Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ouida Forsyth

Watching TV is just passive, because they are just sitting there. You are not developing your gross motor skills. ... It is not conducive to oral language development. It is not going to increase your oral language skills.

Charles Clark

on the grounds that his presence is not conducive to the public good.

Sarath Amunugama

I am quite confident that the policy environment is quite conducive for taking our economy towards a six to eight percent growth path with significant reduction in poverty over the next three to five years.

Christina Ricci

Nobody's kissing my ass, unfortunately. I could use a little. But then again, my personality isn't conducive to butt-kissing.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Dave Baseggio

I don't think it was conducive to what we had. We've come a long way since that game.

Douglass North

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

Steve Turner

We would have loved to have him stay. But he was able to get back to his school and be in an environment much more conducive to his comfort.

William Wagner

The patch helps keep the tissue thick and mechanically softer, creating a more conducive environment for healing instead of scar tissue formation.

Alan King

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

David Harris

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

Charles Grassley

The real crime here is the Clinton-Gore record on drugs. He should explain why, during the Clinton-Gore administration, the number of teenagers using drugs nearly doubled.

Mohammed Hussain

We used to have more officers there and crime was really downnow you see no one.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Jennifer Martin

This was not a drug deal. That defendant wanted money. And this was a crime of opportunity.

Eion Bailey

I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Mary Roach

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Edward Norton

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Ben Stein

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

Laurie Colwin

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

Cathy Freeman

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

Bjorn Lomborg

Im no expert on American politics.

Damon Lindelof

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

Carol Sanders

Whenever you're looking at something like this, it's important to get as many experts in the field to help you.

Carol Bellamy

We still have to learn the lesson of the grip poverty has,

Gary Clausen

Joey will be ready to play. He's a tough kid. The hand might be a little tender for a while and it could give him a little trouble when he grips the bat, but it's not broken. And it's not his pitching hand.

Valentino Rossi

We made some modifications in order to improve the acceleration and unfortunately we lost a lot of grip in braking.

Sloane Stephens

I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.

Aaron Small

Mel taught me a new grip on my sinker in spring training, and I've used it all year, ... It has really helped me.

Bill Hancock

It's a huge organization that's trying to get a grip on its own problems.

Joel Davis

The whole thing has taken me by shock. It's hard to get a grip on it. You've just got to hope for a miracle.

Tony Crescenzi

The Treasury market has come to grips with the notion that stocks have recovered,

George Williams

I had a grip on it (the gun). I would not let it go.

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Alan Light

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Alan Kay

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

Charles Stross

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Nicola Sturgeon

The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

Tift Merritt

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

Karl Lagerfeld

There is a softer, romantic tough by some of the prints and by the colors. It's not harsh. Some is body-conscious. Some is completely fluid.

Joan Rankin

It was a joy-of-celebration piece, and the first time I put it out at a show, it sold, ... I never had any prints made.

Miuccia Prada

So there are prints that look kind of geometric, but it's kind of a diamond, computerized tone ... with shades that look like light,

Asif Kapadia

As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.

Florentijn Hofman

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

Kirk Hammett

The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.'

Peter O'Toole

A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.

Bill Engvall

A condom is a rubber thing shaped like a wiener that hums.

Mike Anderson

Don't overestimate your power. This is not a rubber stamp deal.

Tom Cole

The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.

Michael Palin

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

Fred Brown

If I had a rubber band, I would have yanked it back.

Henry David Thoreau

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.