Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Bertrand Russell

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Terry Robinson

It got down to about 26 degrees here around 5:45 in the morning. I know there's some damage.

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

Ted Leland

I can't imagine taking another job in sports, ... I have no interest in professional athletics. Pacific happens to be a place I have two degrees from and I think I can help.

Jeff Francoeur

If it weren't for Phillip Wellman I wouldn't be here right now. He's the one who got me going, taught me about patience at the plate and who showed me how to work. You'd go out there some afternoons in Pearl and it would seem like 180 degrees in that cage, but that's what it takes.

Scott Bakula

I grew up in St. Louis, and I don't know if you've ever been to St. Louis in the middle of summer. There are days in the summer sometimes, weeks in the summer, where the temperature can be over 100 degrees and the humidity can be 100 percent.

Al Gore

The center of the earth is about a million degrees.

Charles Babbage

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done.

Marcelo Porto

Our market was out of the game for two days, while there were losses abroad. It has readjusted prices in a moderate way. I had expected a worse day.

Joe Eberhardt

Our model mix, which was rejuvenated in the past months, and expected higher unit sales in the future are set to increase profitability automatically.

Joel Greenlee

Overall it was a pretty good weekend for us but I really expected us to get the win over Virginia. There were about three more matches that we should have won but that's how it goes sometimes. You can't give up back points like we did late in those matches.

Jacques Rogge

Overall, it's been what we expected ? not really what we had wished.

David Law

Overall, I'm happy with the job they did. I told them from day one I expected them to be in the championship game.

Jim Silver

Over $500 million last year was spent on Harry Potter toys and this year is expected to be even bigger.

Bobby Bowden

Out of all of them, he would have been the least one we expected to do what he was doing. We didn't know how he could play like he's playing right now.

Elden Auker

Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning.

Audra Jeffers

I was very pleased with how the season went. The team had a very good year, even though we would have liked to have made it a little farther in the NCAA tournament. But the team did well. Hopefully we can have more of that kind of success next season.

Darren Star

I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.

Mike Bianco

I think if we could have kept the game close, we'd have had a shot because we were having good at-bats. We thought we'd be a little farther along. The good news is there are a lot of games ahead.

Peter Kreisky

I think (Fuller) has reversed a negative trend, ... I think it would be in the tank if it wasn't for Bonnie. How much farther it can go is the question.

Dale Jr

It'd be fun if we could run farther apart, but that's not going to sell many tickets.

Bobby Cox

I thought he hit some farther to left field, He's hit them farther than that.

Johnny Walker

I am kind of excited, but I don't want just that. I want to go farther than that.

Carl Icahn

I have never called Dick Parsons a moron. I don't think Dick Parsons is a moron. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Bryan Thomas

I wish we could have gotten farther into the playoffs. But we got there, so that was good.

Robert Jackson

Refugees have come up from Louisiana and have located in Quitman County, Coahoma and Tunica,

John Davidson

People I know purchased the St. Louis Blues. It's a purchase in principle. They don't own the team yet. The sale has to be ratified by the league. For me to speculate what I might do with the St. Louis Blues, well, they don't even own the team yet. I don't have anything to tell anybody.

Kathleen Blanco

Rita has Louisiana in her sights and we must move,

Blake Ahearn

Just from watching Louisville on TV, they seem like a physical team. We have to be tough and strong with the ball. Going on the road, that's a big emphasis.

Pat Riley

I have a Louisville Slugger in my locker. It's like 42 ounces. We corked it also, with cement.

Steve Cleveland

I think you've got to look at Nevada, Utah State and Louisiana Tech immediately.

Mickey Loomis

If we can uplift anyone, obviously that's worthwhile to us. We're representatives of the people of Louisiana and the people of New Orleans.

Matt Gifford

If St. Louis is 1A (as a sports town in Missouri), Springfield is 1B.

Isaiah Stanback

Louis was going to surprise a lot of people, but he wasn't going to surprise us. What he did in that game, he can do more.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bob Woodward

They rise to this office. They want a big-time presidency.

Enrique Garcia

Somehow a struggle ensued. One victim was shot and the other was stabbed.

Ryan Gomes

(Pierce) has been making those big shots for us.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Bo Ryan

That was his shot in the 1920s and 30s.

Dennis Fermoyle

That was the only shot we got in the third period.

Eric Osmundson

That was the big shot of the game.

Melvin Buckley

That was crucial. I was like 'Wow, here we go again' ... this time, not to even get a shot off.

John Shuster

That's the shot we always work for the win.

Joey Mullen

I thought he was solid all night. He didn't have a lot of shots for two periods, but when they did, he was there.

Gore Vidal

Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.

Bill Cowher

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

Bertrand Russell

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Mariella Frostrup

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

Charles Comiskey

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Jesper Parnevik

One swing, and everything clicked, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win on the West Coast.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.