Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felipe Alou

We have no control on what's going to happen. He could be acquired by another team or he could just walk away from us. That would be a setback for us, because we know he is capable of pitching well, and he could end up doing it for someone else.

Selman Waksman

In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry.

Hashemi Rafsanjani

We are not bothering anyone, but we have acquired nuclear expertise and we want to benefit from it to improve our life.

David Simons

We are pleased to report another quarter of strong financial and operational results, as well as the completion of several activities that position us well for 2006. During the fourth quarter of 2005 we opened one new development project, entered into a land development joint venture, acquired interests in two regional malls, sold twelve non-core retail real estate assets, issued $1.1 billion of unsecured notes at attractive coupons, and expanded and extended our corporate credit facility on more favorable terms. In addition, our development program continues to proceed with six projects under construction. We are also pleased to announce today an 8.6 % increase in our common stock dividend.

Robert Ecker

We are pleased to have acquired basic cable rights to this significant and important documentary that sheds considerable light upon the often neglected achievements of African-Americans in motor sports.

George Bodenheimer

We've acquired wide-ranging rights to fuel all of the multimedia business of ESPN that today number over a dozen and will continue to grow.

Sean Payton

We've acquired some players because it was an area we felt like we needed to improve and whether or not it's finished there, it's probably too early to say. Some of these guys we've been able to sign we're getting a good look at now and some have more experience than others.

Katharine Graham

When in 1969 I became publisher of the 'Washington Post' as well as president of the company, my plate was fuller than ever. I had partly worked myself into the job but not, except for rare occasions, taken hold. I had acquired some sense of business but still relied on others more than most company presidents did.

Xavier Chambon

We want to put books in everyone's hands.

Ron Cooper

We have no problem with the audit. Our books are open to everyone.

James Patterson

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Joseph Annotti

There is case after case on the books that have upheld the validity of flood exclusion language, exactly the language Mr. Scruggs is contesting.

Joe King

When I'm not playing football, I'm usually studying. I want to go to college, so I got to keep reading books and doing my homework.

A. S. Byatt

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Mark Frauenfelder

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

Jessica Abel

When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.

Terry Zwigoff

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.

Stephan Pastis

A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.

Stephan Pastis

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

John Hitchcock

When I was a kid, there were no comic shops anywhere. I used to walk all over downtown Greensboro with the money from my paper route, going from the newsstands to the drugstores and hotels, looking for comics. I used to dream that just around the next corner I would find a store that sold nothing but comics.

John Hitchcock

When I was a kid, there were no comic shops anywhere, ... I used to walk all over downtown Greensboro with the money from my paper route, going from the newsstands to the drugstores and hotels, looking for comics. I used to dream that just around the next corner I would find a store that sold nothing but comics.

Tracy Hickman

There is a scene in one comic from the '60s-'70s where Batman finds a film, a newsreel film, of his father. This newsreel film is from the '50s, and his father has come to this costume ball in a Zorro costume, which strangely enough looks a lot like a Batman suit in the footage.

Dane Cook

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

Alan Moore

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

Alan Turing

The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

Don Bluth

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

Don Bluth

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

William Shakespeare

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

Bryan Davis

If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?

Diana Wynne Jones

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

Madeleine Albright

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

Aristotle

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

Arthur Miller

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

Jesse Spencer

I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice.

Amanda Hocking

I don’t know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier.” I shrugged. “You didn’t have electricity down there.” “It’s for dramatic effect.” Loki gestured widely. “It’s a dungeon.

Vin Diesel

The more you know about the Dungeons and Dragons, the more you'll see the thought process that went into the Chronicles of Riddick mythology.

Jeremy Shada

I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.

Jeaniene Frost

No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner,

Thomas Middleditch

I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Jonah Goldberg

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Isabella Rossellini

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Scott Westerfeld

Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Matt McGorry

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

Bregje Heinen

I do like to walk a lot. Mostly in New York. When I'm going somewhere, I'd rather just walk there.

Bernhard Goetz

I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels.

Bill Owen

I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

Rick Vaughn

Whenever things like this pop up, we try to be there.

Charlotte Bronte

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility ...

John McCrae

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Charlie Roberts

The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.