Famous Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want to be ungrateful or picky, but I only applied to places I would want to end up living at. So I e-mailed the chief copy editor and he wrote me back right away - 'Congratulations on the program, thanks for the e-mail, we will give you $500 a week ...' He was totally cool about it." ()

We've taken Tolkien and found what is appropriate in our art form of theater and applied it to the story.

Keith Buckley

We've taken a potentially life-saving idea, applied our proprietary technology, and developed mobile phone- and Web-based software called ICE First to store and automatically update emergency contact and medical information. ICE First puts medical and emergency preparedness in the palm of your hand.

Nigel Hamilton

We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that it's still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.

Fatty Arbuckle

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Edvard Munch

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Knute Rockne once applied for the coaching job at Michigan Agricultural College, which became Michigan State.

Trevor Rabin

I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics of the audience.

Celso Amorim

What you have in our proposal is real cuts in applied levels,

He showed me he wants to expand his game. I would bring him aside and tell him to take his time and wait for his shot and he applied it. He's easy to coach.

His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.

It involves physical contact with a partner using the sharing of weight and the momentum of bodies moving through space. The rules and principles of improvisation were applied generally to come up with a new form called contact improvisation.

it is a criteria that eventually could be applied and extended to any other case.

I think the products are safe and I think that the best science is being applied to making that determination that they're safe.

I was disappointed when I didn't get job but that happens in this business. He applied for the job just like I did and I came in second, I hope I came in second. I'm going to be fine with whatever I choose.

Roscoe Conkling

What makes the presidential office an exception to all things else in the common sense to be applied to selecting its incumbent?

We took what we had, we put it there, we applied it, we got it in place and it went pretty well.

We took all of those lessons from the first house and applied it to this house.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

The randomness of police tactics, police tactics applied without the knowledge of local turf, without being able to draw intelligent distinctions between possible suspects and people who aren't suspects, it's what ... has gotten us into this soup,

HP's problems with services are not uncommon. IBM has had issues like that, too, of late. The larger problem with tech today (Friday) and in the last month has been that improvement in semiconductor capital equipment, like Applied Materials, doesn't transfer over to the rest of the tech sector. While tech fundamentals are turning, the evidence of that has been slow coming.

I thought we did really well, ... We had three applicants for this program. We applied with three (farms) and got all three.

Ricky Gervais

He was born smart, and he can't let it go. He'd rather make a joke than listen. He's clever, but he hasn't applied it as well as some other people.

Jason Kilar

I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

Amartya Sen

The progress of the pure theory of social choice with an expanded informational base was, in this sense, quite crucial for my applied work as well.

Ernst Mach

The philosophical point of view of the average man - if that term may be applied to his naive realism - has a claim to the highest consideration.

Alison Moyet

I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.

There are lots of people with good intentions about us. But none of them come to ask us how we wanted that goodness to be applied to us, until it was decided.

David Souter

For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision.

Gary Bauer

With so much at stake, to many of us it seems ill-advised to nominate somebody that we're then told we should have faith in, when there isn't any evidence of intellectual rigor being applied to these contentious issues. There are probably seven to eight names that have been looked to, have written wonderful decisions that are strong intellectually, compelling in their presentation. They are the kind of people you want to look to if you want to try to move the legal culture in America.

Jimmy Carter

While Mr. Trudeau was in office and I was president in 1977, we celebrated the signing of the Panama Canal treaties, and in recent years, we worked together on hemispheric issues at The Carter Center, ... We will remember him as a vibrant and charismatic man who applied his talents to further Canada and later, other countries in the Western Hemisphere. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically.