Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Doug Conaway

We feel that we have contained the fire.

Bill Stewart

We won't be able to have this fire contained until we can plow a line around it. We've got all kinds of problems with the blow-down from Ivan. It's slowing us down.

Wayne Fairclough

Seba played well for the last 20 minutes and our game went to pieces when we stopped marking Theodore. We contained him for 70 minutes but being the quality player that he is, he made us pay for it.

Sergey Lavrov

On a number of occasions, the documents shown to us were forged, in particular, they contained fake signatures of Russian officials,

Abdullah Fahim

It is a good sign that the virus is contained to these two provinces.

Jeff Moore

We take this very seriously. We are responding very aggressively. We have it contained at this point.

Kate Christensen

Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

Alan Greenspan

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Steve Thompson

We lacked the killer touch. It is as simple to explain and as difficult to put right as that.

Paul Browne

We know from experience how difficult it can be for new writers to get their work into print. As a result, there is a lot of undiscovered talent out there. We intend to find it.

Sven Eriksson

Wales made life difficult for us, especially hanging in during the first half when I thought we played well,

Pauline Hanson

Wake up, Australia, before it is too late. Australians need and want leaders who can inspire and give hope in difficult times.

Don Worstell

The one thing we like about our team over most teams we play is our depth. We play nine guys, and any one of them can go big on you on a given night. I think we're a difficult team to scout.

Rick Stansbury

The pluses are that (Gordon) is a good player. He is going to be one of the better players in the league. If he gains more experience he will be really good, he has had some difficult times and has been providing good leadership as a freshman.

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Angela Sgrignuoli

Where the wind made it difficult for several riders Saturday, today was nearly perfect for the runners.

Hugh Johnson

ultimately extremely good news for the health of the market.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Robbie Stancil

We started out in a match-up zone. But we've worked and worked and worked on our man defense, and we did an outstanding job with it after the first quarter. I think we got Murdock extremely frustrated, and we kept (Marietta's guards) pretty contained.

Sam Allardyce

Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.

Leonor Varela

I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.

Laurent Brancowitz

I am the extreme member of the band because I never go out after the show. It's my rule.

Nick Woodman

I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.

Kathy Olivier

We've turned into a possession team. That's what good teams do. To be honest, we learned that from Stanford. There's a team that's extremely disciplined and they don't make a lot of mistakes.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Edward Gibbon

The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.

Audre Lorde

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

Arthur Eddington

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

Arianna Huffington

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

Dean Koontz

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

Bertolt Brecht

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Cesar Chavez

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

Bram Fischer

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

David Almond

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Jerry Johnson

We are privately owned and we do not routinely give out information about our customers. I imagine if we do either, we sell (grain).

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God sent you here to prepare for a future greater than anything can imagine.

Arthur C. Clarke

When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.

bell hooks

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

Charlie Daniels

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

T. J. Miller

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

Matt Bitonti

We had 13,000 unique visitors here today on a Monday. Can you imagine if you had 13,000 people in a room, and you were talking to them? That's what you're doing. It's about reaching people, having a voice, having an opinion.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Danny Walker

Until there's a research question, the material is preserved better in the cave.

Kenneth Fisher

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Edward Abbey

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Francis Bacon

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

Raymond Kelly

We're doing a meticulous search at all possible locations,

Bob Miller

Right now, the lot is meticulous ... garden-like, the way it is maintained,

Charles W. Chesnutt

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Charles Edward Merriam

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

Alan Watts

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

Alan Jay Lerner

There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.

Alan Ayckbourn

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Alain Robert

I love all people, whatever race they are.

Al McGuire

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

Chris Chocola

Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system - it's created the highest standard of living.

Chip Kidd

Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

Shane Meyer

They just seized it and took control. Then we were just flat.