Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.

Tyler Cowen

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom.

Mariella Frostrup

I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.

Nick Harkaway

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

Feroze Mohamed

Since brain activation is arguably less susceptible to being controlled by an individual, our research will hopefully eliminate the shortcomings of the conventional polygraph test and produce a new method of objective lie detection that can be used reliably in a courtroom or other setting.

Dennis Franchione

Mike is probably one of the nation's elite running backs, and arguably the top running back in the state of Texas. One of the things that sticks out to me is that he's a pretty complete back coming out of high school.

Scott Sharp

She's arguably the best on-track package there is in racing.

Ron Jaworski

I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America.

Shane Warne

But when it's Glenn McGrath, arguably the best fast bowler in the world, you want to give him every chance to play and if that means it's a last-minute decision then it's a last-minute decision.

Gail Shearer

Whenever you have confusion like this in the marketplace, it opens up opportunities for fraud. People will really have to make sure they're dealing with reputable entities.

Charles de Lint

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

Barbara Smith

There is a lot of confusion right now, and this just makes it worse.

Bill Rucker

There is no doubt confusion played a role in the first day.

Byron Katie

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Eric Walters

At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.

Chogyam Trungpa

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Brian Molko

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

David Lawson

We have scheduled this every year for about five years. It is a routine thing now.

John Potter

We have music tonight but there are four or five people here. I don't know how much longer we can do this.

Mark Shapiro

We want him to pitch every five days.

Tony Russa

We've seen Roy four or five times this year. They've seen Mulder four times. It's not really going to be stuff, it's going to be command; you know, do you locate your pitches?

Todd Davidson

We've seen in the last year here in the state, visitor expenditures grow 7.5%, which is our strongest rate of growth in the last five years.

Lindy Ruff

We've won three of our last five now. They've kind of turned the corner. Our play, our tempo, our offensive zone play is back.

Ghulam Rasool

We have recovered five bodies. They are in many pieces.

Michael Cheika

We've still got five games left to play in the pool. We've got to win them all, but we are not giving up.

Greg Smith

We have so many different weapons. When you talk about a team, you need to have four or five individuals you can go to. That's what we're good at - we can come at you so many different ways.

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

Brian McClennan

We have no stars in our camp. For us to win we have to have 17 guys playing well." ()

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

Rodney Harrison

We have so many veteran guys like Willie McGinest, Mike Vrabel, Richard Seymour, Larry Izzo, guys that have been in the fire. We lose those two guys (Bruschi and Johnson), but other guys have really stepped up to really meet that challenge.

Robbie Reiser

When everyone had written us out of the chase, that spurred these guys on, and we weren't going to go down without a fight.

Avery Johnson

We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks.

Gary Tague

We were a young team that just missed on some things last year. This year, most of those guys are back.

Carol Vorderman

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Carlos Mencia

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

Carlos Ghosn

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

C. S. Lewis

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

C. S. Lewis

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Agnes Repplier

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Aaron Stanford

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Alan K. Simpson

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.