Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Stewart

We have scheduled a mediation session with the firefighter union and its representative for Friday, March 3. It is in the interest of the city and the union to settle the contract to avoid the time and cost of Act 312 Arbitration.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire, and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Stuart Rothenberg

The problem with the big issues, Social Security reform, campaign finance reform, fundamental tax reform, is that they are so politically dangerous that I think both sides want to avoid them.

Therese Fowler

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

A. S. Byatt

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

Thomas Pogge

Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.

Tim Bray

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.

Tim Russert

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

Shelly Flood

We want people to know they can drop off their old computers with us for free, rather than just throw them away. We take anything and everything.

Warren Spector

The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.

Source Unknown

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

Ken Dunham

The reality is that there could have been hundreds of thousands of computers with overwritten files today. Instead, we only have a handful of reports, and that is a hands-down victory for the collaborative effort of the security community.

Thomas Bangalter

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

Aaron Swartz

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Ricky Gervais

Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer.

Tawni O'Dell

My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.

Tim Berners-Lee

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

Noshir Kaka

The reality is that this shortfall can be fairly easily met by industry.

Jason Schultz

The reality is that this isn't going to stop any kind of so-called piracy. All this technology does is inhibit you from making the same kind of personal, fair-use music you've always made. The real pirates are going to easily circumvent this technology. The bootleggers won't even blink.

Jason Schultz

The reality is that this isn't going to stop any kind of so-called piracy, ... All this technology does is inhibit you from making the same kind of personal, fair-use music you've always made. The real pirates are going to easily circumvent this technology. The bootleggers won't even blink.

Chris Rupkey

There is considerable momentum here that will not be easily slowed. This economy is strong, and it is likely to surprise on the upside.

Daniel Goleman

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

Karen Joy Fowler

If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

Lupita Nyong'o

I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We can easily get our lives out of balance.

Lester B. Pearson

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Bo Ryan

We have played three straight NCAA Tournament teams in fairly hostile environments.

Pansy Tlakula

The process has been fairly smooth with only minor hiccups.

Robert Garrison

We did fairly well considering we've only had most of the girls for about a week and the Texas schools were in their third or fourth meet.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Gunter Grass

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Tom Davis

We're still in discussions with some of the other sports. Hockey, in our judgment, has a fairly weak system.

John Anania

We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.

Dr. Crofford

We've got everything. We have in a fairly manageable size a number of microenvironments.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Charles Caleb Colton

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Bryan Adams

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Ellen Gilchrist

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

Alan Paton

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Charles Baudelaire

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

Austin O'Malley

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.

Bertrand Piccard

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Diane Ackerman

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

B. C. Forbes

To make headway, improve your head.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Bill Walton

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

Tom White

Just try everything and find something you like. Success comes from enjoyment. No one's going to do something lifelong that they hate. It has to be something you personally enjoy. As long as you like it, you are going to stick with it.

Charles Kennedy

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Andrew Kreisberg

I'm a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan. Like, Peter Davison/Colin Baker, lifelong fan.

Bob Greenly

And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship.

Eli Broad

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Melissa Marr

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

Steve Truglia

I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.

Sarah Hughes

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.

Michael Perkins

She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too.

Bradley Cooper

Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

Junichiro Koizumi

My first priority will be postal system reform,

Alex Rodriguez

Tonight we posted another win. Now they know where we're at.

Giles Foden

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Des Browne

I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

Bernie Sanders

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

Brooke Svendsen

We planted a post back to stop those quick attacks.

Alan Sillitoe

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

Chief Seattle

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

Ashleigh Brilliant

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

Scott Adsit

Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create.

Bryant H. McGill

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Ridley Scott

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

Jerry Nelson

We're too old to rely on it, ... but we're just young enough to do it one more time.

Nicole Sullivan

My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings.

Dave Barry

I can snap your spine like a toothpick.

Eric Hinske

I couldn't see the spin of the ball.

Adam Gopnik

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

Conor Oberst

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

Alice Cooper

There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

Amanda Peet

Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

Jason Reitman

This is a movie more about spin and talk and lobbying than it is about cigarettes.

Kathy Duva

This isn't a 'Let's take him out for a spin and see how he is' fight.

Arndt Ellinghorst

After all these years of suffering, why spin it off?

David Sedaris

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.

Daniel Handler

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Billy Collins

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Charles Bukowski

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

Charles Bukowski

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

Charles Bukowski

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Barry Lopez

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alfred Hershey

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

James Rayner

We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.

Andrew Mason

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

David Quammen

The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

Edmund Burke

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Craig Kilborn

Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?

Elizabeth Taylor

John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.

Apolo Ohno

I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

Aimee Bender

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

David Henry Hwang

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

Aristotle

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold