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.

Joe Biden

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Yes, I have a website that puts out conservative news. Yes, I am part owner of a gun company. Yes, I'm a Republican who was cast into the limelight for having the temerity to confront Barack Obama on the question of redistributing wealth... But I'm a working man, and I'm working.

Timothy Noah

Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

Jim Messina

We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!

Elliott Abrams

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Mark McKinnon

Obama killed Osama. Yes, President Barack Obama gets to crow about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Tom Brokaw

Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.

Tim Scott

One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.

Mitt Romney

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod, and the American people have tasted that, and said, 'Look, that's not a good taste.'

Isabella Rossellini

I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!

Hasidic Proverb

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men

Jane Brown

Lots of us expected the ice would go out today. While it hasn't been very warm, all the movement caused by the wind and the water rushing in from brooks, continued to melt and shift the ice until it finally moved enough for the clock to stop.

Bill Saunders

Last year's fuel price run-up and Middle East crises may have not only hurt American drivers' pocketbooks but also caused them to feel guilty about operating large, gas-only vehicles. Ethanol power not only allows owners to enjoy large vehicles, but it can also let them feel good about the domestic agricultural economy, American energy independence and the environment.

R. Inge

Many of the disasters and incidents that have occurred around the world have been caused by a corrupt turnstile operator.

David Gilmore

Meanwhile, public works spending has caused a mountain of future liabilities to pile up, and without United States-like growth rates, paying them off is simply not in the cards.

Don Arnold

No conclusion has been reached ... there's still no word what caused this.

Erika Slezak

Multiple personalities are never caused by some mild incident; they're always caused by trauma to the child, either sexual or physical abuse.

Keith Davis

My guess is that warm weather in January caused people to go out and work on their houses.

Kirk Cameron

I'm not the religious-conspiracy-theorist go-to guy, particularly. But I think it's really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out of the sky with some kind of an end-times theory.

Peter Gioia

Time does not always equate to production. Working smart does not equate to working long.

Jamal Mayers

We've seen in the past with teams who bolstered their lineup, it doesn't necessarily equate to success on the ice. So we've got to focus on ourselves and be prepared.

John Cohen

Pitching well in this league is not a velocity issue. A lot of people equate velocity with success, but that's not necessarily true. He knows what he can do.

Dr. Hedberg

Flexibility does not necessarily equate to great pay.

Rhys Ifans

If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.

Tommy Amaker

We need senior play right now, whatever that is. That doesn't just mean or equate to offensive play.

Mark Richt

You just didn't know if it was going to equate into victories or not. So far it has.

Andre Collins

That's the tough thing for the retired players, trying to equate their salaries with the salaries of today. It doesn't translate.

Jill Davis

We're not disputing the fact that it is power intensive, but you get a transportation fuel which is needed in our economy. So for what you give up you get a lot out.

Paul Mariani

Lyric poetry is by its very nature elegiac - we write about what in fact is already slipping away from us,

Tom Izzo

Let's not anoint us a finished product because we're not. But I like the steps we're taking. I like the fact that players are having some fun doing it.

Colum McCann

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

Perry Hill

Louie's value is the fact he can help a pitching staff.

Eric Christensen

Lee's not a factor for anything but shipping interests,

Eric Wold

Many of the factors that have negatively impacted sales over the past year are lessening.

John Casesa

Several factors should prevent an outright decline, as spending per unit will likely remain strong.

Yolanda Clark

missed the fact that this passenger was a positive match.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect. These guys are awesome. This is a farm team.

Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

Erica Mann Jong

Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.

Jason Breiholz

Making it as far as he did was incredible, and getting there and winning one match is incredible with the top 16 in the state.

Mike Levine

Licensees have gone as far as they can go,

Don Mattingly

Looks like he's just starting to tune it up a little bit. Hideki, he's just so solid as far as his work. He never gets out of his program. His work is the same if he's going good or if he's going bad.

Victor Murphy

Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.

Charlie Brown

Last year was a record year for us as far as we can tell.

Remi Oyo

We are in touch not only with the hostage takers but with the hostages themselves.

Brian Harrison

We're looking for bodies, and we're looking for a hostage taker.

Alexander Haig

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.

Graydon Carter

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

Alexander Yakovenko

Moscow sees no reason to submit the question of the Iranian nuclear program to the UN Security Council,

Tetsu Emori

Traders are looking at the Nigerian and Iranian issues. They don't like to sell at present.

Nicholas Burns

We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.

John Reid

The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,

Ray Takeyh

I think the Iranians are willing to live with ... a possible referral to the Security Council.

Mark Gwozdecky

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

Hassan Rouhani

When it comes to nuclear technology, the Iranian people are very sensitive. It is a part of our national pride, and nuclear technology has become indigenous.

Hassan Rouhani

The Iranian people, with regards to the policies of various American administrations in the past 30 years, are very worried. They don't trust them.

Hans Blix

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.

E. O. Wilson

Let's not make this a black-and-white issue. It's just a name change.

Granth Sahib

Serving the Guru, the Name is obtained, and one remains absorbed in the True Lord.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Judy Carter

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

Steve Farhood

One out of 15 was able to give me the name of one of the heavyweight champions. So that tells you a lot not only about the state of the heavyweight division, but also about the state of boxing.

Elizabeth McCracken

New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.

Charles Spurgeon

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Dennis Prager

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

Sharon Cody

I was raised with a sense of not throwing things away.

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

Tom Brady

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Justin Trudeau

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

Marshawn Lynch

I ain't never seen no talking winning nothing. Been like that since I was little. I was raised like that.

Richard Montanari

I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.

Ron Cole

We haven't raised our rates in 11 years.

Steve McNamara

We work out of a similar structure but all tinker about with it in different ways.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Thomas Doll

We've been in similar situations often this season.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Wang Guoliang

His voice and tone were similar to the secretary-general.

Ladell Betts

Hopefully, we can get something similar like we had in the first game, when we had a 1-2 punch,

Jordan Foreman

He has a big body, he's strong, so it's somewhat similar to what he (Davis) does. He's been a big help.

Oliver Luck

My sense is that we're going to have a similar crowd.

Dennis Rodman

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no beauty without some strangeness

Earl Nightingale

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

John A. Wheeler

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe.

Dean Stanley

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

Mira Nair

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Craig Venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Diane Kruger

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Dennis Rodman

I go out with white women. This...

Dennis Prager

Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

Dennis Prager

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

Dennis Franz

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

Dee Dee Myers

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Eleanor Clift

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Eldridge Cleaver

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

Kym Whitley

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.