Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Charles Dickens

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Charles Dickens

In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.

Charles Stanley

I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.

Charles Spurgeon

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Charles Spurgeon

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Alan Watts

Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

Alan Watts

The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

Dan Hendricks

The only edge I know is I've been around turns twice and he hasn't.

Lily Koppel

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

John Fitzgerald

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

DeMarcus Nelson

We have to get better. We have to establish that edge and fire in each and every one of us. People put out there that we're invincible and each loss out there kind of hits us over our head.

Charlie Munger

It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.

Cedrick Wilson

We're just on the edge of exploding. We're leaving a lot of plays out there on the football field, a lot of them, and, if we make those plays, you'll be talking about how we're overachieving right now. We're just one play away from opening this thing up, and I hope that it happens.

Ralph Johnson

(Manhattan) is on the edge of very explosive growth.

Stefan Hell

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Roger Simon

So far the hunters have taken 3,000 to 4,000 seals. That's not ridiculously slow, but it's not fast either. It's the lower edge of the norm.

Peter Beattie

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

Adam Clarke

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

Joe Aquilante

With a multi-car team like ours, we have different people working on stuff. It?s a continuing, ongoing process. We keep working on the cars, trying to extract speed.

Brent Mitchell

Patrick is trying to extract as much as possible out of Toll.

Chris Cooper

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone

Louis Honore

We are losing turnover of about $1.3 million per day ... So you have to multiply that by 17 or 18 days.

Chad Hitchen

We started off by losing a tough one at 103 and we rebounded well with Javier and Mariano (Portillo) having big wins.

Logan P. Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul

Holly Holm

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

Eliza Dushku

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

Howard Schultz

We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money).

Vini Dawson

Yeah, I remember us losing a 16-point lead.

Lindsay Whorton

Whether we're on a three-game winning or losing streak, you can understand that that's not everything.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Peter Diamandis

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Don Brownlee

But the study of these materials will go on for decades.

Alexandra Stoddard

If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Jim Adams

We're already working on getting prices on materials for the building.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Bob Lutz

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Richard Thomas

We're manning up production as much as we can, ... We can only produce so many.

Max Bukovac

We're going to produce some runs, and I would be surprised if we didn't.

Jim Thomas

With nanotechnology, you can produce steel that's 100 times stronger but six times lighter.

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Theaster Gates

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

Benjamin Graham

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Fred Goss

We're not trying to be blue. But we're pretty frank, we're pretty raw and we're pretty real.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.

Albert Einstein

Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

Jonas Jennings

He reminded me of myself in college; just raw, raw talent,

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach. He's a raw talent.

Rick Hohenthaner

I always thought she was one of those raw talents that when she would get a stage to be on would shine. ... I know without a doubt, softball's her life.

O.J. Mayo

That could be right. (Kansas State) could be a possibility. At the same time, we don't want to go to a raw program.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Carl Hiaasen

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Noel Redding

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Bo Bice

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Blake Shelton

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

Bill Parcells

You are what your record says you are.

Beyonce Knowles

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Alan Watts

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Alan Watts

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

Alan Mulally

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles.

Alan Parker

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

Alan Perlis

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Alan Perlis

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

Alan Perlis

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Alan Moore

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Alan Moore

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

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.

Aerin Lauder

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

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

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.

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.'

Jon Johansen

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

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.