Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zdenko Tomanovic

Mister Milosevic said there were attempts to poison him in the prison.

Pranab Mukherjee

Militants have made about five infiltration attempts since the October 8 earthquake, including two on a single day,

John Gurdon

My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.

Patrick Page

more of what I know about me. I think you live more and become more familiar with the workings of your own mind -- the darkness in it, the narcissism -- and the desperate attempts the ego makes to cover that up.

Rick Sherlund

may be the twist that makes this more successful than other attempts to erode the (Microsoft) Office franchise.

Brad Cashman

If any private school coach attempts to recruit from a public system, or vice versa, that will be in clear violation of our new bylaw and could result in a hearing or penalties.

Ehud Barak

I have always said that when we go forward, there will be attempts to torpedo the process.

Brian Levine

Traditionally, people who are trying to smuggle narcotics into the country stick to one type. But we've been seeing an increase in the attempts to bring in what we call a mixed load.

Richard Rogers

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Richard P. Feynman

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Robin Chase

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Marc Benioff

You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change.

Mahesh Bhupathi

I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

Manolo Blahnik

I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

Andrew Feinberg

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Bob Combs

We're not contemplating any change for our competitions.

Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Margot Asquith

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

John Boyega

My earliest vivid memory would be my Nigerian mother. She would wrap me on her back. I remember being on her back a lot. It felt like a ride, like I was riding a dinosaur; going everywhere and seeing everything.

Lemmy Kilmister

My earliest memory is shouting. At what and for what reason, I don't know. Probably a tantrum; or I may have been rehearsing. I was always an early starter.

Rick Bayless

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

Mohsin Hamid

My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

Jonathan Nolan

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

Ellsworth Kelly

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

Michael Moorcock

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

Alan Alda

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

Justin Dentmon

Man, I got scared real quick when I heard the news. I've never been in a situation like this before.

Jarvis Deberry

Lots of people talked about things they heard without actually seeing them.

Benjamin Franklin

Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard

E. B. White

Las Vegas is the place all of us wanted to go. For the first week of the tournament there's nonstop basketball, and we heard that's the place to go.

John Freeman

Several of us had heard rumors, which persisted for a period of time.

James Carbone

Mr. Bradford was the leader of a ring. If you heard the word 'Detroit connection,' Mr. Bradford was the leader.

Kevin Kelly

(McDowell) made up his mind to vote 'No' before he heard one piece of evidence.

Robert Roach

one of the worst ideas I have heard in a long time.

William Shakespeare

One that lies three thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

David Circle

Let them know that you support music programs.

Dan Hill

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

H. Hart

Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the heart, the soul, and the subconscious. Music is all about the moment, and if you think about it then you're already in the next moment.

Rutina Wesley

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

Daron Malakian

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Thomas Ryan

Let him sit here in his skivvies while we get him a new suit if they want to play like that.

Greg Sterling

Many of these video-sharing sites are all variations on a theme. So at some point, we're going to see consolidation.

Joe Keller

Now we won't be sitting on each other's laps. This will be nice.

Jack Nicholson

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Dean Smith

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

John Delaney

I can't see a sustainable situation here, because there are too many loopholes.

Eric Takamura

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Gene Ween

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Miranda Cosgrove

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Liz Callaway

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Kate Micucci

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.