Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olympia Snowe

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

Shiv Khera

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

We want this tournament and we have started to work out a concept with six to eight arenas.

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

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.

I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.

Mike Birbiglia

When you're in high school, you can't even imagine the concept of what the rest of your life even means.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

Troy Smith

We are kind of fortunate. But within the team concept I think we can only worry about working hard and getting a win.

Amanda Burton

Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.

UP is in favor of the concept because FRA rules created a consistent program for communities to create the zones.

Chen Ning Yang

The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought.

Craig Venter

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

Debra Monk

My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

Henry Eyring

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

Dave Morin

When you set out to create a new product, you usually do not start by trying to think of something completely new. You think of a product or concept that is already 'normal' to the world and then try to make it better. You make it Super Normal.

Tyra Banks

I used to really panic about finals. I didn't understand the concept of how you could have one test that encompasses the entire semester.

Yoko Ono

To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

Vince Vaughn

I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.

Ellen Key

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

Mary Wilson

We've been working on this for about a year. Trying to figure out what to do. We couldn't really put the concept together the way we wanted to.

Hayley Hasselhoff

People have this conception of plus size models as girls who aren't fit or don't work out or don't really take care of their bodies.

Tina Weymouth

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

Bernard Beckett

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

David Chipperfield

The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.

We have lost all concept of time since this thing.

Retirement is not a concept I have much time for. I will be very interested in making sure I continue to do business.

Edward Witten

On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.

Julie Burchill

One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'

My initial concept was deplorably vague. All I knew was that the Internet and privacy were on a collision course.

Dave Winer

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.

One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.

Sophie Aldred

My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on.