Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tukey

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

James Joyce

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

James Rothman

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

An atmosphere has been whipped up by our local media with a marketing campaign that doesn't ask for or provide solutions, but only wants people to come protest and show their anger. We hope there will be an opportunity for our staff to present information to our board as well as for our board to take informed public comment.

A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply.

The ICC has asked us to give several details and we need time for that. But we are confident after having already individually notified the ICC about our intentions.

The entire team played well. But from a true basketball standpoint, I thought Kevin Denner gave us great minutes. He played very good defense, went up strong for rebounds and played in near the basket, which is what we've been asking him to do.

Earl Klugh

The electric guitar is not my instrument. Really, the nylon strings is where I have my voice. It's like asking the piano player why he doesn't play the organ.

The end result is that we will be contacting the vendors of these applications, asking them to partner with Novell to port their software to Linux.

The guys really executed our defensive game plan. Their execution combined with their intensity. We couldn't have asked for anything more.

Jerome Bettis

The guy speaks off the cuff and shows you what he believes and what he thinks. That's not such a bad thing. You all ask us to tell you something, and when we kind of skate around the truth, that's accepted. But when we tell you what we believe to be the truth, we get criticized. It's a shame he spoke out on what he believes in and is being criticized.

Drew Rosenhaus

The guy's just a winner. The guy has overcome a lot of adversity, he changed positions in college and overcame the knee injury and now it's stronger than before that injury. He's done everything that's been asked of him.

Gregg Troy

The guy works hard, does what you ask him to do and he is committed every day. It's not a surprise that these things happen. He has trained with this in mind all year, so it's hard not to be ready to go.

Emily Dickinson

The heart asks pleasure first, and then excuse from pain, and then those little anodynes that deaden suffering

The guidelines and review procedures are more stringent than they were the first time James was asked to remodel his action. It's been a fascinating, yet scary and lonely process for both of us, but James has taken it on the chin.

The good thing is I learned discipline when I started playing basketball. My (Liberty) teammates laughed at me when I first got there because I asked what time the team dinner was. They laughed and told me we were on our own.

The guy knows everything. You ask him a question and he knows. He's definitely made me into a better player.

Pokey Reese

The guy killed them in front of him and left. He remembers that experience. When they would ask him what was his favorite color, he said, 'red,' because he remembered all that blood. There was blood everywhere.

The group that's blocking the entrance is totally illegal. We've ask the authorities to help end this issue.

The groups want certain questions asked of Roberts to lay a predicate for future nominees. Unless there's a revelation we can't fathom, this will be the meat of the hearings.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The great thing is our kids never quit. They were scrappy and fought to the end and that?s all you can ask for as a coach.

The impact of this ruling is that even students who ask critical questions about Darwinism, or about intelligent design theory will scare administrators' about whether that puts the school in constitutional jeopardy. There's already been a negative chilling effect on open inquiry in places such as Ohio and South Carolina. Judge Jones' message is clear: give Darwin only praise, or else face the wrath of the judiciary.

Jim Allchin

The industry was asking for more certainty. We made a decision to move the date so everybody could be aligned.

The increases were just higher than we thought. As we did last year when we asked for budget increases, we returned $220,000 to the Town fund. Some of the money from the special appropriation we did not spend for the year, so we thought it was appropriate to return funds that were not needed.

The important thing is not whether the Fed can ease but the fact that people can even ask that question and some intelligent people say if the Fed raises rates in September, it would be a public relations disaster.

The important decisions haven't been made yet. You get the impression that there's not much really moving and ask yourself whether the optimism is really justified.

Mike Babcock

The idea you've seen this movie before, I don't know anything about it. This team's much different than the teams in the past. If you ask my guys they believe in their hearts they're going to have success.

The idea of the course is to teach students to learn more English so they can assimilate themselves better in the community. Our goal is to help them be able to ask directions if they get lost, go to the library and ask for what they need. It's a very practical use of English.

The DoD has never specifically asked the satellite industry to harden its satellites, because it knows it's not something the industry has to do for its commercial satellites.

The doctors asked a lot about what had happened. They revisited, if you will, a chronological timeline of what happened before, how she felt.

The doctor asked if I'm ready, ... I said yeah.

Robin Soderling

A lot of times, he was talking before the point was over, and I asked (the chair umpire) if he could do that. A lot of times before they made the call, (Murray) was screaming, 'Yes!' I didn't like it. After the call is made, he can cheer as much as he can. But not before that.