Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.

Miriam Nelson

Our research shows that a program of strength training not only improves bone density but reduces falls, improves arthritis symptoms, and increases flexibility and strength.

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Henry Rollins

Our record is all finished, ... It's mastered, and now I have to come up with artwork and a kiss-ass video for MTV. They never play our stuff anyway, so it's just a gesture. We'll pantomime through some ridiculous situation on film and the record will come out at the end of the year. It's going to be a release that no one will hear.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Stephen Phillips

Part of the problem with the previous art festivals was the weather,

Bob Taft

Passion Works is a studio where persons with mental retardation or other disabilities can create beautiful works of art and products and provide those to the community,

Kent Thompson

part vision, part coaching, part recruitment and fundraising and part conversation and collaboration. My job is to articulate the vision of the theater and to make it happen, and I know the only way I can do that is to have a lot of people joining into that vision. I view it as a serve-and-lead kind of job. The hard part is figuring out when you need to do which.

Bill Bryson

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Bill Vaughan

To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

Bill Blass

Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

Ingrid Reed

I was struck by the simplicity of it.

Charles Darwin

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

Bertrand Russell

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

Mike Crapo

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Edsger Dijkstra

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Alfred North Whitehead

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Brian P. Cleary

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

Enya

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Florynce Kennedy

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

Buzz Bissinger

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

Luke Evans

I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.

Mahathir Mohamad

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

Maimonides

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

Philippe Starck

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,

Samuel Johnson

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.