Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Gammage

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

John Battelle

When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.

Sandra Taylor

We're spending billions of dollars on a country that doesn't want us there.

A. Johnson

Unless something is done about China in the Doha round, the developing world will lose tens of billions of dollars in exports.

Rex Stout

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tim Bray

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

Seth Shostak

We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people.

Dan Gilmore

While many companies use multiple logistics cost measures, the primary metric chosen can have a significant impact on how logistics cost performance is viewed. For example, those companies using logistics costs as a percent of sales as their primary measure and who operate in industries such as chemicals and other commodities saw that cost ratio fall in 2005 due to strong upward pricing power that impacted the top line, even though logistics costs also rose. Other industries had rising logistics costs with flat or declining prices for their products, driving up logistics costs as a percent of sales.

Bernie Siegel

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

Allison Teeters

Many household chemicals meet at least one of these criteria to varying degrees.

Bruce Lipton

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.

Gary Linden

We are not mixing our chemicals in Orange County in a tank next to million-dollar homes.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Ian McCafferty

Only two of the 10 industry groups surveyed this month - chemicals and metal products - expect prices to rise in their sector over the coming three months. Cost pressures from high oil and transportation prices will only serve to depress profits further,

Craig Venter

One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents.

Robert Hager

There is a power plant on North Lake that uses toxic chemicals, that's no secret. Are those chemicals released into the lake or on the property? We have a right to know.

Jack Canfield

I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

Drew Gilpin Faust

One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of deans already, so I've learned a lot in the process in doing it.

Edgar Mitchell

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

Allen Sinai

He didn't go to one of the top schools - Harvard or MIT or Stanford or Northwestern. I think that was an advantage. He didn't get brainwashed into one of the doctrines.

Jack Maughan

Harvard studies have proven that wrestlers are the smartest of all athletes, they just hide it. Well Devan isn't hiding it.

Laura Bush

The recovery and relocation process will take several years, and the press will likely monitor developments. That means people will be thinking about poverty and these poor victims for a while,'' said Wilson, the Harvard professor.

James Blake

I went to Harvard but that doesn't mean I'm that bright, ... Once in a while I'll slow down but not today.

Oscar Arias

When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.

Mark Zuckerberg

There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.

Charles Caleb Colton

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Charles Dickens

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...

Charles Dickens

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

Charles Simmons

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Chris Christie

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

David Suzuki

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

Byron Katie

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

Camilla Belle

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Michael Kors

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

Stephen Colbert

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Warren Ellis

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

John Shedd

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

David Sedaris

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Cathy Guisewite

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

Bill Janklow

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

Astro Teller

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

Bertrand Russell

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Alan Turing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Bobby Fischer

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Charles Caleb Colton

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Alan Watts

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

Alan Watts

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

Alan Moore

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Alan Moore

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Jane Hirshfield

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

Kenneth Wong

For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.

Ahmed Ressam

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target,

Al Yankovic

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

Amit Sharma

Until now we had no close-up view of the precise surface where the two proteins interact.

Chris Maloney

I thought he was thinking too much, trying to be too precise and just couldn't get it going.

Giuseppe Gattino

We have a very, very precise project which is related to no waste after the games.

George Bodenheimer

We haven't firmed up precisely how and when we're going to do that.

Kevin Johnson

The thing about this game, you've got to be real precise about what you do,

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Henry Markram

You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.

Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Joseph Hume

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Tom Rockwell

We know the San Andreas produces earthquakes every 200 years. It's been a long time.

Plutarch

The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds

Howard Schnellenberger

It's no secret that this state produces high-quality players, ... And there is no reason why every team in the state can't become a winning one.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Michael Holden

Ski jumping, from the scientific viewpoint, is a wonderful problem.

James Smith

That's where I don't go, ... That's not a scientific question.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

Elizabeth Blackburn

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

Tom Stoppard

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

Geena Davis

Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence.

Friederike Boszko

I want to find the time sequence of events, which I still don't know.

Robin Marantz Henig

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.