Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

Benjamin Franklin

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Samuel Johnson

Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is

David Schwartz

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Daniel Kammen

Making ethanol from corn is a good thing if you want to offset fossil fuels from overseas. On the greenhouse gas side of things, it is not clear if corn, as grown today, is a good thing. We just don't know yet, but it appears to be a mildly good thing.

Doug Henning

Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.

Harry Reid

Let's find out if he's qualified, both from a perspective of his experience, which appears to be the case, but I don't know about his temperament.

Vernon Keenan

Several of the victims have suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the infant appears to have been strangled,

Steven Aftergood

Secrecy seems to be the default here. It appears the judge wants to discourage media coverage.

O. Singh

Let the Union Cabinet speak with one voice over the issue and then we will react. There are major differences between Congress leaders and Cabinet ministers over the issue.

Mary Isselhard

Many of the cabinet cards are from the 1890s and when I look for them I try to find cards that show the children in their period clothing.

Alberto Bernal

Mr Lavagna was one of the few members of the Cabinet that seemed to have some understanding of the concerns and interests of investors.

Nabil Amr

From now on we will have two authorities and most likely this will lead to a clash. The struggle will be between the president's office on the one hand and the parliament and cabinet on the other.

Stephen Harper

We were committed at the time of the convention, and through the last debate, to put a free vote to the next Parliament on this issue, ... It will be a genuinely free vote when I am prime minister. I will not whip the cabinet; cabinet can vote as they want.

John Woods

I have a very clear idea of how executive cabinet runs because of the position I hold now. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see more participation next year.

David Cunliffe

I have never commented on a caucus issue or a shadow Cabinet issue, and I'm not about to start now.

Reg Empey

She was a larger-than-life figure. She was not the stuffy type of traditional cabinet minister.

Bruce Golding

Simpson Miller has been, indeed, like all the other contenders are - persons that are a part of the Cabinet which over the past many years has pursued a set of policies which have not produced the set of results that the country wants.

Robert Teeter

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

Marco Brambilla

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

Herb Perone

Life insurance was created to be an instant estate in the event of the premature death of the breadwinner.

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Bill Bixby

Luck has created much of what I have today, but at the same time, I haven't sat still.

Mark Mahaney

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares. Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Mark Mahaney

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares, ... Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Jeff Greene

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Guru Nanak

Let him exert himself to the utmost in order to increase his property in a righteous manner, and let him zealously give food to all created beings.

Charles H. Townes

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

Rig Veda

One who follows the path of virtuosity need not be worried about wealth as it comes to him naturally without making efforts.

Mary Schindler

She cries, she laughs and she follows me around the room. She laughs at her dad's jokes. Each day is different.

Yehuda Berg

To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one does ones work; one follows one's dream; one shares, tries not to judge, no matter what.

Laura Harring

In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

Andy Reid

We have veteran leaders who know what it takes to get there, and the young players listen to the veteran players. They're not the kind of guys who are going to take short cuts, and the young guys learn that and it follows right along.

Jane Goodall

On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring - these chimp families that I knew so well - there was hardly a day when I didn't learn something new about them.

Gary Wolf

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

Buddha

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

John Wilson

I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.

Laurence Glasco

She was a remarkable lady in her own right.

William Shakespeare

And nothing is, but what is not.

William Shakespeare

To beguile the time, look like the time.

Carine Roitfeld

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

Patrick Moynihan

We're going to send to the Senate not only the first lady of the land, but she will be the first lady of New York,

Rick Vymlatil

Years ago at this fair, I had a promoter tell me he could get me a young lady named Reba McEntire. I could've got her for $5,000, but we wanted big names that year, so we passed.

Sherri Shepherd

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

Ang Lee

I remember thinking to myself 'Does he have a lady thing with her?'.

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Michael Ritchie

If we don't do it, it will be lost to history. Plays like this were a big part of the theatrical landscape for a long time.

George Eliot

Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Richard Nichols

We feel as though the town is at a turning point. If we don't slow things down now, these lands could be lost forever.

Bridget Riley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Brian Setzer

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

Gale Norton

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Jim McKelvey

I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

Eleanora Duse

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Bob Goodenow

I feel very strongly that we've done our share. Frankly, we're still waiting for our partner to step up.

Tony Fadell

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.

Lauren Miller

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

Arianna Huffington

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Brian Greene

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Mark Hurd

I think you'll see us trying to be more precision-oriented in terms of who we partner with,

Francesco Rutelli

Let those who won be put in the position to govern.

Kelly DeFeciani

Sharon's position will be replaced immediately in May by the person who comes in third.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Kenenisa Bekele

My getting to this position is something that doesnt completely surprise me at this point,

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

Terry Carmack

She supports the president's position when she agrees with him and stands up to the president when she doesn't.

Ledawn Gibson

She can do it all. She can play any position on the court, one through five.

Claude Tyler

She had a will to compete. She would play any position for us, one through five.

Tom Lehman

I'd like to be in a position to give my spot up if I had to.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Harry Reid

We know the questions that must be asked, ... Now we need answers.

Mike McCurry

Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Mark Norell

There are still a lot of big questions about what they would have eaten.

Robert Rennie

I'd be surprised if the BOJ raises rates at all this year and that is something that will tend to see the yen underperforming.

Dave Barry

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Alan Dershowitz

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

Anne McCaffrey

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

Guenther Hujara

Bode raises the question, but there is not a question.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Kate Christensen

I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

Frank McDonald

You're working, but we're not getting as many raises as we used to.

Tony Sabatino

Scott is a special player. He does it all.

David Wright

No one's going to be selfish. Not this year. We can have a special year with all the talent we have here.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Bill Cowher

I can't say enough about our special teams. To me, that was the only thing that was on today. We didn't play well enough offensively or defensively.

Bill Cowher

I can't say enough about our special teams.

Ai-jen Poo

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

Avery Cutshaw

I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.

Kelis

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

Bill Cowher

We didn't play well enough offensively and defensively, but I can't say enough about our special teams.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Peter Jackson

Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating,