Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Morris

We have seen an absolute explosion in the number of hybrids out there since about 2004.

Ron Anderson

We have to fly legal, which is 1,000 feet over populated areas, and we cruise a little over 100 mph. Kids who have been in commercial flights say that this is so different because you can see the cars and people and cows below. It absolutely amazes them.

James Rubin

We have no illusions about China's desire to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses by many different means. It is absolutely not true that we downplayed any evidence of this. We took the issue seriously, as our actions demonstrate.

Richard Blumenthal

We have no idea what the legal basis is for these claims, ... There seems to be no legal or factual basis for these claims since the state has played absolutely no role in this internal church dispute. ? We really, essentially, have no idea what they mean by this claim.

Gerhard Schroeder

What the prime minister has said about the close, personal relationship which I have with this country is absolutely correct. That has always been the case and will always remain the case.

Susanna Kearsley

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

Karen Allen

We have backed off the big push to get computers in primary grades, ... We do have things where kids use technology before they leave fifth grade. But previous studies of the introduction of technology at other schools haven't shown a huge value in learning as a result. When we put something in the classroom, it absolutely has to further what kids need to know. I just don't want to go off in a tangent in one direction without being completely clear that it will pay off for all the kids.

Alan Edmondson

We've shown we can play with anyone on any given day. I think we deserve the No. 3 or 4 seed, and the sixth seed at the absolute worst.

Jim Puckett

We have had absolutely no discussions about it. All that I and the public have seen was the preliminary presentation. This continues to be public money, and we should have the opportunity to be involved with making decisions.

Russ Jewett

When it turned into a quad, I wanted to do something different. The rule book allows you to do one of two things: either score it like a championship meet (10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1) or this alternate method, this (wasn't) a championship meet.

Jeff Greenfield

In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.

Anne Bishop

'The Others' books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the dominant predators throughout the world's history, and humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain. But humans are clever and resilient, if not always wise, and have made some bargains with the Others in order to survive.

Dave Wannstedt

We've got a really outstanding group of linebackers. So, we're going to rotate those guys around a bit more. Blades will be the only one that doesn't really move, but we're going to alternate some guys. We have to try to get them all on the field as much as possible.

Rally Caparas

Whenever possible, travelers should use alternate airports, which typically experience shorter and fewer delays.

David Shaw

We're finally at a point where some of the alternate energy sources that are more environmentally friendly are worth taking a look at. We're interested in cleaning up the environment at the same time as we make money for investors.

Meg Mallon

I was first alternate in Hawaii, and I flew all the way out there because they said, oh, the first alternate always gets in. Flew all the way out to Hawaii. Didn't get in. Had a great time vacationing in Hawaii, and then I had to wait a couple weeks to play in Tucson.

Leonard Orr

My goal really was to build what I called one-year seminars, which were spiritual communities that lasted for at least a year. It was really an alternate spiritual family, because the one-year seminars produced lasting friendships that were more intimate than blood ties. The one-year seminar idea is really the most powerful thing that I created.

Helena Carter

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts, ... They can fight it out between them. Lady T and Corpse Bride will maybe do alternate parts, and I'll just do the voices.

Carol Vorderman

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

C. S. Lewis

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Agnes Varda

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

Aaron Staton

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

Alan King

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

Charlotte Bronte

My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.

Charles Dickens

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Charles Spurgeon

We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it.

Robert Bucksbaum

Phantom Menace, ... disprove the theory that a Memorial Day release is the save-all of the industry.

Alberto Fujimori

One by one I will disprove the accusations, and I will restore my innocence and my honor,

Christopher Monckton

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

David Gross

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

Stephen Kinzer

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

Fred Lewis

We will let our software do the talking for us. I'm not out to prove or disprove anything.

Greg Graham

We have nothing to disprove that, ... So he says he lives in the city, he lives in the city.

Jacob Frenkel

What it means is they have locked down a key cooperator who can, at a minimum, disprove what has been a publicly articulated key element of her defense, that being the stop-loss order,

David Chang

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.

Charles de Gaulle

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

David Deutsch

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

Louie Schwartzberg

I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.

Eckhart Tolle

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

Charlie Miller

This project is part of a series of projects we laid out in 1999. The timing isn't anything more than the natural evolution of the growth in the community.

Charles Sanders Peirce

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Dennis Prager

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Deepak Chopra

An endangered planet may depend on the evolution of consciousness.

Stephane Simean

We're following the evolution of tennis in general a little bit.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Justin Murphy

We have pursued her with that and given her more and more time to come up to code.

Tom Penders

We've shown a lot of resiliency. I've been real happy with this team because we haven't given up on the season.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Shaun Sipos

That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine.

Troian Bellisario

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

Tony Hawk

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Brian Dawkins

Respect is not given, it is earned.

Tom Daschle

very curious, given this has been under way now for this long.

Stephen Bailey

This provides a second option for our students.

Buck Showalter

We're still talking about what we should do at this point, but I can tell you every possible option has been considered. We've talked about using a four-man rotation. I wouldn't rule out anything.

Dana Stabenow

I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

Nicholas Kristof

Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?

Jerry Brown

She can be the reserve option for California,

Jim Balsillie

Settlement has never been an option to date.

Richard Lobb

So far, we've not seen any impact, but we're reviewing our options to see what we need to do to keep it that way.

Joe Tiller

Right now, I'd say the option is going to be part of our offense.

Frans Houten

There are various M&A options we will explore.

Agnes Smedley

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

Jamie Cullum

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

Randi Miller

We're still going to be a politically independent paper. We're still going to be the paper for Boulder's young adults and serve that readership with our reporting and advertising.

Bertrand Russell

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Charlie Munger

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Drew Brees

There are a lot of reasons to be motivated.

Scott Bullock

There are many reasons to support an alternative site,

Charlotte Bronte

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.

Byron Katie

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

Jandy Nelson

There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid because sometimes in the pitch of night they'd lie on their backs in the middle of the path and look up until the stars came back and when they did, they'd reach their arms up to touch them and did.

Jane Austen

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Jane Austen

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

Jane Austen

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply...

Janet Jackson

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

David Lange

Death is very, very terminal.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

Cheryl Strayed

You get to define the terms of your life.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Joe Lhota

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

Billy Bob Thornton

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.