Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.

Bill Cowher

Joey's been looking good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play the whole game. But, based on what I've seen the last few days, he'll start.

Judge Nichols denied the motion, finding that Redding did, based on the totality of the circumstance, have reasonable suspicion to detain the car and driver, based on the cracked windshield. This was further supported by the evidence presented.

Journey for so many years has been based around the song, which is fine, but at some time in my career I want to be a household name.

Job offers are extended in order as people return their interest forms, ... In terms of those numbers, it's in the course of business. It would be based on ongoing needs.

Marty Turco

I think inspiration was at its peak tonight just based on being down 0-3 and knowing that we could be doing a lot better.

It came down to without support of the organization, we could not move forward. That was what I based my decision on.

It can happen. But based on our current situation, local scale and large scale, probabilities of recovery are much lower this year.

It appears, based on witness statement, to be a tragic accident.

He did report back to the cardinal his impressions and findings based on his time there. We have studied what he had to say very carefully. We are continuing to closely look at the situation.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds like Coach. His family made him do it. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like Coach. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have. I was hoping we would play really well so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in.

He certainly goes for unconventional, creative approaches, like licensing Sun's software based on the number of employees that a customer had. So in that regard, I'm optimistic.

Chris Dodd

He convinced me that he will exercise judgment based on the law and the facts of a particular matter,

Greenspan is at risk of losing his credibility, based upon the fact he was so upbeat two or three weeks ago, ... If they don't bring rates up at this meeting, he will lose credibility -- that would send a horrible message to markets.

George Packer

The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.

Thomas R. Insel

Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works.

Thomas R. Insel

My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.

Tony Buzan

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

There are strong passions on all sides of the issue. The president's decision will be based on the facts.

Bill Gates

There are still some companies out there based on the old thinking,

Bob DuPuy

There are still concerns at both the top and the bottom. The goal would be to get a tighter range that would ensure that even more than 20 clubs at Labor Day still have a chance to compete for playoff spots, that playoff spots are based on skill and talent and blossoming stars and not just on plugging holes with economics.

There are some women who are embarrassed and don't want to talk about it. It is the butt of a lot of jokes, most based on myths.

The only thing that I wish we'd see is a greater turnout, just more and more involvement. We need a broader representation from around the community on different transportation issues. I do not want us to get to the point of making some final determinations based on a response from a very small number.

Drew Houston

People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.

Ken Robinson

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

Jacques Rogge

To find somebody guilty of doping you don't necessarily need urine and blood samples. It can also be based on circumstantial evidence.

What you might think is ... couldn't you make a religious game where critics, fans and retailers would all line up and universally say 'Here's a game that has some sort of moral or educational value?'. But people tend to take religion extremely personally and therefore have more opportunity to be offended. If you make, say, a Christian based game, are you going to make it a Protestant game? If so, that might offend the Catholics.

What we've seen is the loss of democracy as we know it, ... It's poor public policy that somebody loses their seat based upon a fraud.

Pervez Musharraf

have reaffirmed that our ties should be made more broad-based and multifaceted and based on a long- term and predictable basis.

Tom Harkin

has to disagree, just based on the standard of military value.

Having a successful regional is predicated on Wisconsin being here, and based on the fact where they are sitting in the pair-wise, it's going to be very difficult for the NCAA not to put them in this region. I can't see them sliding in the pair-wise, and consequently, with the necessity of the NCAA establishing strong Western sites, I just can't see the NCAA not putting them in Green Bay.

Had I guessed, I probably would have guessed the West would have the largest percentage based on the image, at least, of free-thinking universities. That's a pretty astonishing figure.