Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular

Harold Pinter

Mr. Bush and his gang do know what they're doing, and Blair, unless he really is the deluded idiot he often appears to be, also knows what they're doing.

Mentally, we are impure and black, but outwardly, we appear white. We imitate those who stand and serve at the Lord's Door. They are attuned to the Love of their Husband Lord, and they experience the pleasure of His Love. They remain powerless, even while they have power; they remain humble and meek.

One of Toro's largest end markets -- golf -- appears to be poised for a long-awaited rebound. The residential piece of the market is gearing up for strong promotional activity, which bodes well for the fiscal second quarter.

One positive is that S&P earnings so far have looked better than the year-earlier period. Granted, comparisons are a lot easier as companies take less write-offs, but it's still something that's encouraging. I don't think we're going to have a big profit recovery, but we'll have the appearance of improvement.

One may appear naive or illogical but it's not naivete or being illogical. It arises from one's faith.

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

One inmate has a slash wound that goes from his ear all the way over to his mouth. It appears he was attacked by a razor blade attached to a toothbrush or a comb.

Pieter Zeeman

Of course the light source must be very restricted for the large number of beams corresponding to the various kinds of light to appear separately.

OEM revenue was light as demand for business PCs remained slow in the quarter, and we remain guarded about near-term growth. However, PC demand appeared to pick up late in the quarter, and with the launch of Windows 2000, we are excited about the opportunity to help customers migrate to this new generation of platform products.

Wayne Hale

None of the things I showed you are satisfactory. The good news is that the orbiter Discovery appears to be in good shape.

Wayne Hale

None of the things I showed you are satisfactory, ... The good news is that the orbiter Discovery appears to be in good shape.

No one had done a biography of General Blunt before. He seemed interesting enough to sustain the book, and I found some interesting things about him that haven't appeared in other histories of the area that had mentioned General Blunt.

No news is bad news. Only 10 to 15 percent of (Gulf of Mexico) shut-in production is associated with permanent damage, so majority appears stuck behind infrastructure.

Leonard Maltin

No one ever dreamt Mia Farrow had comedic abilities until she appeared in his films,

One wonders sometimes if they understand anything you are saying. It would appear that this is a function of their brain at that time.

One to two cups a day appear to be beneficial.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Louis MacNeice

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

Keep in mind that it is very important to stay moving and to get exercise - positive feelings about our appearance develop once we start taking control of our health.

We want the ball in his hands at the end. He's an excellent free-throw shooter that he doesn't appear to be bothered by pressure.

What we're asking for is a professional opinion on what it would take to have a feasibility assessment for this project. The commissioners are asking us about it and we really have no basis to evaluate it. From a personal standpoint, it appears to me that this idea would cost much more than what we're talking about downtown, but we're going to ask our experts about that.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

There are some serious questions here. It is very reasonable for you to expect that your medical records will be kept safe and secure. That doesn't appear to be what happened.

Jon Gruden

There are some interesting teams in the field. The AFC appears loaded, and certainly the NFC has some great defensive clubs in this race and some offenses that can make big plays.

Oscar Wilde

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.

John Pilger

There are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power.

Solomon Northup

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

Martin Bashir

I became concerned about the fact that he did appear to have relationships with children, and they were not related to him in any way.

I am shocked. I have not appeared before judges of the international federation.

John Deane

I appear today because I believe, with good reason, that the situation is even more serious.

Mark Goddard

I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered.