Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael King

The point I've always made is that I'm writing for a general audience, rather than just for an audience of academics or fellow historians.

Renaldo Balkman

Until a final decision is made, I will concentrate on my academics and improving my basketball skills.

Leonor Varela

What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.

Nic Pizzolatto

I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.

Tanya Chaplin

She's living the life that's kind of honoring her mother right now and doing that in every area that she can, from academics to gymnastics to her relationships. It's also helped this team understand and value their relationships that they have between each other and their own family members.

Amanda Gonsalves

We have an understanding with our parents - schoolwork can't slack. Academics are definitely something we pride ourselves on. We'd be upset if we didn't do well.

Andrew Joudrey

When I visited Wisconsin, I fell in love with the place. I liked the academics and the fact it had Big Ten sports. So I called Maine because I didn't want them to waste their money on me.

George M. Whitesides

We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.

Tucker Max

You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity.

Tim O'Reilly

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

John Hall

We applied in response to a request put out by FEMA for two-man teams to help on the Gulf Coast. At this point we don't know where we will be assigned, but we know it's going to be in the Gulf Coast region somewhere,

H. Hunt

We applied for food stamps and we've gotten it. We have no money.

Chris Horner

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

Luc Montagnier

We believe that these treatments are not sufficient and are also too expensive to be applied to many people in the developing world.

James Buchanan

We spent some time at practice finishing. We tried some new things and setups and the boys went out and applied it. We're still not quite there, but we're getting the opportunities now.

Irish Sayings

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

Kent Beck

I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.

Deborah Dowdell

Three's a lot of economic impact that would be unfairly applied to other eating and drinking establishments beyond casinos if indeed it goes into effect on April 15. In anticipation of the jolt the industry would experience, we want to make sure nobody goes through any particular hardship from April 15 on. That's really the motivation.

Tom Burnett

We want to see our coaches move on to head coaching positions at a higher level.

Chip Kelly

Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

Ron Hassey

The other thing you have to remember is that we have a lot of new coaching staff this year.

Florentino Perez

The person who coaches Real Madrid needs to be disciplined, rigorous and professional.

David Pisarcik

The perfect record is awesome, but it's not really that important. I'm looking past that. I want to go to the state tournament and get some hardware. My coach (Don Cooley) has really helped me out. I think he deserves some recognition.

Dave Telep

Until a coach is hired, I don't think there's really anything those guys can do or would do. The new coach will have to decide if the recruit is the type of player that they want, and the player will have to decide if they want to play for the new coach.

Robert Whitney

We are pretty much on the same page on everything, ... She coaches third, I coach first, and we have been in the same programs since we were little and have had the same coaches. We know how important it is for the girls to have good coaches and a good experience, and we are making sure they get both.

Derek Thomas

We've already talked about it. And a lot of other coaches have noticed it as well. There's nothing we could do about now.

Todd Tate

We started pressing in the second quarter and it forced some turnovers. Their coach made some good adjustments after halftime, which slowed the game down. There was no flow to the game.

Kyle Smith

We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one.

Bonnie Henrickson

We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.

Michael Teller

We started getting passive in the fourth quarter. We didn't take some of the shots we normally take.

Scott Hand

We have seen a downturn in nickel prices during the third quarter and into the fourth quarter,

John Imlah

We wanted to win the last three games to stay in pace with Dayton. They got third place locked up. We have fourth place pretty well locked up.

Matt Leinart

Whether we're leading at halftime, leading at the fourth quarter or, like Notre Dame, waiting all the way until there are three seconds left, we never have any doubt.

Luol Deng

When we went up, we couldn't stay up. We started making silly mistakes and let them back in the game. We struggled making shots in the fourth quarter and when they got the lead, they didn't look back.

Dan Bollinger

When we had the lead in the fourth quarter I thought we rushed our shots. Nothing good can come out when you rush. We also were 6-of-19 from the free throw line.

