Famous Quotes & Sayings

Travis Bradberry

Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.

Juliana Hatfield

People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

Seth Shostak

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

Dale Robinson

Research is showing more and more that using movement and doing brainteasers increases the overall health of your brain.

Jeremy Foley

That way when it's time to hit the ground once the season is over, you're already off and running. The timing is never ideal in a coaching change. I talked to former coaches, NFL GMs, television folks. I picked people's brains and checked out the Internet to find out as much as I could. Indiana has time to do that. I didn't talk to any school or coaches but did hire a consultant to gauge the interest for us.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Brad McKinney

I was happy to see Kyle and Caleb finally play the way they're capable of playing. Kyle had a great first set, but than he went a little brain-dead in the second set and started doing things he knew he shouldn't have been doing.

Trina Graham

It didn't paralyze her, though. It's pretty ugly but at least it didn't go into her brain.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

Frank Yohannan

Our mission statement is to introduce young people to the sport of cycling. We want them to get off of the couch, get away from the computer screen and onto a bicycle.

Damon Galgut

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

Ben Edelman

Someone needs to examine popular Web sites to figure out which are untrustworthy. Then users' computers need to automatically notify them before users reach untrustworthy sites.

Jeffrey Zeldman

On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

Craig Marks

Otherwise, you're sitting there on your computer saying 'gee, we're down, I guess we can't do anything'.

Margaret Gallardo

Right now our concern is exactly what happened in the classroom, but also more importantly whether it was on a computer with the district or it may have been the substitutes own personal computer.

John Lasseter

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

Ian Pearson

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

Michael Dell

Manufacturing jobs today require highly skilled workers who are familiar with computers and technology,

Damon Galgut

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

Ben Edelman

Someone needs to examine popular Web sites to figure out which are untrustworthy. Then users' computers need to automatically notify them before users reach untrustworthy sites.

John Lasseter

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

Ian Pearson

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

Michael Dell

Manufacturing jobs today require highly skilled workers who are familiar with computers and technology,

Jerry Jasinowski

Manufacturing job recoveries are most likely in fabricated metals, machinery, transportation equipment and computers and electronics, which together have accounted for half of the manufacturing job losses.

Mitch Kapor

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

Anthony Browne

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.

Kwabena Boahen

We'll be able to interact with these computers the way we interact with each other, they would recognize speech.

Silvio Berlusconi

I will try to have greater cordial relations with the United States...because it is thanks to that nation and the young lives it sacrificed that we were liberated from Nazi-Fascism.

William Hearst

I don't have the umbilical cord Pop had with each paper.

George Tenet

I am greatly saddened by the death of Cord Meyer, a passionate defender of freedom around the world,

Kenneth Brown

Because of where the discs rupture in these little dogs and because of the length of the spinal cord in dogs, they tend to put direct pressure either on the spinal cord in the back or the neck. They're not just painful nerve pressures, they're actually paralyzing injuries.

Akiva Schaffer

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

John Short

Maybe a bungee cord or something from his car.

Atharva Veda

Maintaining cordial relationship with friends help us in improving upon our own capabilities.

Virginia Postrel

I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life.

Lyall Watson

Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.

Jami Attenberg

I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

James Snyder

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

Wilson Mizner

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Dule Hill

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.

Nicolle Wallace

He loves his rug. I've heard him describe it countless times.

Kyrie Irving

I've worked countless hours in the gym, so I feel like I'm already prepared for the game. So when I'm listening to music pregame, it's really just about personal enjoyment.

Michelle Malkin

Low point of the address: Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something tacky about having the leader of the free world reading a phone number from the teleprompter? Also, it's been three weeks and they're only now publicizing a number for Katrina families looking for missing relatives? Nowpublic.com and countless other sites like it were up and running by 9am on Aug. 30. Just saying...

Geoffrey Fisher

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Apolo Ohno

I don't have great running technique, but I like to run. I've heard from countless people that the last six miles of the marathon is all mental. But what better city to have this in than New York City where there are millions of people there supporting you?

Keith Ernst

Our research shows substantial evidence that regulation led to lower interest rates.

David Kass

Our latest research provides firm evidence this drug does indeed have an important impact on the heart

Douglas Green

Our scenario consolidates a lot of evidence from our group and other researchers to explain how p53, Bcl-xL, and PUMA work together to trigger apoptosis.

Dore Gold

Right now the evidence is not very promising.

Hans Blix

I think the more evidence that is placed on the table, if there is some, the better,

Richard Dicker

I think there have been real difficulties and problems in the Milosevic trial. What will be important is the evidence that was presented to indicate the motivation and intent of Milosevic.

Carol Miller

I think there's so much evidence that it won't really make a difference.

David Beito

I think there's some good evidence that more than two people were involved,

Brian Cleary

Last weekend I didn't see any evidence of us being able to stand in and compete. But this weekend I feel that we've been playing hard, which is what we've been harping the team about.

