Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Whiting

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

Deborah Moggach

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.

John Winder

There are avoidance measures you can take, ... If you know you're sensitive to a trigger, like dust mites, cigarette smoke or animals, you can use medication, or if someone is highly allergic, he or she might consider desensitization therapy.

Michael Rich

Just as pediatricians have included health risk avoidance using nonmedical tools such as bicycle helmets and seat belts, media effects need to be included as part of the health maintenance visit.

Robert Wood

Our research shows that for some children, however, lifelong avoidance of these nuts, found in countless food products, may not be necessary.

Jill Robinson

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.

Richard Axel

The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.

David Briggs

We'll see an avoidance of major pharma, maybe with a move toward medical technology and biotech.

Jeffrey Lipton

This is a blood avoidance program, it's not a blood elimination program. We will use blood to save somebody's life.

Lynn Margulis

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

James Paulsen

There is no message out there that rates are biting enough to shut anything down.

Malaika Arora Khan

Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.

Italo Calvino

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Scott Walker

Frankly we're a little concerned here about the popularity of the interest-only and no or low down payment loans. Everyone's situation is different, and they may be a good fit for some. But these kinds of loans can, I think, lead to people biting off more than they can chew.

Michael Owen

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.

Greg Jenkins

We were running short routes all night and we saw their corners biting up,

David Hanson

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

Virginia Postrel

Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician.

Tim Loomis

We wanted to wait until the second half to do what we needed to do to stop him.

Josh Beckett

We've still got little more than half a month to go, probably three-quarters of a month actually. We've got to keep winning. This thing ain't over yet.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Jason Hafner

When you get to state, half of the kids will swim slower than they did at districts, half are going to go faster. It doesn't mean a whole lot what you see on paper.

Bruce Morrow

We used to turn up on the day of the match, meet for half an hour and then go and play,

Tom Hopper

London's so busy, London's manic half the time.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Eugene Fama

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.

Jane Austen

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Joe Mauer

She was with her mom, and they were joking around.

Peter Banko

The patient rested well last night and was joking with staff this morning.

Ray Liotta

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.

Sam Endicott

We were joking that they're perforated. They come out of a dispenser.

Billy Godwin

I was joking with (Gary Overton) a while ago that maybe we'll just skip Sunday and just play on Monday.

Vernell Crittendon

He was laughing and joking with loved ones over the telephone.

Melvin Mora

He looked like he was 22. I'm telling you, he wasn't joking around.

Ian Henderson

Well at first I thought playing around just joking around then I was just in shock.

Lamar Butler

I think I was joking when I said that. For it to come true, it shows you never to stop dreaming, no matter how old you are. This shows you anything can happen.

Eduardo Galeano

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

Joe Rowe

The natives are getting restless. It's a tense situation.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Jimmy Cliff

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

S. E. Hinton

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Make her laugh, make her laugh, make her laugh. After all, the strongest relationships are the ones in which you can laugh with your partner through anything.

Jason Kilar

The one thing that's important to know is Hulu's not looking for traffic to be sent to hulu.com from its relationships with Yahoo and Fancast and MSN.

Jay-Z

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Jane Birkin

I can't be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about.

Bill Maris

When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.

Andie MacDowell

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

Charles Spurgeon

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Dave Barry

The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.

Janet Frame

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Edna O'Brien

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Carl Sandburg

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

Stephen Jay Gould

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

Cecil Beaton

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

Antonia Thomas

Id love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

Akbar Rafsanjani

Why try to untie a knot with your teeth if you can do it with your hands?