Bill Bakamus

Usually in the fourth quarter, we ice the game from the free-throw line. Not tonight. Those things happen.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

Kelly Green

We are always playing for something. We told our guys that we need to get better and that's what we did.

Jon Clark

We started out with a lot of expectations and we didn't meet some of those. The guys will always remember the last stand and will be proud of it.

Jason Treutelaar

We struggled to score and that has been the issue for this team the whole season. We need guys to step up and knock down shots. When we get good, open looks, we need to make the shots, and we're not doing that right now.

Lute Olson

There are some guys you have to kick in the butt to get the response you want. There are some you need to pat on the back. He's one you need to pat on the back.

Joe Becerra

There are some guys here who could play in the NBA.

Edward Atorino

There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers.

Gary Player

When you've got two guys 1-up with two to play, you automatically think, 'we've got it', especially after they'd battled their hearts out to get back in those matches.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

Tony Agnone

We feel at this point that John isn't going to be back in New York.

John Hughes

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

Les Claypool

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

Howard Pickard

There are other John Deere clubs. But they didn't want other colors. So we started something everyone can join.

Ken Duberstein

There are only two United States senators who have a truly national constituency. One's name is Ted Kennedy and one's name is John McCain,

Johnny Vegas

People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'

Paul Gibson

Like him or not, John Parks has prevailed at every turn.

Stanley Collender

Lyndon Johnson in his prime would have trouble getting it through.

Brian Dawkins

We stopped the run, we stopped the pass, we kept people out of the end zone, ... but yet we still get looked down upon.

Bobby Bowden

When you've got a young inexperienced quarterback, the first thing you think of is 'Son don't lose the game,' ... He didn't lose the game. He kept us from losing.

Hugh Fountain

We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.

Paul Friel

We were told we would be kept up on the time. If we don't have a scoreboard, we shouldn't play at that field.

Christine Baranski

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

H. Hunt

We knew what we had to do and we just kept going after them. I think we really wore them down and later on we were picking up big yards on runs.

Carmelo Anthony

We knew they were going to make a run, we weren't going to be able to keep a (big) lead on them. They made a run, they made a big run in the third, but we kept our composure.

E. O. Wilson

We knew they were going to make a run. We knew they were going to get hot, but we kept our composure.

Mike Myers

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

Chick Corea

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

Buddy Valastro

Everybody likes pizza! It's a quick and easy clean-up meal

Martin Jacques

No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.

Charles M. Schulz

I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!" "So what else is new?

Benjamin Franklin

He that best understands the world, least likes it

Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes compliment.

Mallory Ortberg

Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

Bret Easton Ellis

No one ever likes the right person.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Bill Porter

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

Alan Perlis

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

David Kay

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.

David Deutsch

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

David Deutsch

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

Sandy Williams

We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.

Nathan Myhrvold

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

Derek Bok

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

Charles Evers

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

Josh Matthews

We've been able to turn the program around and we're an (Jayhawk East) power. That's just because of the support that we've received.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Fred Jones

We're trying to keep it in smaller modules.

Billy Beane

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Ron Taylor

You're crowding a smaller and smaller stock into a smaller and smaller habitat.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Daniel Craig

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

Marc Galanter

The smaller the jury, the more variance you get just from the play of the numbers.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Jack Toney

Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.

Harry Triguboff

We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Alain Resnais

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

Carl Karcher

The harder you work, the luckier you become.

Eddie Guerrero

To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

Denis Waitley

A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

Earl Campbell

If it weren't for the dark days, we wouldn't know what it is to walk in the light.

Bobby Heenan

Just look at the way he hangs in mid air!

Bobby Heenan

Once you wrestke Rikki Atakki, an hour later you want to wrestle him again.

Bobby Heenan

When's the last time you went into a barber shop and saw everyone there unconsious?

Bobby Heenan

You don't have to yell at me Schiavone. I'm not blind!

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.