Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irish Sayings

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

Juan Somavia

The real challenge is to make sure that these provisions will be applied and enforced worldwide, just like the international provisions designed to secure safety at sea.

Andy Zircher

When I was an undergraduate, I don't think I applied (for graduation) in time.

Lev Vygotsky

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Karen Finerman

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

Tim O'Reilly

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

John Hall

We applied in response to a request put out by FEMA for two-man teams to help on the Gulf Coast. At this point we don't know where we will be assigned, but we know it's going to be in the Gulf Coast region somewhere,

H. Hunt

We applied for food stamps and we've gotten it. We have no money.

Chris Horner

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

Nathan Fillion

I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

Kenneth Cranham

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

Benjamin Franklin

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Mark Geragos

We're seeking appellate relief to prevent a lawyer who was employed for the briefest of times from capitalizing on that employment and violating his oath as a lawyer.

Ken Duberstein

I am for Gov. George W. Bush, but it puzzles me greatly that they haven't employed what you would refer to as your thermonuclear weapon,

Michael Bryant

Freedom-of-information legislation would have to be employed to reveal just how often I read it. I love it. Seth is one of the most insanely hilarious people I know. He's the guy who can have people doubled over in laughter at a funeral.

Jerry Mathers

I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.

Dennis Campbell

I have been employed at Mounds Schools for the past 23 years as a high school principal, coach, and superintendent and have some great memories of what has been accomplished.

Bill Janklow

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

Friso Abbing

We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see if it is confirmed.

John Cunliffe

We have to find out exactly what's going on with the slide. Geologists say it's still moving slowly.

Friso Abbing

We have to find out exactly what is happening.

Bob Sullivan

We have a stove in there. It's exactly like the school she describes in her book. We twist hay to put in the stove like Laura did.

Francesco Buranelli

We have nearly 8km of exhibitions but even I can't tell you exactly how many pieces we have because even a small archway or a minor fresco is art.

Laura Merritt

When you say it's a federal excise tax, you know, most of the time, oh it's the federal excise tax. And that's just understood that it's a tax you pay. Where exactly those funds go is something that's a mystery to all of us.

Charlie Cook

And what exactly is nature walking? It's any and every kind of walking you can do in the natural world. The activity encompasses strolling, striding, sauntering, stepping, treading, tramping, traipsing, traversing, rambling, roving, roaming, racewalking, hiking, meandering, wandering, wending, pacing, peregrinating, perambulating ... in natural surroundings.

Dr. Wood

The reality is we know exactly how to do that in mice and no idea how to do that in people.

Marcello Canuto

The panel exactly mirrors the style, size, subject matter and historical chronology of the Site Q texts.

August Krogh

There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

Pericles

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Latin Proverbs

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

Sam Wassenbergh

This is such a big step for fishes to do this.

George Eliot

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

George Bernard Shaw

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

Maxine Hong Kingston

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

Karl A. Menninger

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

Julian Fellowes

There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community.

Bill Joy

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

Frank Anderson

get the message out that limbs can be saved.

Abdul Alim

I would even go out on a limb and say Minister Farrakhan has been cured.

Michael Chen

Our status is still in limbo after 13 years.

Brandon Stokley

Just a lot of rain, some trees and limbs down and the power went out. But other than that, they're fine.

John Davidson

I think the overall trend remains positive, but we are sort of in limbo right now.

Tim Lynch

This isn't just about Padilla. The rights of all other Americans remain in limbo now.

George Eliot

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

Edward Young

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Augusten Burroughs

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

C. S. Lewis

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

Joseph Stalin

When you chop wood, splinters fly

Peter De Vries

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

Naomi Klein

Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

Thomas Carlyle

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

Ralph Lauren

It's sport utility done in a dressed-up way,