Famous Quotes & Sayings

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." ()

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.

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.

(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.

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.

Jack O'Connell

Revenues did go up, and according to our agreement with the governor public education should have been one of the beneficiaries.

Revenge is sweetest when all goes according to plan but to others it's just a mere coincidence.

Persons not yet immunized this season can still build immunity against the virus, since the flu season may continue into late February or early March. According to surveillance reports, flu activity in New Jersey has been steady but sporadic. Activity may increase in the future. We simply do not know at this time, but it is prudent to gain the protection that a flu shot can offer, especially for the elderly and those living with special health conditions.

Only five out of a hundred live according to what they think and believe in their minds. And four out of those five think and believe what others tell them to think and believe.

(New Century Financial) has tripled since September 4, ... My sources say the stock has a ways to run because of the 'E' in the P/E (ratio); the 'P' is very low, the 'E,' the earnings, are ramping up and the price is lagging, according to one expert on the stock.

Only with very weak U.S. growth or a major drop in the U.S. dollar will the trade deficit improve on a sustained basis. The reason you need these dramatic movements is that the U.S. has, according to almost every study, an incredible appetite for imports.

One of the key challenges we face in our MP3 business is an industry-wide shortage of 1GB flash memory. Industry demand for high-capacity flash memory currently outstrips supply and this will impact availability of our 1G-byte flash MP3 players for the holiday quarter. The shortage of flash memory, according to industry analyst speculation, is primarily a result of a special deal that Apple has secured from a key supplier for the holiday season.

Martin Filler

One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.

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.

Jerry Yang

We have always had a long-term commitment to China and even more so to the development of its Internet industry, We're confident that Yahoo! is putting its resources behind the right management team, which operates according to similar values as we do, and shares the same vision for providing the most essential and relevant services to consumers and businesses.

We could not force employers to withhold the tax. According to the law, you can only force employers to withhold once per calendar year.

Ricky Martin

It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.

Rodney Brooks

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.

(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.

Bobby Bowden

You'd like not to but it's just according to how much yardage you want to give up, ... When you start kicking away from somebody ... the yards instead of being a 40-yard end up a 26-yard punt (return). But we are prepared to do both.

You have the opportunity to progress according to how hard you're willing to work.

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.

Hideo Kojima

I believe the game should really feel what the players are feeling and change according to that.

We are planning to implement a new scoring system, according to which, athletes have to compete in more matches to add their points. This will cut down the number of walkovers.

Phil Klay

I suppose it is the lot of soldiers and Marines to be objectified according to the politics of the day and the mood of the American people about their war.