge is to make sure that these provisions will be applied and enforced worldwide, just like the international provisions designed to secure safety at sea.

Andy Zircher

When I was an undergraduate, I don't think I applied (for graduation) in time.

Lev Vygotsky

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Karen Finerman

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

Tim O'Reilly

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

John Hall

We applied in response to a request put out by FEMA for two-man teams to help on the Gulf Coast. At this point we don't know where we will be assigned, but we know it's going to be in the Gulf Coast region somewhere,

H. Hunt

We applied for food stamps and we've gotten it. We have no money.

Chris Horner

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

Henry Scott

We have scout teams who go out and ID where the birds are. And when we find birds using a field, we'll hunt that field.

Ilham Patu

We have no idea how she got it. We visited her neighborhood and found no poultry or caged birds near her house.

Alan King

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

Charlotte Bronte

I am no bird and no net ensnares me

Amber Limbaugh

The fact that humans are tweeting more than birds now...is this evolution?

Myrtle Reed

A bird is joy incarnate.

David Bowles

The popularity in keeping and breeding birds is rising rapidly in the UK and we are one of the main players in the bird trade in Europe,

Mark Ferguson

What we discovered were teeth similar to those of crocodilesnot surprising as birds are the closest living relatives of the reptile.

Samaya Mamedova

We know a person can get the disease from a bird but we're not certain if a person can get it from a dog.

Henry Samueli

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.

Bill Rocco

Most people don't need an emerging market fund, I don't think. That doesn't mean many don't.

Richard Robinson

Mobile are a key revenue-generating service emerging in China.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Monitoring our children's use of emerging technologies is a huge task and the Internet remains the focus of many parent's concerns.

Robert Friedland

Mongolia is the best-kept secret in emerging markets in Asia.

Michael Gomez

More and more investors are comfortable with emerging markets.

Fred Moran

Nextel is focused on the emerging market where wireless penetration is minute and growth potential is still ahead.

Tiesto

I can honestly say that the fans inspire. There's an unexplainable rush that comes when I'm in the middle of a set and the energy from the fans hit me. I also get really inspired through collaborations. I've learned so much from the emerging producers I've worked with just as they've learned from me.

Anna Wintour

Previous first ladies seemed to feel the need to wear a sort of uniform, whereas Michelle Obama likes fashion and is very comfortable in fashion. She's happy to mix high and low, and she loves emerging designers. That will do nothing but good for our industry.

Chevy Chase

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

Michael Specter

Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night?

Irwin Redlener

We are profoundly unprepared to manage a pandemic flu threat right now,

Tom Browning

We're starting to get some fluidity in our offense,

Charles M. Schulz

It's either the flu or love... The synptoms are the same.

Bill Maher

A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

Bob Garfield

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

Newt Gingrich

Less than 10% of our analysts of North Korea are fluent in Korean.

Jason Streets

She was outstanding. Lindsay had the flu and it was questionable that she would even play.

B. B. King

What we're doing right now is working with our school officials, making sure students are isolated and stay out of school during the infectious period, which is nine days.

Carol Shields

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again...

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Eugene Doro

When you see a team like that, you can learn by just watching them play.

Richard Smith

We want it to be a learning experience. It's an opportunity to review the plans you developed. Doing a plan is first in the process.

Agnes Repplier

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Drake Reed

We have had a lot of tough lessons on the road this year. It's time to start learning from them.

Jeff Francis

When I executed my pitches I had success, ... I can learn a lot from that.

Tracy Murphy

More people will be susceptible to the pandemic strain.

Dick Thompson

H5N1 has pandemic potential but it is not a pandemic virus.

Shigeru Omi

While we still have a window of opportunity, we must do everything we can to avert an influenza pandemic as we simultaneously prepare for a worse-case scenario,

Peter Doherty

At the time of writing, there is considerable trepidation that we could be in for something even worse (than the influenza pandemic of 1918-19),

Dick Thompson

This is progress and an important step in pandemic vaccine development.

Dick Thompson

The world is not very well prepared, ... We think pandemic preparedness is really essential.

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Daniel Inouye

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Bob Castle

We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.

Deepak Chopra

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

George Reres

She was prepared to go to prison (Thursday).

Brigham Young

We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.

Carlos Gonzalez

Only when the ETA killers served out their sentences will we be prepared to talk.

Bernie Siegel

There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.

Bill Gates

At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.

Charlie Sheen

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

Aslan Maskhadov

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

Meryl Streep

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

Doug Moore

We still have vaccine left. It's not too late.

Anthony Fauci

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

Billy Corgan

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

Albert Einstein

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

Bernie Siegel

There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.

Bill Gates

At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.

Charlie Sheen

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

Aslan Maskhadov

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

Meryl Streep

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

Anthony Fauci

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

Billy Corgan

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

Albert Einstein

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

Donald Kennedy

So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.