Famous Quotes & Sayings

We think it conceivable that the journals in some disciplines might suffer. Why would you pay to subscribe to a journal if the papers appear free of charge?

We saw something that appeared to be suspicious and we turned it over to the Illinois State Police.

Benjamin Franklin

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

David Trimble

very interesting. It does appear to break new ground. There are some quite positive elements in it.

David Cohen

US$70 appears likely, but global growth seems solid right now.

Kathy Mattea

You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it.

Paul Theroux

Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Peta Todd

I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.

Philip Gibbs

A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.

Paul de Man

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

John Farrell

This virus is deadly to some birds, but not all birds, so some birds can carry it and appear healthy. What do people need to know, number one, is there's no reason for panic.

What really happened today is the retail sales report set the right tone, ... It appears that consumer spending is down.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. ... Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence.Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Tim LaHaye

What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.

Susan Collins

What is evident already is that the company appears to have deliberately misled investors and its employees and customers about its financial strength. That in and of itself is very troubling.

Miguel Nicolelis

We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.

We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and 'The Rainmaker,' those are great opportunities for men, and we selected the others for the female actors on campus.

We knew 2003 was going to be a challenge, but it appears it's going to be more of a challenge than we expected.

To judge from our betting, it appears that Cheltenham being called off took everyone by surprise.

Warren Beatty

You have to look inside these Trojan horses and see what is really there. They are deceptively named, and they are not what they appear to be on the outside.

With increasing vigor, the lagged effects of the Fed's interest rate cuts should begin to appear before the end of the summer,

You have to gauge the risk to the inmate versus the risk to the inmate and officers when they go in to restrain him. This appears to be appropriate.

This year has been pretty heavy in cash deals. While I don't know if that will continue, it's considered a good thing if there (is a tendency towards making) cash deals because these deals appear to be more successful and create more value.

You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.

Jon Stewart

We had a real good December. Consumers didn't appear to be holding back at the pump.

Women are not attracted to men because they are good looking. Women are attracted to men because they display attractive qualities. Confidence, Passion, Humour, Courage, Ambition... these things have nothing to do with a mans appearance

Germaine Greer

Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

This second month of non-manufacturing growth, at a higher rate of growth than in November, appears to indicate that November's growth was not entirely due to a rebound from October's low point following the events of Sept. 11,

Alan Johnson

The public has a vested interest in being sure that public employees are carrying out their duties in a professional way. In some of the cases, we received the entire file and then in others we didn't get anything. That has the appearance that there's a different standard for different types of employees.

Eliot Spitzer

The public expects and deserves the protection that effective government oversight provides. Until the Bush administration shows it is willing to do the job, however, it appears the public will have to rely on state regulators and lawmakers to protect its interests,

There appears to be some grave concern that in all of this debate in the Senate that perhaps we're losing site of the fact that border security should be one of the priority issues.

There appears to be full compliance (by the Serbs),

Bill Richardson

There appears to be, at this time, no contamination of the air, ... We were able to control any potential damage. On the whole, it appears the Hanford facility has survived a major (disaster).