Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig.

Kyle MacLachlan

My breakfast consists of two cappuccinos and maybe a toasted English muffin, and that's pretty much it for me unless I decide to go a little more upscale, and then I'll have scrambled eggs.

John Wesley Powell

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

Benjamin Franklin

Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Harvey Penick

Life consists of a lot of minor annoyances and a few matters of real consequence.

Jean Bruyere

Liberality consists rather in giving reasonably than much

Plato

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

St. John

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

Alan Hansen

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

David Guetta

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

Bryan Ferry

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

Caroline B. Cooney

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

C. Northcote Parkinson

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Bill Masse

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Michael Clarke

We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

David Brainerd

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Gail Sheehy

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

Larry Marshall

She has truly been remarkable in every respect.

Pete Carroll

He shocks me every day with something. He's done some things, remarkable things, with the ball.

Gilbert Metcalf

He made a bet. I think he was successful. That was a remarkable achievement.

Bobby Cox

He's been outstanding from day one, ... He's done a remarkable job.

Bud Selig

He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens.

Joe Shields

We have seen this kind of thing in other galaxies, but it?s very remarkable for the Milky Way.

Bill Bryson

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

Pele

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Whit Hartz

You're pretty much surrounded by sharp, poky things.

Samuel Schmid

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

Deepak Chopra

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

C. S. Lewis

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Charles Sanders Peirce

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

Charles Mingus

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

Jane Byrne

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

Sharon Long

Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.

Charles Bukowski

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

Edward Abbey

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Edward Abbey

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.