Famous Quotes & Sayings

National Institute

Machines this small tend to stick to everything they touch, the way sand sticks to your feet after a day at the beach, ... So we built these microrobots without any wheels or hinged joints, which must slide smoothly on their bearings. Instead, these robots move by bending their bodies like caterpillars. At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

Nanette White

We're doing the best we can. There's a lot of bending that must be done, but it's being done as quickly and efficiently as it can be.

Ernest Jones

Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.

Albert Camus

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

Douglas Horton

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Christie Brinkley

When I am brushing my teeth, I'm bending my leg behind me, or I'm lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I'm squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I'm washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.

Lloyd Roberts

For this to happen between brothers that's just bending the limits of probability. It's a true tragedy.

Glen Cook

We kept bending a little bit, but we never broke. And that was the key, giving a little bit but not giving it all.

David Suchet

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Aisha Tyler

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

Aisha Tyler

I like grown up comedy.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Bernie Mac

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Bernie Mac

Comedy has been so good to me.

Bernie Mac

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Alexandra Adornetto

I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.

Anatole Broyard

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

Jennifer Lawrence

Being inappropriate comes easy to me.

Gilbert Gottfried

I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.

Lauren Oliver

I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.

Helen Hunt

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

Will Ferrell

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

Leslie Easterbrook

I can be inappropriate at times.