Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc Montagnier

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

Sheila Porter

The person who answered the message didn't know much. So he said he would give me a call back so what I did was just wait. So we picked up my son, took him to school, grabbed some McDonalds, went home... we watched cartoons and then took a nap. By that time, I was getting worried.

Lew Wasserman

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

Diane Brown

When you state that you have met with us and answered our questions, that's really not the case.

Mark Comfort

We're hitting the ball solid. We've been hitting the ball solid for the last couple of games. The bats answered the call tonight.

Melissa Fleming

We've answered that request by saying it would take us more than a week to put our surveillance equipment in place, asked them to refrain from removing any of the seals that would enable us to make sure the equipment hasn't been touched.

Steve-O

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

John Nields

Mr. Hubbell during 1995 answered over 10,000 questions from various investigators. It's child's play to go through those 10,000 statements and pick out a few on which his answers were inaccurate or on which they differed with some other witness.

John Roberts

Senator, that's a question that I don't think can be answered in the abstract. You need to know the particular circumstances and exactly what the facts are and what the legislation would be like, because the argument on the other side -- and as a judge, I would obviously be in a position of considering both arguments: the argument for the legislature and the argument for the executive. The argument on the executive side will rely on authority as commander in chief and whatever authorities derive from that.

Dave Barry

Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.

Jamie Farr

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

Clive Woodward

Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.

Blaise Pascal

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Ian Bell

When your captain goes down it is not a great thing, but we have a good squad and we hope all the guys who are not involved stay ready in case they are needed,

Tom Kite

Whether or not he'll be the next captain I don't know, but he'd certainly be my pick, ... He's played in Ryder Cups, won major championships. He has the enthusiasm and respect of the players. He's a team player 100 percent.

Elena Dementieva

She didn't participate for two years. She was telling the captain she was going to play but she hasn't. So I don't think she wants to play.

Chris Leak

Since the first day, coach Meyer said I'm his quarterback. I have all the confidence that this is my team. I'm the captain of this team.

Chris Leak

Since the first day, coach Meyer has said I am his quarterback. I have all the confidence that this is my team. I am the captain of this team. I am so confident in these guys and about this year. I am just real excited about getting going.

Laura Wasser

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

Martin Ackley

We are going to sit down with our legal counsel and sort out the ramifications of this ruling.

James E. Faust

The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.

James Manning

She did it the right way. That's what counselors are for,

Mike Harper

Most of these students' records are underwater, gone forever. We will make adjustments where appropriate to meet whatever needs they have. They've got good teachers and counselors to take them in. We expect them to join us and do really well.

Chris Rupkey

Unfortunately, I think they tried to fight the inflation dragon a little too long, and rejected the counsel of the markets which urged them to cut rates as early as November that year.

Jules Verne

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

Alexis Herman

I am gratified personally and for my family that the independent counsel has terminated his investigation,

Gary Johnson

I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

Scott Bullock

Since I've been at Rocky, it was probably the oddest game just because when you have Bachman and Daniel pitching, you would have never guessed it was going to turn into this kind of game.

Aubrey Plaza

I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!

Julia Roberts

What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.

Bill Walker

I am totally shocked. My wife (Patti) and I were talking earlier and we were sitting here crying. It's unbelievable. Daniel was a super-awesome kid. He played for me for two years as pitcher, shortstop and third baseman. I'm devastated.

Tim Able

I can't say enough about our line. We were able to move our linemen around and get them some good angles. Obviously, Daniel will say that's always the key for him. They make the holes and he just runs through them.

Bob Payne

I can tell when Daniel is going to make it. His hands are on the ball.

Dominique McElligott

I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in 'My Left Foot,' and my parents were discussing the fact that he's an actor. To me, it was a foreign concept. I was like, 'Someone is pretending to do that? That's so awesome!' After that, it just stayed in the back of my mind.

Rick Barnes

One thing about Daniel is he does take a lot of pride in wanting to guard people. If I called a time out, say someone is playing really well, and I say 'who wants to guard them?' There's no doubt he puts his hand up quicker than anybody.

Owain Yeoman

Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis - huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

A. E. Housman

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

Harold Greene

Antitrust decrees are not written unlike leases for apartments, on a month-to-month basis. They are written for a long, long time, typically, particularly a big decree like this.

Bible Bible

And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

Bible Bible

Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.

Mr Howard

I ... understand that as a result of this issue, the status of that presidential decree is now being reviewed,

Tom Florczak

Once the decree is issued, we'll take our place in the priority system.

Susilo Yudhoyono

not to issue an (emergency) decree in this kind of situation.

Jim Beaver

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.

Shere Hite

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Russell Potts

We have similar backgrounds in many instances, ... We have never been reluctant to take on the Establishment, so to speak, and we've been forthright in our objections to the so-called 'Good Ole Boy' network.

Larry Beck

She represents the history and tradition set forth by the Sisters of Mercy.

Jon Wilson

Mimi's races were great. Watching her go back and forth in the lead was exciting.

Tom Benson

So it went back and forth to see what could be done. The Alamodome has some restrictions on what games could be here. LSU had restrictions, too. So it was a lot of conversations about different games.

Henry Hughes

She wasn't as forthright as she could have been, ... When something like this happens, someone has to be able to stand up and say, 'You know what? We didn't do the right thing here, and now we are going to make it better.'

Kevin Taylor

We're hoping that someone would come forth with info about this. We think that it could be possibly sitting in someone's garage and someone is likely to know about that.

Jules Verne

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

Bible Bible

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

C. S. Lewis

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

C. S. Lewis

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Charlotte Bronte

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.

Charles Dickens

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Carina Perelli

The process has gone smoothly and well from a technical point of view.

Stanley A. McChrystal

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

Booth Tarkington

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

Dianne Feinstein

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

Rep. Litvack

It's a hasty move and, in my opinion, very ill advised.

Arabian Proverb

The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry

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.

David Almond

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

Alex Padilla

This will not be known as the Times Square of the West, ... Times Square will be known as the l.a. live of the East.

Jermaine Jackson

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

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.

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.

Josh McDowell

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

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.

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

C. S. Lewis

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

C. S. Lewis

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

C. S. Lewis

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

C. S. Lewis

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Alan Sugar

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality.

Charlie Chaplin

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Charles de Gaulle

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Carlos Castaneda

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

C. S. Lewis

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

Agnes Repplier

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

Alan Kay

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Charlotte Bronte

My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

Charlotte Bronte

Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none

Charles de Gaulle

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

Charles de Lint

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Charles Dickens

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset