Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna Ferber

A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.

Sam Bodman

We're quite excited about it. These are batteries that can be charged faster and can run longer and are really a major step up.

Kevin Sorbo

This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So... just batteries aren't included.

Demetri Martin

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

Charles Platt

When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.

Bruce Yost

When we're in Sun, we run on the solar cells and charge the batteries. In eclipse, just the batteries power the spacecraft.

Hod Lipson

The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.

Mike Everett

No one ever really lost their job because they replaced a room full of batteries again.

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Chris Bosh

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

Jean Bruyere

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Janis Serrano

We're in a rebuilding process, we're doing fine for where we're at. We're just trying to improve on their race techniques and have them do their best.

Tim Zagat

Where it was once de rigueur to wear a tie in New York's finer establishments, that practice is now de rigor mortis.

Sam Perlozzo

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

Bill Belichick

We're not polishing fine china here.

Charles Simmons

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Dave Barry

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

Catherine Bertini

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

Bryan Q. Miller

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

Kathleen Blanco

The power is out, the phones are down and there is no food or water, and many trees are down.

Niger Innis

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

Kurt Vonnegut

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

David Hume

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Tom Bradley

The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Karen Bradley

We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

Mike McCarthy

We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there,

Darl Keller

We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.

Don Helling

We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really team oriented and they knew what they needed to do.

Mayor Bingham

We are taking small steps -- planters, new lighting and sidewalk repairs.

Lilly Singh

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

Douglas Sirk

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

Danielle Steel

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

Paul McGee

It could be somebody running around lighting these fires. It is very upsetting.

Evelyn Fox

We totally refurnished and refurbished the lobby, lighting and furniture.

Ian Rankin

I have him going into a pub and lighting up, and then being told by a barman that he has got only nine months to go before he has to stop.

Lenny Kravitz

In my environments, lighting is always very important.

Ben Braun

This is something he's done in practice. He plays on the scout team and he's lighting us up.

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Bob Castle

We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.

Brigham Young

We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.

Daniel Inouye

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

DeMeco Ryans

We didn't think he was that fast. He's pretty quick but we were ready for it. We were prepared for everything they did.

Deepak Chopra

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

Melaney Arnold

We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.