Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Lewis

Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine.

Diana Aviv

Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating when they were teens.

Steve Snyder

Our operations benefited from good but not great market conditions. Electricity prices and spark spreads, particularly in Alberta and the (U.S.) Pacific Northwest were reasonably strong in January and February but began to trend downward in March.

Ralph Friedgen

Our defense was on the field too long, and they began to wear down as the game went on.

Yang Yang

Starting in 1999, I began to join some of the international meetings. Through these activities, I have broadened my horizon to a large extent.

Courtney Pratt

Our results reflect the softening in North American demand and pricing that began in the third quarter of last year and that has continued well into 2005.

Ross Miller

Ours began in 1938 in the Methodist church for the Boy Scouts.

Chris Riddell

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.

Kate Christensen

Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

Kurt Barnard

Rebates are wonderful to the extent that they are executed, regardless of the deficit.

Tom Masters

People have been quite dissatisfied with the extent of consultation that has taken place.

Anthony Chukumba

I was a little surprised that the fourth quarter guidance at the mid-point is a little weaker than people were looking for ... but to some extent that?s nit-picking.

Robert Herzfeld

The allegations are despicable, ... The suspects will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Matt Mullenweg

I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.

Dr. Roberts

I think time will tell to what extent he recovers from this.

Jim King

I think to the extent that property values go up out there it will have nothing to do with the arena.

Norman Mineta

I think that's just a swag and so to that extent I don't think that will be the case.

Paul Williams

It is likely that many of the organizations reporting an intrusion did not realize the duration, extent or severity of the intrusion, or detected only a portion of multiple separate intrusions during the reporting period.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Alex Smith

Our school system needs a fully funded gifted program.

Ann Combs

Our view is the plans should be fully funded and that means 100 percent funded.

Mike Cooper

I think the staff is taking it hardest. Kids don't fully understand the importance of what's happening to them. I think reality is going to set in this week.

Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire: I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok?

Joe Biden

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Russ Diamond

I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.

Khaled Hosseini

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

William Ackman

I think McDonald's is doing the right thing and we fully support it.

Rick Harper

It doesn't make sense to think of them as two counties. They are joined at the hip.

Rosemary Palmer

He was persuaded that if he joined the Marines he would get a new sense of purpose.

Michelle Ryan

I was shy and really into my school work and my drama. Then I joined 'EastEnders' at 16, and it was work, work, work. You become very isolated. I rarely went out and so didn't get to meet anyone.

Eduard Limonov

He has joined us without any conditions. Yegor stands for red, Soviet-style nationalism.

Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

Richard Adams

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Bill Campbell

Since she joined us, we haven't lost a match. She really makes a difference.

Will Poulter

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Raymond Mason

Sure it's frustrating when you lose, but you can't use being young as an excuse. When you're learning, there's always something new to unfold and you find the right way to do your job. We know we can still be better this season.

Michelle Young

Some of our players will only have been with us a day, so it should be a real learning experience,

Willie Slater

We need a lot of work. We're learning. It's a learning process.

Bertrand Russell

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Seth Numrich

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

Mark Rogers

That was the toughest part, learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Bill Clinton

I think we all ought to be questioning all the time and learning and growing. And I think that's what we need, but it's not my deal, I don't think.

Floyd Reese

I think rightly or wrongly from my standpoint, you like to see someone who has been through it. When you get through the postseason, it's a different world. If you've never been there, it's a learning curve. You have to learn and understand it. If someone has been through it on several occasions or just once, they step in with some advantage.

Dusty Baker

It embarrassed me into learning how to get the signs,

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Aleksandar Hemon

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Floyd Skloot

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

Alan Furst

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Joss Whedon

Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was more interesting to me than a kind of contained, rote superhero franchise.