Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Stewart

I am heartsick about my personal legal situation -- and deeply sorry for the pain and difficulties it has caused our employees.

We understand the inconvenience being caused to people because of the strike but there was no other option. The government has been ignoring our demand for so long.

Frank Church

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

Luigi Pirandello

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Otto Loewi

In the year 1921, I was successful for the first time in obtaining certain proof that by stimulation of the nerves in a frog's heart, substances were released which to some extent passed into the heart fluid and, when transferred with this into a test heart, caused it to react in exactly the same way as the stimulation of the corresponding nerves.

Jane Goodall

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I'd caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Hans Rosling

I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.

Kids are kids, and you never know what they are going to do. I think they might have been a little leg weary, a little mentally drained -- you could pick a lot of reasons. But give them (Wildcats) credit. They caused them, and they have a nice club.

Harry Reid

Katrina makes it clear this government has failed, ... We must find out why immediately to make sure the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina never happens again.

It caused my head to turn totally to the left, and it was frozen there for quite some time,

He urges that this commitment be honored, thus ending the violence which has caused so much suffering over so many years.

He lied so the plot could proceed unimpeded. With that lie, he caused the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. He rejoiced in the death and destruction.

Simon Fuller

Fame is a modern phenomenon caused by the explosion of media, where there's a zillion digital channels and snappers everywhere. It's so attainable, so people can have their Warhol 15 minutes of fame, and some are so aggressive.

There are so many positive factors that led to today's rally. Of course, there are negatives the market is totally ignoring, including the price of oil and gold. Ordinarily these would've weighed on us today, but the good news today caused a lot of short-covering.

Harcourt's failure to meet its requirements has caused huge problems for schools.

He's got the right to speak his mind. He's got the right to say what he's got to say. We're coming off a 4-12 season and from a personnel standpoint there hasn't been a big change. Obviously it's caused some concern on his part what we have done. But no one has felt he was taking it out on them.

I think the evidence of the tragedy from this hurricane is all that is needed to make changes. All you need to do is look at what has happened and the devastation this hurricane has caused to understand that there is a value in making a change.

Joseph Rotblat

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

Kevin Flynn

The purpose of this purchase is to extend the life of our Vactor truck by decreasing the wear and tear caused by the jetting function,

Tom Williams

We're proceeding as normal with our logistics and planning for the Christmas inventory. SARS has caused no interruptions.

We took it down. It was our machine, our node, and our network. Because it wasn't vetted with our security and network groups, it could have potentially caused harm to our users.

We?re only allegedly that the injuries she sustained was not accidentally and somebody caused this injury to her.

We've found about 200 road-rage deaths over a period of several years, compared to the 17,000 a year caused by drunk driving. Some states are considering pretty severe penalties, trying to rewrite laws so that road rage has some specific legal consequences. We're not sure that's appropriate.

We switched defenses and the change caused Galva some trouble. Our energy level picked up at that point in the game.

the pain was so sharp that it made me utter several moans; and so excessive was the sweetness caused me by this intense pain that one can never wish to lose it.

The pain of being shot and losing control of the van caused the gun to go off.

The pain caused to the parents by this dreadful sequence of events is unforgivable. I am deeply sorry.

The rain on Sunday night combined with the warm temperatures have caused us to lose the over-seed on our greens and you can't have that happen. With a cold front moving through the next couple of days with more wind, the greens should get faster.

When they heat treated it ... they got about 100 degrees hotter than they were supposed to get and because of that, it caused this change in the metal. You wouldn't want to hook one of these tethers to a piece of material you are not confident in.

We may be at the early stages of realizing that it is not being caused by the evil oil companies but that we do have a real energy crisis.

We made several adjustments on defense and ran our half-court trap fairly well. That caused major havoc for them and got the temp going.

Paul Davis

Huge increases in the last few days ... have caused considerable hardships and some fear for the people of Maine. They need help and help must be given to them.

Chris Dodd

Hurricane Katrina caused already skyrocketing energy prices to soar even higher, and as the months grow colder, it could leave many low-income families and seniors struggling to heat their homes,