Famous Quotes & Sayings

The true scientific mind is not to be tied down by its own conditions of time and space. It builds itself an observatory erected upon the border line of present, which separates the infinite past from the infinite future. From this sure post it makes its sallies even to the beginning and to the end of all things.

These kids play very well as a unit and they're beginning to look for other scoring opportunities on the floor. We're happy, but we know the toughest part of our schedule remains, including Friday. Hopefully we'll be right in the mix come the end of February.

These headline figures are ... misleading as most of the acceleration in PPI inflation during September was due to the one-shot cigarette price hike which went into effect at the beginning of the month.

These guys are quite exceptional. They're practically off the planet. I can't begin to understand how they do the puzzles. It's all a bit too stressful and serious for me!

These groups have been in conflict for a good part of the afternoon, going at one another. But it wasn't until they were put out of the zoo and they were standing on Connecticut Avenue, one group on the west side of the street, one on the east side, that they started throwing bottles back and forth, and then someone pulled a gun and then began firing at the crowd,

These findings raise serious questions about the future of the U.S. income tax system. The majority of the federal tax burden is being borne by a shrinking pool of taxpayers. As Congress considers tax reform proposals during the coming year, this is an issue lawmakers should begin to debate.

Peter Kenyon

These figures reflect the continuing restructuring of the business which we began in 2003-4.

These problems have begun to improve, but they're far from resolved in terms of problems. So the Federal Reserve has got to keep moving.

These prices have not been seen since mid-2004, when the Fed Reserves began the first of a long series of rate hikes.

This is opening day of the FY '07 (fiscal year) budget. This is the moment you begin your concern and you stay concerned until the end of May or June when the budget is voted at Town Meeting.

This Is New' was a beginning for me, a gentle announcement that this was where I was moving. For me as a musician, I've got to continue challenging myself. I'm sure at some point I'll come back to straight-ahead jazz, but I'm feeling the need to go outside of that realm right now to enlarge my musical vocabulary.

This is a great beginning for the next four years.

This helps our residents to get back on their feet and puts them in the position where they can begin rebuilding.

This is all in keeping with the general thesis that we're in the beginning stages of the economic cycle.

This is a literacy program for beginning readers. It's a nonjudgmental situation for the child, and because the child is relaxed they are more open to learning.

This is a horrendous crime; they just crashed into the residences and began hitting and shooting. There's been a series of home invasions of Hispanics. Much of it goes unreported to the police.

This is a homicide investigation, and we are in the beginning stages of it.

Lou Piniella

He's not pitching like a rookie. He's gotten a whole lot better since the beginning of the season.

However, four of my boys practiced all summer and the difference was telling at the beginning of this year.

How much and all those things, I can't tell you right now. Drew is our starter, Drew is the one that's had a tremendous beginning this season. If we get a chance to play Ben, we'd like that opportunity. But if you can't, you can't.

I couldn't be more proud of him. Ever since he began working with team since he was 10 years old, I've seen him progress so much. There is nobody more deserving to be an All-American than him...I am so happy for him.

John Oates

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.

I congratulate all on the beginning of the school year, and wish interesting study and good marks. Those who want to be successful should study all the time.

I cannot begin to express my sorrow for my lost friends and my sympathy for those they left behind. I hope that my words will offer some solace to the miners' families and friends who have endured what no one should ever have to endure.

James Duncan

I can definitely see these robots having a much more instrumental role in this and the following years than they did at the beginning of the conflict, due to the fact that a lot of the improvised explosive devices are on the small secondary streets,

Michael Sheen

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.

Lucy Liu

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

The loss of confidence in the market has been considerable and there's a lot of short-term debt. Over the next few months, the details will begin to emerge. And that's going to be very important.

The long-term virtue of this idea, what you'll begin to create, is a terrific lifetime habit that will give a person a great deal of lasting benefit. That weighs a lot more than the short-term thrill of tearing off the wrapping paper.

The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

The lefty they had out there to begin with was very effective and did a nice job. We really didn't do much offensively except for the one inning.

Rabih Alameddine

The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.

James Macdonald

Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.