Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Allen

We have no reason to believe there is any other usage among fire personnel,

Saleem Altaf

We have no problems if Australia or New Zealand or both combined want to bid for the tournament. We are confident about our bid given the huge commercial market for the sport in this region and the overwhelming interest it evokes among the people.

Michael Dell

We have some big plans for our growth here. In the last three years, our business outside the U.S. has grown from $12 billion to $22 billion with countries like India being among the fastest-growing markets for us.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.

Dan Peters

We want landowners to know they have choice when they are approached to lease their mineral rights. There is a difference among the independents and we want the communities where we operate to know that we have their best interests at heart. We always try to do the right thing for landowners and their property, drill safely and efficiently, and clean up the well site area once we've completed.

Mo Mowlam

We have had 30 years of murders and I think that what we need to do in the next 24 hours is show a determination among all parties to make sure we see no more.

Tim Murtaugh

The fact is, under his influence, Richmond had among the highest crime rates in the commonwealth, the schools were consistently ranked near the bottom statewide, and people paid more in taxes.

Fran Miller

There is a lot of depression and anxiety among children. This is a generation that is growing up without the emotional support, love and care of the family.

Janet Harris

There is a little bit of shell shock that's going on among donors. The tsunami got a huge response. . . . Katrina got a huge response, and I think that people are a little caught off guard by this one.

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

Francis Wacziarg

The fact that it is set in a phantasmagorical island somewhere in ancient Sri Lanka throws up immense possibilities to explore this cultural hybrid, whether it's through costumes, sets or simply because of the Hindu environment that forms the spine of the story.

Sarah Monette

I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.

Theodore William Richards

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.

Tim Birkhead

The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to whether they received or emanated light.

Eula Biss

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

John Pearson

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Marguerite Gardiner

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

Agnes Repplier

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

E. L. Konigsburg

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

Gretchen Rubin

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.

Edmund Burke

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Steve Novak

This program is essential for every student in our society. We must know the past so we do not make the mistakes in the future.

Eli Roth

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Tom Wolfe

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Chris Coleman

I am glad he has tied his future to us, he forms an important part of my plans.

Richard King

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Fidel Castro

Neo-liberalism and globalization and the way they are being implemented today are tantamount to new and sophisticated forms of plundering,

Bill Viola

I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.

Noam Chomsky

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

James Patterson

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

David Sedaris

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Menander

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Demetri Martin

Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

Billy Joel

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Eddie Izzard

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

Aristotle

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Amanda Cunningham

Poet in Greek means maker. It's the idea of making something that has never been made before.

Augusten Burroughs

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

Charles Caleb Colton

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Susan B. Anthony

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

Brandi Carlile

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Cary Elwes

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Jane Addams

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

Jane Addams

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

Chris Christie

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Antoine Predock

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Ashwin Sanghi

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.