Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Howard

We acknowledge everything from the food-stamp fraud to the van accidents. A lot of those legal problems came from growing pains and oversight. But Bishop Jefferson is making the necessary adjustments for anything that is under his watch.

Pete Carroll

We'll be careful with Reggie this week in practice. We'll make sure there aren't any accidents with him.

Jim Talent

Working with Troop A, we were successful in getting the Senate to approve a plan that would protect our first responders and prevent highway fatalities, ... Dozens of police officers and fire fighters have lost their lives in accidents that should have been avoidable. Our initiative instructs the Department of Transportation to develop model legislation that will increase awareness and help save lives.

W. S. Gilbert

With the lack of institutional knowledge, you could end up with more injuries and catastrophic accidents to some of the employees.

Willie Williams

With the high price of heating this year, we could see more accidents. But I would love to be proved wrong about this.

William Dement

We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway,

Bob Dixon

We used to have to do a lot of hiking to get to our avalanche control routes. And it didn't increase the number of accidents that much, like we had anticipated, because of the quality of skiers up there.

Paul Kelley

When you put a liquor license in that large a facility, there will be more accidents, it will be more dangerous, and you potentially will have more fatalities.

Tony Oppegard

We have a serious, serious problem in Kentucky with failure to report accidents.

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dianne Wiest

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Lorraine Bracco

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

Lydia Leonard

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

Billy Gibbons

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Jerry Johnson

We know 'Willie Time' is under two minutes. He's just an ordinary human being for the rest of the game.

Scott Horowitz

We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn to live off the land.

Astro Teller

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Stern

What we're doing here is largely symbolic. But it tells everyone that we've got to help. We've got to do better.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Myles Munroe

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Najib Razak

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Evan Spiegel

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

Michael Griffin

We are largely deferring utilization (of the station) and we are paring logistics (flights) to the bone.

Bruce Schneier

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

Mark McKinnon

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

Rick Smolan

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Bryan Price

We want him completely healthy, and we want his mechanics sound. Until that happens, he won't pitch.

Ben Quiles

She's amazing. She locates well, and her mechanics are unbelievable. She's a smart pitcher.

Jason Isringhausen

I think I have my mechanics back in order. Things are going in the right direction. It doesn't look like it totally, but to me, they are.

Mike Lieberthal

He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying.

Mark Prior

I don't know what adjustments I could make. My mechanics to me are about as simple as you could get.

Alan Furst

Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.

Brad Hennessey

A win is always satisfying, and my mechanics were better in L.A., but I made pitches when I had to -- and I just wish I had one pitch back. What are you going to do?

Scott Carson

they are also some of the best-paid mechanics in the world.

Bob Gibson

It was just a natural thing for me. I don't know that I really worked on it. At some point every pitcher is in the same position in his mechanics ? how you get to that point will always be different.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

Paul Moreno

We've restored power to about 1.328 million people, but 89,000 are still without.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Carlos Ghosn

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

Bob Seger

I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

Ayrton Senna

Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

Elizabeth Drew

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Arlo Guthrie

I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

John Venditto

He detected a motorcycle at a speed of over 100km/h in a 60km/h zone,

Donna Karan

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

Chuck Palahniuk

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

Chuck Zito

When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Keith Bromery

We've been searching for reliable weather technology for some time.

Benigno Aquino III

The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.

Ed Clair

They are proven. They rely on reliable equipment.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Alan Young

I said ... on Tuesday we are not saying anything on or off the record. That remains the position.

Stephane Deo

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

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Edward Hall

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

Marty Schottenheimer

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

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.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Robin Roberts

I think that number's high, ... I think the schools are safer than that shows.

Adrienne Shelly

I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.

Larry Craig

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

When we're all done, it's going to be a safer expressway.

Ban Ki-moon

A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Jane MacDonald

Whether it's instinctive or whether or not it was just the way the wind was blowing, it seems that they somehow feel safer here.

John Edwards

America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.

Jose Diaz

We thought it would be safer for him being that it was in the 44, ... We thought it would be safer.

Anne Schwartz

We are trying to make the streets safer from this kind of violence.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Tom Stephens

I'm going after the highest-consuming vehicles first, because that's where the big payback is.

Ray Carter

You can't get any vehicles to come into the city, and we can't get any out.