Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Barker

My Dad always liked Syracuse and we knew here that Colin (Barber) was leaving, ... We figured that this would be the best place for me. Plus, the academics are great, too.

Mark Lunsford

Obviously the academics are outstanding at Duke, and Doug is a smart young man,

Johann Jones

Growing up, it was always academics first, then basketball. If you would ask me to choose between the two, then it would be academics because I know anything can happen tomorrow. I can get injured or something and then basketball is over but I'll always have my mind.

Tom Moore

I have a high regard for the academics at Delaware, and the history of athletic success speaks for itself.

Tanya Chaplin

She's living the life that's kind of honoring her mother right now and doing that in every area that she can, from academics to gymnastics to her relationships. It's also helped this team understand and value their relationships that they have between each other and their own family members.

David Giles

I have heard of many occasions when academics rely on children to explain why a game works and then rely on their own area of specialisation to analyse the game.

Jared Mitchell

I have chosen to continue my athletic career in football and baseball as well as my academics at Louisiana State University.

George M. Whitesides

We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.

Tucker Max

You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity.

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Richard P. Feynman

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Richard P. Feynman

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Mamata Banerjee

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

David Shore

We're not closing any doors. What we've found is everybody's so fallen in love with these characters that we have to explore it, but we cannot simply throw out the essence of the show, which is the procedural element.

Barbara Jordan

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Mohandas Gandhi

Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I know what an inadequate follower I am of myself, for I cannot live up to the convictions I stand for. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.

Ralph Peters

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Leon Panetta

My conclusion is that at this late date, it's just not realistic to expect that I could put together an effective campaign,

Hossein Entezami

Negotiations to reach a final conclusion are going to be continued on Feb. 16 in Moscow.

Joseph Cohen

The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizon,

Kary Mullis

I hate this kind of crap. I'd like to write about something that's easy to write about, where you don't have to come up with a conclusion in the end.

Nicholas Garganas

If inflation risks increase and if the council reaches the conclusion interest rates have to rise, then they will increase.

Roger White

She was worried for a long time about getting home runs and triples. Finally she's come to the conclusion that singles and doubles aren't bad.

Larry Silverstein

I have come to the conclusion that the most important thing at this juncture is to resolve things so that all the finger-pointing can stop and the rebuilding can proceed.

Edmund Stoiber

I have come to the conclusion that as leader I can represent my party's interests better in Munich.

John Kostecki

I don't know exactly the situation, but for sure my conclusion on the whole thing is everybody's competitive and wants to do well. Everyone has high expectations, and it hasn't really been happening. For sure, there's some frustration. That's about all I know.

Andre Hall

Mr. Townsend? Is dinner this Thursday at 5:30 fine with you?

Amy Adams

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

Mark Harmon

McNeil and I are very different people. McNeil is the guy you hope does your surgery, but not the kind of guy you wanna have dinner with.

Lykke Li

My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that.

Ruth Smith

No, not for seniors. We usually have our dinners early.

Joel Sawyer

Needless to say the family conversations around the dinner table can be very interesting. Some members of the family have very strong feelings on issues and not necessarily in the same directions.

Steve Toltz

I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.

Kip Hafey

Get those dinner reservations now. Places are filling up quick. Girls should have any hair or make-up appointments set, and guys should have their tuxes rented. And remember to plan on having a good time.

Dom DeLuise

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

Clive Owen

Frank Miller was worried it would be tempered down; it wouldn't be quite what he originally intended. Robert Rodriguez went to him and said, 'I'm going to be incredibly faithful to your original material,' shot a five-minute test. Frank said, 'I'm in. Let's do it.'

Elizabeth Edwards

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

Ernest Dowson

I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion

Richard Grimes

Shocked, I don't know how this man could do something like this when we were paying him faithfully

Jacqueline Onassis

I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

Goldwin Smith

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

TobyMac

God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.

Ellen G. White

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

Charlie Chaplin

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

Bonnie Raitt

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.

Larry Rice

I think the most relevant thing is the market was down 120 yesterday. I think we're going to have a knee jerk reaction back up.

Mona Sutphen

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

David Letterman

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

Ron Jaworski

As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.

Bill Burr

Don't be a jerk to other comics and don't let the business beat you down, stay positive and if you work your ass off you're going to get somewhere.

Bill Hicks

Just one thing I know for sure, chicks dig jerks.

Carolyn See

There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.

Mary Lauby

I can't say what I thought. I know what I thought, but I can't say out loud what I thought.

Charlie Trotter

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

Robert Boyd

She screamed so loud that she scared the other teachers.

Joe Jurevicius

This stadium has got to be the loudest I've ever played in. But that's not to say it's loud enough; next week it's got to be louder.

David Morehouse

We got the message loud and clear, and did what we were supposed to do.

Cesar Millan

I'm naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.

Lolo Jones

When I'm standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can't just whip out my Bible before I run. That's when I start praying! It's so loud that I can't even hear what I'm saying, but it always helps.

Brian Eno

I love good, loud speakers.

Carey Mulligan

I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.

Steve Elmendorf

No congressional party is ever going to speak with one voice. It?s not possible. And I?m not worried about that.

Ludwig von Mises

In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

Dennis Prager

Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.

Dennis Hastert

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

Denis Kearney

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Deborah Tannen

The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.

Eleanor Clift

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Eleanor Clift

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Angelo Scola

more simply and efficiently respond to pastoral needs.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Woody Allen

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.

Brandon Roy

I don't think he was sure how we were going to respond to him. He was a little down. He was pretty upset he made that mistake.

Jorge Ortiz

Bartlett just seemed to get stronger and stronger. We just couldn't respond to their speed that they had.

Horacio Gutierrez

This would be the same as taking away the right to a hearing, or the right to respond to a statement of objections.

Chris Drury

Those were some tough losses. Responding to them was a pretty big step for our team confidence-wise.

Idina Menzel

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

Frank DeRosa

We won't respond to the suit until we see it.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

Charles Spurgeon

Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

Charles Spurgeon

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

Charles Olson

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

Dennis Rodman

I'm very particular about who I sleep with.

Denis Diderot

Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.

Debra Winger

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

Dean Rusk

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Dean Young

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Albert Schweitzer

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Eileen Caddy

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, know Him as the True Guru, who unites all with the Lord.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?