Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'

Neil Cornish

Several years ago we showed that any finite universe in which light had time to 'wrap around' since the Big Bang would have the same pattern of cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations around pairs of circles.

Sam Johnson

Seniors provide us with a background of knowledge and experience that in this booming economy, where you can't find workers, they can fill the gaps and make companies whole again.

Bob Newman

Mike Mullen has a background in grant writing and that's what we'll be needing. Everyone is very impressed with how much the mayor is up to speed on this project.

Bruce Babbitt

Mistakes began with the preparation of the prescribed fire plan, ... Had those calculations been properly done, there would have been a larger background personnel and support (team on hand).

Rep Clymer

No one should be working until those background checks are completed.

Laurie Graham

My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.

Ella Eyre

My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.

Adrian Holovaty

My background is pretty evenly split between journalism, databases and computer programming, and this was an opportunity to combine all three. My goal for the project was to create a useful resource for Chicagoans.

Peter Smerdon

We're not crying wolf. This is a very real crisis, and it is undoubtedly going to be very painful. We hope that donors will come up with cash soon, so that we can restore full rations.

Wanda Stanfill

Mainly it's a storage problem. It's a lot easier to handle cash to provide immediate services for clients, and we can also be more specific with our help.

Lynn Lawrance

Make sure you leave enough cash value to keep the policy in force or you could get a nasty tax bill.

James Prince

Many of the donor programs have not only been ineffective, they have harmed the economy. Cash is not the issue. What you need is investor confidence.

Ross Howard

Many times, they will take it, stamp it and cash that check right away.

Jeff Nobers

So far this year, we've donated in excess of $2.5 million in materials and cash to Habitat for Humanity on a national basis.

Carl Sibilski

McDonald's has run out of high return places to invest cash like they did over the last 50 years, so the prudent decision is just give it back to shareholders.

Bill Haynie

Me and my wife put a family of five in a hotel seven or eight nights. It's kind of hard to imagine waking up one day and losing everything. They were sleeping on a floor in a relative's house. My wife, Judy, gave them some cash to go by some essentials. Hopefully they're on the road to recovery.

John Herrlin

One needs to remember that production disruption insurance usually doesn't start until 90 days elapse from outage, so some companies could stand to lose meaningful cash flow if their facilities are affected.

Robert Osborne

Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.

Marc Morial

A great American city is fighting for its life.

David Keller

Light rail has given Salt Lake City a new kind of ambience. It feels like a real city.

Michael Stern

Like in every city, some are healthy, some suffer. We try to establish a criteria and separate one mega city from another. The crucial points we look for are that the city has to be a critical place (whether regionally or globally speaking) and it needs to have a critical system which the entire city depends on,

Mike Woods

Life in the city is schedule after schedule.

Jennifer Post

Making it easier for people to travel throughout the metropolitan region includes giving them confidence about knowing how to use mass transit. And because thousands of people travel in and out of New York City every day to the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and New Jersey, it makes perfect sense for us to take a broad, regional approach.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas has always gotten an F (in those areas). Someday I hope the city will quit criminalizing homelessness and they'll get off the list.

Peter Ueberroth

Leaders who aren't on the radar will emerge. If the city is going to recover, they must emerge.

Jim Brandt

Many of the previous powers the City Council enjoyed are now largely irrelevant under the current conditions.

Bob DuPuy

MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.

Rhianna Pratchett

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Daniel Stern

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Adam Lamberg

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

Dr. Chauvet

No one wanted to loan me anything. My numbers were small because I was just starting. I used all my savings, and my parents loaned me money. I was able to pay them back fairly quickly.

Grant Williams

News Corp's fairly firm so it's taking some of the red out the index.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Kylie Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Clint Eastwood

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

Gregory Smith

We need to wait a month or two until our finances are clear.

Dr. Katz

There are minimal differences between races. We make a mistake thinking we're all that different from each other. The differences in our health are more related to lifestyle, education, finances and poverty than they are to genetics.

Jan Hatzius

There is a more plausible explanation for the spending slowdown, namely the withdrawal of fiscal and monetary stimulus from a household sector whose finances remain stretched,

Mayor Bingham

I will be giving a harsh look at all the finances in the city.

Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

Mitchell Daniels

The government's finances are in extraordinarily strong shape.

Bob Hatcher

Finances and scholarships will all take a different form.

John Hutton

We will not put the long-term stability of the public finances at risk,

Albert Schweitzer

What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity.

George Harrison

Life flows on within you and without you.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Charles Jones

Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you're getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities.

Ken Bacon

many of the tankers are flown by reservists.

Renee Shepherd

Self-sown flowers provide a lot of serendipity, which is one of the reasons people garden. When they come up, it's a delight.

Gabriella Goddard

Nature has a way of reminding us, that all things great and small,ebb and flow in rhythm with the heartbeat of her call.

Osamu Takashima

Money should flow into Japanese government bonds, including from foreign investors. It wouldn't be surprising for the recent rise in yen interest rates, which had been ignored by the market until now, to garner attention.

Tom Foreman

My girls were mesmerized by Baker. They just couldn't get in the flow of the game. We couldn't run our offense. We couldn't run the press because the girls weren't in the right places to press. They just got mesmerized by her, and that told the tale of the game right there.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

Robert Palmer

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

Albert Schweitzer

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Gopal Ahluwalia

Like all of us, as you grow old you need more maintenance and more fixing.

David Watson

Make your day what you want it to be. What's special is loving each other and growing as a couple.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Kevin Regan

Last year was the first time we did this tournament and it successfully raised nearly $3,000. We want to grow it this year knowing the more we raise the better for the Le Mars community.

Ren Jing

Many people laughed at us in the beginning. They asked, 'Why are you spending so much money just to grow grapes?' But they aren't laughing now.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Infosys, with the rest of the Indian IT industry, has transformed the image of India around the world, transformed the image of Indian professionals, creating huge opportunities for them.

Steve Denney

Lots of wheels are in motion right now. This is a huge project involving lots of activities.

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Ian Forrester

One thing that perhaps isn't appreciated in the West is the huge potential that we have here.

Joe Gibbs

Now you've positioned yourself to play big games, ... This was huge for us, really a big deal.

Barbara Ryan

Obviously, it's a huge market and it's growing.

Peter Greene

Obviously, these stocks have had a huge run-up. The theory is to sell on the news. That's what's occurring is you're selling on the news.

Mark Slonaker

Obviously that five-point play was a huge momentum switch. It's disappointing. Then we couldn't make the plays to stay even after the five-point play.

Joseph Boyden

When I look in the mirror, I don't say 'I'm an Indian'. It's not a huge part of my make-up but a huge part of who I am.

Jennifer McMahon

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.

Lupe Fiasco

We've done shows - we'll be in Dublin, and it will be nonstop pandemonium to the point where you think the crowd is going to implode, because they're making so much noise and they're so excited.

Scott Eastwood

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

Ed Belfour

The more noise, the higher I get.

William Shakespeare

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

Edwin Way Teale

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

Ben Affleck

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.

Jane Austen

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Diane Duane

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

Timothy Noah

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Eleanor Clift

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Dan Aykroyd

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

Oliver St. John

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Oliver Kahn

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

Sergei Lavrov

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Richard Williams

Now the question is 'What is the right price for the shares?'.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Michael Gartenberg

The price sounds reasonable and should resonate with consumers,

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

John Simley

If we're going to make this work, the price must be transparent to the consumer.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Monica Seles

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.