Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Gagnon

The fact is, space technology can and does fail. And when you start using nuclear materials in increasing numbers, the odds of an accident increase.

Bob Dixon

We used to have to do a lot of hiking to get to our avalanche control routes. And it didn't increase the number of accidents that much, like we had anticipated, because of the quality of skiers up there.

Tom Scholz

Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything.

Ellen Gallagher

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

John Irving

I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions.

Tony Oppegard

We have a serious, serious problem in Kentucky with failure to report accidents.

James Vilade

This program is phenomenal and this is a good win for our program and our baseball team. You don't get a top-25 ranking by accident and they are a quality team.

Lance Gross

I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

Peter Gibson

With this size accident you would expect a factual report in about three months ... and an analysis in nine to 12 months - it depends what they find.

Jay Marston

We have to get rid of that one bad inning. It has happened in every game we've lost, but we've also won in spite of it.

Mark Thomas

We have no other choice. It's bad for emissions, it's bad for safety. But it is what it is.

Mads Mikkelsen

We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.

Karl Hobbs

Whenever Steve Smith steps on the basketball court, he's the focal point. Everything starts with him. I think the guards played very well off of him and that allows them to be even better players. The nice part about Steve Smith as a player is that he doesn't force the action. Very rarely does he take bad shots. He lets the game come to him.

Brian Kelly

Whenever something bad happens on tour we treat ourselves.

Benjamin Bollin

When you see a stock trading up on bad news ? or at least holding steady ? it leads me to believe that some of the capitulation is out of this thing.

Lamar Owens

When you see a big name on your schedule, then you pay attention. I don't want to knock the I-AA teams or say anything bad about those guys. But our schedule as far as opponents go is pretty tough compared to what we've played in the past.

Pete Hollon

When you're up 10, 12, 15 points early in the game, you have to expect the other team to put things together. Fortunately, it doesn't hurt you too bad when it happens.

Chris Norman

When you're trying to build a schedule with six non-conference games and play good competition, these are games you need to play. If we go up there, play well and don't get beat up too bad, it was a good trip. If we don't play well, get beat all up and lose the game, then I guess it was a bad trip.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

David Houghton

Whenever you get that sort of wetland component, you get a lot of productivity, ... People in the North Country would call that bugs.

John Heimlich

When your second-highest cost plummets, that's huge. I call it the saving grace of the fourth quarter after the (federal assistance). But we're not quite as sanguine that we can count on that this year.

Saul Klein

When you're visiting the page of an enterprise software vendor and you want to call their support number, that phone number will be highlighted and you'll instantly be connected.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Jason Mraz

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Nancy Verderber

We want people to realize that while we are a national organization and our roots are in the community. We do raise a lot of money but we are also something patients can call on when they need something.

Curtis Green

We want her to know we love her, we miss her and we want her to come home. Please call someone.

Ryan Metcalf

We were trying to find a new shoe place and we were calling all these places. They told us they were going to call us and we never got a phone call back. There was always some problem that kept getting in the way.

Jussi Hyoty

Motorola is putting up a good fight - the only real challenger to Nokia, while the other smaller players are falling behind.

Jerry Simmons

Obviously I was thrilled to receive such a strong vote of confidence from the party. Particularly since the party has never endorsed a challenger over a Republican supervisor.

Parthiv Patel

I have been working very hard since the last season, I have done well in the Challenger Series, Irani Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Ranji Trophy games.

Robert Brusca

This really muddies the waters on jobs, ... I continue to see a lot of labor market distress, and I am more impressed by the sudden weakness in the Challenger report than by the rebound in the cantankerous ISM.

Paul Green

He is having trouble. You can't be a stealth challenger to an incumbent in a primary and expect to come out on top.

Seth Shostak

Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed secret places, such as the Challenger Deep, which today lure hi-tech adventurers like Richard Branson and James Cameron, will undoubtedly provide welcome fodder for 'National Geographic.'

Bruce Elder

It is a great way of communicating at low cost. Web sites level the playing field for a challenger like myself - and they also the opportunity for people to be able to give feedback.

Jerry Meek

I think it would be difficult for a challenger to use any of that.

Wayne Hale

We were all hoping the Challenger would come out of that cloud of smoke.

Kemal Saiki

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Timothy Noah

The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game.

Peter T. King

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

William Schulz

Only the deployment of sufficient numbers of troops with logistical support by UN member states will provide the protection that the civilians so desperately need.

Phil Cox

I have interviewed the refugees and civilians from these villages who testified to this.

Jason Stearns

There are many weapons that have been distributed to civilians and there are factions who don't want to lose power and who'd do anything including inciting ethnic violence to stop the electoral process. The only way to ensure stability during the elections is to actually have troops on the ground.

Ariel Sharon

We of course have no interest in striking civilians and are always sorry over civilians who were struck,

Bob Bowlsby

When you see a crew that was obviously over their head in our game and obviously over their head in Michigan-Nebraska game, it will stimulate a lot of discussion.

Karen Carlson

The production crew actually took him into custody.

Elian Gonzalez

I don't profess to have any religion, but if I did, my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path.

Richard Crockett

With the yacht inverted, preparing it had to have been extremely difficult. Salvage crew would have had to cut the mast off, seal the boat, turn it over and then tow it.

Joseph Prueher

We've got assurances that our crew is safe and sound and that we'll get to see them soon.

Katie McGrath

Working crew made me realise that the actors are a very small part of a very big machine, with each part being vital to make the show work. It so important to remember that it's not about you, it's about the show, and working crew hammered that point home to me.

Michael Aspel

When I was introduced to the crew on the first occasion, I told them I didn't expect to enhance it - I'd just try not to damage it!

Pat Descher

Miss Jackie is the hardest working, most loyal employee. She cleans the lobby like it's her own home. She talks to customers like they're her own friends. To the crew and the people who work there, she is like their grandma.

Bill Shepherd

So I just want to wish everybody down there happy Thanksgiving from the crew of space station Alpha.

Howard Schultz

We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money).

Chris Cooper

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone

Louis Honore

We are losing turnover of about $1.3 million per day ... So you have to multiply that by 17 or 18 days.

Chad Hitchen

We started off by losing a tough one at 103 and we rebounded well with Javier and Mariano (Portillo) having big wins.

Logan P. Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul

Holly Holm

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

Demi Lovato

The more active I am, the better I feel and the longer I can stay onstage without losing my breath.

Vini Dawson

Yeah, I remember us losing a 16-point lead.

Lindsay Whorton

Whether we're on a three-game winning or losing streak, you can understand that that's not everything.

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Daniel Inouye

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Bob Castle

We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.

Deepak Chopra

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

George Reres

She was prepared to go to prison (Thursday).

Brigham Young

We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.

Carlos Gonzalez

Only when the ETA killers served out their sentences will we be prepared to talk.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Jim Kerr

She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players.

Nate Robinson

The whole time from when I was selected for it, I've been watching film of Spud Webb.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

Carlos Castaneda

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Carl Guardino

Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

Carl Crawford

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Agnes Repplier

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

Agnes Repplier

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

Aaron Tveit

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

Aaron Sorkin

Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing

Alan Sugar

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Diane Setterfield

Tragedy alters everything.

Carlton Cuse

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

Jane Smiley

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Carl Jung

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Randy Moore

You're going to find that it's nothing more than a tragic accident.

Helen Espy

It was an accident, a very tragic accident.

Samantha Morton

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.