Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Evans

The perception of a growing number of our citizens is that the all-white commission is biased and doesn't care.

Wren Elhai

We acknowledge that we're not getting the full picture, but at least we get close. We acknowledge our biases and try to work past them.

Michael Shermer

Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.

Nicholas Kristof

We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

Karen Pearl

Women should never be denied legal medications by pharmacists who decide to impose their own personal bias on others. Until Target improves its policy, it will continue to receive a thumbs down from Planned Parenthood.

Ray Richardson

Len Bias is a tragedy, because he's not around anymore, ... I'm a success.

Mark Geragos

She will talk at the appropriate time in a public forum when there isn't a biased prosecutor like there is right now.

Kim Gandy

Most studies submitted to the FDA have been conducted by the manufacturers of implants who obviously have a vested interested and whose findings are frequently biased and misleading. We must reform this heavy reliance on industry, which interferes with sound scientific decision-making by the FDA.

Andre Bakhos

There is a seasonality bias to the upside.

Danny Martin

The other side of resurrection is about changing the world. It's not just about yourselves.

Greg Abbott

We are pleased to have a chef of such stature share our vision. Dale's Kitchen gives our technology wonderful exposure throughout the foodservice and packaging industries. The Fresh Flow(TM) Tap is changing rules.

Don Worstell

We struggled formulating a game plan and I thought about changing to something different. But we haven't played that way all year. We needed to do what we do and if we have to we will make adjustments.

Al Edwards

When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee.

Ben Bradlee

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth,

Lisa Graff

Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.

Bernadette Perez

What he's doing is completely changing my life.

Jim Dyke

What has become clear is this really isn't about protecting kids. This is about changing television. A politically active, savvy group of Americans has figured out a way to make TV in their own image.

Jordan Leopold

We'll be changing pairings but we'll find a way to do it.

John Cain

We know we've got to have that 20 percent (to be used as the city's match for a federal 80 percent grant).

Joseph Biden

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

Trot Nixon

We started off sluggish. But we fed off our fans.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Ben Bernanke

The Fed is totally open.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Charles de Lint

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Alan Rickman

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Alan Bradley

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

Al Pacino

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

Diane von Furstenberg

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

Chogyam Trungpa

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

David Shuster

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

David Sedaris

My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Dick Cavett

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Arthur Christiansen

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Arianna Huffington

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with a focus on working with the many experienced reporters and writers impacted by the economic contraction. The pieces will range from long-form investigations to short breaking news stories and will be presented in a variety of media - including text, audio, and video.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Frank Morgan

Certainly, as expected, there were no real surprises here.

Arun Sarin

Those were the big surprises for our shareholders,

Chris Walker

We don't play a very pretty game. It's ugly, and I think that surprises a lot of people.

Chris Walker

We don't play a real pretty game. It's ugly, and that's the way we like it. It surprises a lot of people.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

John Fischer

There's nothing really going on right now. I don't really understand these jumps. It surprises me the way it's been fluctuating.

Patrick McDonald

What surprises me is (residents) want everything for nothing.

Peter Gade

Anyway, in the new system, many surprises could happen.