Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Gloria Fletcher

We want them to get back their jobs and as long as these charges are pending, there's no possibility at all. Which doesn't seem fair.

Mark Hudson

We have no information showing that she was ever in Alabama. Our investigation is ongoing as we speak. There is the possibility that more charges could be coming in Alabama.

Carina Perelli

We're going to fight these charges because I reject every single one of them.

Jeff Wuite

The outcome was that no charges should be laid.

Dan Monnat

Since then he has completed 19 months of intensive treatment for the problems that gave rise to those charges at the renowned St. Luke's Institute.

Nancy Cain

We hear all the time that people don't really realize how much they spend on gas or maintenance. If you start keeping track of all that -- and the finance charges and your registration -- it's remarkable.

Sidney Jones

The police and prosecution really want to see these charges stick,

Tom Sneddon

We are not going into the facts of the case, ... The charges speak for themselves.

Dallas Roberts

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

Ellen Key

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

Yoshihiko Noda

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

Mirko Slomka

We were a little tense in the first half, which I hadn't been expecting, but we were more decisive after the break.

Manuel Pellegrini

I expect maximum effort from my reserve players because this kind of match will be decisive for our season.

Van Chancellor

I enjoyed it when we were the favorites. I'm enjoying us being decisive underdogs, because nobody thinks we'll win this series. So, yeah, I'm enjoying it. I've enjoyed it all. What I'd like to do is see our players play as good as they can play.

Koya Tabata

There is no decisive lead for either side.

German Espejo

The paramilitaries played a decisive role in this election, particularly in the northern part of the country.

Atal Vajpayee

Our goal is victory. It's time to wage a decisive battle.

Boris Yeltsin

I think these qualities will be decisive during presidential elections in 2000, ... decent, honest and thorough.

Red Berenson

We've addressed the ranking thing, and how fickle that is this time of year. Every weekend, two more games go by, and someone moves up or someone moves down depending on those games. So, the ranking doesn't matter.

Ron Evans

We are going to see how many tokens we have once they are redeemed and will evaluate some options depending on the quantity that are received in our restaurants.

Frank Rear

We are getting to the point where we are depending on Nate way too much. We need to generate more offense.

Peter Gregg

Maine and us go back and forth, depending on the year.

Paul Niemann

Let's have a look at it, see what we can do with those (programs). Depending on the money situation, I think our sidewalks should be fixed ... I think we need to put safety first.

Kevin Connors

The primary focus is the maximum rate of manure-spreading, depending on the slope of the land. The steeper the land, the less manure you can apply.

Michael Barnett

We need diesel. We'll find some. We have people depending on us and we are not going to let them down,

Sarah McLachlan

I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because I was either too feminist or not feminist enough, depending on who you spoke to.

Bruce Alston

We don't have a lot of information today. I think today is probably a quiet day depending on what the stock market does.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Al Pacino

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Dave Chappelle

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

Ron Barber

On my team, we prioritize merits over politics.

Atharva Veda

May we imbibe all those qualities and sublime merits possessed by gods.

Mark Twain

He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits

John Sweeney

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.