Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michele Ganeless

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Jeremy Roenick

We have no confidence in our ability and no confidence that we are doing it right. We just made too many mistakes. We are afraid of failure and doing something wrong.

Mary Schapiro

We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.

Brian Peterson

What the people want is to be able to go to the registry in the evenings and on weekends. The way we can do that is to have more employees at one location and staggering the shifts. We don't have that ability right now.

Sean Organ

Whenever we needed a lift, Rosie gave us a spark. She's tough inside and has the ability to handle the ball in the open floor. She's also able to hold the other team's best player in check.

Joe Torre

When he goes to the mound and says something to a pitcher, he's speaking from experience. He's telling the pitcher what he's supposed to feel like, because he's been out there in key situations. He has the ability to get that across.

Jeff Stover

When he gets them there, he's a guy who can keep them on their back. He just has that ability when he gets a kid onto his back. He has some horsepower.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities. If they don't have the ability to secure our salaries and to guarantee good living conditions for the people, they either have to step aside or to ask the people what the next step must be. They cannot act alone.

Scott Carlson

We want people to know that a strong Pioneer Press is a crucial part of keeping the city of St. Paul strong. Some possible buyers would weaken the paper simply to squeeze out increasing profits ? and that would seriously hinder the paper's ability to serve the community.

Temple Grandin

I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.

Temple Grandin

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

Temple Grandin

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

Temple Grandin

When I was a little child I had problems with eating in the cafeteria. The chairs would be jerking in and out, and there was a noise overload.

Edward Tufte

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Lawrence Lessig

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

Lawrence Lessig

As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.

Lawrence Lessig

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Seth Lloyd

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

Edward Tufte

The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence.

Andre Previn

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

Amartya Sen

The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.

Paul Kim

From an analytical perspective you're thinking '2 percent sucks,' ... But it's like the pink elephant in the room. Everyone knows it's there.

Daryl Morey

The reason that opportunity exists is because the ownership groups buying teams are very different than in the past. The franchise is their primary asset, and they come from backgrounds with an analytical focus such as venture capital, private equity, and management consulting. In the past, sports franchises were secondary assets in the portfolio of individuals who made their money in industrial-based businesses.

Michael Fitzgerald

We asked a very simple question, but the experiments were not only very time-consuming but also required careful attention to analytical detail. And she got it done.

Xavier Niel

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

Noah Baumbach

It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum.

Edward Sapir

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

Mark Klein

We use statistics to analyze the transaction records of every customer.

Yevgeny Primakov

We did not look at concrete loans, amounts and a time for them to be delivered, ... It was important for us that the fund chief come to Moscow and analyze and assess the situation.

Jane Harman

The point of it is to understand fully how we collected, analyzed and presented intelligence ... and what responsibility the intelligence community had to correct misinformation by policymakers,

Lucy McFadden

Would we want to do the same thing to a different type of comet? I don't want to answer that question until we have analyzed the results from this comet. It depends on what picture we piece together from observing beneath this comet's surface,

James Patrick

When I analyze it, I never would've dreamed of playing as long as I have and I'm excited about taking this next step.

Francesca Dominici

When we analyzed the data for heart failure, we observed a 1.28 percent increase in admissions for each 10 microgram per cubic meter increase in fine particle pollution. Most of these admissions increases occurred the same day as the rise in fine particle concentration, which suggests a short lag time between the change in pollution and the subjects' response.

Francesca Dominici

When we analyzed the data for heart failure, we observed a 1.28% increase in admissions for each 10 mg per cubic meter increase in fine-particle pollution. Most of these admissions increases occurred the same day as the rise in fine-particle concentration, which suggests a short lag time between the change in pollution and the subjects? response.

Jens Ploetner

Military and police specialists analyzed the video tape throughout the night.

Robert Menzies

Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

Jeff Roberts

We have permission to apply for buildings up to six stories in several locations, and this is one of those locations.

Kevin Preston

We've seen a tremendous number of great people applying for positions.

Boyd Peterson

The fact of the matter is that you can apply some discipline that gives you a range of success, but given the number of factors that ultimately contribute to success or failure of a movie, at best this model is only going to give you an idea.

Curtis Hanson

The fact is that people have started to dismissively apply that term to stories that focus on women and their relationships,

Linda Chavez

The problem with the whole issue is that both sides need to be accommodated. There does need to be better border security for national security purposes, but in my view you cannot have better border security until you deal with the problem of finding a way for people to immigrate legally. People are not crossing the border risking life and limb to do so because they're too lazy to go down to the visa office and apply legally.

Michael Friedman

There are a lot of challenges about applying these new treatments, ... You need the right treatment, the right patient, the right circumstances.

Tommy Williams

We set up a $100 million grant program that districts could apply for, ... Teachers could apply for $3,000 in extra pay if they would teach in chronically low-performing schools. It was an incentive to get good teachers into tough schools. It was a pretty good reform bill that just didn't pass, but we made progress as we went along.

Travis Bradberry

Get to know the job intimately that you're applying for. Don't just read the job description - study it and picture yourself performing every task required of you. When you interview, framing your responses so that you reveal your significant knowledge about the job gives you a massive advantage.

Tracy McMillan

Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Charlie Chaplin

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Apparat

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Tommy Wiseau

I always say that you don't have to like 'The Room', but you will discover something - maybe a tiny little thing - and say, 'Wait a minute, maybe I want to see more.'

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

Thomas Heatherwick

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

Tony Hawk

When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

E. P. Thompson

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

Cameron Russell

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

Julia Glass

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

Gretchen Rubin

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Bob Moulton

We're making a transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Inventory is starting to swell.

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

Bill Cosby

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

Larry Rice

The parts are worth more than the whole.

Steve Daignault

We need to get the other parts on.

Jim Tracy

We need to get him back to where he is completely functional, rather than seeing parts of him here and there.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Brian Greene

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Daniel Handler

Everybody has a theory.

Bo Burnham

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Observation always involves theory.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

M. Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting.

Alan Furst

My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.