Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Tom Pecora

Loren is hurting, and he was apparently hit below the belt. If that happened, it's a shame in a game played at such a high level.

Kage Baker

I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.

Steve Fitzgerald

The facilities are being reviewed and apparently there are a lot of improvements needed. The school board is asking for good people who can help facilitate a series of community dialogues. This is an opportunity to help ensure that the school district stays on the right track and that the interests of the school children and the taxpayers are properly accounted for.

Thomas Pogge

It's easy to complain that pharmaceutical companies place profits over people and apparently care more about hair loss than TB. However, many in the pharmaceutical industry would be glad for the opportunity to reorient their research toward medicines that are truly needed, provided only that such research is financially sustainable.

Dick Cheney

My first thought was, bold words for a man whose office is the subject of an on-going criminal inquiry. But apparently that's not the subject of polite conversation.

David Knight

One apparently even had a shed built on the property with a driveway to it.

Ben Bernanke

Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.

Judd Everhart

She put her arm around the young driver and reassured her the important thing is everyone is OK and cars can always be repaired. The girl apparently told her that she had hoped to meet the governor someday, but not under those circumstances.

Dan Jenkins

When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.

Noel Lee

When the measure appears on the ballot, it doesn't present the whole case. It doesn't ask if they want money for parks and recreation. It just basically asks people if they like the name Candlestick.

Donna Leon

The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with.

Richard Armitage

There are many countries who have traditionally sponsored terrorism. Iraq is one, though it appears the majority of the terrorism committed by Saddam Hussein is on his own citizens. Iran in this regard. Syria, with their close support of Hezbollah, is noteworthy in this respect.

Richard P. Feynman

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

Benjamin Franklin

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Samuel Johnson

Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is

David Schwartz

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Daniel Kammen

Making ethanol from corn is a good thing if you want to offset fossil fuels from overseas. On the greenhouse gas side of things, it is not clear if corn, as grown today, is a good thing. We just don't know yet, but it appears to be a mildly good thing.

David Hockney

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

David Hockney

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

David Hockney

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

David Hockney

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

David Hockney

I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

David Hockney

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

David Hockney

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

David Hockney

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

Alain de Botton

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

Phyllis Zilm

We had a week's worth of practices two weeks ago, and it was just enough to get the ladder set and establish the varsity team, and that's about it. We've been playing some lobby tennis inside the high school and running in the gym.

Gaynette LaRue

We did not establish a third show because of the construction projects that we knew were going to take place in many of the locations where we had work.

David Walton

We did get better passing in the last scrimmage, but we've got to get a lot better. We want to establish the running game first.

Tommy Lewis

One of the things we wanted to do tonight if we could was to establish some other offensive threats.

Frank Solich

One thing that we couldn't do was let them establish a ground game, and they did that. Once they did that, they had a lot of things going for them.

Newt Gingrich

My goal was to establish a Republican majority for a long time, not just to win three elections,

Boris Yeltsin

Many provisions of the law infringe on constitutional rights and freedoms of individuals and citizens, establish inequality between different confessions and violate Russia's international obligations.

Kelly Mathews

She's the type of player who not only scores and rebounds, but does a lot of things that don't get in the books. She's really stepped up when we needed her to and she helped establish our inside game.

Joyce Novacek

We knew they were going to come back. They're a great team. We needed to establish ourselves in the third quarter.

Olli Jokinen

We're just trying to get as much of shots as possible,

Greg Williams

She was really huge. We've been watching her make 3s all year in practice, but we haven't been able to get her to look for her shot in the games.

Erlana Larkins

Shots like that just take everything out of you.

Adam Haluska

Shots going down. That's what it's all about.

Phyliss Willis

She got the shot we wanted. But unfortunately she walked.

Peter Edwards

The other, the Klingensmith's cat, he'd shot and buried,

Mitchell Davis

We started out well, and we made them take shots that we wanted them to. But Trinity's very good. And we just couldn't make any shots.

Scott Wilson

We struggled offensively all night. The shots just rolled off the rim.

Joevan Catron

We started off really sluggish. That shot got us going and started us rolling.

David Viscott

You don't have to try, you just have to be.

David Viscott

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

David Heyman

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

David Heyman

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

David Hyde Pierce

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

David Douglas

It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

David Duchovny

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

David Duchovny

Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.

David Brooks

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

Kate Bush

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.