Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Cook

MSL is like a chemist on Mars. From a technological point of view, people will be fairly amazed by both the size and the capability of MSL. It will certainly be able to drive circles around MER to a certain extent. Not speed wise. But from how long MSL can go every day...it will be able to do much more.

Greg Sprink

Matt sets a great example with the way he comes to practice every day and plays through pain. It's to the point now that he can barely walk after games. We're all amazed and impressed by his dedication and determination.

Dirk Benedict

Meat is bad. Sugar is bad. Chemicals are bad, bad, bad! I wanna be good, good good. So I will just stop eating those evil things. What an ego! I am always amazed that I did survive.

John W. Thompson

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.

Brian Roberts

Obviously the first thing you think about it is: What's this first swing going to feel like? And I took that first swing, and I was amazed how well it did feel.

Jeff Kinney

On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst kids so that they could get a ribbon, and I'd show up with my friend who was also a terrible swimmer, and we would be amazed that the best kids hadn't bothered to show up. I didn't get it until after college.

Kameron Kennedy

I was really surprised with some of the swims considering we took two weeks off due to the pool cleaning and the holidays. What amazed me was that the kids maintained correct technique. The endurance part will come a lot sooner this time due to muscle memory. It won't take as long to get where we were two weeks ago.

Clinton Morrison

I wouldn't take the reaction of the fans as a factor in which player I sign. I would be amazed if he didn't get a good reaction when he comes back.

T. J. Miller

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

Isaiah Thomas

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

Isaiah Thomas

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

Isaiah Thomas

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Italo Calvino

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Rick Perlstein

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

Rick Perlstein

Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.

Robert Strauss

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Robert Strauss

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Sheckley

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Italo Calvino

Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Robert Kazinsky

I'd watched every episode of 'True Blood' from the very beginning. The show's characters were in my blood, so when I started, I was really prepared. I made sure I wasn't the new guy asking stupid questions on his first day.

Robert Palmer

I hardly ever get asked about music. I do, however, get asked about the 'Addicted to Love' video and my suits on a daily basis.

Rohit Shetty

Jokes apart, people are constantly asking me, 'What are you doing for the industry?' When one makes a blockbuster, you plough back money into the industry. If my film makes 100 crore, I'm not taking the entire sum home! It gets distributed between the exhibitors, distributors, producers and actors.

Kevin Mitnick

When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?

Marc Benioff

If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.

Marcy Kaptur

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

Ron Hill

We're not completely satisfied. I don't think we ever will be. There are a lot of questions that we asked that were never answered. My wife and I never believed from Day 1 that this was an accident.

Joe Biden

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Yes, I have a website that puts out conservative news. Yes, I am part owner of a gun company. Yes, I'm a Republican who was cast into the limelight for having the temerity to confront Barack Obama on the question of redistributing wealth... But I'm a working man, and I'm working.

Timothy Noah

Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

Jim Messina

We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!

Elliott Abrams

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Mark McKinnon

Obama killed Osama. Yes, President Barack Obama gets to crow about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Tom Brokaw

Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.

Tim Scott

One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.

Mitt Romney

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod, and the American people have tasted that, and said, 'Look, that's not a good taste.'

Twyla Tharp

It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through.

Felicity Jones

I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.

Lindsay Davenport

She's a huge fighter. She manages to stay very positive in some bizarre circumstances in matches.

Danis Tanovic

I don't have a very high opinion of men, without doubt it is because I am one. Men and women live on two planets. I find it even bizarre that we can coexist.

Jim Bowden

This spring training has been the most bizarre spring training I've ever been a part of in my career. I've never been a part of anything like this. It's been the most un-fun, and to me, it's been one nightmare after another. It's like I'm working for the fire department, just putting out fires every day. It hasn't been fun.

Jim Bowden

This spring training has been the most bizarre spring training I have ever been a part of in my career.

Lee Smith

I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.

Andy Behrman

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

David Tennant

You know, I've just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but the notion that there's any kind of international recognition is still slightly bizarre to me.

Ugo Betti

Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Seamus Mallon

Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting.

Jeannie Thompson

Moments like this are why you get into coaching. The girls have such a passion for the game, and to be a part of this team in a moment like this: There are really no words to describe it, just seeing how much fun they had and how much they enjoyed being out there tonight.

Alexandra Orlando

I can't describe what happened. Everything is very vivid within my mind. I knew I could get good results, I was sure of my skill, but this... Well, this was more than I expected. It was a surprise for me, too.

John Prezzia

I can't really describe it. I just always knew I could win.

Felicia Lofton

I can't even describe the feeling I'm feeling right now. The girls have worked so hard. We've had our ups and downs, but the girls finished strongly. We set a goal to win a state championship and we did it.

Dick Cheney

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; ""consistent"" is not one of them.

Brad Dean

I can't give you one term to describe us today. There is such a mix of visitors.

Bill Gates

Four or five years from now, you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support how they just used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Nadia Boulanger

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Delphine Arnault

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

Pankaj Mishra

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Kim Anderson

Many thanks for your part in our history.

Frank Hadden

Scotland's history has been one or two occasions of tremendous over-achievement, and I am hoping this is the start of one for us.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Guenter Verheugen

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

Grant Fairley

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.

Spanish Proverb

Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says

Sam Wyche

Lucky enough that Mike Mularkey was in a position to make a pity hire, and I think everyone knows that's what it is, and he put me back in here.

Blaise Pascal

Love has its reasons that Reason knows not

Howard Davidowitz

Sears is a shaken-up company, and who knows when it will recover, ... are wonderful.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral. We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral, ... We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.

Darren Dopp

Mr. Weld knows less about solving strikes than he does about running trade schools.

Gerhard Kocher

Medicine knows no limits, expecially not its own.

Tim Carroll

One of the things I realized about doing this show with Keith is he knows as much about music as I do.

Noam Chomsky

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

George McGovern

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

Jill Abramson

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

Ben Shapiro

President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.

Ben Shapiro

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

Glenn Greenwald

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

Dennis Miller

Obama better hope a kicked ass is covered by Obamacare.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Francesco Rutelli

Let those who won be put in the position to govern.

Kelly DeFeciani

Sharon's position will be replaced immediately in May by the person who comes in third.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Kenenisa Bekele

My getting to this position is something that doesnt completely surprise me at this point,

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

Terry Carmack

She supports the president's position when she agrees with him and stands up to the president when she doesn't.

Ledawn Gibson

She can do it all. She can play any position on the court, one through five.

Claude Tyler

She had a will to compete. She would play any position for us, one through five.

Tom Lehman

I'd like to be in a position to give my spot up if I had to.

Jack Nance

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Jeff Gundy

We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Anthony Hemingway

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

Richard Engel

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

Greg Rusedski

(John) McEnroe sees him in the top 20, I see him getting into the top 50 and then the top 20.

Bob Harris

Well, I think everyone kind of sees us as the sheriff, you know.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.