Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.

Bobby Jones

The perfect design should place a premium upon sound judgment as well as accurate striking, by rewarding the correct placing of each shot. Mere length is its own reward, but length without control ought to be punished.

Michael Gibbons

Where it seems to me we're heading is real transformational change in assessment practices, ... If we get this to work right, it would be about maintaining accurate property values, not an excuse to raise taxes.

Kelli Durham

We have to get accurate info from law enforcement and then we will respond accordingly.

Dave Thompson

When your mom named you, she did not know how accurate she was.

Gary Olson

When figuring out revenue estimates for the state, we use payroll numbers because we think they're a more accurate reflection of what's really happening in the economy.

Brenda Johnson

We want families to have accurate information so you know what you are dealing with, what the problem is, and how to obtain the most appropriate action for your child.

Bryan Brown

Whether that's accurate I don't know. I never talked to Ripley.

Dan Peters

Watching him, I thought the kids really enjoyed playing for him and they played hard for him. After working for him, that?s an accurate statement. They enjoy playing for him, being around him and coming to practice. He makes it fun yet they still work. All he asks them to do is work hard, and in return he does the same thing for them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Henry Ford

There are some branches that are closed, but as I said 90% are still open.

David Dennis

We started investing overseas quite a while ago -- for at least the last five or six years. We continue to branch that out.

David Hilbert

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science

Kenneth Davis

Throughout our history, there has been an ebb and flow of one branch being a little more powerful, the president getting a little more power, then congress being more powerful, ... Don't Know Much About History.

Karl Schroeder

Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.

Tom Rice

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.

Uday Kotak

Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network.

Charles Caleb Colton

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Henry Ford

There are some branches that are closed, but as I said 90% are still open.

David Hilbert

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science

Henry David Thoreau

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Arthur Machen

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

John Hull

Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.

Ken Falk

Legislators of all people should understand that we have three branches of government, and the ultimate function of the judiciary is to determine cases under the constitution.

Bill Hader

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.

Donald Johanson

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

Douglas Altabef

The potential is that there could have been a surprise that could have influenced the Fed next Tuesday, and clearly that hasn't happened. But employment is a lagging indicator. So the report is not a reflection of where the economy is going, but where it's been.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

David Wald

We are pleased with the decisions. It clearly established the constitutionality of the Internet Registry Act.

John Kyriakopoulos

There are clearly upside risks around the consensus expectations for non-farm payrolls. As such, we would not be short the U.S. dollar over the next 24 hours.

Dave Roberts

There are clearly stated problems that we have to identify and have to uncover. The overlying theme is things that would lead to sudden incapacitation,

Rod Smyth

We're in a market that is clearly in a little short-term decision box. It's the debate whether core inflation remains low, which allows the Fed to stop raising rates, or whether core inflation is not able to be contained. We'll get a progression of data and numbers that will help resolve this somewhat, but until then, we're in the box.

Carol Marlow

We spent longer than we had planned in Fort Lauderdale, which meant that the itinerary has had to be changed, and we do regret that sincerely and clearly we do recognize there's been a lot of disruption.

Lucas Black

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

Scott May

What we're really interested in doing is trying to figure out how we can help states and school districts infuse biotechnology concepts into teaching.

Jerry Williams

When I was approached I realized that this has to be the face of the future not only for education but also for the health of American children. If the concepts are proven, Rochester will consider expanding such an experimental environment in one of our elementary schools.

Roy Barnes

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.

Charles D. Broad

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.

David Elkind

Learning teaches us what is known, play makes it possible for new things to be learned. There are many concepts and skills that can only be learned through play.

Brad Goreski

Going into 'Details' magazine to pitch concepts for a potential photo shoot was one of the most nerve-wracking things I had ever done. I didn't really know what one did in a pitch, how they were structured, etc., and that freaked me out big time.

Leah Busque

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

Brad D. Smith

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

John Battelle

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

Leonid Hurwicz

A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.

Richard P. Feynman

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Tawni O'Dell

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Peter Morgan

Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatization, this does not necessarily imply that the party agrees on much else.

Herman Hesse

Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

Manish Jha

Mobile ESPN has defined a new wireless category, and with that, we are positioning the service and our marketing around the idea that life will never get in the way of sports again. This is more than a phone -- it is like putting ESPN in your pocket.

Justin Trudeau

When my father died, I had millions of people supporting me in a very, very difficult time. I have received so much from this country. I realize that we're defined in life not by what we get from this world but by what we have to offer it, and I know that I have a lot to offer this country, and I'm serious about devoting my life to it.

Lori Foster

We tend to think of human trafficking as a foreign issue, not something that could happen here in our own back yards. But it's a fast-growing problem in the United States, in every area, with no real defined demographic.

John W. Snow

We are seeing a tremendous outpouring of the American spirit, ... That is our indication that this program will be utilized and have a desirable effect.

John Tyler Bonner

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

David Richards

When you talk about integrating the two audits - doing it once, rather than twice - that's easier said than done. It's desirable to do it that way, but when you get down in the weeds and try to figure out the specific steps that you're going to coordinate... a lot more has to be thought through. The objectives of the two audits are totally different.

