Famous Quotes & Sayings

The question you raise, 'is digital TV ready for prime time?' And it's not. It's still in the concept stage.

Francis Collins

I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.

Tim Scott

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

Tim Cahill

'Rolling Stone' had started something called 'Outside,' and since I was one of two people in the office that liked going outside, I was pegged to work on it. The concept of the magazine was simple: literate writing about the out-of-doors. I jumped at the opportunity.

Barton Gellman

Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

We have a lot of designs still in conceptual stages, a lot we haven't printed yet, and we are trying to keep them a secret.

Rachel Sklar

Groupon is a great concept packaged in a superb name, but the concept of group discounts is not new.

Jorge Borges

Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Andrew Roberts

Few people have any concept of what it's like to experience the extremes of the Southern Ocean . The relentless frequency of the gales and storms left little time for recovery.

Michael Leunig

Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.

Spike Jonze

As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.

To make a long story short, the concept in Cup racing now, of course, is multiple teams,

Justin Rose

When I first turned pro, I didn't really have any conception of how long it would take me,

Helen Vendler

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience.

Clayton Christensen

Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.

James Geary

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

We're not at the drafting stage. I think we're moving toward the conceptual stage of what we need to do,

Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks.

Roy Moore

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

I've been one of the image-makers who created this concept of perfection. I've done a thousand magazine covers where I'm celebrating Hollywood, glamorous people. Which is all good. It's all entertainment.

Phil Jackson

We couldn't overcome a tough shooting game for Kobe. They threw an extra man at him, and we didn't make good adjustments. Offensively, I don't think we grasped the concepts of what we are trying to do here.

Barbara Mikulski

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

Noam Chomsky

As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

Those are two very solid indications that freshness as a concept for wine is a marketable, and a pretty profitable, thing to hang your hat on.

Dominic Cooper

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

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!'

We need to have tax relief for those who really need tax relief. The concept of tax cuts is fine, but we want it targeted.

Mark Zuckerberg

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Patricia Marx

Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

Susan Griffin

We known ourselves to be made from this earth.We know this earth is made from our bodies.For we see ourselves.And we are nature.We are nature seeing nature.We are nature with a concept of nature.Nature weeping.Nature speaking of nature to nature.

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.