Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Erin Sullivan

We want to secure our spot in the conference tournament.

Kevin Decker

We want to redeem ourselves after losing to Greenwich. We're ready to start the season and continue the streak. We want to make it 29 in a row.

Hans Tietmeyer

We want to reach an overall concept in the foreseeable future,

Todd Wuerger

We want to qualify as many guys for state as we can. If we can do that, I'm confident that we can hold our taper for another week.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

Duleep Mendis

We have to give the players back the confidence because we are approaching the World Cup (in early 2007).

Jim Tufts

We have to get our confidence up and used to the puck.

Chad Ambuehl

We have to get better every day. If we can do that, if we can keep winning games and keep gaining confidence in ourselves, we could win a regional. That's been the goal since day one, and nothing has changed.

Al Pacino

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

John Payne

The post office is able to measure at least $200 million in mail fraud per year. Anything they can do to prevent that only helps them.

Bruce Springsteen

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

Bernard Ebbers

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud

Tim Potts

What a fraud this whole thing was. A procedural fraud.

Kevin Wilson

Ms Doherty might have had her heart in the right place for the people of her community, but it is fraud to falsify school roll returns.

Tony Dixon

Unless there is negligence or fraud there must be some sort of limitation of liabilities, such as a multiple of fees earned.

John Cape

We're looking at Medicaid fraud like we're a major company.

Benjamin Cardozo

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Star Trek

word got out on the internet that Trip was not dead, but what can you do?

Bill Gates

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

Bill Gates

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

Azealia Banks

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

Madeleine Albright

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Chaske Spencer

I stay off the Internet.

Ai Weiwei

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

Carol Moseley Braun

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

Rob Johnson

We have to go by what the law is and when you're 19, you have to go.

Agnes Repplier

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

Aasif Mandvi

America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

James Goss

They had talked about that possibility. Between publishing and broadcasting and interactive, that provides them with enough to do.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

Brent Scowcroft

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Olympia Snowe

We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus,

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

Dominique Wilkins

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Brian Tracy

The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.

Brian Kernighan

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

Charles Edwards

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Bill Gates

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Bill Gates

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Carole Bouquet

Wine is connected to abundance.

Carole Bouquet

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.

C. S. Lewis

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Charles Dickens

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Brian Eno

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

Brandi Carlile

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.