Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Kay

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

Charlotte Bronte

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

Charles Dickens

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

Charles Dickens

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

Charles Dickens

A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.

Charles Caleb Colton

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

Charles Caleb Colton

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.

Steven Miller

The problem with the bacteria hypothesis is that an extremely high concentration of bacteria must exist before they begin to produce light. But what could possibly support the occurrence of such a large population?

Michael Doyle

This will prevent harmful bacteria that may be present in uncooked poultry from growing,

Jacqueline Roberts

Last year we couldn't go outside and hunt Easter eggs. She couldn't even touch the grass. Our two little dogs had to go, because they might bring in bacteria or mold.

Nils Stenseth

Many, many bird species are spreading bacteria from one place to another, from one rodent to another, by carrying fleas,

Peter Young

Based on tests that were done late last week -- with some increase in the bacteria counts -- we decided to postpone that project for another week just to be cautious.

Dr. Fukino

Basically, there are no standards for bacteria and sand samples, so the question: what does it mean?

Lawrence Lau

I didn't get the call about the city results until 4:30 in the afternoon. So one of the problems we have is that these tests for indicator bacteria take 24 hours to develop. So really, unfortunately, we're saying we had a problem yesterday.

Corey Taylor

I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we've kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.

Leonard Johnson

What killed my brother were bacteria that were found in the water right there, in that harbor.

David Alan Grier

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Kerry Spees

We usually wait longer. If the weather is still cold, we won't turn off the heat in mid-April, even though we could.

Denise Miller

We've tried to not lay a lot on him right now. I don't think Heath even realizes what an impact he has had.

Bill Gates

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

William Shakespeare

The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.

Source Unknown

Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light.

Michael Cohen

Most people don't realize that heat is going to increase absorption rates, even to toxic levels.

Ed Helms

I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal.

Roy Jenkins

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.