Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

Charles Dickens

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

Charles Dickens

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Alan Watts

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

Alan Watts

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Alan Watts

"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."

Alan Rickman

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Brent Trout

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

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 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.

Carole King

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

Bryan Davis

Too much information will make your brain choke.

Bryan Procter

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

Catherynne M. Valente

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

Mekhi Phifer

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

Atharva Veda

Maintaining cordial relationship with friends help us in improving upon our own capabilities.

Lyall Watson

Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.

Virginia Postrel

I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life.

Trent Nelson

Plus we're not going to have that same unity we had in high school. Now it's just Cord and Patch and Trent and Louie-and Jeremy's off on his own. It's tough but we need to make those friendships again, that's the only way to win.

Akiva Schaffer

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

Kenneth Brown

Because of where the discs rupture in these little dogs and because of the length of the spinal cord in dogs, they tend to put direct pressure either on the spinal cord in the back or the neck. They're not just painful nerve pressures, they're actually paralyzing injuries.

John Short

Maybe a bungee cord or something from his car.

William Hearst

I don't have the umbilical cord Pop had with each paper.

Alan Watts

Cows scream louder than carrots.

Rig Veda

The one who, having killed the serpent, released the seven rivers; the one who drove out the cows by undoing .. one who generates fire between two rocks, victor in battles, he, O people, is Indra.

William Shakespeare

I was a coward on instinct.

Blake Shelton

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

Edith Piaf

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

Deborah Kass

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

Charlotte Bronte

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

Charles Haley

I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.

Barry Watson

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

Andrew Patel

The plea that will be entered next Thursday will be 'not guilty'.

Jakob Bohme

When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

Eric Maskin

I entered economics because of a course I took on 'information economics,' which I found fascinating.

Ma Huateng

Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

Vik Muniz

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

Angela Featherstone

I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.'

Albert Einstein

Thus the partial differential equation entered theoretical physics as a handmaid, but has gradually become mistress.

Yelena Baturina

In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.

Kofi Annan

New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Robbie Stancil

We started out in a match-up zone. But we've worked and worked and worked on our man defense, and we did an outstanding job with it after the first quarter. I think we got Murdock extremely frustrated, and we kept (Marietta's guards) pretty contained.

Sam Allardyce

Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.

Nick Woodman

I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Kevin Norrish

US product markets remain extremely weak at present, with most of that weakness focused in gasoline markets.

Jan Nash

We're doing extremely well ... it's so exciting.

Jim Sweeney

We're extremely glad to get the win, ... but we're still making too many mistakes.

Scott Shockley

We're extremely disappointed that the governor vetoed an important property rights piece of legislation, and we'll work to override the veto.

Michael Schenker

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

Nonso Anozie

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.

Randy Clark

We're going to feed people as long as we've got food, ... It's been like a miracle, we'll run out then here comes another truck.

Bob Parker

When we got feedback from other airports about how well their lots were working, there seemed to be a correlation between success and proximity to the terminal. Those airports which reported a lack of success had lots further from the terminal.

Edward Thomas

We feed the kids first. We use the pool water to flush the toilets, ... We are just trying to make things livable.

Larry Foote

We feed off of him. He's our leader.

Anthony Schlegel

We feed off of each other, always know what the others are doing.

Scottie Somers

We feed each other love. That is how we survive.

Shanen Boettcher

We're getting more frequent and better feedback than we have ever gotten before in any previous release of Windows, and it is making the product much better.

Kary Mullis

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

Vera Wang

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

Mikko Hypponen

But at least you know someone on your premises has an infected phone.

Daniel Blumenthal

Treatment for those infected is not very good. Many people have died,

Siti Supari

We don't distinguish between the three, ... But how they got infected is still unknown.

Babatunde Osotimehin

We reckon that about 50,000 infected people are now receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment nationwide.

Maria Cheng

We know that mammals can be infected by H5N1, but we don't know what this means for humans.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Bill Coleman

We are a very safe community. His primary responsibility is keeping us safe.

Ted Carpenter

What we're seeing is the reflection of two developments -- first of all, the U.S. military being more and more into a force-protection mode, keeping its military personnel as unexposed as possible to fighting.

Bob McNair

We're going to look at any and all options. Whether it's keeping the pick or trading or whatever.

Susie Gardner

We?re back to preparing for each opponent and keeping a routine going. Right now, we?re really out of our motivational gimmicks.

Ashwin Sanghi

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Jeremih

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

Daniel Ellsberg

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

Barry Erwin

She is talking about keeping those cuts. It's a smaller state financially and population-wise for some time.

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.

Kenneth Fisher

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Edward Abbey

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

David Byrne

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

George Wald

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Pat Roberts

there is material in the report that the public should know.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Derek Bailey

I don't research anything.

Edwin Land

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Barbara Tuchman

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Brigham Young

I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches

Alice Cooper

There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

Cassandra Clare

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

Jennifer Grey

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

Nina Blackwood

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

Matthew McGrory

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Henry Rollins

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

Bradford Smith

Ultimately, it comes down to supply and demand.

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Azim Premji

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

Mike Johnston

Obviously, more supply is going to hurt, because the occupancies are still not to 1999-2000 levels.

Tom Fitzpatrick

It always comes down to supply and demand,

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Tom Crosby

There is some supply available; it is limited.

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Lola Russell

We do not have a supply problem. There have been some distribution issues.