Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Watson

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

Pepe Serna

My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well educated. My mother was a hairdresser who sang every day.

Philip Selway

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

Pat Brown

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

Pankaj Mishra

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'

Pattie Boyd

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

Michio Kaku

Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that's not true. There's no programming of the brain. There's no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a corporation, you have subdivisions which operate independently of the main office.

Mitch Hedberg

You can't please all the people all the time, and last night all those people were at my show.

The main thing we were thinking was that we did it last year. If we could come back from three (strokes), we come back from five.

Larry Ellison

The majority of the people being laid off are Oracle employees, not Siebel employees.

The Machinists are saying, 'We're going to make a stand and make them respect us,' ... This is what the union strategy is as a Labor Day celebration of the power of labor.

Audrey Hepburn

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

Their land would become more valuable with time.

Their land is their retirement plan. We don't want to pigeon-hole someone.

The trouble with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long

Douglas Leone

The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large.

These are not large numbers and it still has to go through the Security Council.

These labor unions are very apprehensive on the question of Europe.

Bobby Cox

It's been good, it's been so-so and lately it hasn't been great, that's for sure.

Antawn Jamison

It's been this way for the last week and a half. We didn't want it to come down to the last game, but this is fun.

John Ashcroft

It needs to stop, ... Every American has a right to look to law enforcement officials to protect their rights.

Dan Shechtman

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.

I told Erica last year that I would rather be her any day of the week because she's going to win way more races than I ever did.

Shirley Hazzard

It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.

It's a myth that it's too late to get your return done.

It's a much wider privilege in a media landscape that has changed.

It's a much larger thing than just Mr. Finn.

It's a morning paper, they don't come out this late at night.

It's a melting pot. There's so much talent here and such a large variety that you never see the same type of performer back to back.

Luis Fernandez

It's a maintenance issue. These are the problems that people are suffering with. We get late to work, late to school, late to a doctor's appointments.

It's always tough to have to say something to your team for the last time. With him, I'm not quite sure. I've thought about it. But every time I get to him, I'm never sure what to say.

It (law) seemed like the occupation where you could get things done.