John Davis

Like all freshmen, you have to pay your dues. You don't get the nice office space. You don't get the most desirable committees.

Todd Beitler

Lenders are selling properties at market value, especially if it's a desirable property. The lender who owns the property is not under any obligation to sell at any great discount.

Aldous Huxley

The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

M. Thompson

It increasingly seems that the U.S. is going to go it alone, which is the least desirable outcome.

Steve Wilson

I think you're going to see a lot of heavy things come in because of gas, ... The prices on the big SUVs and the heavy trucks are going to have to go down. They're just not as desirable anymore.

Dwayne Jones

I think it's one of the most intact of O'Neil Ford's houses remaining in Dallas. John has been very protective of this home. Many others would have torn it down to rebuild on such a desirable site.

Bob Etheridge

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Naomi Wolf

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

P. J. O'Rourke

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

Deena Burnett

He had been given a strong faith through his parents. As an adult, in his teen years and early college, he kind of got away from the church, and ended up going to St. John's University in Minnesota. Tom was very intellectual, enjoyed the discourse with monks, had a lot of questions, and I think the monks provided a great insight into the faith he had grown up with and somehow had been missing.

Anupam Kher

I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn't give them enough importance.

James Newman

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

Jimmy Wales

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

Virginia Woolf

The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Jacques Lacan

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Robert Brusca

We're getting sort-of mixed results with what is happening in the economy.

Paul Brewbaker

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Kurt Barrow

Since mid-2004, the government refinery-gate reference price has diverged from import parity economics. The gap has been rising ever since.

Jean-Cyril Spinetta

The pilots are responsible, realistic, qualified people, who know the (state of the) economy,

Michael Markovic

We are looking for another strong year for the U.S. economy. I would not put my money in the long end.

David Resler

There is a view out there -- and this gets more into psychology than economics, that if Fed moves 50 (basis points) now, it might be all they need to do.

Manmohan Singh

Positioned as we are, geographically and economically, India has a pivotal role in the region,

Chris Ahearn

Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been less secure in the last 18 months or so than it had previously been. So instead of the stock market, people were investing in their homes.

Donald Selkin

I think the Fed meant to say something reassuring about the economy, but the result was very confusing.

Frank Turner

We were at an impasse and had been talking for an extended period of time.

John Cox

We extended these plea offers, and we're very comfortable with what we offered and what was accepted.

Jack Foster

We extended out lead in the league, but we still have a lot of work to do.

Mike Taylor

We extended our press too much in the third quarter. They made some great passes and went to the middle on us very effectively.

Becky Ault

We're just monitoring the dikes right now and making sure the water isn't staying on them for an extended period of time.

Eula Biss

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

Scott Henderson

We might have a facility here in Bastrop to handle some of the people who won't be able to go home for extended period,

Sam Smith

Last year we extended it, and it worked so well. We have a lot of retired people in the area, so many people can work during the week and many of them do.

Jeffrey Sconce

Many shows this season ... had gruesome shots of women being brutalized and terrorized in very graphic and extended ways,

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Robert Thompson

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

Li Yuanchao

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

Vladimir Litvin

Watching how simultaneously statements are made, including at the top level, it can be understood that this is an organized campaign.

Yossi Alpher

We've never encountered this situation before. Everyone, including the U.S., is playing this by ear.

Tawni O'Dell

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Kevin Lynch

With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud.

Anil Kumar

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Alvin E. Roth

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

Clive Granger

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Patricia Miller

Because of the new regulations, our permit for doing this work expires at the end of the year.

Mitch Kapor

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

RL Brown

I think we'll see permits down in February, but I thought we'd see them down in January.

Ivor Novello

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

Mick Johnson

We need the permit on the sign, it's law.

Scott Haywood

It does not have anything in it to permit us to supplement, modify or amend.

Gerald Smith

It's a third permit we'd need to obtain.

Brian Collins

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and the police that's a lot to get done in three weeks.

Ed Garland

They're in violation and we're waiting to see a permit application.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Tom Kenny

There has been a lot of testing done on the racking strength provided by different types of spray foams, ... And the strength provided by closed-cell foams can be substantial.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Raymond James

What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Tom Ferguson

We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.

Burke Stinson

We're just saying 'time out' to technology until the new year.

Cassie Johnson

We're getting a lot of e-mails saying they wish they could watch curling more often. They can't wait for Vancouver.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Frank Vargo

We've seen this movie before. What Treasury is saying is pretty much of a rerun of what it said back in May.

David Mamet

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

Tony Morris

We wanted it to be local. We wanted it to be symbolic of our own difficulties in life.

Bill Schneider

Now I think New York is symbolic of the nation's division.

Wolfgang Bosbach

It would be a symbolic contribution, not compensation.

Stephanie Bennett

It was a symbolic need for us to be out front, because it was our kid,

Rene Magritte

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Alain Resnais

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.