Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Freeman

My initial reaction is that there are some real people who will benefit from this, which is good, and I applaud the Republicans (24 of whom joined all 49 Democrats on the House floor in approving the bill). But it's only a partial step forward.

Bill Strathmann

More and more people are doing their giving with a few clicks of a mouse rather than writing and mailing checks because it's faster, easier and more cost effective for the charities they support. That's especially true in December, when people make most of their donations. This December, we're seeing the online giving trend on a remarkable scale with double last year's contributions, despite the fact that people already gave so much online for disaster relief this year. We applaud Yahoo! for helping to encourage this outpouring of online giving and ensuring more resources get to many charities that need our help more than ever.

Greg Erwin

Obviously, Sacramento has been very successful, and we applaud them for that success,

Jim Calhoun

I feel so good, (even) with my own sadness. I can only imagine, and probably better than most, the feeling they must have in that locker room and on that campus. Those kids, many of them were passed over by Big East schools and others, and I tip my hat to their courage ... to the incredible coaching job that Jimmy did and to everybody at George Mason University. ... I applaud them. I share in some degree Jimmy's joy because as a friend, I know what he must be feeling in his heart.

Jim Calhoun

I can only imagine the feeling they must have in that locker room, on that campus. They couldn't have imagined this, but they've done it. I applaud them. They deserved to win.

Alan Keyes

I wish I could applaud all of you in the media for such fairness, ... But I certainly can't.

Theo Epstein

I'd like to see them applaud him in recognition of all he accomplished here. We wouldn't have won the World Series without him.

M. Hopper

I am excited, and I applaud the city council for its creativity and bold decision to put the issue squarely before the courts in a way that is not reckless.

Vicente Fox

Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

Richard P. Feynman

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

J. August Richards

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

John Taylor

I majored in physics at IU. But I took a whole lot of astronomy classes. I thought it would be great to have a solar telescope ... be able to see things during the day with the students.

Sonu Nigam

I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. I'm into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

Edwin Powell Hubble

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Galileo Galilei

To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.

Norm Negus

When he came to me wanting to do something in astronomy, I got excited. Astronomy is my first love in science. But he wanted to buy a big telescope which we couldn't afford.

Joseph Murray

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'

Bill Cooke

It has become quite obvious in recent years that our nomenclature in astronomy is not keeping pace with our discoveries.

Laurie Sikora

Modeling takes extreme dedication. You have to really want this to make it work.

Jerry Angelo

Given Marc's situation he had a horrific (knee) injury for really a good 2½ years, to watch his dedication and his work ethic, there were doubts he would ever play again. So getting him back and going and then obviously having to do what we did (Tuesday) was very, very tough.

Jerry Angelo

Given Marc's situation-he had a horrific injury-for really a good two and a half years, to watch his dedication and his work ethic ... having to do what we did was very, very tough.

Preston LeMaster

Four years of hard work and dedication is finally paying off.

Bart Starr

Desire and dedication are everything!

Matt Centrowitz

On paper we'll be better. Their dedication will determine what happens.

Tony Blair

One of the most respected people of our times. Sense of duty and service ... extraordinary grace and dedication ... Long may she reign over us!

David Stern

We are saddened by the news of Jason Collier's sudden passing, ... He epitomized hard work, dedication and perseverance, and more importantly compassion, kindness and selflessness.

Alex Garwood

The Pat Tillman Foundation is thrilled to be participating in this fundraising event. We thank Roy for his dedication to the foundation's efforts to keep Pat's leadership spirit of giving back alive.

Ernie Irvan

Man, I remember those nasty turns, and how hard it was to judge them. That's what made it so difficult, and the reason the drivers are always so competitive. I always said if you could win at Stockton, you could win anywhere.

Jojo Moyes

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

Jerrold Nadler

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

Steven Wieting

Many of the understandable sources of recovery have been expended in the first half of 2002, leaving growth drivers into 2003 a mystery.

John Gifford

Senior retail management is increasingly hard to find right now, ... A lot of the top executives have been around for a long time and they're still working on the premise that sales are driven by value for price and assortment.

Mel Martinez

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Semiconductor makers are bottoming out because of strong demand. Any good news is likely to drive shares higher.

Rajiv Dutta

Seller success is going to, in turn, drive seller volume. That will, in turn, help the vibrancy of the marketplace and eBay's financials.

Jorma Ollila

Mobile can drive Internet usage, so we all will benefit. The pie is growing, and everybody can get his or her slice.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

Noah Hawley

Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her whole career for a network partner who truly understands and encourages their vision. For me, the search is over.

Steven Hall

Let's try to find incentives for the development to encourage reclamation and also for the development to encourage minimum surface disturbance. Let's try to structure a plan that encourages industry to be innovative.

Craig Martin

Many trail users around town are doing a little trail maintenance on the trails in their neighborhood. This workshop is to encourage volunteers and to make sure they do the job right.

Johnnie Burton

MMS must have a leasing plan in place if Virginia seeks to end the moratorium and encourage offshore oil and gas development.

Peter Frost

One might expect that this female surplus would encourage more men to take second wives, but having two families simultaneously is difficult.

Jill Carroll

One night she slipped a note in my hotel mailbox. It was a small essay of encouragement and praise from out of the blue.

Jon Kyl

One way that we might encourage others to come forth with potential savings is to demonstrate that we ourselves are willing to forgo this COLA, ... It's a gesture that members of the Senate ought to make.

C. K. Williams

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

Charles Caleb Colton

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Sasha Azevedo

Life is not recognized by living as much as it is by giving.

Jean Bruyere

Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.

Sathya Baba

LOVE lives by giving and forgiving.  Self lives by getting and forgetting.

Sandra Miniutti

So, giving this time of year is very important.

Greg Chandler

Milo is looking as good as any of the pitchers we have right now. He hasn't been in the rotation, but I have no problem in giving him the ball. Each time out he proves me wrong.

Larry Brown

Maybe we are giving effort. Maybe we aren't good enough.

Ally McBeal

Music is my way of sharing my story, of giving back, and hopefully offering hope.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Deepak Chopra

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Dave Ramsey

You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

Clive Granger

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Brian Greene

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

Mark Cuban

As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual.

A. N. Wilson

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Robert Scoble

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

Charles Caleb Colton

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

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.

Eliphas Levi

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

Maria Mitchell

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Prince

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

Charles Spurgeon

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

Bill Johnson

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Joe Pannunzio

We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.

Madeleine Albright

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Peter Banko

He still kind of wonders what all the hoopla is about.