Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Congreve

A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.

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.

Michel Hazanavicius

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

Judith Resnik

The central hope I have for this case in terms of separation of powers is that the Supreme Court will restore the constitutional directive that no one branch of government has the power to accuse, appoint the prosecutor, designate the judges, and render judgment.

The community history of the Chestnut Street branch is gigantic. We'd like to leverage that into expanded programming. There's a lot of good work already going on there and we want to enhance that.

Edward Burnett Tylor

The Indian fig trees sent down from every branch suckers, like smooth strings, which rooted themselves in the ground to draw up more water.

E. P. Thompson

You will not see a Wal-Mart branch in a Wal-Mart store.

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days: / Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

The chief justice is the titular head of the third branch in the U.S. and abroad. You're looking for someone with the intellectual and leadership skills that can be a persuasive force in conference and the wider world.

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.

Eric Burdon

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

These are important policy issues that we have to get straight between our two branches of government, and the decision today is a big step in the wrong direction.

This is not a problem that the executive branch can fix on its own.

Ziggy Marley

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

Sam Brownback

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

Stanislaw Lem

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

Steven Wright

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Robert Fortune

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

Sylvester Stallone

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.