Famous Quotes & Sayings

He never really seemed to take off as decisively as he has this year. We can put in a lot more designed plays.

What mediation is designed for is to resolve disputes on the value on a claim, not whether there is a claim.

We try to make things user-friendly. We try to use information designed to facilitate quick understanding.

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

The protocols were designed to help protect the athletes' rights. We're not trying to withhold anything; we're doing what we're supposed to do in relation to a robust anti-doping program.

Of course, the licensing process is designed to simply slide as many people through with a minimum of experience and quality.

Andy Weir

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

Needless to say, we are very pleased with these results, ... Our enhanced surveillance program is designed to provide information about the level of prevalence of B.S.E. in the United States, which by any measure is extremely low.

The prime speakers each night are on from 10 to 11 p.m. Eastern time, which is designed to get the maximum TV audience. But that's late for newspapers. It means a lot of newspapers miss their early editions with the big speeches.

The plan will be designed to ensure that none of these (and other) limits are violated.

Sewage treatment plants aren't designed to remove them.

Megyn Price

Sitcoms are designed for normal people who just want to turn on their TV and get a laugh. It's not high-brow, you don't have to work so hard, and it's meant to be a relatable genre. That's why I love it so much - my fans are from 8 years old to 80 years old, because everybody can relate to what's funny.

Miss Copley, you're not going to like any of this, ... Your stay is too short. It's designed for punishment. Period.

Amity Gaige

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

S. Jay Olshansky

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

Peter Fonda

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

made a good-faith effort to respond to the questions despite the fact that they were designed more for a partisan purpose than a constitutional one.

Hugh Hardy

Basically, New York housing is designed by formula, with lots of restrictions.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

William E. Simon

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

Gary Smith

Today we are moving up to the electronic system level. That's where electronic hardware and software are designed concurrently.

Olympia Snowe

The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.

Sasha Cohen

I've designed since I was 12. The first was when I skated to Carmen, in red and gold and black. I wanted so many frills at that time. It had a lot going on for a little person like me. And I picked out fabrics that didn't stretch. Very uncomfortable.

Win Butler

If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic, very theatrical. The outfits they wear, it's all designed to be impressive.

Craig Venter

People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.

As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

Stewart Butterfield

Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links.

I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks.

Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality.

Albert Barnes

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

Brad Soderberg

Tommie didn't get a great shot. There's a great player that made a great play. It wasn't a great designed play. He just made it work.

We've got to do things differently if we're going to reform our schools. You've got to stretch kids. State tests were never designed to be the end line. They've got to keep being reformed. In the quest to raise standards, you may have lowered them for other students.