Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Steffen

We unfortunately already live on a planet where the climate has changed and will continue to change no matter what we do now. We're playing a game of making the problem less bad rather than preventing it.

Alexander Payne

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.

Voltaire

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Anthony Bourdain

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.

Arthur L. Herman

Letting the greens dictate your energy choices, whether it's halting the XL Pipeline or fracking in New York, isn't just bad economics. It can also leave your rivals and enemies controlling your energy destiny.

When I was a kid, it (black fly population) was so bad you couldn't go out of your house. They (black flies) were all over you. Playing ball was terrible; they would be up your nose, in your ears, around your eyes, you would swallow them.

When I got here I was a lot hungrier than the guys that were here. They were coming off two really bad seasons, and they were complacent. I had come from a winning program and brought a winning attitude. It was tough at first. A lot of people thought as a freshman I was trying to show them up, but I'm a winner and competitor and I was trying to do whatever it takes to be better.

Dave Tippett

When any player goes down you get a little scare, but it's not bad at all. He just tweaked an old injury. When I talked to him between periods, he seemed to respond well, so I don't think it's serious at all. I just talked to him and he was planning on skating tomorrow, so there's nothing to be concerned about. I don't think there's much to evaluate.

John Ryan

When a new plant opens, it could be doing bad things for years before the people find out about it.

Larry Walker

When David gets two strikes, you still know he'll put the ball in play. David doesn't have bad at-bats. Ever.

We have lots of speed. It's tough to run in those conditions. Once the rain started, it was a bad field. That took its toll on us. That slowed us down.

Vint Cerf

The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties to prosecute the bad guys, but we don't have them.

Vincent Nichols

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

Vincent Cassel

My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

Vince Vaughn

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

Valeria Golino

When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.

Nothing in the board's letter will distract Hewlett-Packard stockholders from focusing on the real issue, nor change this bad transaction into a good one,

Dusty Baker

No. He pitched so well the last time out. This time out, he's a different pitcher. Sometimes you have to figure it out yourself. He has the stuff. You could see from the last time out. It was just a bad day.

Frank Beamer

Right now, Macho may be the only guy that does play, ... And we're going to work to get him more reps. He has to practice well to get to where he knows what's going on and feels comfortable. You don't want to put him in there and something bad happens early.

Kevin Harvick

Right now life is good. But life can go bad in a hurry. The best thing to do is enjoy it while you can, then move on to the next race.

Right now, it's just a sore shoulder and we're going to rest him this week. He may have strained some muscles in that shoulder. We're really waiting on an MRI to see how bad it is.

Larry Parrish

Right now it looks as if we're pressing. Guys are swinging at a lot of bad pitches. And when we're getting a pitch, we're not doing anything with it.

Right now, I don't think my luck is that bad that I can tweak it. At least I hope not.

Right now China has been having a lot of bad press.

Right at the moment, it's not that bad. If we wait another month, things will get very bad here.

Rick Carlisle

Richard Jefferson is going to be more involved in Game 2. We know that Jason Kidd is going to be more involved from a scoring standpoint in terms of his aggressiveness. Carter, you can talk about his bad shooting, but he still had 31 points. He missed a lot of point-blank shots he normally makes. They're going to be more balanced in their attack.

People were so pessimistic about the PC market and semiconductors going into 2005 but it's not as bad as people were expecting. That's showing in Intel's numbers,

People will be talking about saving U.S. jobs. Anything like that could be bad for the dollar and good for gold.

Peugeot had a bad year but their sales volumes improved. GM and Ford are operating at about their break-even market share.

Philosophically, engaging the private sector has been seen as a bad thing.

Claire Tomalin

People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels.

Please understand how close this really is. One bad decision, and, literally, things could go 180 degrees in the other direction. Life changing forever. . . . We don't often think about that at the party.