Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gunter Grass

A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.

Alan Kay

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

Alfred Newman

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

Tyler Cowen

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

Mark Skousen

Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

Thomas Bangalter

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

Michael Robertson

If artificial barriers are necessary to keep employees dedicated to company goals, then that's an indicator of weak management.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Frank Thomas

We talked. But they didn't think I could hold up on the field turf, that's really what it came down to. With an injury like this, it's not ideal playing on an artificial turf surface.

Debbie Wing

We're not going to speak about litigation. I don't want to comment on anything in relation to this case. That's for the courts.

Lester Bagley

We have no comment on the latest Culpepper e-mail.

Rae Tyson

We have no comment on it until we're ready to release it. It's still a fluid process at this point. We look forward to significant fuel savings without sacrificing safety or doing harm to the American economy.

Karen Rugen

We have no comment as to whether or not we are being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

John Burness

Until we have greater clarity, it would be inappropriate to comment further.

Erica Abbett

Until we actually see a suit of any sort we can't comment on anything.

Dean Acosta

Until the study is complete and presented to NASA and DOD senior officials in October, it is premature to comment on specifics and possible recommendations.

Norman Finkelstein

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

Adam Putnam

While I would ordinarily not comment on conversations with my constituents, Ms. Meeks has given me her permission to do so,

Frank Hadden

There is no point in engaging in speculation if Tom may be able to return to rugby in the future, because such speculation just increases the frustration for Tom,

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback. He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback, ... He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Jennifer Lawless

What we do need to do though is look at what's working in public and chartered schools and start engaging different kinds of experts to integrate that policy into the public school system.

Richard Castellini

It is a little juvenile, but it is a fun way of engaging in the brand.

Pam Grier

Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

Wilford Kale

He is, to me, a very likable individual with a very engaging and outgoing personality. I think that - and the fact that everybody gets a honeymoon - has given him a remarkable beginning.

J. Horton

I think the strategy of engaging labor is really the only strategy there is.

Pete Marino

He's a fun an engaging personality. He has the right tone and voice to match the spirit of this event.

David Almond

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

John Hull

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

Marian Seldes

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

O. Singh

Throughout the ages, they are known as wise, who weep, remembering the True One.

Bob Golic

When I turned on the TV one day and saw he was the offensive coordinator for the Patriots, the first thing I thought was ... Charlie? Wow, maybe I should have known that since I'm in sports broadcasting. Of course, now I try to get tickets and can't, and he doesn't return phone calls.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Tom Stoppard

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Dave Taylor

We have a number of sailboats in the club, and we don't want to be known as just a powerboat club. We want sailing people, too.

Karen Cason

Let it be known you are a lackey, a crony...

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

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.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Jennifer Dunn

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

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.

Kylan Robinson

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

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Craig Biggio

We tried some of that the other day. That's hard,

Maureen Brunt

We tried not to think about it and just play our game.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Tommy Tuberville

We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.