Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Collins

If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.

Barry Ritholtz

Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

We built a model based on all the different things they're browsing to predict what should be the content of the message.

We only have the information that has been in the media and based on that we understand that he is recovering and is likely to be released.

We obviously know he has been in Durham. Based on the identification, we believe it was him but it's not 100 percent sure.

Damon Lindelof

We obviously come up with these ideas based on the storytelling, what's cool to us. But then our masters will provide us with resources to do this stuff if there's a potential revenue stream down the line. So we're scratching each other's backs.

We place tremendous value on our partners, who help us deliver solutions and applications to customers. Solutions Competencies provide an integrated partnering framework that recognizes an enterprise's expertise and rewards it for the effect it has in the technology marketplace. It also allows companies to demonstrate for customers their knowledge of building solutions based on Microsoft technologies, such as setting up networks using Windows Server 2003 and Windows Small Business Server 2003.

Bill Callahan

When Jon first left, we were taken aback. He made a decision that was based and predicated on what was best for him and his family. We understood it the best we could, and we moved on.

Ben Howland

Who we start Thursday (at center) will be based solely on practice the next two days. It'll be based on rebounds, who sets the best screens and blocks.

Ronaldinho

My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

Shekhar Kapur

I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.

We like the integrity of this church's leadership, the wonderful sense of family and the warm welcome to new families. It's based in the Word of God and the Scriptures, and we also wanted our children to grow up in this church because of its wonderful children's ministry. And as our sons have grown up, they've wanted the same for their children.

Malcolm Wallop

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Anne Dudley

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

Fab 36 is the consequence of our growth plan. We are bringing the right capacity on line at the right time, based on customer needs.

But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.

Both regard one another as highly competent and straight shooters. The relationship is one based on mutual respect and trust.

Both the U.K. and the Caribbean represent hedge fund communities. It's not necessarily U.K. investors per se, but these are the investors based in London.

Andy Serkis

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

Amy Jo Martin

I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

Muhammad Yunus

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

Real Christianity is based upon God's word given to us through the scriptures, and His word is final.

The governor has never rejected an idea based on who it came from. She is always open to ideas.

Ryan Coogler

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

Richard MacDonald

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.

We'll pitch certain guys based on the scouting reports and position ourselves accordingly, just like always, ... We play defense as a team. It won't be any different.

We were going off based on what we knew (from the summer) and grapevine stuff. We had to make in-game adjustments.

Trucking specifically has been a very strong growth sector. I think we quit counting, but at one point there were more than 35 over-the-road truck terminals based in Springfield.

Nicola Sturgeon

Trespass, the outdoor clothing company based in the South Side, is run by two of the nicest guys and proudest Glaswegians you could meet, Afzal and Akmal Khushi.

You know, this was written a long time ago and it was based on history. All of Star Wars was reasonably political. It's just that most people didn't notice it until this episode was put into the puzzle.

Elizabeth McCracken

When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.

We need to find and fix software bugs on the same day they are written. You don't want to be in the penalty box with customers based on buggy software. We're continually beating up our products to make sure that doesn't happen.

While we have not yet received a copy of the charge, based on the information contained in (media) reports we are confident that the charge has no merit whatsoever. It is regrettable that the individuals responsible for filing the charge have chosen to take this step at a time when NHLPA player representatives and executive committee members are in the midst of conducting a democratic and fair election. This election process ... will not be disrupted by such baseless actions.