Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

Charles Stanley

You always have God's undivided attention.

Alan Watts

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

Alan Perlis

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

China Mieville

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

C. J. Mahaney

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

Laurie Sabourin

The postures are unfamiliar, we have to pay attention and focus. It?s not like being on a treadmill at the gym. We all know how to walk. Yoga is so foreign that you need to concentrate. The postures kind of sneak meditation in through the back door.

Kyle Johnson

The point is, somebody else is in need and in a grave condition. You want to focus on that and make sure that the person gets the attention that he needs.

Ernie Johnson

The only reason I'm bringing my condition to your attention now is because the swelling of a lymph node near my left ear has become noticeable to viewers of TNT, and there have been questions asked. My plan is to work the rest of the NBA season and playoffs, go to the beach with my wife, Cheryl, and our four kids, and start a treatment regimen in late June, which will likely include chemotherapy. And then I'll go back to work.

David Milne

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

Lisa Cholodenko

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

Michael Specter

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.

Dan Garrett

The other thing that was attractive to me is that he himself is a product of Catholic schools and has sent two children through Catholic schools.

Felix Lanters

The possibility of rising interest rates worries investors. For many companies there is a direct effect on their earnings and stocks can also become less attractive to bonds.

Fran Fraschilla

The perception that Kentucky is down, therefore the league is down, is very true because they are the flagship program in the SEC. It's a combination of (UK) and the fact that (success) in power conferences is cyclical. Often a league that can attract top-caliber recruits is more easily susceptible to losing great players to the NBA. How much better would some of these teams be if they had those players now?

Eric Sorensen

We are seeing a lot of success in the ski/wakeboard segment in attracting new boaters, while pontoons have declined substantially in this area.

Jim Leech

We are pleased to continue our partnership with York Street Capital. This expanded capital commitment helps to fill the growing need for junior capital driven by strong buyout markets and record levels of private equity fundraising. Through York Street, we are providing broader financing alternatives to companies and equity sponsors at a time when flexible junior capital solutions are an important component in financing both buyouts and corporate expansion. We believe that York Street will continue to generate superior returns and provide attractive co-investment opportunities for Teachers' Private Capital.

John Snow

We started three seasons ago with Monday Night Football. We thought it might be a catchy attraction to get guys who don't regularly go to church.

Neil Alexander

What's really frustrating is the inconsistency, that's what bothers me. I'm disappointed in the shooting. We had some wide-open looks that we have to hit.

Alan Trammel

We're just not getting it done. I'm not getting the message across. This really bothers me. I know I'm responsible, but guys have got to do it. It's inexcusable to be going through this losing streak. Losing doesn't sit well with me. It shouldn't sit well with anybody. We have to keep working. I know no other way. There's no magic potion.

Ann Merideth

Yes, it bothers me tremendously. I'm not sure how many miners went and was able to live as long as my father had, which I'm sure most of them did, and it really bothers me because it took them so long.

Jennifer Harris

The fact that she still says that she did nothing wrong, and not owning up to anything is the problem. That bothers me.

Kim Beazley

The problem with this government is it never bothers to go round the region and explain what its doing.

Jonathan Byrd

When I'm playing well, not much bothers me. There are more things to think about, but you concentrate for 72 holes no matter what the weather is like.

Mike Clamon

She's so smooth on the mound - that's what I saw in her first start that caught my attention. Nothing bothers her when she pitches.

Donny Burnett

She understands what has to be done for us to be successful. She takes charge of this team. It bothers her when we don't do what we're supposed to and she will get on the girls about it. But she does it in a way that the girls respect her for it.

Ann Curtis

She's got a surprisingly good short game and nothing bothers her. But her second nine in the 18-hole rounds tends to hurt her. That's something we're working on.

David Mitchell

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

Mary LeBlanc

When we got married, we had nothing. We had no water, no utilities. There were no screens on the house. There were cracks in the floor big enough you could see the chickens walking under the house.

Scott Faber

What he said was incredibly encouraging, but I'm not counting any chickens yet.

Michael Doyle

Most poultry contain harmful bacteria. Recent statistics show that about 60 percent of chickens -- broilers -- are contaminated with campylobacter, and 10 percent with salmonella. And turkeys tend to be higher.

Lisa Scottoline

I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.

Katherine Center

I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a rainwater collection system to save rain runoff for later. I also love to fantasize about keeping chickens in the backyard.

Trevor Immelman

You know, you can never count your chickens before they're hatched with this game. We all know that. All it is, is two days of solid golf. I'm going to have to go out there and produce the same thing on the weekend.

Emily Sullivan

I eat them at home, so I was really glad when they started having them here. I feel better that the chickens aren't in cages. It's better for them, and I think they taste better.

Abdulsalam Nasidi

I have been in the field and they say 'What are you telling us? We eat dead chickens and we have been doing that for centuries'.

Alan Watts

Cows scream louder than carrots.

Rig Veda

The one who, having killed the serpent, released the seven rivers; the one who drove out the cows by undoing .. one who generates fire between two rocks, victor in battles, he, O people, is Indra.

Diana Vreeland

To be contented—that’s for the cows.

James E. Faust

As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.

Robert Gottlieb

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Mel Gussow

On her pages sacred cows become blustering pachyderms.

