Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

Robert Osborne

Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing.

Robert Trout

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

Douglas Adams

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.

John Snow

Lifting the debt burden from the poorest countries in the world brightens their prospects enormously. This is an achievement of historic proportions.

Marshall Carlson

Let me tell you something: Roush getting five cars in, that's a heck of an accomplishment. Good for them. I admire what was done there, and we feel like we can do that, too.

Sathya Baba

Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.

Smiley Blanton

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Elliott Wilson

Nelly knows that if he's going to make a record about grills, he has to get Paul Wall on it, because he's the go-to guy for other rappers. But Nelly was smart enough to realize that nobody had made a song dedicated to this growing phenomenon. They effectively captured it.

Edward Hirsch

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

Hermann Hesse

One can be happy when he finds his dream, but every dream has to be followed by a new one and you can't capture any of them forever.

Jesse Jackson

My experience has been whenever captured soldiers are released, it at least creates a window for dialogue.

Jeffrey Logsdon

Monday Night Football is a television institution, if not a cultural institution, ... It's not unlike '60 Minutes' trying to go to '60 Minutes II.' It never really captured the audience.

Max von Essen

My favorite app is, without a doubt, Instagram. It's such a fun way to share photos and life's captured moments with friends, family and fans.

R. Robinson

I can't have an unidentified car disappearing up the road any more, because it'll be captured on CCTV. After all, it was CCTV that helped police capture the London bombers.

Stu Rodman

One of the keys is whether (the staff) have captured the right alternatives.

Bill Gerber

I was searching for a project that really captured the American spirit,

Kevin Mitnick

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.

Laura Bullock

Let's put it bluntly. If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already.

Michael Atmore

Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.

R. Halloran

Libya has been a fairly easy place for these companies to deal with, and I think they welcome the opportunity to get back and be able to operate there again.

Richard Bernstein

Lower quality companies are dramatically overstating their growth rates by using pro forma earnings.

Mark Greenberg

Lots of companies talk about having a long-term focus. At Liberty, they really do.

Promod Haque

Lot of technology companies in India are hoping for better relationship with the US.

Alan Ackerman

Lots of money has moved to the sidelines, ... People are not comfortable with the uncertainty ahead, made up of the fact that many of the tech companies keep lowering their guidance.

Eric Chaney

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

Mike Holmgren

No one wants a disruptive situation on his roster. There is too much at stake. Without naming names, we've seen too much of it recently. Teams are getting tired of it.

Tim Hunt

I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that, in a lab, people are on a level playing field.

Alan Curbishley

Kevin has had a disruptive time with injuries in recent times, and it will do him a world of good to get a month of first-team football. Hopefully he will come back to us nice and sharp.

Brad Hopkins

He's a disruptive force. But it's one of those things where you go into it knowing. You expect a challenge, and you have to be up for it.

J. Hoover

He was a horrible practice player. He would show up late. He was lazy, and he was a disruptive player for the team.

Jim Hendry

He gets your offense going. He's a catalyst. He's a disruptive guy to the other team.

Eli Harari

We think this will be a disruptive technology, but will enable a whole new world of opportunities in the mobile market.

Jim Tracy

Duffy is an important piece at the top of our lineup. That's an ideal spot for him. When he gets on first base, he can be a very disruptive player as fast as he is.

Becky Johnson

You can come here with a group that is very disruptive and they'll end up being entirely focused.

Mike Watkins

Like any recruit, when we talk to them individually, we explain where they're going to fit in so they understand exactly what it is we expect of them, ... And when I recruit kids, the main thing is if they'll be a good fit to the program, and with these two that was an easy decision.

Stephanie Coontz

Life is filled with trade-offs, and I worry that it's so easy to slip from descriptions of problems to one-size-fits-all prescription,

Rick Hartzell

Mac is more of a laid-back, easygoing guy. Pat is the opposite. He's fiery, and pretty excitable. Where they're similar is that they're great people, good family guys. They have gone back to their alma mater and have really enjoyed being there.

Doug TenNapel

Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny game.

Ariel Sharon

Look, the Jews are not easy people. Maybe that's the reason they managed to exist, I would say, for thousands of years.

