Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rich Sommer

Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of moments where you get to interact on a completely different level. You all agree to these abstract rules, but there's nobody holding a gun to your head.

Richard Shelton

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Samuel Coleridge

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.

Chris Peterson

Restoring the canyon is no longer an abstract notion now that people can actually experience its beauty.

C. S. Lewis

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm the computational method for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm -- the computational method -- for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Steve Morgan

I thought it was upturned tables. But when I got closer I realized it was definitely art because it's bolted to the ground. And on further inspection it looks like somebody's car, an abstract version of somebody's car.

Grant Smith

If I painted him I would probably just paint like his eye -- completely just beet red because it had some many drugs in it or something. Or maybe just a zoom in on a forearm or something ... just where it looks like an abstract painting but it's just veins.

J. M. Roberts

Part of professionalism extends to the quality of the shop's appearance.

Mike McCabe

That creates the appearance of government for sale. It feeds a growing public suspicion that campaign donors are treated differently, that they're given favors in state government. Of course that has an enormous corrosive effect on public confidence in our state government.

Anthony Ricco

Other than the interpreters' booths, the courtroom has the normal appearance of a multi-defendant trial.

Jamie Pollard

Other than the Anthony Davis piece, I don't think (Iowa State) did anything wrong. But the fact that we're associated with something that certainly has the appearance that is less than desirable ... that's a concern.

Evan Steinberg

Planning's already begun for many future jerseys. I wouldn't be surprised if T.J. were to make an appearance in 2006.

Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Robert Huang

Jeanette Lee's appearance fee rose to US$10,000 per day this year. We weren't prepared to pay that type of money for her to play.

Jerry Bell

Jay has been valuable in the growth of KKZN not only on-air but because of his personal-appearance work.

Mark Twain

Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.

Publius Tacitus

Reason and calm judgment: the qualities especially belonging to a leader.

W. Hull

Our open spaces can be saved while at the same time our public schools receive fair value for the trust land that belongs to our students.

Breakfast tiffany's

Sure. Sure. He's okay. Aren't you, Cat? Poor old Cat. Poor slob. Poor slob without a name. I don't have the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is, but I know what it's like. It's like Tiffany's.

Jessica Ward

Some of the great success of the book belongs to Nancy Marion, who gave us our look.

James Bay

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

Joel Kotkin

Some of those industries have gone away, but some have migrated to other more energetic places. Look at Houston. It was nothing at the start of the 20th century, (but) now it has the port business and the energy industry that used to belong to New Orleans.

Kacey McNulty

Someone is going to the finals who won?t belong there, and someone in the consolation bracket will have to wrestle a guy (McCoy) who is ranked No. 1 in the state.

Mike Riley

Our secondary has a chance to make a big improvement. The secondary needs help from the linebackers and the rush. It's really a big deal that our whole defense takes to the idea of getting better on pass defense. Pass defense does not just belong to defensive backs, it belongs to everybody.

Mark Everson

Our goal is to get this money back in the hands of the people it belongs to,

Jason Wu

I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.

Richard Branson

It is a distinct possibility and it is not just to the States.

Sathya Baba

GOD is neither distant, nor distinct from you.

Kimberley Nixon

I always think my face is quite nondescript - it sort of fits in to any period. It's not really distinct enough for you to remember me from something.

Dennis Lillee

I got the distinct impression Warne was the pseudo captain,

Asha Bhosle

There is a distinct lack of efforts on the part of the singers, as a result of which the songs being rendered are sans tone and emotions

Sathya Baba

Mind is a wonder,It has no distinct form or shape.

Jules Verne

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

John Wesley Powell

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.

Bill Sienkiewicz

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed

Bill Cosby

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Bill Cosby

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

C. S. Lewis

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends...

Carl Rogers

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

Bergen Evans

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

Bill Vaughan

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.

Bill Bruford

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

Arlen Specter

Judge Roberts, I'm not talking about an issue. I'm talking about the essence of jurisprudence.

Rick Springfield

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

Aleksandr Sebryakov

Relationship is more than love, but it's all about love.

Daren Kagasoff

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

Samari Rolle

Our relationship is more like brothers. He's kind of like my big brother,

Jim Hagan

Our relationship didn't change, ... I could still walk right into his office.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

B. R. Ambedkar

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Alfred North Whitehead

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Barry Commoner

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Charles Stanley

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Dave Barry

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

Chow Yun-Fat

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Jack Kerouac

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

Karl Marx

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are