Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

Benjamin Franklin

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Samuel Johnson

Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is

David Schwartz

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Daniel Kammen

Making ethanol from corn is a good thing if you want to offset fossil fuels from overseas. On the greenhouse gas side of things, it is not clear if corn, as grown today, is a good thing. We just don't know yet, but it appears to be a mildly good thing.

Doug Henning

Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.

Harry Reid

Let's find out if he's qualified, both from a perspective of his experience, which appears to be the case, but I don't know about his temperament.

Vernon Keenan

Several of the victims have suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the infant appears to have been strangled,

Steven Aftergood

Secrecy seems to be the default here. It appears the judge wants to discourage media coverage.

Marco Brambilla

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

M. Wolfe

Making the show the first week was good. You always want to get off to a good start. It helps you keep your attention for the rest of the swing.

Imad Moustapha

Let me first thank President Bush for his concern about Lebanon and the fair and free elections that will happen in May, ... Now President Bush can focus his attention on the really terrible occupation of the Palestinian territories and the occupation of Syrian territories and Lebanese territories by Israel.

Anne Menard

Legislation is being brought before the state to bring clarity to this industry, which is growing. We are now a booming industry. Because of grass-roots interest, more and more attention is being put on this industry.

Brian Dawkins

Last year you saw Porter do his thing a little bit. He was the featured guy and he made some big plays for them . . . Though you have to pay attention to Randy because of all the physical attributes he brings to the game, you still have to pay attention to Porter, because the guy can still go up top on you. He is a big guy (6-2, 220) that can run.

Brian Dawkins

Last year you saw Porter do his thing a little bit, ... He was the featured guy and he made some big plays for them . . . Though you have to pay attention to Randy because of all the physical attributes he brings to the game, you still have to pay attention to Porter, because the guy can still go up top on you. He is a big guy (6-2, 220) that can run.

Matt Ryan

Legally, we're not required to respond within any particular time. The governor's doing his best to be fair and give these important decisions the attention they're due.

George Ryan

Legally, we're not required to respond within any particular time, ... The governor's doing his best to be fair and give these important decisions the attention they're due.

Jill Dougherty

Leaders of the opposition said it had been done deliberately to take attention away from their demonstration.

Richard P. Feynman

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

Robert Walpole

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

Robert Walpole

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Ronald Kessler

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

Anthony Hecht

Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be destroyed by Stalin.

Kevin Mulligan

Like Ashley, Eric and Rich can both make it to states if they play like they can at districts..

Dan Hawkins

Life isn't about being fair. It is what it is. Both teams have played mid-week games, we've played at 9 in the morning, Thursdays, Fridays. I don't think the fairness issue plays into it.

Tom Livatino

Liggins and Little are both very, very good players, and they are complemented well by their other guys. We have our work cut out for us.

J. Horton

We're not buying some report that's going to go on the shelf and never be seen again. This is a research and marketing tool we can start using immediately once we get it.

Jill Nelson

We're not buying outright like Plato's. We're doing a 60/40 split.

Scott Holmes

Making habitat restoration part of public works projects is cheaper than eliminating the species and buying mitigation habitat at another location. With the San Pedro Project, for example, habitat restoration cost $3 million, but it would have cost $5-6 million (twice as much) to destroy the habitat and try to recreate it elsewhere.

Susan Ferguson

Latch doesn't always make it a simple click-in operation to install a restraint. Before buying one, parents should be sure to try fitting it in the vehicle they plan to use it in, because not every restraint is going to fit in every vehicle.

Scott Martin

Many householders are guilty of buying new clothes in the sales which will never get worn.

Jeff Cole

Several trends about online buying continue to develop -- especially regarding credit card security -- that could have major effects on the evolution of Internet commerce.

Linda Sherry

Sending people a check is a totally deceptive way to sell a product. If you want to sell a product, send a nice brochure explaining why it's a good deal. You shouldn't have to trick people into buying it.

Carl Tobias

Sensenbrenner has been tough and stuck to his guns on past occasions. Maybe buying time will help.

