Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

Since theological propositions are scientifically meaningless, those of us of pragmatic disposition simply won't buy such dubious merchandise. . . . Maybe -- remotely -- there might be something in such promotions, as there might be something in the talking dogs and the stocks in Arabian tapioca mines that W.C. Fields once sold in his comedies, but we suspect that we recognize a con game in operation. At least, we want to hear the dog talk or see the tapioca ore before we buy into such deals.

Kate Hale

He's done a hell of a job, because I'm not aware of any Arabian horses being killed in this storm. The world that this man operated in and the focus of this work does not in any way translate to this. He does not have the experience.

Joseph Fessio

Turkey does not have a bridge through tradition with Christian Europe, and therefore it should be part of the Arabian bloc ... What has made Europe great has been Jesus Christ.

John Milton

Like that self-begotten bird / In the Arabian woods embost, / That no second knows nor third, / And lay ere while a holocaust.

Jon Stewart

Prior to heading FEMA, Brown spent the '90s as a commissioner -- this is true -- of the International Arabian Horse Association,

Loren Thompson

They're (the Emirates) not going to retaliate because they need us. Who is going to protect that little outpost of modernity on the Arabian Peninsula if it isn't us?

Kate Hale

I'm not aware of any Arabian horses being killed in this storm.

Patrick Cunningham

Eventually the Darley Arabian races to supremacy, ... The Darley Arabian is responsible for 95% of all the Y chromosomes in the half-million thoroughbreds that exist worldwide.

Jack Lang

In novel after novel you have succeeded in making East and West meet, mixing Swift with the Arabian Nights... enriching the English language with your never ending creativity,

Doug Bruno

She knows when to hold 'em, she knows when to fold 'em. She knows when to walk away. ... I just love how she's playing the game very simply and that's a total compliment.

Graham Taylor

Mike's first priority is protecting the resource, but he doesn't hesitate to fold in people's needs and comments.

Bill Gates

Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. And that's why our investment levels are going up, investments in the toughest problems: security, privacy, speech recognition, video recognition, and all of those things will fold into this platform.

Source Unknown

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

Constance Wu

When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.

Wes Walz

We want to knock these guys out of the playoffs. We have a good rivalry with this team and we're not going to fold up our tents and pack it up, we re going to play hard all the way through.

Rob Streeter

Give Carson credit. Their kids didn't fold down the stretch when they got behind. Their kids responded.

Lori Anderson

I thought, considering we only have two returners from last season (Kari Rodgers and Cassie Sowers), they really stepped up and didn't fold under pressure, ... That says a lot for the girls who are young and don't have much experience.

Ned Colletti

Without that we would have had a real tough time folding him in. Their willingness to work with us was the key to getting it done.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Mike Rush

When you say goodbye to so many great volunteers, it's always hard, but it's good to know there's always a new generation of leaders emerging.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Bob Barr

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

Lara Trifiletti

Tipping the Scales. Neither is a suitable option.

Robert Anthony

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Bennie Thompson

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Livy

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

Emma Watson

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Casey Stengel

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

Casey Stengel

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

Early Wynn

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Early Wynn

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

Carl Relyea

We have a solid pitching staff and should be solid defensively. We should be a competitive team in a very strong division.

Marc Gustafson

We want him to pitch in surroundings where he's comfortable and we can travel to see him pitch.

Pedro Martinez

We want him to pitch as much as possible.

Buddy Bell

Walk A-Rod? And pitch to Giambi? How about that one?

Mickey Hatcher

The pitch Moyer threw had to be a foot-and-a-half off the plate.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, without the True Name, all this paraphernalia shall disappear.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

L.A. Reid

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

William Kidd

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

Mel Gibson

What did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let’s get the flock out of here.

Jimmy Cliff

My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.

John Milton

And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

Sonu Nigam

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.

Alexei Navalny

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

Charles Coody

They told me in the tent there I'd probably get Most Improved.

Neneh Cherry

I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals.

William Bligh

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

Joseph Kosinski

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.