Eric Schmidt

Let's face it programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry. We make it easy for them to do both.

Werner Herzog

Many of my films have not been easy work,

Rob Sumner

Scott Jackson's an easy gut to take for granted when things are going good because he does everything well. He logs a lot of ice time and he's such a key part of any of our successes.

Jeff Bagwell

Second guess all you want. I think that's easy to do in that situation, but I think it's a little unfair, too. I feel like I can help the team, I really do. I feel like I'm going to give a good at-bat. I'm a lot stronger now.

Richard Robinson

Mobile are a key revenue-generating service emerging in China.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Monitoring our children's use of emerging technologies is a huge task and the Internet remains the focus of many parent's concerns.

Robert Friedland

Mongolia is the best-kept secret in emerging markets in Asia.

Michael Gomez

More and more investors are comfortable with emerging markets.

Fred Moran

Nextel is focused on the emerging market where wireless penetration is minute and growth potential is still ahead.

Tiesto

I can honestly say that the fans inspire. There's an unexplainable rush that comes when I'm in the middle of a set and the energy from the fans hit me. I also get really inspired through collaborations. I've learned so much from the emerging producers I've worked with just as they've learned from me.

Gautam Adani

Adani Enterprises is well on track to realize its aim of emerging as India's largest private sector energy and logistics conglomerate.

Woody Norris

I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'

Larry Page

Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

Anna Lindh

major step forward toward the integration (of Macedonia) into the European Union.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

Peter Power

No new offers were put on the table by the European side.

Ashton Holmes

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.

Scott Dowell

Now that we're seeing it in a place that straddles Europe and Asia, it's different. It's spread so far geographically.

Matthew Buckland

Negative sentiment is expected to weigh on European equities.

Ivo Daalder

NATO's future is very much at stake. NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

Ivo Daalder

NATO's future is very much at stake, ... NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

Jenny Lewis

When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect. These guys are awesome. This is a farm team.

Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

Erica Mann Jong

Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.

Jason Breiholz

Making it as far as he did was incredible, and getting there and winning one match is incredible with the top 16 in the state.

Mike Levine

Licensees have gone as far as they can go,

Don Mattingly

Looks like he's just starting to tune it up a little bit. Hideki, he's just so solid as far as his work. He never gets out of his program. His work is the same if he's going good or if he's going bad.

Victor Murphy

Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.

Charlie Brown

Last year was a record year for us as far as we can tell.

Kevin Hall

From what I remember about Ronald Reagan, the last thing he would want is for 50 states to expend resources and time generating pretty proclamations that have no practical impact.

Joey Estrella

If we don't score it doesn't matter how much they score. We're not generating and putting any pressure on their defense. If we can't do that, we can't be successful.

Timothy Johnson

If they're able to sell these at a 10% premium, while also squeezing more units into the building, that's generating much more dollars.

Tom Tintor

We are not generating the number of shots we need to get. When you only take 50 shots we are not in good shape we need to take 70.

Dan Daly

What we're really interested in generating is UA intellectual property. It offers a revenue stream from intellectual property.

Kim Weston

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

Jose Dizon

Our generating units are running harder. They're getting older and they require more maintenance.

Alex Miller

I was having a hard time generating power between the shots that I was getting and the wind. I usually play more of a power game. I'm not really a consistency-type player.

Bill Bryson

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.

Deyon Pitter

My generation was taught to go to school, get an education, get a job and live happily ever after. Do you see the problem?

John Updike

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

P. J. O'Rourke

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

Jeremy Paxton

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it.

Lindsey Graham

If being intelligent, brilliant, a superb lawyer, the greatest legal mind of your generation and well qualified is not enough, what is?

Rocco Landesman

one of the most important American playwrights ever. I think his work is going to speak to generation after generation of theatergoers.

Patrick McGowan

We openly talk about wilderness in this administration. We are not scared of the word. We use it openly. And I think the next generation of users is going to come to Maine for wilderness experiences.

Karl Inderfurth

We have lost touch with a generation of Pakistani military leaders.

