Famous Quotes & Sayings

Courtney Pratt

We believe this plan does have a fighting chance of winning approval on the understanding that it's going to be discussed and probably modified or amended in some way,

Paul Rakov

Our original application included projections we made during the summer of 2005. Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina and the ever-increasing cost of fuel has made construction materials more expensive than we originally planned. We amended our original application to help balance the effect of those costs.

Tom Rathbun

Management was a bigger concern to us than the finances. The reclamation just wasn't being done despite several amended agreements.

Nancy Cartwright

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

Yves Fortier

We are satisfied that the amended offer constitutes full and fair value for the company.

Robert Sweet

If plaintiffs were able to flesh out this argument in an amended complaint, it may establish that the dangers of McDonald's products were not commonly well known and thus that McDonald's had a duty towards its customers,

Mike Mower

The governor was only on the (corporate) jet a few times last year, maybe only once, always with other family members on family trips; once to Fillmore for the funeral of a relative. An amended federal filing will be made next week.

Chuck Bowen

While we continue to oppose even the amended version, we knew that if we appeared before the committee, the chances were likely that the original version of the bill could be adopted.

Kessel Stelling

I truly understand the passion about where your child goes to school but dealing with it as proposed is just plain wrong and contradicts the idea of 'less government' where it doesn't belong. I also understand the politics here, I know the predicament the Governor will be placed in if the bill reaches his desk, and I ask each of you to do the right thing regardless of the political consequences and not sign the amended bill.

Bobby Flay

When I was a kid, the first thing we would be able to point to was the slice we wanted. Describe to me that slice. What's the slice that we want?

Laura Ziskin

I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.

Norman Wisdom

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

Dick Lampman

We've always had a more pragmatic view of our business. You can describe our mission in two words: technology transfer.

John M. Smith

When we were making that run at the end, you could feel it. You can't really describe it, but you know there's so many people who want your season to keep going. It's an inspiration. You want to play for yourself, but you want to play for them, too.

Rob Durling

We were destroyed. There's really no other way to describe the game.

Mike Boyd

We failed in the handling of this call. I can't describe it in any other way.

Seamus Mallon

Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting.

Justin Timberlake

'Friends With Benefits': it feels like a two-hander to me, but it is a big movie, and this is the first straightforward male I've been able to play. I would describe my character in 'The Social Network' as a kind of sociopath. I would describe my character in 'Bad Teacher' as... just a weirdo. But this is a male's male.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

Jack Jackson

I think we should modify the laws to a point where it doesn't take several years to immigrate.

Bonnie Campbell

My perspective on this lawsuit is that it's just wrong.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Rudy Rucker

Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region.

Christine Varney

Laws are two-by-fours, ... They are very broad. . . . They retard innovation.

Rig Veda

Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules.

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Chuck Hatfield

We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students).

David Millar

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

David Korten

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Nick Flynn

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Edmond Rostand

I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!

David Hilbert

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

Antony Garrett Lisi

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

Elizabeth Moon

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Daniel H. Wilson

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

Edward Witten

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

Ben Stein

There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

Walter Wada

Physics is a terrible, terrible, terrible thing. It takes all of your energy, all of your time and all of your attention.

Albert Einstein

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Albert Einstein

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.