Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Kurtwood Smith

If I had not gotten along so well with some of the people on the show, it would have been a different story. But in this case, it was great. But sure, it will be fun to look around.

Kumail Nanjiani

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

David Smith

Like a powerful medication, the Internet has a revolutionary impact on global business, and it is hard to imagine a firm that has not been affected. Unfortunately, along with the benefits come many side effects that have the potential to dramatically erode productivity and pose many other dangers to the enterprise and to employees, themselves. That is why it is so vital to carefully monitor employee Internet use. This study confirms that uncontrolled employee Internet use is a very serious threat to compliance, security and productivity.

Gary Warner

Lighting is too expensive, so we plan to lease the lights from TECO. The cost of electricity will be passed on to businesses along the road.

Stacy Schiff

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

John Seabrook

Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound.

Joe Morgan

Make no mistake about it, we lost a generation of inner-city players along the way. I think that starting today, with the opening of the field here in Compton, we will stop the erosion of inner-city players.

Christopher Cross

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Delores Etter

Much has changed in the world and much has changed in technology. But some things do not change. Today we still celebrate the transition from a vision to a physical shape.

Christine Harforth

Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream consists not only of the celebrated Overture, the famous Wedding March and the scarcely less familiar Nocturne and Scherzo.

Richard Hamilton

No, not at all. We didn't celebrate (anything) at all. We're just trying to get to where we want to get to, and that's the Finals.

Catalin Alupoaicei

Now we have two anniversaries, and we celebrate them both.

Kathleen Rogers

Never before has the American public had so many organic choices in stores and restaurants. And what better way to celebrate the synergy between the health of our planet and the health of our families in honor of Earth Day.

Dean Kamen

In a free society, you get what you celebrate

Sheraton Kalouria

I can't imagine a more exciting way to celebrate the 40th landmark year of Days of Our Lives than with the Rolling Stones,

Sheraton Kalouria

I can't imagine a more exciting way to celebrate the 40th landmark year of 'Days of Our Lives' than with the Rolling Stones.

John Ferguson

Security trumps trade. Security has become the priority when crossing borders.

Tasneem Aslam

No crossing of people would take place on Monday because we have not yet exchanged the lists of people wanting to cross.

Michael McCoy

Nature is so powerful here, so engaging. That's why we live out here in the West. We can step out and hike for miles without crossing a road. If design is about the man-made environment, nature is how we step out of design.

Alan Noble

I can't relax until we give them a safe landing, wherever it is. To me that's more important than crossing the finish line.

Jeff Allen

Getting state management is a nice first down, but delisting is crossing the goal line.

W. S. Gilbert

For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich, / Which is something between a large bathing-machine and a very small second-class carriage.

Tasnim Aslam

Because of the widespread devastation the information about crossing procedures took some time to trickle down.

Akira Sasaki

I had wanted to perform strongly and pump my fist after crossing the finish line. I feel greater than my last second-place finish because this time making it to the podium was a much more vivid target.

Mary Harron

She's sexy, but she's very ladylike. There is something kind of 1950s about her, like she's wearing white gloves or crossing her ankles.

Tim McGuire

My initial take is our development is well under what was envisioned in the master plan.

Mark Waters

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

Geno Auriemma

My family's grown up here. I've done a million things here that I'm really proud of. (And) 99.9 percent of the time I've been treated better than I ever envisioned that I'd be treated. So I'm not looking to go anywhere. I'm not looking to run away from anything. I'm not looking to find greener pastures.

M. Wolfe

I guess I envision myself as a portfolio manager, and these two portions of my portfolio were not living up to my expectations. I had somebody who wanted them more than I did, so I took my money and ran.

Sarah Kim

I can envision a day when we'll all be watching our flat-panel TVs and will Google the TV to figure out what to watch.

Carol Whiteside

What we have to do is envision not tomorrow, but 20 years from now. Our shortcoming has always been not having that vision.

Karl Urban

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

Keith Cox

We always envisioned 'High School Reunion' as a franchise, and we wanted to move quickly into production of the next installment.

Kevin Rahm

I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies.

Tom Izzo

Let's not anoint us as a finished product yet. But I like the steps we're taking.

Hale Irwin

Let's put that in perspective, ... I finished an hour before the leaders. It wasn't like that putt sent me into the playoffs. Heading into the 11th hole, I wasn't even in the top 15.

Scott M. Gimple

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

Karl Dorrell

Look, we're not a finished product by any means and we're still in that shadow, ... But we are gaining some momentum.

Brandy Williams

Last year was hard, because we had just finished playing another hard game the night before. We really wanted to go this time.

Laurie Kelly

Last year we were the No. 3 seed and my players were happy. This year they were mad that they didn't finish higher.

Lynn Murray

Last year, we went 10-0 non-conference. It was huge because we did not have the same strength of schedule that we have this year. Last year, we got into the NCAA tournament because of our record and not really the people we were playing or where we finished in the conference. As a team goal, we are trying to get to the same place we were last year.

LaMont Jordan

One magazine had me finishing with 975 yards,

Ben Howland

Obviously, we're real pleased to get the win. That was a great finish for us. It's really just a testament to the character, the toughness, the heart of our players to have the never-quit attitude. I'm really, really proud of them.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Julie Gerberding

We are planning for a marathon and not a sprint. We will be collaborating with many people...for many months,

Bill Rodgers

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

Don Kardong

You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.

Benjamin Levy

I think I'd like to run a marathon someday,

Justin Osmer

We view this as more of a marathon than a sprint.

Roxane Gay

After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media.

Terry Semel

This is a marathon run, not a sprint.

John Conley

This has been a planned separation. We weren't surprised. We didn't have the rug pulled out from under us. There's been a six-year trend to have the marathon stand on its own two feet.

Eric Epstein

This isn't a sprint, it's a marathon for reform and a lot of work still needs to be done.

Albert Schweitzer

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Richie Benaud

Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Daina Parent

Mind over matter, baby. This is what we've trained for all year. This is ours.

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Proverb Proverbs

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Nikolai Gogol

Never mind beauty! Concentrate on the things that matter.

Theophilus London

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Douglas Booth

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

Maurice Greene

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

Tom Woodruff

We may tweak things a little bit. When we get runners on base, we have to get them around to score. We will do what ever it takes.

Donna Martin

We had ample opportunities to score. We need to have better at-bats with runners on base.

Chris Bryant

That's been the story of our year. We just can't score runs when we need to and get runs in when we've got runners in scoring position.

Andrew C. Bradley

Sam pitched very well for us, we just have to get some of those runners to score.

Bill Rodgers

That's fine; we runners are, after all, up for a challenge.

Nick Johnson

It's very frustrating. We had some opportunities, and we didn't get it done. I had runners on second and third with one out. You have to find a way to get it in.

George Carlin

You never see a smiling runner.

Nancy Gibbs

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.