Famous Quotes & Sayings

Many anthropologists work with a concept called embodied knowledge - tacit, nonscientific knowledge - and look for ways to incorporate such information into product design.

Unlike most divorced parents, whose interactions are confined to the topic of the kids, people still sharing a house have to talk about clogged sinks and moth infestations.

Kate Bernheimer

In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.

Kathleen Edwards

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

Karin Slaughter

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

Kate Christensen

A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.

John Walters

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.

John Sculley

The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

James Gleick

I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.

James F. Amos

We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

Jami Gertz

I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.

Lara Giddings

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

Laura Riding

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

Laura Osnes

I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance.

Lamar Alexander

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

Katherine Jenkins

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

Katie Price

Just because you have kids doesn't mean to say you need time off. I have a lot of time off anyway. If I'm promoting my book, like, for the next two weeks, I'm flat out. But then I'm off again. And when you've got the next product, it's the same; you just condense it into a couple of weeks.

Jeanne Phillips

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

John Battelle

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

We had a private conversation about a month ago. She told me that I could use her in key moments down the stretch, and she's proven that.

We had a prayer and we turned out the lights and just let the girls talk and console each other.

We are confident that our plant can be a good neighbor, as well as an important contributor to the economic health of the community, and will provide the safe, reliable electric service that is vital to a growing region.

We are confident that our network is solid.

Donald Rumsfeld

We are confident that our friends here will make decisions that are appropriate to them and that is what we want them to do,

We are confident that our country will not turn its back on our seniors.

We are confident that mobile TV will be an exciting new service for consumers, as well as generate new opportunities for innovation and growth in the mobile and media industries.

Celso Amorim

We are confident that it (reform) will happen,

We are confident that in these few hours the hotel has rectified practically all the irregularities.

Billy Wagner

We are confident that Debby no longer poses any significant threat to the Florida Keys.

We are confident that Comcast will successfully resolve any OLN distribution issues,

E. P. Thompson

We are confident that by executing this initiative, we will enhance our leadership in the mid-market in China.