Jeff Schuster

So far, the perceived gas price increases have not had any discernible impact on new-vehicle buying patterns, as least with regard to the size of the engine.

Martin Pyykkonen

Much of (Target and Wal-Mart's) revenue growth depends on the economy and other factors, just like for Amazon. At what point should it be closer to a retail stock than an Internet stock, and I'd say right now. The catalyst to get it there will be if the revenue continues to decelerate.

David Barnes

More importantly, the removal of regulatory uncertainty provides the much-needed catalyst to close the deep discount to fair values in the sector.

Stephen Greene

Now their performance won't just be evaluated by the government - it'll be reflected in the share price. And there's a feeling that this will be a major catalyst for change.

John DiFucci

If Oracle comes in line with consensus, then that's really an indication that things are better than investors thought. That could be catalyst for the stock so there's a potential for meaningful movement to the upside.

Frank Barkocy

Fundamentals will probably be in line with expectations but that won't be the catalyst to move these stocks,

Elizabeth Dole

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .

Anthony Chan

The primary catalyst in the market remains energy, it continues to rule the day. But then we saw that energy prices started to go up, and that took some of the luster off the gains.

Keri Russell

She's the catalyst to get the whole story going.

Ron Cosner

She's the catalyst for everything right now and the other girls are starting to pick up on that also.

Malcolm McDowell

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.

Alamgir Hashmi

Love necessitates eagerness / To shake / January's cold hand / Not avert the eye / And look what comes / To love / Before its making.

Jessica Lowndes

L.A. style is more laid back than London, mainly because it's always sunny. In London, the cold means you get to rock layers. And you can't go wrong with a trench coat!

Bob McDavitt

So here comes another wet cold southerly for Wellington, similar to the one late last week.

Unknown

May you have warm words on a cold evening, A full moon on a dark night, And the road downhill all the way to your door.

Irish Blessings

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.

Ian Shepherdson

One steep drop in housing starts does not make a downward trend, especially in a month which was very wet in the West and very cold in the Northeast. Still, the data are consistent with other signs of a softening housing market, most notably the drop in homebuilders' confidence. What really matters, though, is whether sales will fall fast enough to turn a softening into a collapse.

Scott Meyers

Obviously, we're rising because of the situation in Nigeria , but it also looks like the coldest period of the year is coming up. We're looking at a 10-day spell of cold weather starting Saturday.

Edward Heath

Ocean racing is like standing under a cold shower tearing up ?5 notes.

Peter Moody

One project on the drawing board, and it may very well be the first thing that we'll be moving, is our diagnostic imaging department.

Jimmy Gambler

Music is a way to express yourself. It's just another way to paint a picture or make a drawing or whatever.

Mary Key

Now she's drawing her picture on her piece of paper.

Eduardo Chillida

I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.

William Cowper

From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up.

Steve Sternberg

NBC is not drawing as many people from other networks the way the Winter Olympics usually does.

Elizabeth Kenny

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

Daren Causey

I have always been interested in drawing as long as I can remember.

Britani Dunbar

I have been drawing since I was very little and I have been playing hockey for five years.

William Massey

If a storm makes landfall within a 200-mile radius, it's probably a good forecast, ... Eight, 10 years ago, that was a 300-mile radius. So they are improving the forecasts drastically.

Steve Fortuna

IDC saw worldwide unit growth in 3Q of roughly 18.3 percent, while Dataquest saw worldwide unit growth around 15.2 percent. Averaging the two together puts it in the mid-to-high 16 percent range, which is roughly in line with our forecast 17 percent for 3Q.

Bee Wilson

In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.

Susan Anthony

The reduced forecast for the handset market is a surprise at this stage of the year...they are pulling back their own sales growth, and I would have thought they wouldn't need to do that until later in the year.

Molly Smith

We're mapping to that forecast ... We're very comfortable with where we are.

Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

Ruthie Reinert

We use the travel spending numbers to forecast for the visitor spending.

