Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.

Virginia Postrel

More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should know that institutions, not technologies, create dystopias. Artificially conceived children are everywhere, beloved by their parents, and they haven't radically altered our world.

Nina Easton

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

Nina Bawden

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.

David Suzuki

Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

Jason Gore

We probably stole a few and left a few out there, ... That's kind of what you have to do in alternate shot.

Tyrone Hayes

Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.

Feng Zhang

The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.

Laura Anne Gilman

When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

Richard Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Brooks Robinson

Was it a fact? ... Or just a great new story about a celebrity that might help sell books?

Calvin Baker

We're not trying to eliminate books. We love books.

Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

Emily Smith

What's not to like? I love fantasy books. I love magic and dragons.

Dr. Smith

In the old way, it was as if you were looking through a scrap book, you had a series of images. You would never see the entire organ, you would just see the representative photo.

Tom Selleck

In the book, he's in his mid-30s and 5-foot-10.

Chuck D.

The guides have been combined. They are now one book.

Jim Scott

The great thing is that a lot of their hikes aren't even written up in books, so by going on their hikes you can learn ones that you wouldn't have any other way of knowing about.

Peter Kretzmer

The overall weaker GDP number coming from the trade data does give you a more bullish feeling on Treasuries,

Todd Edwards

The outlook for the Mexican economy is now certainly worse than initially expected. The fact that they are easing is not a bullish sign for the market.

Stephen Wood

When you see big chunks get purchased by corporate officers, that historically has been a very bullish signal,

Roy Blumberg

We still consider ourselves to be bullish but we're not as bullish as we were, obviously, a couple of months ago. The markets had a pretty big run.

Ralph Bloch

To me this is very, very bullish. If it continued for four or five days, I would get so bullish I would be hysterical.

Scott Garrett

We're coming hard and as soon we finish the first one we're going to do it again. We're very bullish on the port markets.

Craig Moffett

The read-across is bullish for the entire cable industry.

Bill Fleckenstein

The rationale that people have used for being bullish is extremely predictable. They can't say stocks are cheap. They can't say business is great. So they have to go on about stuff like relative strength and stocks making an upside-down.

Bill Fleckenstein

The rationale that people have used for being bullish is extremely predictable, ... They can't say stocks are cheap. They can't say business is great. So they have to go on about stuff like relative strength and stocks making an upside-down.

Zac Efron

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

Willie Aames

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

William Shatner

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

Wendy Kopp

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

Virginia Postrel

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.

Vanilla Ice

I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

Billy Graham

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Zubin Mehta

One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

Wynton Marsalis

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

Will Yun Lee

Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.

Will Champlin

I'm definitely a fighter, like Christina Aguilera would say.

Billy Graham

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Emma Roberts

New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.

Ben Affleck

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

Helane Becker

The pilots definitely have the power in this relationship. If they don't want to fly, you don't fly.

Patrick Callahan

The pendulum is definitely returning and has been for a year.

Mike Connors

The penalty is definitely one that fits the crime.

Common

Playing basketball is definitely one of my favorite things to do.

Clive Granger

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

Dannel Malloy

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

Andrew Shields

You learn about economics and mass produce little things to make a profit.

Al Smith

U.S. History, World History, Geography, Law, Economics and Psychology.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Michael Moore

No one is entertained by economics.

Nicolas Chamfort

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

John Redwood

Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

William Safire

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

Chino Moreno

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Tom Golisano

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.

Nadia Ali

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

Brendon Urie

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

Mike Gonzales

With the electronic age, we wanted a way to help keep our members informed on what is going on.

Carl Thayer

What's new is the electronic media and the sheer volume of it was exceptional.

Gary Numan

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Will Shields

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

will.i.am

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

Evel Knievel

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

Emma Watson

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

David Bailey

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

Tim Armstrong

The overall radio space looks similar to the way the Internet did five or six years ago.

Benmont Tench

I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.

Christina Baker Kline

Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.

William Gibson

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

Wyclef Jean

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.

Ezra Taft Benson

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Ellie Goulding

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

Brooke Adams

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

Brian K. Vaughan

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Daniel Kahneman

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

Dean Geyer

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career.

Barack Obama

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Nayvadius Cash

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

Edmund White

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

Tim Hetherington

With soldiers, their wives are so fundamental in their relationships, and yet there's this kind of other war happening back in the States, where wives of soldiers don't quite understand what their husbands have been through, because their husbands won't really talk about it, and that's really the hidden war.

Kevin Spacey

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

Nikki Sixx

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

Evan Peters

'American Horror' in particular is a really crazy show. We have crazy crap happening to us on that show.

Sandrine Bonnaire

I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters.

Plato

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Antonio Banderas

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

Mindy Grossman

You have to understand who your customer is and her motivations and marry it to what's happening in the outside world.

Randy Tinseth

We could have as many as 200 orders in 2004. We are optimistic about the opportunities this year especially for the 7E7.

Giancarlo Fisichella

We are optimistic that this problem will not re-occur.

Chris Ault

We are optimistic he can pass it, but if not, we would like to put him in a JC.

Ted Carson

We had kind of a rough day. But we're optimistic that things will be better (today).

Jim Scherr

We're very pleased with where the U.S. team is and optimistic about what we can do the rest of the Games.

Charlie Crist

I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!

Charles Stanley

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

David Rakoff

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Carl Sagan

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Mark Rutte

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Richard Cobden

You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.

Patrick Barry

I think the prospects of success would have been diminished.

Paul Sereno

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,

John Carioba

There are not many prospects in the short term.

Jonathan Ive

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

Jill Soloway

I'm a naturally open person - some might say radically open.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Buck Showalter

You stay with it. But at some point, you have to get returns for the opportunities they are given.

Chrissie Hynde

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Gary Moody

Three of my dealers are trying to sell nothing but 14 SEER and up, and they have done well with it.

Thomas Mesereau

You did it because you wanted to sell a story.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Todd Rundgren

I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.

Dennis Miller

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

Craig Parsons

We've been able to sell more series than we had planned, but they take capital.