Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Updike

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

Rebecca Goldburg

NOAA has said it wants a $5-billion-a-year U.S. aquaculture industry. What's the cumulative impact of that industry?

Michael Niemira

Now there's a shock. It's not just a penny this week and two pennies higher the week before. And the shock comes on top of the cumulative effect of all those pennies over all those weeks.

Stephen Toulouse

We're working day and night on development of a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer that addresses the vulnerability.

Bruce McGill

There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.

Paul Volcker

The cumulative impact of this is pretty impressive, ... Somebody should have stood up and said, 'Enough.' But they didn't, so it ended up being much more controversial than it should have been considering that the main objectives of the program were in a sense achieved.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.

Craig Thomas

We need to do a better job of explaining the potential effects of the cumulative impacts and the harm they cause.

Herman Frazier

If I make a dollar that means we're working and then we'll start working on taking the cumulative deficit down.

John Lilly

When you talk about effects of (winning that game), in any one year it doesn't have that great of an effect,

Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Paul Brennan

We found protective effects with at least weekly consumption of cruciferous vegetables,

Roman Romanenko

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.

Iris Chenault

She's tired today because she didn't get enough sleep without the machine. That's one of the side effects you don't get a good night's sleep.

Jim Egan

We really don't know what population effects have in terms of water quality trends.

Jason Ricci

I was involved in Habitat for Humanity when I was in high school and I think it's an incredible program. I've seen firsthand the effects it has on people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything that was going on between his teeth and hand, but he battled out there. He did a nice job.

Sir Campbell

The prime minister has a lot of explaining to do.

Mark Boudreaux

We take these issues very seriously. We realized that we needed to do a better job of explaining how the industry works.

Source Unknown

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Piet Hein

People are self-centeredto a nauseous degree.They will keep on about themselveswhile I'm explaining me.

Madeline Albright

I think that Senator Kerry has been working on explaining that. It hasn't come through, ... He is making that message very loud and clear.

Jared Bernstein

Explaining the unique characteristics of this unbalanced recovery is more like 'Murder on the Orient Express' than finding a smoking gun in somebody's hands. There are a lot of suspects.

Lord Byron

Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation.

Bruce Young

You can learn a whole lot in a short period of time from a guide, as long as he's explaining what he wants you to do.

Elizabeth Hagood

No sir, I'm not at all saying that, I'm explaining to you the process that has taken place so far.

John Adams

We're not going to put someone in a position where it's going to be harmful of their performance this weekend, but at the same time the team will represent itself proudly.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Arianna Huffington

We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?

Ron Pollack

What the president is proposing is warmed-over, stale soup but with a recipe that is going to be harmful to the majority of Americans.

Tim Ruskell

We're going to take it slow and see how Ken goes. There's still more testing. We would never want to do anything that would harm him as we go forward.

Suzanne Fields

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Christina Gallach

Solana says those responsible at the local, political and religious level must prevent any repetition of such acts, which can only harm the image of peaceful Islam.

Jane Siberry

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Ashley Monroe

I feel like it's the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.

Thom McDaniels

I won't be shocked if he impacts the outcome.

Dan Miller

People will come anyway, the reason to get involved is to keep impacts positive.

Jim Wooldridge

I don't know where Blalock is going to end up in the voting, but I really like him. (Curtis) Stinson made his name a little quicker, but (Blalock) impacts their team more than anybody.

Trey Gowdy

When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.

Simon Flannery

The quarter is likely to see a mix of positive and negative surprises, reflecting the impacts of mergers and competitive pressures respectively.

Angela Bassett

We don't take it lightly. It impacts us.

Todd Barker

I think people are seeing that we recognize the impacts of those routes.

Judd Gregg

We all have genes. This is a universal issue. It is something that impacts everyone.

Bill Hamilton

They obviously have one of the largest impacts of any employer,

Charles W. Pickering

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Charles Edison

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Charles Dudley Warner

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

Charles de Lint

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

Charles de Lint

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Roger Romines

We've got a really young team this year. If they stick with it, they have the potential to get one of those scholarships that are out there.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Robert Turner

We have just scratched the surface of our potential business.

Aubrey Edgmon

She's starting to realize the potential she has.

Jackie Parsley

She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she got on the floor, she wanted to prove too much to me.

Jesse Miltier

She's showing a lot of potential. It usually takes until they're about 3 years old for them to reach their potential, but she's there.

Joe Pokraka

She's only a freshman, but she has the potential to score a lot of points. She's very gifted, she has it all.