Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Heywood Sanders

We're talking about a market where convention centers are giving their space away. There clearly will be winners and losers.

Ronald Neumann

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Paul Bauer

We have never been 5-0. One thing I can say about this team is we have been in some close games, but find a way to win. I am real proud of the kids tonight because we played without (senior running back Nate) Robinson for most of the fourth quarter. A lot of our offense centers around him, but the kids stepped up.

H. Hart

What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to hijack four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon at 9 a.m. on September 11, we are not accountable, ... In the Money.

Frank Turner

What Lincoln wants to do is to create a mixed-use urban center. One of the questions the plan commission needs to consider is how many and how big and where should urban centers be the most appropriately located.

Tod Marks

With these candies, it's all about the fillings. The centers just exploded with flavor, and unusual flavors like tropical fruit and key lime pie.

Mike Rogers

There are two command centers set up down there, ... Maybe three weeks down the road we may go in to relieve those there now.

Gerald Galloway

Major urban centers like Sacramento, like Los Angeles, remain protected only at the margin. Engineers and scientists have got to be fully involved in this decision process, this political process.

Chinua Achebe

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

Ellen Anderson

We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.

Cheryl Mendelson

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

David Steiner

What's scaring us now is the disease they are saying is coming,

Benjamin Franklin

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

Avicenna

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Arundhati Roy

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

James Hill

We've never done anything on this scale before. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world.

James Hill

We've never done anything on this scale before, ... This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Molly Quinn

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

Susan Mays

The places that would never be seen except by the people who worked here, they decorated just like they did the rest of the house.

Samuel Butler

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.

John Wycliffe

We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.

Mike Boyajian

We're just going to keep looking forward. We have a tough stretch in front of us. We're playing all the top teams, except for Toll Gate (Feb. 10), over the next two weeks.

Ron Mayert

We have a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to handle unusually high levels of meat inclusion and human-grade ingredients.

Moby

We were totally destroyed, ... We're planning to put them in another facility until we can rebuild.

Richard Blankenship

We're getting the facility back to its original state.

Brian Schultz

We can do anything a hotel does for corporations looking for a facility to hold a meeting. Our audio-visual is killer and it helps when they can make a presentation on a 40-foot movie screen with state-of-the-art AV equipment.

Jane Power

We're just waiting to find out when he can be released and trying to find out what we can do here to get him into a facility right away. And that's the part I don't know about.

Elena Medo

To our knowledge, this is the first and only facility of its kind in the world.

Ellen McLaughlin

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

Roy Williams

When the hurricane occurred, our Mayor called the NBA and said we have a facility ready to house a professional team and he let them know that any way we can help out - we would,

Joss Whedon

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

Kevin Cox

We're doing a much better job in Indiana being prepared and collaborating, which speaks highly of the involved agencies.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Dr. Coats

We had not had highly pathogenic avian influenza in the U.S. for over 20 years.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Donna Jones

She was a quite a lady. And a leader. Everyone spoke so highly of her.

Chris Kearney

Like every other private psychiatric hospital, we are a locked and secure facility, but not 'maximum security.

Miah Wheeler

She just kind of locked in. You watched the guy's finals, and 50 percent of them fell.

Paulo Coelho

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Stan Wasowski

We are locked into a weather pattern right now.

David Shearer

I can't remember (the West Bank) being that locked down for such a long period of time.

John Bryan

I think it has merit and I'm not locked into it, but until somebody shows me something better, I like it.

Greg Walker

He seemed to really get locked in. Once he got on a roll, it was obvious. We were like, 'That's him.' We just pat him on the back now.

Carolyn Gray

He should have been locked up or stayed in the hospital.

James Augustine

He was all over me. Once I met Dee, I was pretty locked into Illinois.

David Brainerd

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Gail Sheehy

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

Larry Marshall

She has truly been remarkable in every respect.

Pete Carroll

He shocks me every day with something. He's done some things, remarkable things, with the ball.

Gilbert Metcalf

He made a bet. I think he was successful. That was a remarkable achievement.

Bobby Cox

He's been outstanding from day one, ... He's done a remarkable job.

Bud Selig

He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens.

Joe Shields

We have seen this kind of thing in other galaxies, but it?s very remarkable for the Milky Way.

Bill Bryson

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

Jerry Falwell

I think pornography is a scourge on society.

Warren Tompkins

They are the scourge of American politics. They are unaccountable and play by a different set of rules.

Christopher Marlowe

For Tamburlaine, the scourge of God, must die.

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Matt Emmons

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Francis Chan

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

Michael Gray

It would secure ounces that they desperately need to secure.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Ron Bruch

There are a lot of stories out there, some probably written and stored with old photographs in shoeboxes in closets.

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.

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.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Kay Nehm

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Bill Watterson

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

Ben Schwartz

When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

Amy Lee

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

Allison Tolman

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.

Alain de Botton

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Edwidge Danticat

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

David Foster Wallace

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

Sergei Bubka

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.