Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Coburn

We want judges who are well qualified. Ginsburg was confirmed with 96 votes. . . . I would hate to see a double standard,

Reinhard Kurth

Unfortunately it has been confirmed that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Reinhard Kurth

Unfortunately, it has been confirmed that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Jack Straw

very distinguished and experienced internationally. If his appointment is confirmed we look forward to working with him.

James E. Faust

I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed to me hundreds of times. It is the crowning knowledge of my soul. It is the spiritual light of my being. It is the cornerstone of my life.

Ozren Muller

She did not train today because she is not feeling well. The doctor has confirmed that she does not have the flu or a temperature. She is resting.

Doug Macdonald

Legislators and voters confirmed that they are willing to invest in highway improvements to help alleviate traffic bottlenecks and enhance safety.

Kofi Annan

Libya has confirmed its seriousness and readiness to find a solution to the Lockerbie problem,

Norm Coleman

senior Iraqi officials have confirmed that you, in fact, received oil allocations and that the documents that identify you as an allocation recipient are valid.

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Kenneth Branagh

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

Susan Collins

We have a pot of money that is going to have to be spread over a larger population at a time when prices are soaring,

Bob Bertini

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.

Bill Walker

We want to be able to get the same pricing as larger companies.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Lisa Gansky

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charlie Munger

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Charlie Munger

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

Larry Davis

We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Matt Maldre

Tourists who go to outer space should stay out there.

Vincent Piazza

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

Liu Yang

Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.

William Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''

Steve Gross

The trend has long been for spaces to migrate to the outer boroughs. It seems like the tide is turning.

Frank Zappa

On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.

David Quammen

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

Amy Lee

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

Dave Eggers

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.

Bill Gates

The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it.

Erykah Badu

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

Jay Asher

What the hell happened to Pluto?!

Kate Bush

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung,

Robin Williams

Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

Alex Young

We would ultimately like to have a warning system throughout the solar system so we could know when these storms will occur.

Patrick Moore

There's no way that solar panels or windmills can do it themselves.

Donald Yeomans

If you wish to study what the solar system is made of you study comets.

O. Henry

It's going right on out of the solar system.