Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Stofan

I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.

Wayne Evans

The perception of a growing number of our citizens is that the all-white commission is biased and doesn't care.

Peter Chandler

We're still a market that's correcting, that's going to be awfully selective and there's still a bias to the downside.

Michael Shermer

Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.

Nicholas Kristof

We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

Karen Pearl

Women should never be denied legal medications by pharmacists who decide to impose their own personal bias on others. Until Target improves its policy, it will continue to receive a thumbs down from Planned Parenthood.

Kim Gandy

Most studies submitted to the FDA have been conducted by the manufacturers of implants who obviously have a vested interested and whose findings are frequently biased and misleading. We must reform this heavy reliance on industry, which interferes with sound scientific decision-making by the FDA.

Ray Richardson

Len Bias is a tragedy, because he's not around anymore, ... I'm a success.

Mark Geragos

She will talk at the appropriate time in a public forum when there isn't a biased prosecutor like there is right now.

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.

Susan Hill

We have no intention of leaving and we intend to continue to provide the services that we're providing. It won't be easy, but we're staying.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Greg Scott

We want more students to join. We hope those numbers continue to increase.

David Schmidly

We want him to get well, get back on his feet and we will look forward to the time when he will return and continue his contribution to our university.

Ryan Anderson

We wanted to win Metro to continue our legacy. It's keeping the tradition going that was passed on from (former players) Jamal (Crawford), Rod (Stewart), D. Hudson and David King. It's all about passing the torch and keeping it going.

John Hargreaves

We have produced record results...these have been delivered by providing our members with outstanding value for money and through continued store expansion,

Jim Tressel

We've seen him mature and grow into the role, and he is just going to continue to get better and better. He can be a very efficient running back here at Ohio State.

Mark McClellan

We've seen enrollment continue at a steady pace, faster than what we saw before the late December surge.

Ray Allen

We have to focus on the next (few) games before the deadline. Our production is ultimately going to decide what decision we need to or don't need to make.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Darren Pang

The reality is that Wayne doesn't like to start something and not finish. My guess is that he's the kind of guy who will think about things long and hard, and then he'll decide to return.

Charles Stross

The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.

Ann Powell

When I decided to sell it, it was just to get the money to do all the things that I've done,

Rusty Wallace

When I decided to retire, I decided I couldn't stand it if I went out a loser,

Kelly Preston

When I decided to resume acting, I had become Mrs. Travolta in many people's eyes so I had to prove myself all over again.

Estella Warren

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

Alfredo Palacio

The people of Ecuador today have decided to save the republic, a republic of hope, in whose streets and green fields should flower dignity, hope, equality and happiness.

Ibrahim Lipumba

We were also denied a total of 116 results forms from different polling stations in 11 rural constituencies.

Charles E. Wilson

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

Jane Austen

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

Ron Smith

The only information I can give out is that he was denied entry under the Immigration Act.

Charlie Wi

I don't think I denied him. He's such a solid player. Even on the last putt, I thought he was going to make it and that I would go into a playoff. Luckily, it turned out my way.

Scott Reif

No one is going to be denied the medication they need or deserve.

Barbara Castle

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

Karen Barry

There are many people who will be outraged. I will make sure of that. Because it's not fair that I should be singled out. And whether this is denied or not, I do not plan to take down my swing set if I have to pay $100 a day.

Youk Chhang

The government denied the archive's existence all these years. But when they had the chance, they didn't destroy it?

Gordon Campbell

We know from the past that when these solutions are imposed from the outside they have failed,

JR

I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We are not a land of Islam. In our country, we don't wear djellaba clothing, we don't wear a veil, and we don't impose cathedral-sized mosques.

Lynsey Addario

I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.

John Barton

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

Leos Carax

I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.

Leos Carax

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

Daniel Everett

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

Siri Hustvedt

I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.

Travis Bradberry

Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.

Clive Thompson

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.

Bradley Lucier

Any technique that improves the performance of radiologists is helpful, but this also means that mammograms can be taken in remote places that are underserved by the medical community.

Tom Izzo

(Brown) improves his stock if he comes back.

Lori Lucas

If you save just 2% more and retire at 67 instead of 65, it dramatically improves your retirement outlook.

Bob Muglia

That really improves security and reduces management cost.

Richard Li

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

Tom Buffenbarger

How long this strike lasts is anyone's guess. But unless and until the Boeing Co. improves their last offer significantly, the machinists will be pounding the pavement.

Tom Tancredo

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

Stewart Baker

The point is, you can't be sure if you're legal in a lot of areas.

Amber Frey

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

Tom Jackson

What he said to me was that it's the right thing to do. It might be legally gray, but it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

Well, senator, as a legal matter, it is abstract,

George H. W. Bush

legal but taxed and regulated like other goods.

Robert Casey

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Alexei Navalny

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

Nicholas Carbone

Right now it's not a legal town committee.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Charlotte Bronte

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Charles Edison

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles de Lint

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David D. Burns

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Linda Blair

I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.

Sarah Allen

I had planned to adopt. I was single.

Jeffrey Immelt

We've planned for tough this year and we weren't disappointed,

Robert Black

The only way we have been able to do this is because Texas has planned and has drilled for years.

Stacie Temple

We had not planned to grandstand on the issue. We simply planned to do the responsible thing with taxpayers' money.

Chris Soule

It hasn't been the planned season, but it is what it is.

Chuck Wagner

We have a lot of things planned for the evening,

Melaney Arnold

We want to make sure that everything we have planned is in place. This is something we've been working on for a very long time.

Patsy Christie

This is not an open-ended rezoning. It's like a planned unit development for commercial. What's shown on the site plan is all that can go there.

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Dita Von Teese

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Andrew Yaracs

We've become very well-known and through our exposure, we receive a lot of yearly invitations.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Matt Hasselbeck

Miscommunication. Usually, that is a wide receiver running that. I was thinking one thing and Jerramy was thinking another.

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Rock Hudnall

Perquimans is a more solid team than we are. They serve and receive outstanding and do it better than we do.

Harold Williams

I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it turns out one of our dealers say someone like Symes turns out to be a fence?

Alan Rudolph

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Jon Sakoda

Worms that are traditionally targeting MSN will also target the Yahoo users,

Ashleigh Brilliant

To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.

Eileen Claussen

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.

Kevin Appier

I can't see your target because of the sun, so you'll have to tell me where it (the ball) goes.

Joe Cunningham

We probably could play him at first (base); he just wouldn't be a very big target to hit.

Jean Fernandez

I always said that we had a team to target the top five.

Nick Zito

He worked well and is on target for Tampa.

Arthur Baer

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Bruce Schneier

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

Ben Casnocha

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Vidya Balan

Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

Adam Schiff

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians.

Adam Arkin

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

Anne Sexton

Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

Anne Heche

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlotte Bronte

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charles Dudley Warner

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.