Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Tulgan

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

Kofi Annan

The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given.

David Hume

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

Leonard Susskind

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses.

Michael Winter

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

Michael Parker

There are those that are saying you have to be able to dial back to any arbitrary point in time. From our discussions with the mid-market, that's not exactly something they are looking for.

Levi Woodbury

Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.

Paul Krell

We're not going to be tied to an arbitrary date on the calendar. We haven't scheduled it yet. If it's needed we want to make sure it has maximum impact.

Vint Cerf

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

Richard Shelby

Throughout the life of this investigation, I have taken the position that I never knowingly disclosed any classified information. My position has not changed,

Kim Jee-woon

Lionsgate and Lorenzo di Bonaventura saw my Korean Western-style film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' and probably felt that I would be right for 'The Last Stand,' which could be classified as a modern Western.

Garry Wiseman

We decided that trust is very important when you are looking for things like babysitting services. People should determine who can see their classified ads. You might decide you only want to share them with your email contacts or other students if you are at a university.

Naomi Wolf

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

Stephanie Pell

We are dealing with classified material we are about to disclose. The government is just covering its tracks here.

Julian Assange

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

Kim Basinger

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time

Glenn Greenwald

The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing. Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted.

Annie Jacobsen

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

Rhys Ifans

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

Mallory Ortberg

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

P. J. O'Rourke

Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

Tony Hawk

When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Clint Eastwood

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

William Kircher

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

Walter Murch

There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

Mark Burnett

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Chris Eigeman

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

Gary Peters

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Golan Levin

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

Ha-Joon Chang

I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

Lalit Modi

It wanted specific and later-stage matches, presumably the semi-final and final, which was uncalled for.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

John Hedgecoth

We think that this strikes the right balance.

John Ortberg

The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

Mahatma Gandhi

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

Matt Magee

He throws a lot of strikes and that's all we ask.