Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

David Booker

We knew they were going to sag on me, so coach (Brain) Brooks told our guards to hit some shots.

Don Cooper

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

David Brooks

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

David Allen

Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

David H. Murdock

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

Dave Barry

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

David Suzuki

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Buffalo Bill

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

David Booker

We knew they were going to sag on me, so coach (Brain) Brooks told our guards to hit some shots.

Ato Boldon

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.

Terence

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head

Kevin Rose

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Brian Billick

So I hear they call you 'The Freak?' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

Wendie Malick

She (Nina) really is the queen of non sequiturs ... There are a lot of missing links in this woman's brain,

George Leonard

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

Alan Moore

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

Cassandra Peterson

I always say there are no coincidences.

Bill Hybels

It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

Elie Wiesel

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Doris Williams

She has been a voice in the community for equality. I think her legacy coincides with her husband's. Since his passing, she has worked toward implementing the dream - she wanted to keep his dream alive.

Atticus Ross

My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young. He's a guitar player and does programming as well. To have the working and personal relationship coincide has been very natural.

Ashton Kutcher

You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.

Mike McCready

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them." ()

Jose Gasset

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Jerry Garcia

Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills

Russian Proverb

There is no proverb without a grain of truth

Ken Beck

Land is a commodity, just like grain or anything else. And the time may come when they might want to 1031 their way out of here, too.

Gillian Jacobs

I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.

Edward Livingston

I think you have to take these numbers with a grain of salt, ... What this all means is really very hard to determine.

Jeff Flake

We've got to take some of these definitions with a huge grain of salt.

Phil Funkenbusch

There is a grain of truth to every character, but it's overboard, which I really love.

Gregg Laskoski

We need to take it with a grain of salt when it comes to speculation of what may happen in the future.

James Heath

We can potentially get the computational power of 100 workstations on the size of a grain of sand. We'll do it in steps; I'm hopeful that we can do it in about a decade.

Author unknown

I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila.

Gitte Lindgaard

Unless the first impression is favorable, visitors will be out of your site before they even know that you might be offering more than your competitors.

Kim Fields

Lord knows I'm not the poster child for eating right and exercising, so I don't want to give that impression at all! This is the same person who people have watched have a weight problem in her teens, so come on!

Sam Schmidt

Mr. el Hage didn't leave an impression when it took a year to talk about him to the government.

Chai Vang

I can't read people's minds, but my impression is that I feel pressure toward the Hmong,

Cecilia Bartoli

Just to have the impression that this comes naturally is just one way from the diaphragm I mean, until up to the throat and then outside... .and then you have to do this with every note.

Edward Walker

What we do on the show and real life are different, ... On the show we try to give the impression of what the room should be or could be.

Gerhard Schroeder

I even have the impression that we will be positively surprised.

Lindy Urso

I get the impression all of the defendants would like to work out a disposition prior to trial, but only a reasonable disposition.

Adam Eaton

I think they were surprised to see me go back out there. I was under the impression I was going three innings the whole time.

Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Charles Tupper

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Sgt. Devine

She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.

Bobbi Koppel

We're able to provide a lot of opportunity. These are the things that students see the most.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Al Jarreau

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Dick Wilcox

When we did shoot it, we shot it well. We got a lot of second shots.

Bob Harper

I don't want anyone to ever put himself or herself in a box of, "I lost my second chance!" Because life brings you ebbs and flows, and if you miss out on this second chance, guess what, you're going to get another one if you decide that you're ready to have one.

Charlton Heston

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Todd Campbell

It's one of those smells you can't describe,

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Rob Babcock

We can't get him unless he suddenly turns into a minimum-salary guy,

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Edward Fitzgerald

To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

Elie Wiesel

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Edward Abbey

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Derrick Brooks

I would give up one thousand yards to get a win.

Andreas Gursky

A word is worth a thousand images.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.