Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Penrose

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

Dieter Rams

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Nathan Lane

On a personal level, I don't immediately open up to anybody, even about what colours I like, much less something like this. I am my mother, OK?

Giles Foden

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

Gemma Arterton

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Fernand Leger

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Nicola Sturgeon

Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day.

Lynn Nottage

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

Roxane Gay

Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.

Torey Lovullo

That was the turning point of that inning and the game. . . . It's a tremendous play by somebody who does dazzling things every single day.

Howard Staunton

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.

Ron Wilson

I thought he could score 40 this year, and now he's there. He's exceeding all my expectations as far as I'm concerned.

Greg Yurek

We're exceeding some of the models from which we worked.

Alan Shepherd

We are exceeding our management levels for these two wild horse populations.

Mark E. Smith

The players are exceeding our expectations. The kids are hustling and not getting down if they make a mistake.

Nigel Wright

We are very pleased with how Jeff and his team have gotten off to a running start at Spirit. They are meeting or exceeding our expectations on every metric that we had set out.

James Thurber

seems to be exceeding the quota one or two.

Timothy Evans

As with most storms, we think the fear factor is exceeding the likely impact on production here.

Don Hamson

The thing is, the market keeps expecting it to set new highs. We have had two or three years of exceeding expectations, so you have to keep exceeding it more each year.

Darren Benitez

Lesson for me: no leave things in the car, trust nobody.

William Stafford

Leave sound in an emptyhouse in its own room there. . . .

Deion Branch

Leave it up to him, and he comes through perfect every time.

Granth Sahib

one does not even know how long you will stay here; you have no hint of when you shall leave

Thomas Colasanto

None of these vehicles are abandoned. Many leave them here in the winter and then take them out during the season when they can use them. They pay us to store them here during the winter.

Steve Wilson

No one saw them leave together, but he's gone, and so is she.

Benjamin Franklin

One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Dane Hansen

Montana scares me a little bit. I leave Montana, but it's always with me.

Leon Harris

Next time, I'm not going to leave any witnesses.

David Stempler

We need a big shake-up in the way this is done because the skies are getting more crowded.

Thomas a Kempis

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

Rosalind Wiseman

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Glenn Close

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness

Ramez Naam

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

Herman Melville

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.