Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Ron Walters

My assessment of his role on the council is that he has been effective. He has gotten himself into the thick of the baseball politics with his own backing and plan, and has carved out some attention to development projects in Southeast as a part of the construction.

Dick Cheney

My assessment is there is no comprehensive oil policy today,

Michael Spence

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

Lynn Franco

Growing optimism about the overall health of the economy continues to bolster consumers' short-term outlook. But consumers' assessment of current conditions, which strongly hinges on improvements in the labor market, remains both weak and volatile.

Brendan Morrison

Fragile is pretty accurate. I think that's a good assessment of us right now. I'm not saying we don't want to do something, but we're not making plays. This is pretty much a must-win game. I mean, we need the points.

Lawrence DiRita

I would expect fully that he will come back and give an assessment of where he thinks he is. I don't know, I simply don't, whether that will include his recommendation on the way ahead.

Rob Danielson

If they do, they will have the best opportunity to perform well on the next Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA).

David Norris

Should any of these assumptions change, then the company's assessment of its financing requirements also would change.

Clark Jacobs

If they say their goal is just to get a job, there is help with resume writing and interviewing techniques. If they want to look at other options, at that point we begin an assessment process. We identify their skills and abilities, then look at different clusters of jobs that might be available, based on those skills and their interests.

Issa Rae

I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.

Rick Perlstein

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.

Richard P. Feynman

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work - not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

Richard P. Feynman

Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.

Richard Lamm

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings.

Kurt Schrader

I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.

John Hancock

We're not desperate, we just want to get our head count up to our control level. I'd like to hire about nine or 10, and I think that would move us into this winter and spring. We're basically hiring and training year- round.

Ron White

Like a lot of Iowans, I have to drive just to meet basic needs, ... Am I going to drive into town for a loaf of bread and a half gallon of milk or am going into town to play cards with friends? Probably not. So it's definitely fewer trips.

Fred Smoot

Like Coach Tice told me, I can't get out there and try to jump back in and try to run and get where I was, ... I've got to step up the ladder. So basically I've just got to be smart right now instead of trying to be who I am.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.

Grant Hill

I had a MRSA infection on my ankle. At the time, I had never heard of MRSA. I didn't really know a whole lot about it. It really scared me.

David Flanagan

He had an infection to the bronchial line, which he never had.

Jennifer Miller

We realized it was an infection issue. They didn't have the strength to overcome any resistance.

Lee Wood

Infection had set in, and it was rampant in the frontal bone,

H. Hart

A lot of people were totally in chaos. I have an infection that needs to be treated and I couldn't do anything till this morning.

John Watson

In practice, the likelihood of preventing spread of infection in those circumstances is very limited.

Shigeru Omi

This is the first time that we have third-generation infection in terms of laboratory-acquired infection.

Mikko Hypponen

It's still climbing. It's not the worst we've seen, but the infection is sizable.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating.

Dave Barry

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

Danny Walker

There is a lot of research about that time period and those mammals that could be done there. But there's no money.

George Phillips

Even adults refer to prehistoric mammals as dinosaurs.

Rick Searfoss

As I look at the landscape, I see some big dinosaurs. And you've got all these little mammals running around.

Chuck D.

It's probably one of the most studied mammals in the world.

John B. S. Haldane

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.

Jim Morrison

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

Susan Blackmore

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

John Delaney

I can't see a sustainable situation here, because there are too many loopholes.

Chris Petersen

Because of that (relationship), we've studied the Utah situation a lot.

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Zeev Boim

I do not think that in this situation we can transfer the towns to the Palestinians. They are not exerting any control.

Warren Ellis

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Dan Fogleman

We are pausing and evaluating the situation thoroughly at this point.

Charlotte Rampling

We are on the verge of this situation all our lives,

Abdul Kalam

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

David Morse

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

Bill Gates

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

Denise Bierly

If we can get 20 wins with this type of young team, I think we'll look back at the year as a real achievement.

Carl Dodd

I don't know what type of person she is.

Megan Fox

I'm not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I was the class clown type of guy.

Karin Slaughter

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Mark McNulty

Those are the type of tap-ins you like to have.