Famous Quotes & Sayings

We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit.

The publicity of the Nobel Prize has made clear that the research work connected with the Quantum Hall Effect was so successful because a tremendous large number of institutions and individuals supported this activity.

Mickey Rooney

All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ.

Nile Rodgers

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

Robert Musil

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

Pico Iyer

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

Rahm Emanuel

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

Corbin Bernsen

If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.

Malcolm Gladwell

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

Damien Rice

I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.

Glenn Greenwald

Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.

Paul Auster

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

Pharrell Williams

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgment.

We are cooperating fully with the investigation. We've made it clear the less public comment on this the better.

Brian Wilson

We actually have more clear sunny days in mid-Oregon than they do in Southern Florida.

We are laying the foundation for further growth in North America. Our continuing expansion here demonstrates a clear commitment to our customers in North America.

Tatiana Totmianina

We are just happy to have skated clear and people seemed to like it. We are world champions, but that doesn't mean that everything is easy.

were a very clear manifestation of 41 years of persecution, 41 years of having loved ones perishing in the straits of Florida, 41 years of violations of human rights and years and years of separation of family members.

Let's be clear about one thing: a film about Katharine Hepburn is an excellent idea. She was one of the most fascinating, complex stars ever to grace a motion picture screen, and she deserves a full-scale, big-screen biographical treatment.

Will Hermes

The upshot here is that Gil Scott-Heron is still a warrior, even if the front lines have moved. He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man is clearly still committed to speaking the truth.

Will Packer

When you come into the industry as an outsider, you need to have an entrepreneurial spirit to succeed. In Hollywood, it's very clear that you either play by the rules or make up your own. And I wanted to do it my way.

Alan Moore

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

There are three things in life that people like to stare at: a flowing stream, a crackling fire and a Zamboni clearing the ice.

David Cohen

The rate hike was clearly a surprise. Going forward, I can see another one or two hikes.

Dennis Kucinich

Voters are ready right now for my message. They just needed someone who can make a clear stand.

Richard Hastings

Wal-Mart's much slower rate of sales growth in November clearly shows this is a matured global business. As supermarket goods continue to increase as a percentage of sales -- and this includes consumables and perishables sold in big volume at Sam's Club -- we will expect to see a persistently slower rate of top line growth.

Wal-Mart has made it very clear that the prospects for this holiday are much stronger than the conventional wisdom would have had it.

Dave Gibbons

I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

We didn't come away with a clear commitment.

We don't have the resources to force people out of their homes. But we have made it very clear to them that when we have to take shelter, all emergency services will stop. If people are trapped or if there is a fire in the city, no help will be coming. The consequences of staying could be death.

We don't have clear evidence that what they are pulling out is what they put out on the roadway.

Hasso Plattner

The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately.