Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Amato

People in this town are still wandering around in a daze. And it hasn't dawned on them that it doesn't exist anymore.

Richard Taylor

Look, before I start, I just want to say to you - it just dawned on me - you are all my peers. I've worked in the same industry as you for sixteen years. I've never met one of you.

Karen McCarthy

It dawned on us after we'd been looking for six months that this is as good as it gets.

Paul Podolsky

It dawned on the market that it was conceivable that there was more to the story than met the eye. And then you're in a difficult situation.

Steve Cochrane

It dawned on no one ... that Mr. Miller was an investigator hired by an attorney, namely Mr. Geragos?

Katherine Klem

It dawned on me that we didn't have any national meeting, much less an organization, for youth that were fighting the tobacco industry.

Timothy Evans

I thought it was heat exhaustion, ... It never dawned on me that it might have been over-hydration.

Ben Carson

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Howard Carter

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.

Dianne Feinstein

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

David Mitchell

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Deepak Chopra

Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.

Clive Barker

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.

Alexander Woollcott

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

Steve Thompson

We have an historic doorway that is opening here. It is potentially very good for everybody who lives on the river.

Steve Thompson

We have an historic doorway that is opening here.

Marshall Cohen

While Easter shopping is the window to spring, back-to-school is the doorway to fall and the holidays. So back-to-school shopping is a really important momentum builder.

Tim O'Connor

Fire raged near the doorway and overhead as they exited the living room of the home.

Jonathan Brown

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Jonathan Brown

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

John Pople

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

Frederick Sanger

From 1944 to 1951 I held a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research, and since 1951 I have been on the staff of the Medical Research Council.

George Porter

It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow.

George Porter

We three chemists here are the most fortunate of Nobel Laureates, many of whom are rewarded after years of patient and painstaking work.

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

Thomas Sydenham

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

Martin Fleischmann

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

James Rubin

Mr. Karadzic has no place to run and no place to hide, ... The noose is gradually tightening around his neck.

Yoshinori Ohno

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

Ridley Scott

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

Michelle Paver

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

David Murray

Where we spray it works. We are gradually tightening the noose.

Immanuel Kant

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

Jalal Talabani

It is legitimate for you to think about withdrawing your troops, but it must be done gradually and in consultation with the Iraqi government.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.

Rig Veda

There should be mutual love and co-operation between the guardian and the recipient.

Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

W. S. Gilbert

The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.

Juvenal

But who guards the guardians?

Vicente Fox

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles Spurgeon

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

Donald DeMayo

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.

Bill Johnson

The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.

Bill Johnson

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

Demetri Martin

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

Carlos Castaneda

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Cam Gigandet

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Yan Xiaohong

What we've investigated may be a very small portion of the problem.

Elizabeth Banks

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

David Bositis

For a big portion of the African-Americans, there's not better education.

Flula Borg

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

Jim Barnes

A small portion of several things is probably better for you than a big portion of one thing because you get a wider variety of nutrients.

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Ross Siragusa

The tomato portion of it still is pretty negligible.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

Ashton Kutcher

When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own production company. That pretty much sealed up all my time.

Bible Bible

Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.

Hines Ward

It was a big touchdown for us. It really sealed the thing for us.