Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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

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.

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.

It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.

Jamie Foxx

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.

Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.

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.

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.

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

We designed this for 2010. We anticipated growth. We spent a lot of years on this project.

We designed our own place. The most important thing was capacity.

We designed Nationwide L-Inc with maximization of allowable income in mind.

We designed everything so you have the greatest views of the mountains. We planned every single public view wherever you are.

But the regulatory system has been designed for people who want to do the right thing but aren't sure how to proceed.

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.

From an outsider's perspective I can understand it seems odd to open a new facility while another one is closing. But Red Rock is designed for a state contract.

Chris Thompson

I don't think it was a designed play. They saw me in the game. Why not take a shot?

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.

Evan Williams

Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.

George Clooney

What it's designed to do is be entertainment.

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Jeff White

Knowing what we know now, we would have designed it differently.

I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

Gordon Brown

has been designed ... to put stability first.

Townes Van Zandt

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

Larry Ellison

Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.

Jody Williams

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.