RL Brown

To forecast the end of this housing market (boom) you need to forecast when people will stop moving here.

Kurt Barnard

I think the NRF forecast is hopefully optimistic. I don't see a pickup in sales until the pace of layoffs slows down.

Alexandra Paul

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Jill Soloway

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Dieter Zetsche

Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States.

Rob McDonald

Fuel is now our number one cost. We regret having to increase fares but the numbers are stark.

Ben Macklin

Fueled by a poker craze, the growth of broadband, and television coverage, online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream.

Tad Hutcheson

The price of fuel has just gotten out of hand.

Gerald Grinstein

If we had fuel at the price it was three years ago, we would have had probably record operating profits in the first and second quarters of the year. That's how much fuel has impacted Delta.

Micky Arison

Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North American brands, more than compensated for increases in fuel costs.

Ricky Craven

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Craig Venter

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.

Renee Ellmers

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

Susan Ferguson

More rural states tend to have higher fatalities.

Marie Wilson

More women should be running for higher office. This is just a straw poll, but it makes people think about putting a woman in the White House.

Alderman Mokros

Now we are looking at a higher price.

Ed Slott

Now the IRS fees are higher than mine.

Doug Davis

We might be in for a pause after the recent gains. We're waiting to see when rising interest rates have an impact. Higher rates in the U.S. are the key -- if the U.S. falters, the rest of the world will falter, too.

Robert Wilson

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

Jacqueline Novogratz

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Akifumi Uchida

Many market players already think the ECB will raise interest rates in March and then several more times later this year.

Doug Booth

Many times I go to professional venues and it's just the pros playing with very little involvement or interest by the community. I didn't see this here.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Kenji Johjima

Seattle had interest in me first. Out of respect for them, I wanted to sign here.

Kathleen Harrington

so it's in the interest of our success to do this and to label everything appropriately.

Andre Heerden

Modern people are interested in modern media, like DVDs.

David Engelthaler

We don't know what the likelihood of that occurring is.

Brent Cobb

We are integrating landline and mobile minutes. The likelihood of going over is minimal.

Mike Moran

I think the likelihood is that she will weather the storm on this,

Matthew Harrigan

This was broadly expected, to say the least, ... There's very little likelihood that you can tweak this to get it to work.

Christopher Dixon

There is a 60-percent likelihood of this scenario.

Alex Izykowski

There's so many variables in our sport. We try to minimize the likelihood of something going wrong.

Steve Spurrier

In all likelihood he probably won't play for us anymore. We'll wait for the investigation to come out.

Robert Gossett

If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood of a payday is slim to none.

Dave Curry

It was an unfortunate incident, but we feel safe. It's a village of 5000 people and, when you get 5000 people, there's a likelihood of a whole range of things happening.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Ted Sarandos

When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Roberto Azevedo

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Douglas McWilliams

Those in the metals markets will have noticed the push into metals and I think we'll see more of that.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

Kit Hale

Sellers may not be able to move quite as quickly with the transaction, but prices still remain solid.

William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

Richard Rosenbaum

move on to the next stage of his life.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Tom Bradley

Obviously, we're going to have to move some personnel around and make some adjustments.

Walt Kuver

Of course, the commissioners need to be reassured that this move will be risk-free for the county.

Anita Allen

I can't release that information. We can't give out anything about salaries or bonuses.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Bill Hayden

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

Bruce Springsteen

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Jim Calhoun

I thought at first when he released it, it was going to be good, but it wasn't.

Alexandra Paul

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

Eleanor Porter

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.

Derek Bailey

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Dick Van Dyke

We should never judge a day by its weather.

Alexander Pushkin

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Alexander Smith

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.

Charles Dickens

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

Charles Spurgeon

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Chris Cleave

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

David Suzuki

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

Catherine Bell

I love cold, rainy weather.

Carole Lombard

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Dave Mattson

If they keep this up for years they are going to completely wipe out winter tourism.

Alexander Smith

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.