Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'

Neil Cornish

Several years ago we showed that any finite universe in which light had time to 'wrap around' since the Big Bang would have the same pattern of cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations around pairs of circles.

Sam Johnson

Seniors provide us with a background of knowledge and experience that in this booming economy, where you can't find workers, they can fill the gaps and make companies whole again.

Bob Newman

Mike Mullen has a background in grant writing and that's what we'll be needing. Everyone is very impressed with how much the mayor is up to speed on this project.

Bruce Babbitt

Mistakes began with the preparation of the prescribed fire plan, ... Had those calculations been properly done, there would have been a larger background personnel and support (team on hand).

Rep Clymer

No one should be working until those background checks are completed.

Laurie Graham

My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.

Ella Eyre

My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.

Adrian Holovaty

My background is pretty evenly split between journalism, databases and computer programming, and this was an opportunity to combine all three. My goal for the project was to create a useful resource for Chicagoans.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Magpie, n.: A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

James Austin

Last year, we had a shortage of 2-year-old birds from the poor hatch in 2003, so we didn't have a surplus of those birds to carry over. The fact that there was a shortage of 2-year-olds to hunt last year meant more pressure on the older birds, so that cuts down the carry over on those, too.

Atharva Veda

Learn a lesson from the birds. They feed those who cannot fly far. The bird relieves the itch of the buffalo by scratching it with its beak; they help and serve each other with no thought of reward.

Kent Hall

Many of these birds were raised in captivity. They lost their fear of humans and people should not feed them.

Joan Heller

Many people feed their birds but don't know exactly who is coming to their feeder. This is a good time to find out who these birds are.

John Atkins

Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. People suspect there are risks on the horizon but not so material just yet.

Milan Brahmbhatt

So far the impact of bird flu outbreaks has been isolated to the poultry sector and some farm households and has not spilled into the overall economy.

Ann Veneman

So it's very important that we have an education program for families about how to protect children if they have sick birds around their homes.

Jeanne Fair

Minks are susceptible, and of course, pigs will be important, as well. They're sort of a mixing vessel. They have receptors that are similar to birds but also to humans.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

David Miller

Library values are like real estate in Southern California - they generally go up every year.

Arturo Gonzalez

Many students in California have not been given a fair opportunity to learn the material on the exam.

Gray Davis

My friends, this was a massive effort ranging over 180 miles in six counties, probably the worst fires in California history,

Robert McCullough

One of our jobs is to keep an eye on California in case it gets too utterly bizarre. A glitch in California raises (electricity) prices from Alberta to West Texas." ()

Vitor Meira

My goal coming into this season was to win my first race and I still haven't accomplished that, ... Our cars will be good at California and it would be a great way to finish the season with a victory. I think we'll be in the hunt right to the end.

Brian Wilson

Now, they can at least know that in the California market, something will be in place for 10 years.

Glenn Miller

Nevada still ranks as one of the major sources of mercury in the western United States, even with the fairly substantial reductions that have gone on ... probably the third largest state. I think we just went under California. Texas and California are the No. 1 and 2 states. But we're No. 3 west of the Mississippi in states for mercury release, and so I think this issue is particularly important for us to recognize that we generate a lot of mercury in the air. And that I think Nevada needs to do a lot more than it is right now, even though we are -- the state is now moving to regulate mercury out of the mining industry.

Sean Gallagher

Natural gas is traded on a national market. The utilities here in California don't have any control over the price of gas.

Johnny Rivers

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

Patrick Reilly

Lynn is a Mount Mercy girl. Her husband, Tom, who is also here tonight, and I are Timon guys. Incidentally, Kevin and Tom grew up together in South Buffalo. They haven't seen each other in 25 years since they were at Holy Family on Tifft Street together.

Jon Corzine

let his family down and he'll probably let New Jersey down, too.

Camille Moute

Leaving my hometown and my family was very hard.

Matt Doherty

Leaving Florida was hard. At first I didn't want to leave, at first I didn't want to look at another job because we have a lot of work to do there yet...but this was an opportunity here for me professionally and for my family was that was just a great fit. It had 'Matt Doherty' written all over it.

Deborah Chernoff

Many teenagers are supplementing the family income. Connecticut has a high standard of living, and people need more money to live on.

Ben Bernanke

Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.

Gene Nudo

Selfishly, I wanted my family to see our team play and let them know we are doing a good job out here. We put a good show on tonight.

John Boehner

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

John Kierstead

Mountain Pointe always seems to come out and fool people. We make it a family and put it together.

Bill Self

Last year, there were the seniors and then there was the rest of the team. This year, because we're so young and everybody's kind of an unproven commodity, everybody's about the same. I do think this is a closer-knit group maybe than we had last year.

Ron Robson

Softball is something I strive to do. Where else could you go out and meet this group of guys without playing ball?

Shaun Alexander

Mike is just so key for us as a team, as a group of young men trying to grow up.

Stanley Ho

Mocha Slots was the primary contributor to our group results with turnover of HK$63 million; with 700 machines we have 25% of the Macau market,

Joe Tiller

My initial take on this group is that it's my second-best staff. It may prove to be the best.

Todd Wilkinson

My first task is how we can win the Group A bracket.

Reg Alcock

one of a group that jumps around looking for a hot spot so they can slander people without substantial evidence. It's disgraceful.

Tom Jones

No one individual or group wants to be in-politically correct, so they leave it alone.

John Schneider

One thing we put on our maps was population in the next ten years. Half of us said there would be a 10-15 percent increase, to about 28,500. The rest of the group said it would be more in the 30,000 to 35,000 range.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Enrique Garcia

We're like their Santa Claus. It's kind of special and we make them feel normal.

Ludwig von Mises

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Margaret Garcia

We don't know. Mia didn't play soccer. She was a cheerleader all her life. She cheered for (the University of Colorado).

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Adolf Hitler

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Bill Gates

I didn't completed my University Education

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Josh McDermitt

One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Stephanie Herseth

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Sally Kellerman

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

Jeremy Corbyn

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.