Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Sampson

The personal attacks and the attacks on the group are inappropriate.

Rob Schilling

The perception coming in is that you're going to be opening yourself up to personal attacks and ridicule from other councilors.

Leith Kubba

We strongly condemn these attacks and offer our condolences to the families of the victims.

Bob Garcia

We have never had bites, attacks and injuries as we have seen with any breed like we've had with pit bulls.

Leonard Mlodinow

The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don't cause cancer.

Pamela Falk

With the polls open and insurgent attacks in parts of Baghdad, the measure of success of the referendum will depend in part on Sunni participation in the vote,

Richard Armitage

We've had Saudis and Jordanians and Pakistanis who have - and Syrians - who have been involved in armed attacks against coalition forces in Iraq.

Elliott Abrams

The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.

Bruce Bochy

When I heard about Doug, I immediately thought of Rick and my father. No question, heart attacks are the silent killer.

Marie Rutkoski

There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a scene in the novel where there's a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood.

Sondra Hines

We're excited. We hope it doesn't burst at the seams.

Nedra Turney

Lufkin was bursting at the seams. Some of those folks were at double capacity.

Lea Salonga

The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'Les Miz' would be - is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of 'Why is this person bursting out into song?' because the whole thing is sung.

Tim O'Reilly

So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time, the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in.

Charles Pradilla

There are these little bursts of good news in the tech area.

Charles Bukowski

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

Mohammed Ali

Seconds later there was another explosion. The explosions set cars on fire and there was smoke all around. I thought the explosions would burst my ear drums.

Debbie Wagner

She wanted to go to church that morning. And she'd put her great granddaughters Christmas gifts in the car. And I guess she'd already grabbed her purse and everything. She told me she turned the car around, and it just burst into flames.

Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

Charles Dickens

Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

Charles Dickens

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

Charles Caleb Colton

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Pericles

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

Latin Proverbs

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

August Krogh

There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

John Heywood

All is fish that comth to net.

George Eliot

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

George Bernard Shaw

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

Karl A. Menninger

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

Maxine Hong Kingston

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

Charles Dickens

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

Alan Bean

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

Alan Alda

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Michael Shaw

Where's a *!$#&!* Flying Monkey when you need one?

Charley Pride

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

Arnold Palmer

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

Deb Caletti

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Alan Tudyk

I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to flying.

Chesley Sullenberger

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

Kevin Taylor

We're hoping that someone would come forth with info about this. We think that it could be possibly sitting in someone's garage and someone is likely to know about that.

Jules Verne

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Russell Potts

We have similar backgrounds in many instances, ... We have never been reluctant to take on the Establishment, so to speak, and we've been forthright in our objections to the so-called 'Good Ole Boy' network.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light

Ryan Seacrest

Simon and I go back and forth with each other, but it's in a different way.

Larry Beck

She represents the history and tradition set forth by the Sisters of Mercy.

Jon Wilson

Mimi's races were great. Watching her go back and forth in the lead was exciting.

Tom Benson

So it went back and forth to see what could be done. The Alamodome has some restrictions on what games could be here. LSU had restrictions, too. So it was a lot of conversations about different games.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

David Aebischer

We are going to have to win over Germany and Italy, that's where we focus.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Boris Becker

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Tom Wlaschiha

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side.

Adolf Hitler

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

W. G. Sebald

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Gunter Blobel

As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

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.

Carl Sagan

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Carl Levin

We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the... defanging Saddam..

Ruud Lubbers

We are preparing for a massive relief operation,

Henry Samueli

You can't create a mass market if you don't have a common standard.

Armstrong Williams

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

George W. Bush

Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere... Nope, no weapons over there... Maybe under here.

Dennis Kucinich

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Edward Kennedy

There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.

Edward Kennedy

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

Charles Stanley

You will never go wrong obeying God.

Charles Stanley

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

Stephen Holmes

It did not specifically say in so many words that he was not to be on the premises. It said that he was supposed to obey all laws.

Alex Brown

The teachers here are way cool, ... If you obey the rules and turn in your assignments, you get parties.

Moby

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Mark Keller

It would also be wise for truckers to obey the posted weight limits.

Nancy Pelosi

This isn't about whether you want to protect the American people or not, this is about whether you want to obey the law.

Thomas Jefferson

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, without the True Name, all this paraphernalia shall disappear.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

L.A. Reid

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

William Kidd

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

Charles Stross

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.