Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Farnsworth

We're not celebrating just yet because this is only the first step, albeit a very important one. The Executive have 28 days to make their ruling but we would hope they would concur with the views of the local councilors. What this decision does mean however is that we can now go out to tender which in turn allows us to assess the economic viability of the entire project.

Ashraf Laidi

One asks how can players rush into selling the dollar -- albeit at these attractive technical levels -- in the face of the Fed's bolstering, anti-inflation rhetoric?

Jeffrey Schneider

No one is sorrier than John for the embarrassment that these albeit private e-mails caused to his colleagues and to the people who were the subjects of those comments. John would be the first to say this has been a real lesson to him. John is abjectly sorry for all the comments that have come to light, and that's appropriate.

Marie Kondo

My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place.

Lisa Scottoline

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

Christopher Cox

the regime, albeit it takes great pains to show us it is stable, is in fact profoundly unstable.

William Walsh

We feel that we're fulfilling part of his wishes, albeit 199 years later,

Ian Shepherdson

With unemployment set to breach 6 percent over the next few months, people's view of the current economy is bound to deteriorate, ... But expectations are what matter for spending, and at this level the numbers suggest consumers spending will rise, albeit not rapidly.

Donna Cerrato

Matt was just dynamite out there and he looked terrific.

Frank Brothers

My horse did everything right other than he didn't win. He ran a dynamite race off the bench, which isn't a given. His stride was good at the end. He stayed on and kept fighting, which was a good sign.

Tom Cruise

I didn't want to tell Stanley, ... He panicked. I wanted this to work, but you're playing with dynamite when you act.

Joe Baldarotta

When are goalies are good, we're a dynamite team.

Stan Heath

When we can get in transition, we're a dynamite team. We're fun to watch.

Benjamin Graham

Stocks can be dynamite.

Michael Ramsey

I think it'll be very helpful to us. It's dynamite cross-examination fodder.

Jay Sidhu

We think 2006 is going to be a good year. It's not going to be a dynamite year, but it's going to be a good year.

Joe Gallagher

He?s been dynamite and consistent. His strength is deceiving. He has incredibly quick feet and good vision. He does everything well.

Josh Beckett

Let's talk about the outing. I felt pretty good today, let's start with that. I don't want to fill it up with stuff like that, negative stuff. Let's be positive here.

Joel Parkinson

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Brian Billick

Last year, we felt we were a Super Bowl-caliber team. I think in just about every measure you can put out there, we're a better team than we were last year.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Tim Churchill

Last year, we felt like we didn't have any winnable games.

Forel Davies

Last year was the first year I really felt comfortable with my game.

Brian James

Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire left in me.

Liz Gliem

Last year the pressure was on Jackie, but this year I felt a little more pressure on me. I had to take a little more of a leadership role.

Jeremy Bonderman

Last year went so fast. I felt like I was in and out of that game in like a matter of minutes.

Shereen El Feki

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

Jerry Jones

Yeah, I did (think about it). Initially there, it looked like the grim reaper was sitting there on one of those crossbars, just overlooking the day. It seemed like everything we did, we got stopped on the field. But when we got (to overtime). I just thought it was our turn to score.

Jerry Jones

Yeah, I did (think about it), ... Initially there, it looked like the grim reaper was sitting there on one of those crossbars, just overlooking the day. It seemed like everything we did, we got stopped on the field. But when we got (to overtime). I just thought it was our turn to score.

Mufi Hannemann

Hurricane Katrina is a grim reminder of the importance of preparedness,

Manmohan Singh

From the beginning, as a thinking student of 15, 16 years ago, I was troubled by the grim poverty that I saw around me.

Eric Lascelles

This report was largely in line with expectations. It was a grim report.

Roger Clemens

Maybe, I'm the Grim Reaper, ... I miss a start and we scored 10 runs.

Tim Curry

I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax. And I think that he should just have the life that he was meant to have. I think having a wrinkly actor show up 20 years after is a little old, really.

Tim Curry

I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax, ... And I think that he should just have the life that he was meant to have. I think having a wrinkly actor show up 20 years after is a little old, really.

Mallory Ortberg

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

P. J. O'Rourke

Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Mark Burnett

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

Walter Murch

There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

William Kircher

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

Clint Eastwood

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

Tony Hawk

When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

Bruce Katz

Long Island is where we invented the modern suburb, and whether Long Island will remake itself for the 21st century, that's the challenge.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

Luis Federico Leloir

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

Kenneth Starr

He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Doris Lessing

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

P. J. O'Rourke

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

Tim Hunt

Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.

Shuji Nakamura

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

Cindy Sheehan

Senator Clinton, taking the peace road would not prove you are weak,

Vajira Premawardhana

New projects could be put on hold, especially now with the peace process under pressure.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig von Mises

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Charles Peguy

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Denis Diderot

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Dean Rusk

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

Marcus Aurelius

To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

David Hockney

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Andre Agassi

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

Evan Hirsche

We're talking about a prized wildlife refuge that's been effectively turned into a toxic dump.

Christine Parker

We'll have thousands of prizes to give away.

Jim Crace

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues.

Aristotle

Those who act receive the prizes.