Vinod Khosla

You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Don Budinger

He's been our consultant, that's public knowledge. People are speculating that he's our prime candidate. Obviously we need a globally competent, experienced leader to navigate the road map. Somebody of his talent obviously would come on to our radar.

Shane Oliver

Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.

Raghuram Rajan

In a globally competitive economy, it is very important you insure the individual, you have a safety net for the individual, because they're at serious risk of losing their job and so on.

Nezette Rydell

In normal times, it would come for a day or two, then move out. For a number of reasons, globally this winter, the pattern has remained static, and this low-pressure system is not moving out.

Leslie Tang

It will start to feel the impact of high interest rates globally and domestically and high oil prices.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

John A. Logan

Legally, ... purchasers of goods over the Internet have always been required to pay sales tax on their purchases, but as a practical matter, many haven't, and this will be seen as a tax increase.

Peter Thompson

I would have thought maybe that's the sort of information we might be hoping to get from people who are actually moving hazardous goods through our jurisdiction. We have some pretty tricky areas, particularly in West Vancouver. You're right in the midst of residential.

Vajira Premawardhana

If they are going to run a higher deficit, then they will have to resort to higher borrowings, pushing up interest rates and fueling inflation. Whenever there's inflation, spending on manufactured goods comes down.

Noreena Hertz

Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

Evan Kohlmann

You have some from poor families, some jobless. You also have individuals that come from wealthy families, that come from a life of privilege and substance and material goods and material wealth.

Bob Evans

When goods are in transit, somebody's got money invested in it. The sooner the delivery, the sooner you get your money for it.

Sally Potter

When goods are down, and you're selling used, you have to price a lot cheaper,

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Ricardo Garcia

We're going to do it a little different. We're going to trade goods for services.

John Benson

Mr Blunkett has also always said he is proud of his working-class background, so we hope that has not been drummed out of him by New Labour and he can find a way of helping working-class people.

Gary Jacobson

One of the ways you do that is by traveling around and helping candidates.

Tom Amstutz

Obviously, there's going to be more than one opinion. It's kind of a controversial situation. But when I look at everything, I think about helping people first. To me, no matter what someone says, it's still worth helping a young man.

Jim Cramer

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Charles Spurgeon

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Dick Van Dyke

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

Dennis Potter

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Larry Fitzgerald

My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Deepak Chopra

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Source Unknown

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

Isabelle Arthur

Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Ted Sarandos

When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Roberto Azevedo

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Douglas McWilliams

Those in the metals markets will have noticed the push into metals and I think we'll see more of that.

Grace Hightower

I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.

Stan Payne

Frankly, I don't know if the uproar is the result of the process, or because of the process by which the acquisition was approved.

Dave Huppert

I have always wanted to stay in the uniform. My thought process every year is to keep it on as long as someone will let me.

Mike Sweeney

I feel the process we're going through is taking too long,

Toby Hall

I'd like to get something done before we go through the process again.

Joseph Zwilling

I don't know when a new archbishop will be named, but I am sure the process is well under way.

Brian Schmidt

The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.

Rogelio Golfarb

We are going to start the process of negotiation now; we need competitive terms from Argentina.

John Felmy

What you've got are a whole series of requirements and processes and that takes days, if not weeks.

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Liem Nguyen

no new product announcements are forthcoming at this time.

Michael Howard

More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.

Karen Burk

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

John Jackson

If they didn't want the product or they didn't have the money, than they should just say (so).

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Drew Rosenhaus

We had a productive meeting. We talked about things important to us, and they talked about things important to them.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

Scott Wilson

You make something from nothing, you want to share it.

Dick Franti

We still had our share of mistakes, but we made our way through it. We didn't let them get us down.

Becky G

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Patrick Stump

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

Fernando Alonso

I need to find new targets because this one is done.

Dave Checketts

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.

Ashley Gronewoller

I would have traded all that for a win in this game.

Barry Zito

Personally, I don't think I'm going to get traded this year,

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Adam Braun

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

Cynda Crawford

We're just going to see this in waves over and over again.

Claude Nicollier

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

Colin Baker

The waves of time wash us all clean.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

Jim Hooper

Eventually, the waves get big enough and the Jell-O fails.

Al Oerter

It was like a tidal wave went through the city.