Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans Christian Andersen

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

George Washington

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

George Washington

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

George Washington

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

John Pople

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

Norman Cousins

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Norbert Wiener

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.

Nina Arianda

I get really into shows, but then I have my brain shut off time.

Mike Tyson

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

The general rule is that law firms are dropping names and shortening them to become like corporate brand names, like Coca-Cola.

Jeff Goodby

The Doritos brand is a true icon and we look forward to being part of the Frito-Lay team. This is a chance to put Doritos front and center in people's minds where it belongs.

The earnings were a huge positive surprise, and I think it was an okay quarter. I would like to have seen stronger service bookings and more strength on software, but the core brands within software did well. And gross margins were pretty damn good.

The early labels in 1840s were used in a totally different type of store. The (product) was on a shelf and you pointed to it and they brought it down, so these labels catered to that. They concentrated on colors more, and brands were more important -- it was a name that caught your eye.

Thomas Bulfinch

THE earliest inhabitants of Britain are supposed to have been a branch of that great family known in history by the designation of Celts.

Franz Beckenbauer

The Dutch are braver and more creative players, but less disciplined. They want to let the opponent see and feel that they're better, but they forget to score and settle the game.

Jimmy Tillette

The game plan was to go stand on his feet, and he was wide open, so we went brain dead.

The future of manufacturing is in technology. The next generation of manufacturing champions will come from those companies that use brain power, not labor, to drive their innovations.

The future of Hitchcock is preserving the brand and expanding national distribution for the wholesale division to other retailers nationwide.

The frequent-flier programs really were extremely successful because they generated for the first time brand loyalty, which you never had before. It gives them the opportunity to charge a premium over the low-cost carriers.

The Free People brand plans to drive growth on three different fronts: product expansion, geographic expansion and improved marketing.

The Fusion is a disappointment because it's a brand new design.

Edward Boyden

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

Edward Boyden

The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.

Dick Cheney

The men and women who serve today can know that they have the complete confidence of the commander-in-chief, and the respect of the entire nation, ... They know, too, that they follow a long and unbroken line of brave Americans who came to the defense of freedom.

Jennette McCurdy

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Jonathan Lethem

Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

Jonathan Franzen

Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

Kate Upton

I can never find the right bras.

Kate Winslet

God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

Kate Atkinson

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

Kate Beckinsale

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

Larry Bird

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

Terry Pratchett

I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.