Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Connor

There are certain housing codes, building codes that the landlord is required by law to adhere to, but generally speaking the landlord should be expected to maintain the apartment in such a manner that it is fit to be lived in. Tenants are entitled to heat, running water, freedom from insects, rodents, mildew and mold, a roof that doesn't leak and windows that don't leak.

Mark Helprin

The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.

Matt Prescott

What we're looking for are the criteria a facility has to adhere to pass an audit.

Kurt Loder

And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

Tom Stoppard

A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.

Todd Rundgren

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title. It's not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to.

Ravi Chandra

Since the cells will adhere to the surface at locations where the complementary nucleotide sequences match, we can program cell adhesion events with a virtually unlimited number of possible coding options. The DNA effectively serves as a molecular barcode on the surface of living cells.

Bruce Pearl

We set standards that we expect our student-athletes to adhere to both on and off the court. We will not tolerate anything less.

Sean Smith

The poll confirms that the public wants the Park Service to follow its legal obligation to protect national park resources. Congress should join the overwhelming majority of Americans and support the NPS decision to adhere to the law.

Alan Autry

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

Paul Hoolahan

We want to see if we can coexist. These are questions that no one can effectively answer at this point.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

David Mitchell

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

David Lange

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

David Rakoff

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

Carl Sagan

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet.

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.

Chuck D.

The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is a tough problem.

Monica Lewinsky

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

Vicki Long

The only reason it became a class is we needed insurance to book these buildings.

Tommy Tuberville

We are proud of Blake Field, ... He became our starter with an hour's notice. He did a great job handling the football.

Sara Labberton

We believe that she had the best of intentions, but that she just became overwhelmed with the number of cats and the cost of cat food and medicine for the cats.

Louie Anderson

One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

Louie Gohmert

It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.

Luke Nosek

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

Li Bingbing

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

Mark Harmon

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

John Berger

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees.

Tomas Transtromer

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Gracie Gold

'Pretty Little Liars' - my sister and I read the books, so we stuck to it for the first season, but it started to kind of drift off; so did we.

Donald Selkin

We're drifting, and we're probably going to keep drifting for the next few weeks. But that's OK, there are positive developments out there. Oil prices seem to be under control, and I'm more encouraged about the second-quarter earnings than I have been in a while.

Don Zimmer

Of course, I was there eight years. Seven of the eight years, we had a team. A team. You know what I mean by team? A team. I think when you go through so many players and changes, that tends to drift away a little bit.

Randy Bachman

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

Marc Cherry

My hope is it's a universe, and people drift out and sometimes they drift back in again. Just because someone leaves doesn't mean they can't show up in some other way.

Richard Freeman

I am housebound. There is no point to shoveling the sidewalk ... the drifts are impossibly high and gusty,

Lisa Cholodenko

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Tom Freston

We want to produce films here, we don't want to just distribute. We want to work with Indian producers.

Norman Jewison

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.

Navi Rawat

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

Craig Ferguson

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Nina Easton

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

Clive Thompson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Frank Gehry

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Mark Fields

Our path is not going to linear and smooth.

Michael Lehman

We were more linear than we have been in quite a while.

Judith Orloff

Sleeping on something has a lot of power for a lot of reasons. One is that the linear mind is shut off during sleep, so it's pure intuition.

Lloyd Braun

Television is a very straightforward, passive, linear medium.

Doug Aitken

The 'Station to Station' film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It's a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.

Bryan Adams

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

Melissa Hughes

When I was in the play this summer, and Cody wasn't, we had about 30 minutes together each day.

Malorie Blackman

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

Scott Gardiner

We're going to go after them by doing the same things we've talked about all year. And that's tightening up in our own zone, opening it up in the offensive zone like we have been the past month or so, and 60 minutes of effort.

Brian Eno

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

Dave Pelzer

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

Pamela Gainey

She's having to play a lot of minutes even with that hand.

Cilla Black

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

Steve Nash

I usually settle into a routine during the season where I shoot for about 15 or 20 minutes before and after practice, and then do the whole practice.

Tom Zbikowski

We are a little uneasy but the secondary will make plays. After we get settled in you will see that we make plays.

Gerald Temples

I was sick of that. Our secondary didn't play very well.

Nicholas DiNubile

I would say a brace should be a secondary consideration,

Don Miguel Ruiz

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

Nancy Keller

We now have a new tool we can use to find secondary metabolites that are of pharmaceutical interest.

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Jacques Rossouw

These are secondary analyses and are exploratory to some extent.

Francis Gaskins

This is just a warm-up for a big secondary (offering). If they were serious about selling, they'd sell more than 6 percent.

Mick Jagger

I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Joe Papin

We started out really quick, using our speed. As soon as they scored the first goal, we went a little flat.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)

Jon Daniels

We'd like to get him up here as soon as possible.

David Montgomery

We'd like to do it as soon as possible.

Sadhu Johnston

We're monitoring the equipment. As soon as that's done and the weather breaks, we'll be up there.

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Denis Norden

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Boris Becker

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

Boris Becker

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

Jane Kaczmarek

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.