Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geraldine Brooks

I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.

My better sense tells me (that many) stoplight tickets issued to metro Des Moines residents and unsuspecting visitors will generate some discontent, if not serious outrage.

You can generally talk about many things, as long as it's not, you know, a turnoff or offensive.

You can have the most incredible speed ever, but if the path and space relationship are off, you'll hit it all over the place. If you don't have the ingredients to try to generate speed, then you need to play within yourself.

Windows Live is the next generation of MSN.

Kenneth Lay

I was more interested in talking to Vince Kaminski about some general risk-management issues.

Pat Gillick

We have a very generous budget, ... We have sufficient money to do the things we need to do. We have to be imaginative and allocate the money properly.

Victor Webster

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

The quartet will convene on September 20 at the ministerial level, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

We'll generate between 35 to 40 million individual page use.

E. F. Schumacher

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

E. F. Schumacher

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

We can say genetics plays a strong role.

Craig Mello

RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.

Retailers have no pricing power themselves, as evidenced by all the discounts they had to offer to generate holiday sales. In terms of volume, they succeeded, but not at the level of profitability they would have liked.

Damon Hill

Pipelines in general used to be located primarily in rural areas, but as populations and communities grow and develop, more people are nearby.

It doesn't surprise me. People generally underestimate what they're going to spend for the holidays.

It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.

Joe Sacco

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

We are very keen to see generic versions of this anti-viral drug available, but we will not pressure Roche to do so (relinquish its patent).

Mike Lowry

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

Ann Romney

You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he's been financially. He's a very generous person. We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person that is trying to hide things, or do things? No.

Jo Brand

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Jimmy Carter

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

George Santayana

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Jack Hanna

The L.A. Zoo is a respected institution, the general manager is highly thought of, the L.A. Zoo is one of the top zoos in the world,

W. S. Gilbert

The list of genes that will come out of the genome project will be the tool that turns our questions into global ones.

James St. James

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

James Mackintosh

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

John Mott

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

George Leonard

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Garrett Hardin

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.