Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Henry Ford

There are some branches that are closed, but as I said 90% are still open.

David Hilbert

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science

Henry David Thoreau

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Arthur Machen

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

John Hull

Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.

Ken Falk

Legislators of all people should understand that we have three branches of government, and the ultimate function of the judiciary is to determine cases under the constitution.

Bill Hader

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.

Donald Johanson

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Tad Williams

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

Trey Gowdy

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Cliff Black

We don't know what ignited it, perhaps a leak.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Danny Hale

He was our punter. And had a real promising future.

Jeff Colton

It doesn't look promising for a wet spring at this point.

Richard Aboulafia

You're tapping in to the most promising revenue stream in the world.

Tom Joyner

It's just unbelievable that a talent so young and so promising is gone,

James Mason

I'm not promising a state championship, but we should go far.

Syvelle Newton

They were promising me that I could play anything I want to, just like I'm doing now,

Chris Williamson

This is quite unusual and it's a very promising result.

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

Keith McKeown

All the various discussions are going on with all the different parties.

Roger Williams

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.