Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Barnard

The potential for Web sales is tremendous and it carries the potential of completely altering and upsetting over the next few years all channels of retail selling.

Les Paul

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

Ben Yates

Most people think computers when they think technology. We fight that all the time and what people perceive technology to be. Technology is a process of altering the natural world to satisfy human wants and needs.

Nina Easton

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

David Suzuki

Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

Martha Stewart

The experience of the last five months in Alderson, West Virginia, has been life altering and life affirming,

Greg Smith

We talk about it everyday. Whenever we get out of our guard play, we look to Derek and Rodney because they control what we do. It's not even about points. It's about controlling the boards, altering shots and all the things they do that you don't see in the stats. That's why we're successful.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care.

Jyoti Basu

The present government, it seems to me, is thinking that without America nothing can be done. What Nehru did, they are completely altering it.

Kevin McCloud

I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.

William Geist

The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening.

Gregory Maguire

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.

Tyler Oakley

I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn't perfectly portrayed.

Eleanor Catton

My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television, either - my parents were unapologetic about this and told me very cheerfully that I would thank them for it when I was older, which was quite true.

Andrew Bird

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.

Mary Pemberton

Going to meet with Billy really brings home the fact that Tae Bo and what it all means is taking control of your life. It's not about being size two or getting into a bikini. Seeing Billy amplified the fact that Tae Bo is a lifestyle more than just an exercise class.

Alex Shoumatoff

Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.

Lord Browne

The recent hurricanes in the U.S. have impacted our results. However, underlying performance is strong, amplified by high but volatile prices of oil, gas and products, ... We anticipate production from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to be back to normal, with the exception of the Shell-operated Mars project, by the end of the year.

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.

Cathy Freeman

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

Wen Jiabao

We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions,

Thuy Trang

When we are on the set, there are always experts there to choreograph the moves and improve your form so you look good for the camera.

Bob Farrell

When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen

Carol Sanders

Whenever you're looking at something like this, it's important to get as many experts in the field to help you.

Damon Lindelof

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

Ben Stein

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Charles Grassley

We heard much higher numbers today of the stimulus package from our two experts than I anticipated we would hear. In other words, if you're going to do something, it better be something significant enough to get the job done.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Jerry Costello

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Kate Bush

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Michael Ignatieff

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

Ryan Donovan

She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

Jean Dellios

We look at properties before sending anything out.

Robert Irwin

I always look to see if other properties have turned around, because if you're the first in you may really get hammered,

Jim Simmons

We sell most of our properties in 30 days. What most sellers want is their property sold as quickly as possible.

Barry Sternlicht

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

Pete Erlenbach

We can't tell if it is public or private. So we are going to take those properties out.

Peggy Moriarty

They just don't get to use it as much as they would like. They have properties all over the world.

Thomas R. Cech

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Taylor Wilson

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Fabiola Gianotti

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Alan Alda

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

Richard Smalley

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

Patti Smith

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Alan Watts

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Alan Watts

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

Alan Mulally

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles.

Alan Parker

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

Alan Perlis

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Alan Perlis

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

Alan Perlis

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Alan Moore

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Alan Moore

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

Peter Higgs

When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.