Mark Winkleman

Reform is necessary and preferably something that gets us more money. Until there are some changes, we aren't in a position to do anything immediate with the Morrison report.

Leslie Manigat

Our position is very clear, whoever gets 50 percent plus one wins, and if they don't get it, we go to a second round.

Bill Snyder

Part of it is he presses awfully hard. He wants to make a play every time he gets a chance.

David Seaman

Paul Robinson has not even reached his peak yet. I like Paul. I like the way he goes about his job. He's not flash, he just gets on with it.

William Mauldin

Peace" is when nobody's shooting. A "just peace" is when our side gets what it wants.

Gerald Brence

Sure they could. We've had a lot of years like this. It never gets old.

Nancy Heaton

Some of the teachers, I know, are working on those right now. They, of course, won't be processed until Mr. Jansen gets back.

Neil Young

Some get stoned, some get strange. Sooner or later it all gets real. Walk on.

Paul Woolpert

Someone gets hot (in the playoffs). Our problems were all on offense. We were never able to get into an offensive rhythm.

Jim Volk

People like the plan. It doesn't mean that the Dow's going straight to 9,000, but this could be relatively helpful for the market.

Ronnie Brown

I think it was still helpful having someone else in the backfield.

Arlen Specter

I think we can get materials which will be helpful to us,

Andrea Martin

I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.

Patricia Wright

One of the things I think we were helpful in doing was getting some exposure.

Scott Weiss

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

Charlize Theron

She's very private, but she was incredibly helpful to me,

Bootsy Collins

We had no idea how well-connected he was in the industry. And he has a terrific relationship with Snoop, so that was very helpful as well.

Ashley Wagner

Covergirl is my sponsor, and they have been so helpful in supplying me with their wonderful products. I love their blush, mascara and lip gloss.

Joe Farmer

Our staff has been trained extensively on how to teach students with multiple levels of intelligence in the same class.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.

Richard Durbin

For the president to suggest he had the same intelligence we had is just plain wrong,

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

James Woolsey

had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States.

Bertrand Russell

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Bat for Lashes

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Dick Cheney

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

Tim Bajarin

This time, they really made the interface simpler.

Astro Teller

We've got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we're going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us in the world.

Phil Jones

It's a real potpourri of activities. We want to interface with our various communities.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.

Jon Postel

All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.

Salman Khurshid

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Charles Petzold

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Carol Ann Duffy

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Alan Lightman

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

Dennis Ritchie

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

Judah Friedlander

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

Georgy Yartsev

People might say we didn't need this victory. I think we very much needed it. The Russian soccer needed it. Look at how many rookies we had.

Rick Halprin

People might not think it's much, but it's better than nothing.

Ed Feigenbaum

People might just have wanted to wait until they get their service back up.

Tom Parsons

People might have to stand by for one or two flights, but inconvenience to passengers should be minimal.

Victor Shum

State-owned enterprises have perhaps more options than international oil companies. Without shareholders, they can go places that might not be politically acceptable.

Felicia Brown

Some of (the children's) educational needs might not be met. You can't spend all the time that they'll need.

John Clayton

Someone might say, 'You didn't vote for him. Why should I?'

Josephine Crawford

Somehow, I'll spend it. ... I might go to Vegas.

Damon Ristau

Our staff is incredible. Without them it wouldn't be possible to run this event.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tim Hibbitts

It is likely? No. Is it possible or plausible? Yes.

Nick Harper

I was trying to get it as soon as possible and get to where there were no defenders, find a clearing, and score.

Korey Rowe

It didn't seem possible and it took a long time to sink in.

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Kiki Vandeweghe

for working with us to make this possible so quickly.

Valentino Rossi

For sure, it's possible to win the championship. There's always more pressure than normal, but we try to win this race like we do in other races.

Darius Rucker

Our sound is a combination of a lot of influences,

B. J. Novak

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

Bhagat Singh

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

Saddam Hussein

The arguments were sound then, and they are sound now,'' said Fox.

Steve Doocy

That's what it was all about. You didn't want to sound like KLWN; you didn't want to be Top 40.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Paul Briggs

It doesn't sound like you have an incubator.

Rick Christman

It doesn't sound like a lot, but they do a whole lot of work.

Timothy Chaucer

It does kind of sound like the writing is on the wall with this issue, doesn't it?

Alice Cooper

There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

Jennifer Grey

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

Cassandra Clare

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

Henry Rollins

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

Nina Blackwood

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

Matthew McGrory

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Bob Carr

I think it would be so traumatic ... they would never do it again,

Trevor Moore

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

Karen Simmons

We don't have any children, so it was a pretty traumatic thing for us.

Pauline Hanson

Reconciliation is everyone recognising and treating each other as equals, and everyone must be responsible for their own actions.

Dr. Wu

I'm her treating psychiatrist, and she did not know right from wrong.

Kathy Fackler

By treating them seriously, they're just on fire.

Michael Sata

This is our country. You are treating me like an animal, like it's not my country.