Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Pritchard

Mahler's first symphony is not a typical symphony in that it's not abstract music; it does conjure up images of nature and images of heroism.

Harry Reid

No one suggests that John Roberts was motivated by bigotry or animosity toward minorities or women, ... But these memos lead one to question whether he truly appreciated the history of the civil rights struggle. He wrote about discrimination as an abstract concept, not as a flesh and blood reality for countless of his fellow citizens.

Twyla Tharp

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Robert Summers

Frary executed tremendous abstract paintings. Frary contributed significantly to mid-century modernist art in Texas.

Newt Gingrich

For so many Americans, what goes on here in Washington often seems abstract and remote, unrelated to their daily concerns,

Aaron Huey

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Gayle Green

If we're going to teach it to all kids -- kids who might not naturally be abstract learners -- we need a variety of teaching methods.

Ad Reinhardt

I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50.

Malcolm Gladwell

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Jeff Beyer

Many homeowners are not adequately adjusting their policy to cover the new value of their home. Often, the only time people review their homeowners insurance is when they first purchase the home.

Anne Mills

Neither words nor TV clips adequately communicate what has occurred.

Rich Brown

More than half of all homes are not adequately insulated. Insulating a poorly insulated house is a project that will pay off pretty quickly.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence

Edward Kennedy

Four years after 9/11, as the administration's bungled response to Hurricane Katrina makes clear, we're obviously not adequately prepared to deal with another devastating attack.

Jan Egeland

I would say every society in the world is not preparing adequately for catastrophic events.

Lee Johnson

She went before a group of people at the state level, and she adequately demonstrated her problems were in the past. With that, we approved her.

Peter Nicholson

Short term, without a storm, they are probably adequately safe. Certainly with a large storm as we are not yet out of hurricane season and certainly for next hurricane season, there is significant risk.

Peter Nicholson

Short term, without a storm, they are probably adequately safe.

Rick Perlstein

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.

Robert Wilson

My work is formal, not based on psychology.

Kumail Nanjiani

When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.

Jeff Pulver

LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces, open standards, and an innovative Web services based architecture, LignUp has joined a circle of companies that represent the future of IP communications.

Sandy Alomar

Life is based on your self-confidence. When you trust yourself, that means you know you can do things. If you don't have that trust, that means you're always going to have doubts in your mind.

Guido Mantega

Lula is going to build a government based on alliances, a government in which businessmen, bankers, trade unions -- the whole of society -- will participate. The trademark of Lula's government will be participation.

Matthew Peterson

Life events may force you to rethink that plan, ... Don't rethink your plan based on what's happening on the market.

Phil Garner

Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week.

William Ward

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

Sandy Nelson

One of our biggest risks is to hand over our brand name to a company or owner and hope they carry the torch, ... Our customers look at us as a chain ? as if we had complete control of hiring, firing and standards ? all things that make a brand. (Superior Air) was an easy fit in that their attitudes, beliefs system and values are equal to what we believe.

Richard Suzman

Odds are the findings are significantly related to the underlying religious beliefs of this population.

Tom Maeser

My guess is we have people who have these beliefs here but they are not going to publicly demonstrate here as much as they would somewhere else.

John Roberts

My faith and my religious beliefs do not play a role.

Emeril Lagasse

Now that years have gone by and I look back at it and I can put one and two together, it was my childhood memories and cultural feelings and beliefs in the whole tie-in of the French Canadian/Portuguese thing.

David Rudolf

When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me; it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement; and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.

Whoopi Goldberg

. . . what I am is a humanist before anything -- before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race -- they don't exclude anyone.

Jeb Bush

I have a voice: I want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the Republican party can regain its footing, because we've lost our way.

Christopher Paolini

I don't discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I've given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

John Hennessy

Like all Americans, members of the Stanford community feel great compassion for the many who have suffered loss and a desire to respond to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, ... We are committed to helping out in whatever way we can, and we hope these efforts will make a small contribution to the outpouring of relief to victims of this disaster.

Gordon Gee

Let there be no misunderstanding of our intention, ... Vanderbilt is committed to competing at the highest levels in the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA, but we intend on competing consistent with the values of a world-class university.

