Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Alan Moore

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Alan Jay Lerner

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

Al Pacino

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

Kathleen Bergen

We want to see the airport remain open to commercial service. We view this deadline (Tuesday) ... as a deadline after which we will re-evaluate where the airport stands.

Chris Carter

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Chris Brown

Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

David Suzuki

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

Haley Barbour

We've actually got utility crews in from Canada.

Leopold Trepper

The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.

Mordecai Richler

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

David Phillips

What we're saying is from Vancouver to Thunder Bay, Ont., that western part of Canada is looking like it'll be warmer than normal, so it's a continuation of what the fall has been like.

Matt Kelly

We had 106 people do the Double last year, and there were people from 34 states, Japan and Canada.

Mark Chandler

Usually Canadian data doesn't mean that much but we were so close to testing the previous (dollar/Canada) lows that when we got better productivity numbers it gave the market a push.

Richard Jenkins

We know from previous research that shopping cart abandonment is fairly high in Canada with about one in two shoppers reporting that they did not finalize at least one online purchase in the past three months. Shipping costs, customer service shortcomings and privacy and security concerns are holding consumers back from doing more of their shopping online.

Dennis Laycraft

We want to make sure we don't slide back to where we are too dependant on cattle exports and we don't have enough capacity in Canada . The only way processing exists, is if its able to make a return on investment.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Clifford Geertz

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.

Alan Perlis

There is no such thing as a free variable.

Bill Parcells

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

Ambrose Bierce

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PEDESTRIAN, n. The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.

B. F. Skinner

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

Garrett Hardin

Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

Feist

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

Laurel Clark

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

James F. Cooper

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Caroline Kennedy

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

Denzel Washington

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

DeForest Soaries

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

DeForest Soaries

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

DeForest Soaries

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

DeForest Soaries

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Bob Barr

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

Birch Bayh

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

Dennis Prager

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life