Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Willie Nelson

Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.

Maine is a team that has some talented and strong kids. They play a real solid game.

Xavier Samuel

My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

David Walton

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

Ansel Elgort

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

Kurt Vonnegut

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

Fred Tomaselli

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

Jay Weatherill

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Talcott Parsons

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

My main capital isn't the money. I respect myself; I respect my country.

Tom Jenkinson

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.

Tomas Berdych

I think I can win a slam. That's my main goal, and if I could choose one, then yes, it would have to be Wimbledon. But, honestly, I would take any one of them.

Peter King

There is a very serious question as to why the records are not going to be maintained on American soil subject to American jurisdiction.

Ntozake Shange

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

Craig McCracken

First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones." ()

Paul Kantner

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

Jerry Sloan

We played a lot harder. That's the main thing. That was interesting that we did that.

Vicky Hartzler

I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.

I think we're going to go down to the wire whether or not it's a half-percentage point (increase). If you want to maintain market stability, a quarter percentage point could keep the market at bay.

Gautam Gambhir

I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.

Gretchen Mol

I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.

We've got to do some more looking. It's considerably away from where the main shock was.

We need to be spending about $50,000 a year out there to maintain the course,

We need to let people know the technology and how the systems work as well as what they need to do to maintain the systems.

We wanted to get to places that aren't ordinarily featured. We wanted to have that main street feel. It's refreshing.

Efren Ramirez

It's always scary when you're doing a sequel to a film, because you don't want to just repeat the first film in a different location like most sequels. You want to do something totally different, and something that actually expands the world of the main character.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.