Joe Cheshire

Now, whether there are other issues as to it relates to issues like drinking and partying and those things, I've got no clue. But if it relates to sexual assault, they can search 'til the cows come home.

Dan Edwards

I enjoy what I do very much, ... When I was a kid I helped my Dad with the cows on our farm. He was a school teacher, too. When I left home, for some reason he sold the cows we had always kept.

Cilla Black

I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.

Tony Dungy

We want to see if we can get that done, ... So our focus is winning the first one. This is a very critical two-week stretch for us.

David Cross

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

Byron Katie

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

Mika

Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.

Hilary Clinton

The Post's icon status was earned through hard work and nerve under fire, not through fear of criticism,

Malcolm Speed

We started the event with 12 teams but reduced it to a 10-team event following criticism there was too much disparity between the top 10 and the 11th and 12th teams.

Glen Davis

We are a team that likes to use selective hearing. Day after day we have to go out there and compete. What the critics say: thanks for the pub. But it is for the birds.

John Broughton

We are at a very critical stage in our negotiations,

Hans Olsen

The only good spot today was factory orders.

Lionel Barber

The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.

Wayne Kramer

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

Todd Bridges

The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me.

Camille Paglia

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

Raf Simons

One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

Kyle MacLachlan

My first-ever visit to a cheese factory was in Tillamook Washington... yes, I am that nerdy.

Valentino Rossi

I have a fantastic relationship with this factory and my team crew, who have worked so hard to make the M1 as competitive as it is now, and it just made sense to stay with Yamaha for another year.

Nicholas Kristof

If only meat weren't so delicious! Sure, meat may pave the way to a heart attack. Yes, factory farms torture animals. Indeed, producing a single hamburger patty requires more water than two weeks of showers. But for those of us who are weak-willed, there's nothing like a juicy burger.

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Lisa Papademetriou

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

Paul Campbell

Whether or not a land is for sale weighs in hugely for criteria.

Pete Carroll

We're so young in so many areas. These next two weeks will be huge for our development.

Kent Beck

There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

Harvey Jewett

With the limited monies we've got, we know it's going to show the need for a huge appropriation by the state.

Keke Palmer

I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real.

M.I.A.

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

Dave Penry

There are only enough workers if we look to the immigrant population, and we want legal immigrants.

Michael Harrison

Many said that what was going on was terrible, and that immigrants participating should go back to Mexico.

Ted Cruz

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

Frank Sharry

But even if we win today, it's only one step. Immigrants pay a lot in taxes and don't get a lot back.

Ken Simonson

If a substantial percentage of the immigrants took the day away from work, that would have a noticeable impact on construction.

Angelo Amador

If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.

Joshua Hoyt

We don't have a leader like Martin Luther King or Cesar Chavez, but this is now a national immigrant rights movement.

Harry Pachon

an unprecedented outreach into the Mexican immigrant community.

John Bollinger

The pain level is as severe as anything the market has ever inflicted on investors before,

Sathya Baba

Injury inflicted on any being is sacrilege, self-injury.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Matthew Scully

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

William Edwards

In livestock production, you want to make sure you can manage your losses as well as your profits.

Collin C. Peterson

It's time for us to keep better track of our livestock as they cross borders.

Jeff Ward

This is aimed at those small and medium-sized livestock producers, ... This could be a valuable tool for them.

Bella Abzug

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

Calvin Klein

We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

Richard Grubman

If this is correct, your shareholders should be outraged that such a transaction was not consummated.

Daphne Guinness

There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.

Sean Howard

It has outraged the community. He should be ashamed.

Bill Richardson

I will not tolerate security lapses and I'm outraged at what happened,

Christopher Shays

I will just say to you that I think it's really outrageous that we at least don't warn passengers that the cargo on a passenger plane has not been checked,

Charlie Skelton

Every version of it still has the lovers, outraged parents and fairies.

Ian Paisley

Unsaturated fat is an outrage.

Miley Cyrus

I'm pretty outspoken.

Andrew Young

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Poppy Montgomery

I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.

Lea Michele

I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes.

Sharon Tate

I guess I'm too outspoken.

Tim Tebow

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

Charles Dickens

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

Camille Paglia

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

Mark Cuban

Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

Bob Newhart

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

Edward Felten

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.

Edward Lear

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

Bill Bailey

I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.

Beth Henley

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

David Seabury

Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

Denise Levertov

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance....

Neil Roberts

We wanted to try something different to get a spark going. We wanted to find something different that works for them.

Ben Stein

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Arthur Young

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

Elie Wiesel

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Alice Munro

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

Cindy Sheehan

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

Robert Esche

I was just trying to spark my team.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I am sure that my supporters will understand me.

Christopher Meyer

O'Bleness is a hospital. We are supporters of that hospital,

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

George W. Bush

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Erik Paulsen

I'm not a supporter of ObamaCare. I voted to repeal it, to defund it, et cetera. But we do need to move on.

Rafa Benitez

I was with our supporters at the end. I could see him but he didn't want to.

Jose Mourinho

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

Serena Williams

I'm a big supporter of this product for women. And [my relationship with the brand Berlei] was so organic. I would go to the store and buy 40 or 50 bras every year because I could only get them in Australia at the time. And then eventually they heard that I would come and take all the stock.

Sean Young

I have a lot of supporters.