Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Keenan

Receiving this prestigious award is a fantastic achievement and a credit to all involved with the club.

Doug Inkley

Recovering an endangered species is not easy. It takes a long time and a lot of effort. But with appropriate laws and resources we can continue to achieve success.

Jamil Moledina

Recognizing and showcasing individual achievement in the creation of games is a core principle of the GDC. For that reason, we are proud to produce and host the Choice Awards.

David Moskowitz

President Bush's action, although timely, may be ill advised. For the past three years, both the CDC and the WHO have steadfastly ignored our novel anti-viral approach, which has achieved over 80% treatment success in West Nile virus encephalitis and which should be equally effective against avian influenza. If the WHO had put us in touch with clinicians in Southeast Asia treating avian influenza cases as we've asked for the past three winters, we'd already know by now.

Karen Hughes

President Bush is a leader who has very strong convictions and also a tremendous heart. He worked to achieve a solution that recognized the tremendous hopes of those who suffer from terrible illnesses and those who long for a cure, as we all do.

John Wallace

Our reports represents only a small step toward alleviating the public's confusion about global warming, but at least it's a positive one. Our most important achievement is reaching a consensus among a diverse group of experts on an issue that has been hotly contested.

Nayyera Haq

Our policy is when there is a group or individual who is recognized for some award or some achievement, Congressman Salazar feels it's fitting to put a tribute in the Congressional Record .

Bill Richardson

Our policy is, it's better to engage the Chinese than isolate them. We have many differences with the Chinese, ... But we believe that by engaging China, we have achieved results in all these areas.

Dick DeVos

Our parents taught us by example the importance and joy of giving. Our community has taught all of us the value of working together to achieve goals beyond our own needs. We are contributing to more than a building - we're contributing to a caring environment of hope and healing.

James Nesbitt

People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

Ross Prentice

Our study, even though it has yet to yield the dramatic results that we, some might have hoped for, does include some trends toward positive health benefits.

Dr. Prentice

Our study, even though it has yet to yield the dramatic results that some might have hoped for, does include some trends toward positive health benefits.

Harry Holzer

Overall, I see the report in line with the last six months to a year, which I would characterize as steady gradual improvement in the labor market, but it's not a dramatic improvement.

C. S. Lewis

The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

Carl Reiner

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

Betsy Brandt

The drama takes a toll on you.

Antonia Thomas

I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

Spencer Waller

I was a little surprised at the tone. It was stark, dramatic and unequivocal.

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Carrie Coon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

Stephen Sachs

I think it's going to be visually stunning. It's going to be a very unique theater experience,

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Robert Wilson

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I didn't see 'Star Wars' in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.

Jim Zwerg

We were having a celebration for the integration of the movie theaters when we got word of the bus-burning.

Angela Lansbury

The theater is magical and addictive.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Austin Peck

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Vernell Brown

He's got some big ones. If I was a coach, no way I'd have tried that.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.