Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benoit Mandelbrot

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time

Ashley Tisdale

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

Anton Corbijn

For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.

I think they've set the whole D.R.M. thing back at least a year or two.

Bill Vaughan

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said

Bill Vaughan

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

Bill Vaughan

The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.

Bill Vaughan

Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details.

Bill Buford

Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He opened his knife drawer. "It goes here," he said, "until you return."(That's how you leave: by never saying good-bye.)And I learned that: to return. I came back the following year and the year after that. I hope to return every year (after all, I may never have the chance to learn so much), until I have no one to return to. (301)

Bill Budge

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

Bill Bryson

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

Bill Burr

You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

Bill Hicks

You know all the money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense every year? Trillions of dollars? Correct? Trillions. Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world,which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, not one, we could, as one race, explore outer space together in peace forever

Bertrand Russell

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

Bertrand Russell

When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

Bertrand Russell

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

That's the year Stephanie was born. That's really old.

I was out for a year and that was it.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

I still like our chances, but this year is going to be a lot more balanced.

I thought he was trotting better than he has all year in his elimination.

Jim Johnson

I think this is going to be a big year for this line,

I think this will be a very challenging year for us ahead.

Gary Payton

He didn't like the 19 (points) and 10 (rebounds, actually 7.8) he was getting (in the playoffs). This year we'll get him back to 26 and 12 or 13, and we'll be fine.

From year to year it's centimetres or inches, and this year it was 10 feet, 20 feet, 30 feet,

Robinson Cano

I had two strikes. I wanted to take my chance. It's something I've been working on all year in the big leagues, to use the whole field.

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

If it had been a year it would have been too soon. But, it's been a little while.

William Wilberforce

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.