Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kazinsky

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.

Malorie Blackman

I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

Auggie Tantillo

Manipulated currency, non-performing loans made by Chinese state-run banks, intellectual property theft and other state-sponsored subsidies are the driving forces behind the job-destroying US trade deficit with China.

Andy Roberts

Like all the other territories, Jamaica is well behind in its preparation and there is a lot of work to be done.

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set it us back. On the next shift they scored another one to put us behind the 8-ball.

Jared Dudley

Making the Sweet 16 is a dream come true. Now we need to put it behind us and get ready for the next game.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Make no mistake. We face a very difficult job once we get the pomp behind us tomorrow,

Joel Edgerton

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

Shaun Alexander

Mack Strong is the difference between us and the Philadelphia Eagles. We can get behind him and run all day.

Zhang Yimou

Love that can be explained is not love.

Debbie Roth

My daughter's pretty upset about the moving. It's hard to explain it to a 7-year-old.

Hicham Guerrouj

My father told me it was not a job, that I wouldn't make a living at tennis, ... The toughest part was trying to explain to him that I could be the first one from Morocco to do it. But he didn't want me to play. We didn't talk for a year. That was when I knew I couldn't fail. I had to show him it was the right decision. It was a great motivation.

D. James

I can't explain what happened. I really don't know what to say.

Grant Laman

I can't explain the misses. That never happens. But something was on our side and we pulled it out.

Steve Ford

I can't explain that. I'm not disappointed. I'm really just a little embarrassed.

Lewis Carroll

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see

Yelena Isinbayeva

I can't explain my feelings, I love the run-up and the stadium here.

Chuck Davis

I can't explain it. We've been through a lot together. I'm just proud of those guys.

Granth Sahib

Lord and Master is lofty and exalted, grand and infinite

Charles Buckley

M y great grandma is a saintly sweet lady, but at the same time, she's grounded, strong and very spiritual.

Gia Coppola

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

Karen Carter

My grandma made it when she was old,

Shamir

My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.

Kim Clijsters

Maybe it wasn't my time yet in those Grand Slams. Everything happens for a reason.

Chris Wallace

Now when you say you have cooperated with the prosecutor, does that mean, in fact, that you spoke to investigators or to the grand jury?

Evan Lysacek

Obviously, this year there are some expectations on me to perform, but this is only my third Grand Prix of my life.

Eddie Vedder

I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um, it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam.

Shawn Garrett

Obviously we'd have liked to come here and win it the first time out. We shake it off and get ready for tomorrow.

Mary Matalin

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

Cheryl Tiegs

My father's name is Theodore, but that - it's always - I've always liked the name Theodore. I read a lot. It's in a lot of literature.

Bill Cowher

No, I kind of liked the ones he's had,

Stan Cliburn

Naturally, this wasn't the way we wanted to start. We would have liked to have put on a better show.

Kacy Catanzaro

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

Sami Abdulbari

One of the Clarksville d-lineman told me to keep it up. He liked the enthusiasm.

Luis Castillo

I would have liked to stay; I would have liked at least another year.

Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

Tom Tremont

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

Richard P. Feynman

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Dan Shechtman

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

Barbara Thompson

LWS is kind of science with an edge.

Carol Licko

Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.

Dennis Flanagan

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

Dennis Flanagan

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Democritus

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

Democritus

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Democritus

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Alan Perlis

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Dylan Moran

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

Cate Blanchett

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

Jencarlos Canela

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

John Grisham

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

Jude Law

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.

Jerry Seinfeld

I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

Chris Lowe

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

George Jones

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

Margaret D. Nadauld

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

Billy Porter

For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'