Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did not want a strike, but apparently the MTA, the governor and mayor did.

We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal in the major cotton-producing areas of Mississippi and Louisiana.

Henry Eyring

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary.

We are ready to play unconditionally and immediately, but apparently we've been locked out. We took the picket signs down, and we did it for all the audience members and all of New York.

Gil Gerard

The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.

David Armstrong

We don't know why the numbers are up. There hasn't been any apparent growth in the county, yet some of the enrollment figures have grown and we aren't sure why.

We don't know who owns the house, but it's apparent the children have been going there for a while.

James Wallace

We begged them to please expedite things, and they promised to do it, but then they gave it to new examiners, and they apparently had a different agenda.

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.

The Defense Department apparently refused a CIA request to launch an attack on a Syrian terror-sponsoring target within the last two weeks.

Sonny Perdue

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

David Hackworth

Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.

David Carradine

In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way.

George Bernard Shaw

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

Tom Fitzgerald

My understanding is they were just having a smoke (in the park), ... Apparently a dispute developed, there was a push, a shove and a shoot.

Winston Churchill

Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Craig Patrick

I was surprised. He came in, he closed the door. ... It became pretty apparent once he started (talking) that he was heading down that path.

Dick Cheney

My first thought was, bold words for a man whose office is the subject of an on-going criminal inquiry. But apparently that's not the subject of polite conversation.

One apparently even had a shed built on the property with a driveway to it.

One individual has been detained with no further information on that individual. But there are three apparent stabbing victims.

Kage Baker

I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.

Lisa Randall

The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances.

Billy Donovan

I believe there are three ligaments around the shoulder area where he got injured. Apparently if you tear more than one, you have to have surgery to get back the stability in the shoulder. He only tore a ligament, so he didn't need surgery and there were no fractures in there.

I believe that this is, frankly, a fairly desperate attempt on his part to distract attention from what apparently is a fairly serious whistle-blower allegation,

Richard Watson

But a careful study of his background and contacts reveal a number of clues to his extremism which the British intelligence apparently missed.

James Cameron

Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.

Based on the two deputies that found them they were OK. They were apparently just going about their own business.

Barriers lifted for traffic to flow and a car hit the still-raised lift span... that apparently ripped the undercarriage out from the car.

Rick Wakeman

My eyes are green, and in one of them there is a splash of brown - apparently it is not a colour, but a freckle! Sometimes I notice that one eyelid droops more than the other.

Jamie Wyeth

My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.

Maybe a crisis isn't apparent to all of us, but it is to them. Decisions are perhaps unpopular, but they're the sentries to see what's coming before the rest of us.

Maybe a crisis isn't apparent to all of us, but it is to them, ... Decisions are perhaps unpopular, but they're the sentries to see what's coming before the rest of us.

Now we're learning that the disconnect is more apparent than real.