Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Busch

I'm a little older now. I've aged pretty quick these past few months.

Wladimir Klitschko

I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.

Lesley Manville

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.

H. Hart

She spoke my name for the first time in a year. She ... sort of came out of the darkness for a few minutes. That's when I really thought there's something to this for the aged (and) infirm.

Anne Solli

Old dogs are the wise ones. There?s a depth, a feeling, like aged wine, you don?t get the same depth and experience with younger dogs. It might take a couple of weeks before they get used to the house, but you can see when they realize they are home - the tension melts away.

Joe Ivers

Since the 1997 model year, Ford vehicles have been improving on a consistent basis. This year is a bit of an exception. The Focus is one of those vehicles that hasn't aged gracefully.

Hasidic Proverb

The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged

Charles Dickens

You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?

Philipp Meyer

You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.

Marco Brambilla

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

M. Wolfe

Making the show the first week was good. You always want to get off to a good start. It helps you keep your attention for the rest of the swing.

Imad Moustapha

Let me first thank President Bush for his concern about Lebanon and the fair and free elections that will happen in May, ... Now President Bush can focus his attention on the really terrible occupation of the Palestinian territories and the occupation of Syrian territories and Lebanese territories by Israel.

Anne Menard

Legislation is being brought before the state to bring clarity to this industry, which is growing. We are now a booming industry. Because of grass-roots interest, more and more attention is being put on this industry.

Brian Dawkins

Last year you saw Porter do his thing a little bit. He was the featured guy and he made some big plays for them . . . Though you have to pay attention to Randy because of all the physical attributes he brings to the game, you still have to pay attention to Porter, because the guy can still go up top on you. He is a big guy (6-2, 220) that can run.

Brian Dawkins

Last year you saw Porter do his thing a little bit, ... He was the featured guy and he made some big plays for them . . . Though you have to pay attention to Randy because of all the physical attributes he brings to the game, you still have to pay attention to Porter, because the guy can still go up top on you. He is a big guy (6-2, 220) that can run.

Matt Ryan

Legally, we're not required to respond within any particular time. The governor's doing his best to be fair and give these important decisions the attention they're due.

George Ryan

Legally, we're not required to respond within any particular time, ... The governor's doing his best to be fair and give these important decisions the attention they're due.

Jill Dougherty

Leaders of the opposition said it had been done deliberately to take attention away from their demonstration.

Mark Twain

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style

Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Emily Oster

My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.

Ian Robertson

Neuroscience researchers have made important discoveries that will help keep our brains functioning optimally,

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

Brian Billick

So I hear they call you 'The Freak?' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

Josh Billings

To be a good critic demands more brains and judgment than most men possess

Seth Shostak

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

Maggie Stiefvater

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

Eric Kandel

You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.

Steven Johnson

I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I think that the cognitive complexity is as important.

Arthur Wingfield

There are subtle effects of hearing loss on memory and cognitive function in older adults. The effect of expending extra effort comprehending words means there are fewer cognitive resources for higher level comprehension.

Marlene Walz

There are several students who have severely low external cognitive functioning skill levels.

Renee Luker

For most people it is very silent disease. I have speech problems a lot of time, cognitive speech problems, walking difficulty and fatigue.

Henry Markram

Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their own understanding of how the brain functions and is structured. How do you get them all around the same table?

John Mackey

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

Bruce Lahn

People like to think of modern human biology, and especially mental biology, as being the result of selections that took place 100,000 years ago. But our research shows that humans are still under selection, not just for things like disease resistance but for cognitive abilities.

Larry Goldstein

With or without cognitive impairment, patients improved in stroke rehabilitation, and they improved at a similar rate, regardless of whether cognitive impairment was present, at least as measured by the Mini-Mental State Exam.

Alafair Burke

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Amy Ziff

Last year was a massive year for holiday travel. The summer kept going in that direction, and we have the same expectation for this year despite fuel costs. If you wait until November, I think you run the risk of not getting what you want or paying a whole lot more to get what you want.

Rowen Tupuivao

Mentally hanging in there despite all the mistakes, that was the key for us. We could have folded, but we didn't go to sleep. We tried to make something happen.

Stephen Brobeck

Net wealth hardly grew despite a substantial rise in house values.

Mike Walsh

Mo seems to have fared well despite his ordeal and is expected to fully recover,

David Sidwell

Morgan Stanley had a great quarter. This was accomplished despite everything the firm has been through.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously it negates the theory about Dow 1,000. What (the new milestone) tells us is people have a lot of confidence. Money is still flowing into the United States despite some question marks about inflation. Nothing has changed.

Kathy Giusti

Despite the fact that one in every two men and one in every three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, no one ever expects it to happen to them. I surely didn't. I was an otherwise healthy 37-year-old when I was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, the same rare cancer Tom Brokaw has.

Christie Hefner

Newsstand sales for our flagship magazine rose in the first half of the year despite a very difficult market that resulted in many of our competitors reporting year-over-year declines.

Rick Perlstein

When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer melodrama of everyday life of the 1960s.

Robert Mankoff

I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

Frederick Daily

Lightning really does strike twice for some people, especially if you were found to owe large adjustments in the past.

Manny Legace

(Los Angeles) played a very solid hockey game tonight. We just found a way and gutted out the win.

Sathya Baba

Love towards all beings. The founders always had in view the Unity of all life and the progressive march of man towards Divinity.

Robert Fulghum

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Jonathan Gaw

Search has become that thing that we lost and now we've found again. It's a Prodigal Son.

Ron Krumer

Mr Sharon underwent an abdomen scan and we found liquid which we removed, without operating.

Atharva Veda

Meeting the Lord, Nanak has found peace and bliss; his life is redeemed, and prosperity dawns for him.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Tom Davies

If these functions are transferred to another agency...are we saving money or just transferring costs?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Mike Edwards

We do functions for all sorts of student organizations because of the slide and sunning patio.

Venancio Figueroa

What do you mean, the system functions as designed?

Winfried Vahland

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

Hank Johnson

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Alfred Hitchcock

Paramount functions practically as a studio setup for him.

Robert Kelly

Longer term, the vision is to put all functions on the Internet.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Grace Hightower

I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.

Abraham Zapruder

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Billy Beane

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

Fred Jones

We're trying to keep it in smaller modules.

David Hallberg

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.

Gopal Ahluwalia

It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.

Russ Swartz

It's nothing that we're not used to all year. We're one of the smaller teams in the league.

Daniel Craig

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Craig Conroy

We had opportunities where we could use our speed and get going on them, ... And we capitalized.

Jay Wright

We were having a tough time speeding them up.

Bob Newhart

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Dave Russell

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.

Franz Grillparzer

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Carol Alt

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

Owen Schmitt

We have just as much speed as they do.