Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Asaro

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.

Linus Roache

It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that's the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.

John Roberts

Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.

Kathleen Hanna

To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are.

When the weather turns nice, folks go out and purchase fertilizer without much thought to what they are applying. Without a soil test it is easy to over apply nutrients, like phosphorus, that end up in our local streams and rivers.

When you apply those criteria to something like Internet use or video game use, you find that, yeah, lots of people display some of those components, but very few display all of them, and in that sense, to me, they are not classically addicted.

When you apply for these grants and you want to do surveys, the state wants to know that you?re going to do something with that survey. We need this district commission in place, so the state sees it as a legitimate effort to promote historical preservation.

Jimmy Johnson

We want to be able to take what we learn in the test and apply it to other race tracks,

Martin Scorsese

We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?

Mark Wahlberg

It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling my entire life - acting my way into trouble and acting my way back out again. I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to apply it in a different direction.

Gracie Gold

A lip brush is really helpful when applying a red lip because it makes the lines smoother. You can see a bumpy line from really far away.

William Boyd

At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder.

Tim Crouch

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

We'd like to see them relocate back to Louisiana. But until they can, we'd like to see (the tax break) apply around the country.

We were a little slow on our rotations, and that's youth, but we played hard. We need to apply better ball pressure, push the ball better and play better in the open court.

We don't like deadlines and we don't set them. We would be doing this if King George was still on his throne. We want our documents to be reliable and we are applying the best technology we can get.

The decision says that local governments can take private property and give it to another entity, if the second is going to upgrade the property in some way. There is no reason why this would not apply to businesses. The only check remaining is the political dynamics of local government. To the extent that businesses do not have political clout, they will also be vulnerable.

Lisa Stone

The rational basis behind the prohibition on termination of pregnancy is the preservation of potential human life, ... With an anencephalic fetus, there is no life. Therefore, it's irrational, and I would say cruel, to apply the restriction in a case like Jane Doe's. This is about the government making this principle that is irrational and tragic.

Douglas Alexander

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

Catherine Tate

Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better.

The question is whether other emerging Internet-related companies have done something illegal when applying the (same) scheme.

Robert Redford

When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'

Glenn Greenwald

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

We plan to take what we've learned today and make sure that all systems are running properly and if they are we'll start down the path of taking some driver input and apply that to the set-up of the car.

We plan to build the Full Circle concept by applying similar blanket coverage to future events.

Tom Colicchio

My chefs don't apply for 'Top Chef'. They all know that there is no way. At the end of the process I look at the resumes of the last 25 options just to make sure they've never worked for me before.

Todd Park

I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources.

I think whatever feelings they may have about the situation, each regulator is going to apply its own rules.

Andrew Nikiforuk

If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.

Sarah Clarke

was not to dissuade unhealthy people to apply for jobs at Wal-Mart?. It was to provide programs to our associates that help them live longer or healthier lives.

We recommend applying to one or two reach schools, one or two realistic schools and one or two safety schools.

Satya Nadella

I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.

Henry Petroski

A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than following from science, engineered things lead it.