Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had one preseason game. The seeding is done according to the number of power points. You can have a team with 22 games and they're still getting more points for losing games.

We will act according to the situation that we face, ... We will use any means peaceful and violent.

We've lost population. According to the 2000 census, Chambers County, Alabama, was one of the few counties that lost population compared to the 1990 census, so more people moved to find jobs.

We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

Paul Stamets

Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as 'the dancing mushroom.' According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.

Octavio Paz

For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

Preston Sturges

According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.

(We received this letter) because somebody wrote down the wrong thing or dropped the paper. According to the school district, they weren't turned in. I'm not paying for these uniforms because I know Patrick turned them in.

Microsoft's pleas must be ignored. This is the world according to Microsoft where it decides what is best for consumers.

Metal truss bridges were being replaced left and right. They had, according to many engineers, served their useful life." ()

Alfred Korzybski

The affairs of man are conducted by our own, man-made rules and according to man-made theories. Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

Graham Spanier

The allegations will be investigated according to university policy and practices. Penn State has a nondiscrimination policy that is fundamental to the principles of our university.

Michael Johnson

The area was cleaned up and the soil was dug up and trucked away. It was all handled according to EPA guidelines.

Gary Miller

The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.

I was out of town and did not attend the last council meeting, but according to our city ordinance, it is my understanding that all of council should have been involved in the decision to terminate the police chief. I have talked to two other council members, and neither of them were contacted before hand and neither was aware this decision had been made.

I was born in 1948. That year, Linda was the most popular girl's name. Actually from 1945 to 1954, it was the most-popular name for girls, according to Social Security statistics. There were so many of us when we were kids, in school classrooms there was Linda after Linda after Linda.

Stephen Hawking

According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.

We all need patience and do things according to the rules.

We are in this case to defend the rights of military officers to authentically worship according to their conscience, without fear of reprisal that their personal worship could be somehow deemed coercive.

(Tito) has been in the U.S. segment. Everything has been executed according to agreements prior to flight. I think everything is going fine in that regard.

Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

Jim Allchin

Where we sit today, things are going according to plan, and we're feeling very good. But I always like to preface that as I did with Windows 2000, Windows XP: quality is the thing that will dictate if we're ready to go. So if we have any problems in quality, I'll slip this product. It's the thing that is at the top of my mind.

We'll continue to operate as we've been operating. We've been issuing marriage licenses according to Massachusetts law. A couple would just simply have to state their intention to reside in Massachusetts for us to issue the license.

We can put them in flood plains if we elevate them, if we elevate them according to the rules and regulations.

We have to state clearly that, according to the results of the ongoing investigation, no referee is involved and no first division club is concerned.

Alexander Medvedev

We have taken all necessary measures to supply Europe with gas according to contracts. By tomorrow evening, full supply to Europe in accordance with these contracts will be restored.

Andy Lally

Our car ran great. We adjusted on it slightly throughout the day, and it really responded well to change. We fell back early, but were able to rally back and run at the front. The team did a great job on the pit stops and everything went according to plan.

Right now the effect would be we're in a 'sold-out' market, according to the marketing people. All the cement we could produce, right now, is going to customers. Last year, they said the same thing, but we ended up with more than we could get rid of, and we had to send some cement and clinker to our Leeds, Ala., plant, and would anticipate the same scenario for this year, if we don't sell of our cement to our local customers.

Jennifer Morgan

Places that Americans love like Florida's coral reefs and the alpine meadows of the Rocky Mountains could suffer greatly from global warming, according to the report.

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

Herman Edwards

I think in a certain system he can play corner. It's just a matter of in his mind does he want to play corner. He can play both, but I don't know what he wants to play. I still think he can do that (bump and run). I think Charles Woodson can do whatever he wants if his mind is right. It's according to what he wants to do.

Washburn and Southwest are really hurting for numbers. They have 19 and 16 players this season according to the projections.

John Newman

There had been a physical altercation between one lady and another bar patron, all over the use of a stall or something that happened in the bathroom. According to the report, there was quote, unquote some sort of sexual activity going on in the stall.