Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Lee

Tom's financial expertise was extremely important in our business. He got us through some tough times and I selfishly wanted him to come back to us.

Mary Roach

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Tom White

He has the expertise and he was interested in doing it.

Matthew Stewart

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

Michael Nichols

It doesn't take technical expertise to shoot the Grand Canyon. It takes patience to get the right atmospherics and light.

Rick Jones

Perhaps we could tap them for their thoughts and their expertise in the (environmental) area.

Carl Jacoby

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

Meg Symington

Because the U.S. conservation groups are participating, we are able to provide technical expertise regarding how these funds should be used and ... the most important places where they should be spent.

Kofi Annan

We don't have money as the U.N., but we'll come with some expertise and experience,

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

E. Hicks

I talked to a local person who's into philanthropy for a defibrillator.

Sarah Waters

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

Ratu Tavanavanua

I think there's enough local talent out there for us to make an assessment.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised. I think things were troubling him from his local detractors.

David Young

Ulster will be a much tougher side than Connacht so we will be looking for big improvements.

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Peter Marshall

We are looking to jumpstart the program, ... This is not a short-term fix.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

Dave Barry

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

Dave Barry

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

Alex Alben

I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal outcome.

Andrew Natsios

even in a best-case scenario, under optimal conditions, we could see as many as 320,000 people die.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Lori Murray

We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.

Wendy Gibson

We've been purchasing trees and planting throughout the park.

Dan Hill

This is a place to start. It's the first planting of something to grow.

Matt Diersen

Sometimes you have to roll with the price increases. There's not too much you can do in terms of foregoing planting or harvesting a crop.

Alan Bailey

There will be no planting for safety's sake, but we will accommodate (supervisors) regarding the stenciled concrete.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

E. O. Wilson

There is no population in there. It's deserted.

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Charlie Roberts

The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

Edward Zwick

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Alan Watts

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

Howard Eisen

Wait until you see the science that is going to come back from this mission. It's going to know your socks off.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

Dmitri Mendeleev

When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

Dmitri Mendeleev

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Pete Carroll

He's been to the mountaintop, so to speak,

Ben Jonson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Source Unknown

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

Horace

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Heath Ledger

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

David Doniger

Look for the U.S. to use a variety of strategies to try to veto consensus.