Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Perlis

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Casey Stengel

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

Charles Kruse

We appreciate the Commission?s diligence in conducting its analysis and reaching a decision based on real, farm-level conditions.

John Casesa

We believe that the Firestone recall is a storm that will intensify with the upcoming congressional hearing and then quickly pass. Based on our analysis of the outcome of other high-profile, controversial recalls, the stock should make a recovery.

Elio Rupo

We're in a phase of analysis that will last several days.

Michael Jasny

What the NOAA letter does is confirm that the Navy analysis is fundamentally flawed.

Bill Vaughan

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Pat Battle

When we began our analysis of the videogame landscape, it became apparent that EA SPORTS was best positioned from a marketing and development perspective to maximize the sales opportunities for college football.

Barbara Howard

We can do a lot more analysis on this data set to systematically investigate these nutrients and their effect on their endpoints.

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.

Jeff Koons

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!

Martin Seligman

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

Barton Gellman

U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.

Michael Mueller

We're gearing up for Planning (Commission) now, ... We're doing a traffic study, a noise study and a biological study.

John Sununu

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

Selman Waksman

The first true antibiotic to be derived from a culture of an actinomyces was isolated in our department in 1940. The organism, Actinomyces antibioticus, yielded a substance which was designated as actinomycin. It was soon crystallized, and its chemical and biological properties were established.

Eric Kandel

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.

Jane Pauley

I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.

Richard Bonnie

When the law makes the offense simply a biological fact, of simply having a certain chemical in one's body, that steps over a line in the law that has been traditionally accepted.

Diana Vreeland

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Nate Lowman

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

Feist

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

Oleg Cassini

We are on the threshold of a new American elegance thanks to Mrs. Kennedy's beauty, naturalness, understatement, exposure and symbolism.

Pierce Brosnan

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

Lord Chesterfield

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Jean Cocteau

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Samuel Johnson

Honesty is not greater where elegance is less.

Philippe Starck

Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

Louise Bourgeois

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

Mike Wilson

The one thing you know with Rico is he's going to work hard. He's going to do everything in his power to get better. He loves football. He kind of fell (into) track.

Lewis B. Hershey

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

James Hoffa

We have a strategy to train workers to rebuild their communities, ... We must learn from this tragedy and help these workers start over. We must help our fellow Americans build new communities and new lives.

Bill Frist

We have no higher responsibility to our fellow Americans than protecting the homeland. Our lives, our freedoms, our liberties are at stake.

John Eisenhower

When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

Tom Greene

When it comes down to a last second shot, anything can happen. After the free throw, our assignments fell through and weren't executed properly.

Ron Howard

We're getting there, but we thought we were on track before and we fell off. We're just trying to come out and get better in practice every day and then come out and play every game like we've got something to prove.

John Ballantyne

What we're looking for is the possibility of a genetic eyewitness.

Robert Casey

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

Paul Souza

We've seen responses that these genetic problems are being eliminated.

Martin Chalfie

What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.

Susanna Larsson

We don't know how much milk is too much for women with genetic predisposition.

Brian Evans

From a genetic perspective, there are significant strain differences in their structure.

Iain McGilchrist

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Dorothy Moore

It is somewhat of a rare genetic disease,

Matthew Binns

He was the greatest in history and to get a look at his genetic material will be pretty amazing,

Charles Dickens

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Adolf Hitler

I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.

Frank Herbert

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

Lea Thompson

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.