Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

We have made contact with our embassy there and no South Africans are affected, as far as we are aware.

We have lost contact with the orbiter; rescue units are moving position.

My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.

Nick Wechsler

Personally, I don't go and seek contact with fans, but if they happen to find me somewhere I'll say hello and speak to them for a while.

L. Lionel Kendrick

I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

We are happy that these contacts have given fresh momentum to the process of cooperation between our two countries.

We are happy that Jerome has been released from the hospital today and has taken another step on his road to recovery. Our doctors have been in continual contact with the doctors in Miami.

Elliott Erwitt

The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.

Lindy Ruff

When we put him in contact situation and we ran him through some drills in Tampa Bay, he didn't do so well. The strength isn't there yet. We're not going to put him in until he's in a situation where he doesn't feel like he's handicapped.

I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

You make contact first and it's a lot easier to defend him. I kind of knocked him off balance. We did a pretty good job on him.

Werner Arber

From 1949 to 1953, I studied towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich. It is in the last year of this study that I made my first contacts with fundamental research, when working on the isolation and characterization of a new isomer of Cl34 with a half-life of 1.5 seconds.

Jim Bishop

The delivery of the iron far off shore was stealthy (out of contact with surface waters).

John Cleese

We stay in contact vaguely because there are often little things to discuss, but I don't think we've been in a room together for four years.

There is just a lot of contact stuff that I want to go through to prepare myself for a game,

Nancy White

The project involves person-to-person contact from us in New Hampshire to specific shelters in the hurricane area. These needs will continue for months at least, and we will coordinate directly with shelters.

I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking.

I thought we got a little intimidated. It was a much more physical game than what we've been getting, much more contact allowed.

We are looking for any contact we can have to get these kids' pictures out there.

We are looking at proposals for more contact between the two countries but we haven't made any decisions.

We use a number of subcontractors particularly for things like this. I'll have to contact someone at the plant for a more definitive answer. I know it's not something done all the time.

We had something different called and T.J. made eye contact with Jennings and it worked. I probably won't run them for it.

Two other vehicles stopped to let the girl cross but the driver of the pickup did not until after the collision. We hope one of the two drivers who stopped will contact police.

Geoffrey Boycott

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.

We knew we had a pretty good player but, to be honest, I didn't think he was that good. When you just work a guy out, you could see that he makes contact but you can't see what happens in a game.

We have contact with the people who are abducted.

We're still working to get in contact with our people.

There are not many people within the WWF that I am contact with.

Banks

It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.

Tommy Bowden

When you play more zone, which we do, you expect collisions. I would have thought we would have had more full-speed collisions and more serious contact for some highlight-film material than we've had in two games. And hopefully that will pick up.

There has been no contact about any of our players at all.

We know that no one has lost his life, which is good news -- the objective today is immediate response. That's medical assessment, food, water, ice and communications -- making contact with local officials and reestablishing continuity of government.