Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brady Quinn

That was how it was designed. It wasn't a last resort. It was designed to be a run.

Jody Williams

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

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

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

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.

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.

George Clooney

What it's designed to do is be entertainment.

William E. Simon

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

When I'm creating, that's my heaven. If I haven't designed something every day, it is a failed day - that's how much I love fashion.

We have a long history of supporting statewide issues designed to improve the quality of life here in Colorado,

We know there is plenty of water frozen into the surface layer of Mars at high latitudes. We've designed Phoenix to tell us more about this region as a possible habitat for life.

Clay Shirky

You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers never intended or designed for.

Well, uh, the issue, I mean, it, it's, the system functions as designed and so, um

Joel Silver

The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.

Newt Gingrich

It functions like an afterthought. We couldn't have designed a greater invitation to unhappiness.