Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toshihiko Fukui

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.

James Weldon Johnson

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

Terry Jones

It is a conundrum for us more than for the advertisers because we have to find a way over time to get paid for this information. For a Web site that derives some revenues from ads, it's our problem, and we have to figure out the right model.

Adnan Pachachi

We will have at the end of this process a government that derives its legitimacy from the free desire of the Iraqi people,

Steve Schroeder

People are not going out golfing, so they're not paying their green fees, which is where the facility derives its revenue. It's a severe impact every day it rains.

John Charles Polanyi

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

Shane Voss

We want our players to be scholar-athletes. We emphasize that all year.

Michael Chertoff

We're going to go back and look at all of this after-action, when we have time, but I've got to emphasize something: We are still in the middle of an emergency.

John Otto

We knew we wanted to take the strong points of our groove and emphasize them as well, and we knew we wanted to just totally experiment.

Tom Holland

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

Paul Vachon

We've seen teams with strong inside games, and we've seen teams with strong outside games. They have both, and we haven't seen that, so we can't emphasize anywhere.

Melanie Gruer

The prime minister emphasized that it makes little sense to negotiate a victory that we've already won.

Sandra Langley

We did what we had to do to force the tempo. We used a full-court press, and we switched defenses. Without Tracey, we're not as big as we were, so we have to emphasize our speed right now.

Bill Rancic

Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.

Bill Fennelly

Right now, it's the old shoot-not-to-miss syndrome and passing up shots. We've emphasized that you don't pass up shots; if you miss, you miss. We've had a hard time scoring, but it's never been because of our inability to make a shot.

Diane Wakoski

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Charles Bukowski

This incompleteness is all we have.

Agatha Christie

Fear is incomplete knowledge

Meir Stampfer

Basically, you have to make a judgment on incomplete data.

Ken Starr

I would say it is utterly incomplete and grossly misleading,

Emile M. Cioran

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.

Nan Aron

It was an incomplete answer. He didn't give any indication to where it would lead him.

Werner Heisenberg

The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical kind. To give an example: we know that the radium atom emits alpha-radiation. Quantum theory can give us an indication of the probability that the alpha-particle will leave the nucleus in unit time, but it cannot predict at what precise point in time the emission will occur, for this is uncertain in principle.

Graham Spanier

what undoubtedly will be painful, costly and protracted litigation.

Charles Caleb

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more

Joy Harjo

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Kenneth Branagh

A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Adnan Badran

She (later) went on to Salt because one of her relatives

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

Dave Bristow

She's by herself, she has no relatives in Manatee.

David Brewer

When they are available, they are relatively inexpensive.

Charles Browne

We are going after some relatively strong growth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything is better than stagnation.

Andy Warhol

Security breeds stagnation.

Bobby Jindal

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

Bruce Beresford

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

Rhett Miller

From my viewpoint it was in the box. The divot that was made was in the box, in my viewpoint.

Guillermo Luz

From the viewpoint of governance, everything has slipped back in a big way.

Jim Butcher

Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Robert Sheckley

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

Vernor Vinge

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.