Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Motion

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

Seth Shostak

Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than as individuals (think of our own solar system), the number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy is of order one trillion.

Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.

Steven Millhauser

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.

Gerard Butler

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

George Porter

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

Ian MacKaye

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

Gerry Harvey

Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of the original price, your revenue goes down, and the profit goes with it.

What lays before us here in Central Texas is an exciting opportunity for change. It's a chance to make a difference.

We've got three guys that practice there and are dead even, but when you get out there on center stage, you've got to perform.

We've invited companies to test drive the shuttle landing facility. The key No. 1 thing we wish to demonstrate is that the Kennedy Space Center is willing to support missions other than space.

We've inquired with teams about other center fielders. We would be irresponsible not to. We're confident that we can work it out and we're going to have a good center fielder.

We've improved on defence immensely and we've improved our center ice immensely. What that translates to, I don't know.

Iain Sinclair

I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

Debbie Stabenow

For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new clean energy economy.

P. J. O'Rourke

With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

Debbie Ford

With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don't have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation.

With Iraq off center stage, there is more good to focus on than not. The prospect of a double-dip recession will fade, I think.

Curt Smith

We need to be open-minded about what the center could be, and we need to understand what it can't be.

Alex Sanchez

We have many women CEOs around the state of Florida. We're seeing that around South Florida, Central Florida.

When we lifted off, you could just feel the release, not only watching the vehicle leave the pad, but just the release that the folks had in the center here. It was just incredible.

When we think about economic loss and insured loss, there are few events that rival Katrina. The World Trade Center disaster is one.

David Allen

We will consolidate our existing Dallas headquarters and Plano contact center into a single convenient location with room for expansion, lowering our facility costs.

We wanted to get the center up and running for college spring break. And our first group here this week is from Concordia College in Minnesota.

Tom Rath

We had some people in that delegation who were very close to -- and great fans of -- Senator McCain. And they were front and center when he came, and I think that that was totally appropriate after his run four years ago.

Tyler Smith

We are excavating the site. We hope to have the sales center open in three weeks.

The President said that the Finance Ministry was still in the process of annulling some of the bylaws as local administrations now received more money from the central government.

The president made clear that he is politically interested in a strong dollar, not a weak one, ... It is clear that governments have limited possibilities for action. As you know, the central banks, which can act, are independent and we respect that.

Unfortunately, I don't do much preparation for these events, as I have a full teaching schedule at Pacific Coast Golf Centre in Richmond.

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

Chris Pine

I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you've done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.

Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.