Famous Quotes & Sayings

The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.

I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.

Eve

I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side projects don't because it's so personal. I write the words. Music is like my diary. It's my therapy.

Evan Williams

People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.

Evan Parker

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

Evan Goldberg

I can't wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert 'Terminator 2' to 3D more than I want anything in the world.

Elif Safak

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

Elliot Cowan

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

Ellen Willis

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

Ella Henderson

I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just feel a connection there between me, and the water, and the fish - they speak to me - and the shells - they ring out to me.

Elizabeth McCracken

Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.

Elizabeth McCracken

I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed.

Elizabeth Dole

Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.

Edgar Ramirez

I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

Edgar Ramirez

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

Emily Mortimer

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

Michelle Fairley

As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.

Flea

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

Flea

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Flo Rida

I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.

I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.

Fabiola Gianotti

My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

Fabiola Gianotti

CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.

Colin Farrell

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

Conor Oberst

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.