Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melissa Leo

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

Albert Camus

To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first

We all want to see whole grains. We all want to see vegetarian options. We all want to see lower salt and no trans fat, and have the a la carte menu much more accountable.

Howard Dean

We all want the president to succeed. But the president hasn't succeeded. I think that is because he has a lack of vision and, frankly, he hasn't been truthful with the American people.

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Cory Doctorow

This seemed insanely limiting. So ... Yahoo tells me to deliberately keep a large number of users from seeing my pages, but won't even suggest a way to do this. Clever, huh?

We all know the language of need, so we can communicate.

Stephen Jay Gould

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

Stephen Jay Gould

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.

Stephen Jay Gould

Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus , or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality).

Stephen Jay Gould

A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.

Catullus

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh

The other night I told Larry he doesn't have to score every possession. He should be getting double-digit rebounds and some assists.

There is no reason for us not to go after large mergers.

There is no integrity, because of a lack of law enforcement and regulatory control,

There is not always a 'happy end' a la Hollywood.

Kevin Hall

There is not $150 million laying on the table.

There is no strategy to sell any large number of stores.

There could be a lot less spending. Most of the network build-out for larger telecom players is already done,

Michael Vaughan

We will probably leave it until the last minute to see which way we go,

We will play our ladder matches at the end of the week (today, Friday).

Ultimately you will end up with a larger SPR.

We're not pleased by that, obviously, but we are 2-0, and we were 1-1 last year. What's the most important stat? I'll take the last one.

We're not looking at it that way. We looked at it that way last year and we lost.

We're not in position to think, We're Stanford, we can show up and they're going to lay down for us,'

Ryan Howard

Why not us? We could have been playing in the World Series last season. That's what we have to shoot for.

Tom Daschle

Why mess with success? If the language worked in the House, you would think it would work here in the Senate as well,

Why have 90 votes melted away in the last two weeks?

Jon Corzine

We were told that the president didn't know about the sale until after it was approved. For many Americans, regardless of party, this lack of disciplined review is unacceptable.

We were told on Wednesday (March 1) in the late morning. The prognosis for her recovery was not good.

Tommy Bowden

Too many mistakes in the red zone by the offense. That's kind of is going back to last year with some of the same problems we had.

This year, we've got already two-thirds of our snowfall from what we got last year. Of course, we lost it all.

This year there's been a lot more violations. There's been twice as many as last year to this point.