Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert A. Simon

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

Alan Yamamoto

We've argued about it. ... We've gone around in circles,

Heywood Sanders

What has gone on in Pittsburgh is what has gone on in lots of other cities, which are often faced with convention centers that don't perform as their proponents had hoped or promised, and so it is argued that what you need is an adjacent hotel.

Rick Perlstein

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

Dick Grove

When I got the call about the accident, I thought it was a joke, ... I argued with the paramedic who called. These things don't happen at 9:20 in the morning.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.

Seiji Maehara

The people are questioning if the DPJ is really serious about taking the helm of government. (I'll) first gather the party's opinions together and let important issues be argued out in the Diet. That's my fighting stance.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.

Marianne Williamson

If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office.

Charles Dickens

Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

Charles Caleb Colton

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

R. Robinson

We want to target kids in grades five through eight. It could fit very nicely into the media studies curriculum.

Richard Hadlee

We want to see that these players are over their injuries and their fitness and skill levels are up to international standard,

Catherine Bell

When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

Duce Staley

Wherever I can fit in and contribute, I'll be happy.

Mark Helprin

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

Edward Jenner

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

Denis Waitley

Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Terry Gilliam

of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.

Charles Nelson

There's two principal myths about shamrock: that it's unique to Ireland, and that it never flowers.

Marty Casey

When I was in Minnesota, I thought we had phenomenal volunteers, but we never had this volume.

Cynthia Stevenson

I loved doing 'Dead Like Me.' That role was phenomenal to me.

Dan Scanlon

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Chad Spalding

Having two triples in one inning is something that is unheard of in my time with the team. Tyler just had a phenomenal game.

Dirk Nowitzki

He's been playing phenomenal since the All-Star break. His turnaround (jumper) is money.

Ernie Kent

He's had two back-to-back phenomenal games, to score like that and with no turnovers. I thought he was great.

Scott Skiles

He was on. When he's on like that, he can shoot over people. His threes were dialed in. It was a phenomenal display.

Gary Player

If it did end up in a tie, it has been phenomenal golf. It could happen. If it did, so be it.

Carolyn Thomas

We've had a phenomenal response from students as well.

Joel Kinnaman

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

Christopher McQuarrie

What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.

Carly Schroeder

I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

Robin Tunney

Everything you read now is like a remake of a movie you've already seen. With independent film, things are more character-driven.

Kurt Russell

I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.

Kool Keith

Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.

William Butler Yeats

Myself I must remake.

Robert Browning

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Ed Koch

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

J. B. Priestley

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Lee Hall

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

Boman Irani

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Daryl Kimball

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.