I. Stone

Lowe's is committed to recognizing and supporting efforts that help our neighbors and customers. No time is this support more important than following natural disasters. Since Lowe's launched its customer donation program in 2000, thanks to the generosity and cooperation of our customers and vendor partners, we have raised nearly $16 million for American Red Cross disaster relief efforts.

Bobby Dunn

Lots of people start exercising because a spouse or other person has told them they need to lose weight. But you'll only stick with it if it's your own goal, if it's something you're committed to.

Leo Kiely

Last year, we committed to a strategic review of our Brazilian business. We made good on that commitment, and this transaction is the result.

Melissa Wagoner

Senator Kennedy is committed to ensuring that this program continues and that the commonwealth's proud history in military technology continues to grow and expand.

Sen. Bray

Sen. Rita Days and I were committed to maintaining a safe and friendly emissions program even though the effort was to decentralize it. Decentralize did not mean the program was going away; it?s a federal mandate. Our six amendments protect the public and make the often inconvenient process of emissions testing as painless as possible.

Chris White

Motorola is committed to delivering 'wickedly cool' products and solutions that make always-on entertainment and communication a reality for consumers.

Ari Fleischer

Nepal is fighting a Maoist rebellion, and Nepal is an example, again, of a democracy, and the United States is committed to helping Nepal.

Steve Spurrier

Let's just go play the game, ... and let the players decide who wins it. That's what we should all focus on this week.

Cy Thannikary

Legislators failed. We decided to take the process out of Trenton. If we leave it to legislators, it will never happen.

Abdullah A. Badawi

Let them decide how long they will take to finish.

Lee Miller

Last year was the first year we did this. We started talking about it four years ago, ... Last year, we decided to head it up and make it a project.

Jim Haslett

Last year was a hard year on myself and all the coaches, and really the whole city. So I decided that if I didn't get a job, or the right job, that I would probably sit out a year and see if I could get back in the next year.

Ryan Martin

Last year, when I was trying to decide where to go, that was one of my main things -- going to the NCAA Tournament. That's something I wanted to do since I was 3 or 4 years old.

Brad Soderberg

Last year, we played 12 games that were decided in the last 90 seconds, and we lost 11 of 12. If we win a game when we're not playing well, it's a step in the right direction.

Frank Guzzetta

Many of our guests have expressed a need for more time to decided if their purchases are right for themselves or their gift recipients.

Raekwon

So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

Pete Orr

Last year, you're a rookie and everything you do is a better-than-everybody-expected kind of deal. Now going into the season, there's a lot expected of you. I think that's a little different and the pressure is going to be a little different.

Lindsay Whalen

Last year we were 18-16, and the playoffs start, and the next thing you know, we're in the finals. Pretty cool. This year, we expected to win.

Alan Greenspan

modest, but it can be expected to be not negligible.

Shayne Graham

My job's no different. I'm held to the same standard, and I'm expected to do well. If I don't do well, they're going to look for somebody who can.

Jerome Bettis

Nobody expected us to win, nobody was picking us to win. That's fine ... as long as we believed.

Dane Bradshaw

Nobody expected us to get this far. It hurts now because we think we should've made the Sweet 16, but we accomplished a lot.

Rui Farias

Nobody expected us to be good this year. We had some serious talent on last year's team, and some of those seniors never left the field.

F. Schumacher

Nobody expected this and now that it's there we will work very hard to fight back again. It's not a big surprise and that's the way it goes. It is honestly a surprise it did take that long before it happened.

Tony Bina

Nobody expected much from us. People didn't think we'd make state or do well here.

Kevin Fisher

Mayor Coble likes to talk about the knowledge economy. Maybe what we need first is more knowledge about how to plan and manage public works projects.

Darin Strauss

My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.

Daisy Ridley

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

Denis Diderot

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Elbert Hubbard

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

Eduardo Chillida

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

William Butler Yeats

I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

Bob Berg

Somebody in their 50s is going to have a lot more not only technical knowledge, but also street knowledge than somebody in their 20s who's still on a learning curve.

Mark Zuckerberg

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Leon Mbangwa

He is still under our observation. But he is still stable and still in hospital.

Chris Presson

Financially, we're more stable than we've been in many, many years.

Peter Banko

It's not critical. It's not serious. It's just stable at this time.

Al Stadler

It's been stable since. We've had no issues.

John Heywood

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Heather Brooke

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Christopher Hitchens

Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

Gloria Steinem

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.