Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Chinua Achebe

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

David R. Ellis

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Catherine the Great

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

John Segrich

Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Carol Jordan

There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.

Akio Morita

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

David Selby

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

Camille Paglia

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

Zeev Boim

We are making another turn by creating these zones, hoping the message will be learnt and that the launching squads will be stopped, but if there will be no alternative will have to turn it again.

Mitch Lasky

We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.

Marvin Avery

We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.

Heinrich Rohrer

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

Charles Koch

We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.

Lou Marcoccio

Many organizations have failures sitting in their systems, but they won't show up until they run the transactions.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Sebastian Thrun

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

Gary Stibel

There are more failures than there are successes.

Anthony Lewis

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.

Ken Bacon

Obviously, if we have a series of tests that are deemed to be failures we couldn't say that this was ready to deploy.

Jim Hooper

What it comes down to is that pipelines are fragile and failures will occur. The industry has learned to repair as fast as possible.

Jim Hooper

What it comes down to is that pipelines are fragile and failures will occur, ... The industry has learned to repair as fast as possible.

Julia Louis

I think there's pressure, period, regardless of the past successes or failures of any of my friends,

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Kate Grenville

Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.

Jose Rizal

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Tim Jones

She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.

Sergei Shoigu

We have received a note today from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. It seemed very strange to us.

Julia Brown

We've actually improved upon what's on the ground out there today.

Wyclef Jean

There are celebrities who have charities, but you don't see them on the ground. Angelina is on the ground doing things.

Khadga Oli

We strongly oppose this. The imposition of a curfew is unnecessary, illegal and illogical. There is no ground for this.

Bill Murray

I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.

Bill Murray

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

Bill Murray

Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.

Travis Plunkett

We're going to see people in a debtor's prison without walls, ... They'll essentially slip through the safety net, hit the ground and then sink into an underground economy.

Ann Crowley

What they put on the ground to live in, they ought to pay for, ... That's what I believe.

John Hughs

We're going to have to go in and rebuild it from the ground up because it went to seed before we got it. There are literally trees and shrubs growing up in the greens, and it's going to take a lot of work and money to get it back into shape.

Charles Spurgeon

The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

Al Sharpton

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

Al Pacino

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

Charles Krauthammer

Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. They're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. They're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I`m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel`s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.

Katie Lowes

Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

Kim Gordon

I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

Dusty Baker

He likes being with the team and we like having Kerry around,

Bruce DuMont

How you look saying something matters. Kerry has to look warmer, fuzzier, more comfortable and more likable.

Steve Foley

I think we did one of the things we set out to do, and that's try to get on Kerry Collins, get as much pressure as we can, kind of get him out of his rhythm a little bit. We had some success there, so I think that was a big part of our (overall) success.

Bill Richardson

Our objective is to show the personal side of Sen. Kerry -- his character, his Vietnam service, his leadership qualities,

Greg Valliere

The markets until recently have been oblivious to the possibility of a Kerry win.

Jamal Qureshi

Under a Kerry administration we'd likely have a much more interventionist SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) policy,

Dusty Baker

It's not about Kerry as much as it is about us.

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Adam Allen

When you think of all the teams and we're the only two left in 4A, it's unreal. To be one of those two teams ... it's awesome.

Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

Nathan Parsons

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

Robin Williams

What's right is what's left when everything is wrong.

William Mitchell

What's left is his, ... So, the man isn't getting rich.

Chuck D.

We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies.

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

China Mieville

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

Dave Barry

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

Dave Barry

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

Buenaventura Durruti

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Alec Baldwin

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

David Brainerd

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Gail Sheehy

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

Larry Marshall

She has truly been remarkable in every respect.

Pete Carroll

He shocks me every day with something. He's done some things, remarkable things, with the ball.

Gilbert Metcalf

He made a bet. I think he was successful. That was a remarkable achievement.

Bobby Cox

He's been outstanding from day one, ... He's done a remarkable job.

Bud Selig

He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens.

Joe Shields

We have seen this kind of thing in other galaxies, but it?s very remarkable for the Milky Way.

Bill Bryson

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.