Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fenimore Cooper

Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

Supplies of heating oil are very low compared to other supplies of energy commodities.

Terry Ebbert

Some of the catastrophic deaths some people have predicted may not have occurred. The numbers, so far, are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000.

Jackie Parsley

Our fans were great!. They were more vocal and into the game compared to Morris. That was great to see, and the girls fed off that (support).

Ken Williams

Overall, I'd say there's a 20 percent increase in sales this week compared to the rest of December.

Steve McClain

Our world's a little different because we can get so many tapes on people compared to high-school and junior-college. Every one of the teams, you might have about 14-15 tapes you've got to watch and know everything about them.

Castor Pang

Rental income is quite stable when compared with the income of property developers.

John Vane

Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release.

James Courtney

I think this summer was a little off compared with previous years,

Brian Hill

I think the way you survive as a teacher is that you teach the kids so damn well that they are going to do well on tests anyway.

Melody Strong

My mother didn't have any other options. But to be able to educate women now that there are options - damn it, I am going to work my hardest so that there aren't kids that go through what I went through, and grow up with so little self worth.

Melvin Spears

I don't give a damn what they do. My players' lives are more important than any damned football game.

John Tortorella

I don't give a damn about the Leafs. We're not going to look over our shoulder.

Alex Rodriguez

I don't know what it was. I couldn't see the damn thing. He had us all talking to ourselves, and nothing that was said was helpful.

Tom Izzo

But do I expect 18 and 10, 18 and 11? You're damn right I do. Paul's a big key to this stretch run.

Keith Jackson

I'm at a point in my life where I can't see as well, I can't hear as well and I damn sure can't run as fast. And you get tired after a while. I've been doing it for 53 years and I think that's long enough.

Joe Torre

Hernandez pitched one hell of a game. He's pretty damn good, that's for sure.

Bob Odom

If it's clean, I'll let it go, ... I'll renew (the ban) every damn month if I have to, I will do whatever I have to to protect the consumer.

Douglas Conant

People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.

Ramon Rodriguez

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

Michael Vick

We've talked a lot lately, more than usual. We had to. He is hanging in there. He's doing alright.

Lauren Dusin

I was just hoping the whole time it would go in. I kind of paused, but I hate when people hang their hand. But I just paused in the moment to see if it would go in. Crazy.

Robert Aventajado

Just hang on, we will get you out of here -- don't do anything foolish.

Doug Fisher

That was Jordan's first varsity start. The score didn't reflect it but she did well. Hats off to her for hanging in there.

Matt Kujovsky

That would makes us 5-4 after a 1-3 start. That's something to hang your hat on.

John Imlah

That was a huge swing, those two steals. That was a game-turner. We were hanging right in there and they got the momentum after that. We kept clawing at them, we just could never get there.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Steve Ruggiero

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.