Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'

Neil Cornish

Several years ago we showed that any finite universe in which light had time to 'wrap around' since the Big Bang would have the same pattern of cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations around pairs of circles.

Sam Johnson

Seniors provide us with a background of knowledge and experience that in this booming economy, where you can't find workers, they can fill the gaps and make companies whole again.

Bob Newman

Mike Mullen has a background in grant writing and that's what we'll be needing. Everyone is very impressed with how much the mayor is up to speed on this project.

Bruce Babbitt

Mistakes began with the preparation of the prescribed fire plan, ... Had those calculations been properly done, there would have been a larger background personnel and support (team on hand).

Rep Clymer

No one should be working until those background checks are completed.

Laurie Graham

My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.

Ella Eyre

My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.

Adrian Holovaty

My background is pretty evenly split between journalism, databases and computer programming, and this was an opportunity to combine all three. My goal for the project was to create a useful resource for Chicagoans.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Rick Perlstein

The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal wing, and as such, when progressives speak of the party as a vehicle that naturally belongs to them, as if by right - until conservatives stole it from them - they weaken progressivism.

Rick Warren

Life is all about stewardship. It all belongs to God - he just loans it to us for a short period of time. The first command God gave to man was to take care of the Earth, which includes managing and protecting the environment.

Maxime Talbot

Let's make it 4-2. With that team, they score and you're like, 'We're not even worried.' We know we have the team to come back. We know we have the players to score goals and stop goals. There was no doubt in my mind that this game belonged to us.

Jeff Buckley

Lots of time I feel like I don't belong to this place.

Joe Pesci

Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.

Andy Partridge

So it was a bit tricky, 'cause most of the people in London belonged to this London clique and we didn't. So we didn't go to parties or hang out.

Tom Graham

May, June and July are the heart of the season. We're being strangled out of business on an ocean that belongs to everybody.

Susan Collins

My inclination is to say that FEMA does belong in the Department of Homeland Security.

Margaret Thatcher

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''

Richard P. Feynman

We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Ken McEldowney

Lenders are increasingly using risk-based pricing to make loans. If you don't find out your credit score, check your credit report and correct mistakes, you're going to be totally in the dark, and run the risk of paying far higher interest rates on loans.

O. J. Simpson

License holders should always check their tags immediately upon receipt and then place them in a safe and secure location.

Roger Bailey

Last year's Freedom 100 epitomized the racing of the Indy Pro Series. We saw numerous lead changes, side-by-side racing and a late shootout for the checkered flag. To be able to showcase that type of racing at a venue like Indianapolis is extraordinary.

Roger Stone

Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush.

Stanley Clarke

Maya Angelou is a very prolific writer. You can read her stuff down once and sort of walk away, but if you really want to get the richness of what she is saying you have to check it out a couple of times.

O. Winston

My knee checked out medically. There's nothing else I can do.

T. D. Jakes

My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

Kyle Cooper

Mother Nature is going to be huge in the next several weeks. Long term I think we're headed to $30 to $35, but I don't think we're doing that yet. We have a lot of winter left.

Terry Trippler

If a Northwest plane headed to Minot has to return to Minneapolis-St. Paul and an American plane has to return to Dallas, which one will hit the (local) news? That's the reality Northwest has to handle.

Steve Hofstetter

I don't know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing. Maybe it's because when you're headed somewhere, you don't have to be where you've already been.

Tony Crescenzi

Treasury yields look headed to 5 percent by the May 10 (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting and possibly 5.25 percent by the June 29th.

Mark Kulda

We were kind of in the middle of the road. We're in the top 20 and probably headed to the top 15.

Jim Ledford

Yes it's true. He's headed to Oklahoma State.

Angelo Wright

He'll come in, sit down with those guys, see where they're headed and if it's a fit.

J. Taylor

We're on the right track and headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, we're out of track.

Anthony Chan

I think we're headed in the right direction.

Diane Keaton

Len said, 'I'll give you a tour if you promise to join the L.A. Conservancy,'

Atal Vajpayee

many proposals for verification, of which joint patrolling is one.

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.

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.

Jamie Rodriguez

I feel good. It was a joint effort.

Bill Campbell

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

Greg Boyle

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

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.

Mahmud Abbas

Much work still needs to be done but nothing can take away from this victory, ... day of joy.

Neal Cohen

Much work needs to be done in this area.

Jon Moore

No! No! ... That's my son. He needs to come with me. Let him come with me.

Ken Hoyt

My 97-year-old grandmother needs to be able to open this.

Suki Waterhouse

My hair is like flat baby hair after I wash it, so it needs something in it to get that 'day after' texture.

Bennie Thompson

needs to go talk to some of the people I'm talking to.

Cedrick Wilson

needs to get in the end zone before the season begins.

George Edwards

needs a narrative, a reason that voters should give him a look.

Chris Crutcher

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Steve Elmendorf

No congressional party is ever going to speak with one voice. It?s not possible. And I?m not worried about that.

Ludwig von Mises

In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

Dennis Prager

Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.

Dennis Hastert

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

Denis Kearney

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Deborah Tannen

The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.

Eleanor Clift

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Eleanor Clift

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Mikhail Fradkov

On inflation, the president took note: things are bad.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Dee Dee Myers

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Eleanor Clift

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Eliot Spitzer

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Elena Kagan

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Abdul Kalam

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Abraham Lincoln

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

Wayne Tartline

(Mayo) got done wrong in a whole lot of ways.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

Sasha Adams

She was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ed White

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Mike Rowe

If they are, they're in the wrong business.

Phyllis Oakley

We are on the wrong track, and we need a fundamental change,

David Bailey

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

Richard Carey

was in the wrong place in the wrong time.

Anthony Schlegel

We've done it for a while. We're just going to keep it rolling. There's nothing wrong with that -- just have a little fun.