Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Kurtwood Smith

If I had not gotten along so well with some of the people on the show, it would have been a different story. But in this case, it was great. But sure, it will be fun to look around.

Kumail Nanjiani

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

David Smith

Like a powerful medication, the Internet has a revolutionary impact on global business, and it is hard to imagine a firm that has not been affected. Unfortunately, along with the benefits come many side effects that have the potential to dramatically erode productivity and pose many other dangers to the enterprise and to employees, themselves. That is why it is so vital to carefully monitor employee Internet use. This study confirms that uncontrolled employee Internet use is a very serious threat to compliance, security and productivity.

Gary Warner

Lighting is too expensive, so we plan to lease the lights from TECO. The cost of electricity will be passed on to businesses along the road.

Stacy Schiff

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

John Seabrook

Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound.

Joe Morgan

Make no mistake about it, we lost a generation of inner-city players along the way. I think that starting today, with the opening of the field here in Compton, we will stop the erosion of inner-city players.

Christopher Cross

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

Dan Sylvester

We played 3-2 (zone) and man, but we did a better job of picking up their 3-pointer shooters. We just did a better job of containing them.

Josh McRoberts

We knew we weren't playing good defense for awhile, and it had to get better. We weren't containing people, and we weren't relying on each other.

Sarah Marshall

It is going to take a team effort, not only worrying about shutting down Davenport but also containing those guards. We will have to work on that.

Travis Sysko

Nick Flannery had a nice fourth quarter. We had a tough time containing him. We had too many turnovers down the stretch and they made their free throws.

Jason Hunter

We stayed poised in some tight situations. We swarmed to the football and we did a good job of containing and tackling.

Eric Nicoli

We are seeing progress and we are at least containing piracy.

Vince Carter

I think we did a good job of containing him, but he stepped up. He didn't score a lot of points, but he made shots and got rebounds that were big for them.

Ivan Pavlov

With each meal, when edible substances find their way into the oral cavity, thick and viscous saliva containing much mucus flows out of these glands.

Henry Spencer

The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch.

Michael Perlis

We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they serve with Forbes.com. We launched recently in Thailand and Vietnam, and we're in China and Korea and all around Latin America.

Chuck Feeney

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

Bill Maher

North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.

Bill Maher

The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then he added, 'Like having no plan ever stopped me before.'. He has something even more deadly in store for them - we're going to bring them democracy.

Charles Krauthammer

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

Edward Luck

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

Ari Fleischer

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

Brian Reynolds Myers

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

Brian Reynolds Myers

People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

Judi Larkin

One player is in Australia. And another is out with a shoulder injury. Also, being in the northern part of the country, we struggle with our weather.

Steve MacFarlane

Obviously, we would have like their support. Once Northwest is done with us they're going to go after them.

Chad Myers

One way or another there are going to be pounding waves on the northeast coast.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Jamie Bell

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Peter Jenkins

no other application than the production of nuclear warheads.

Carl Crawford

Nuclear power is not as volatile as gas.

Edward Abbey

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

Abdul Kalam

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

Dick Cheney

[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

Bernard Boudreaux

LSU did everything it possibly could to accommodate the state of Louisiana, the Saints and the NFL.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Hiroshi Kamide

No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more. If I were Sony, I wouldn't be that worried about releasing as soon as I possibly could.

Eugene Nelson

My God. Better than I could possibly explain.

Arno Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Marina and the Diamonds

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Deborah Moggach

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Lynn Dooley

I don't know what I could ever possibly say to them, because thank you is not enough.

Anna Paquin

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

Julie Warner

Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.

James Franco

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

Caroline Williams

Now we all know what our roles are now, each person. we're all working together better.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Marc Morial

She was singular in the role that she played, and she can't be replaced.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Tanya Fischer

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

Laura Osnes

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

Dimitri Simes

We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship -- we don't want this relationship to go out of control.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

Eduard Shevardnadze

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

Soundarya

I'd like to be known for my character.

Mikhail Bakunin

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

Alan Parsons

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

David Duke

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

Ben Whishaw

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Timothy Tyson

Nonviolent, yes. Passive, no. He was nonviolent, but he marched through the South like Sherman through Georgia.

Dominique McElligott

I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.

Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Patrice Motsepe

South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.