Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Tim Strickland

We want to see how the perception of Onslow Memorial Hospital compares with the perception of these other hospitals.

David Yen

We are pricing our systems very, very competitively, even compared with the x86 standard.

Bill Strathmann

We've already done $3.9 million from December 1 to 27, compared to $2.2 million in the same period last year.

Bruce Rohde

We are seeing a different environment and performance in the second half of the fiscal year compared to the first half, ... Some of the issues that negatively impacted our third quarter will continue to impact the remainder of our fiscal year. We, like many other companies, are watching the effect of a softening economy on our business.

LL Cool J

Let me tell you something - compared to a TV-drama production schedule, touring is not strenuous.

Mark Hopkins

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

John Connors

We also think that the PC market could see growth in the low single digits for fiscal 2003 compared to the low single digit declines we are expecting to see for our full-year fiscal-year with 2002,

Sergio Garcia

You don't laugh about your fellow professionals. But, for sure, I'm going to watch and I'm going to compare what I did and what they're doing or what they can do.

John Lawrence

When we compare that to Fulton County, there?s been an estimated that the population has declined by two-tenths of one percent.

Kalvin Baker

We want to slow them down and not let them run. We can compete with them if we play good defense.

Darius Kasparaitis

We want to show that we can compete with the good teams and we can be there and we're (in this position) not by accident. I think tonight's game proved it, that we can play at a high level.

Nick Saban

We want to see guys compete so we can know whether they need to be here, we want them to be here and if they are the kind of people we want. The record doesn't really matter, the result doesn't matter and the score in the game doesn't really matter.

Robert Mugabe

We are a democratic country and my party enjoys overwhelming support. The two gentlemen who purported to have withdrawn actually found it very tough to compete with us. We will win this election,

Leslie Jones

We are looking to keep our errors to a minimum this year. We lost to Lone Peak by one run because we had two errors. If we can keep the errors down we feel we can compete with anybody.

Shen Xue

We still love figure skating, and we hope we can compete in the Worlds.

Lucas Black

You know, when you're trying to get better at golf, you're always measuring your game up against other people to see what you've got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.

Istvan Gyulai

We have no problem with that. Whether or not they can compete in the trials, we leave it in the hands of USA Track & Field.

Danielle Kamm

We have NCAA tournament ability. It's disappointing, but we still get to keep playing. We're still going to go out and compete and play the game we love.

Robert Gleitz

We are seeing an incredible growth in demand for wind turbines as more countries seek to expand their renewable energy production to help reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and improve their energy security.

Jeremy Hobbs

We are potentially in the final throes of this round of talks at the World Trade Organization, which was meant to help poor countries but has gone way off track. What is needed from Europe now is not self-interest and intransigence but genuine concessions that will put trade at the service of development.

Robert Smith

There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!

Chris Rudge

There are countries that want only gold. We may move to that at some point.

Dick Marty

There are countries that have collaborated actively, and there are others who have tolerated. Others have simply looked the other way.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are countries like Paraguay and others, their neighboring countries, they're all interested in being able to grow and function in a manner that's free of external influence and to do things in ways that fit their history and their circumstance,

Paul Nelson

There are countries I've never heard of that have like 20 people playing,

Yang Jiechi

We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

Solomon Makgale

We are pleased to report that we have received feedback from the jet fuel consortium to the effect that supply will be back to normal by this weekend.

Ken Perkins

We are going to see the effect of higher energy prices trickle up to the middle-income consumers.

Leah Remini

My actions and the things I say and do, I wonder if they have an effect on my daughter and the way she's going to be as a person. I just want her to be a good person.

John Lilly

When you talk about effects of (winning that game), in any one year it doesn't have that great of an effect,

David Hockney

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

James Blumenthal

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

Steve Brown

When (former Gov. George Ryan's) administration tried to roll back the sales tax, it just went into the pockets of refiners and retailers and had no effect on prices,

Bob Ross

If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

David Adler

We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are here.

Raymond Neidl

When everybody's positive, that's the time to get out, isn't it? ... But I'm positive, too. This industry is hot, hot, hot, and the economy's going to get hotter. And even if it doesn't, people will still like to gamble.

Lisa Vidal

Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

David Tarantino

We've become much better at doing the work online. The whole industry is moving to more online maintenance. In a regulated environment, it wasn't as important to have short outages. We do the same work, but we're online now.

John Hurt

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Sarah Snook

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Tony Pierce

The product of intense technical work over the last nine months, the UEFI 2.0 specification represents outstanding industry teamwork from our member companies.

Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Bill Johnson

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

John Malone

We have no extraordinary insight or influence in AOL, nor do we seek any,

Bela Kun

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

Boz Scaggs

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Arthur Henderson

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

Jane Goodall

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

Alexander Haig

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Alexander Hamilton

Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

Colin Powell

We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.

Doris Lessing

Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.

Craig Newmark

Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.

Dalai Lama

The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

Craig Woker

It is also getting an arms-length relationship with its own mutual funds.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Eddie Van Halen

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I remain inexpert on precisely what he said, and I'm told he used notes and not text,

Christy Mathewson

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

David Benioff

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

Rich Rodriguez

What makes it tough is they're better for sure than they were two years ago,

Ralph Neas

We're going to make sure that Americans understand what is at stake.

Ed Paulk

We're just making sure there is nothing we are missing. It's just being proactive.

James Wilcox

We want to make sure we're on the same page,

Steve Cox

We want to make sure we get them in preseason.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.