Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anil Gupta

We are also planning to set up an outsourcing centre for computer aided manufacturing (CAM) related work for global firms, including leading contract manufacturers.

Mohamed ElBaradei

When inspections are accompanied by adequate authority, aided by all available information, backed by a credible compliance mechanism, and supported by international consensus, the verification system works.

Michael Douglas

I believe the community and regional biotechnology organizations and interests outside our universities might be aided by having a person familiar with university research activities and the mindset of university faculty members regarding the transfer of their intellectual work product into new technologies and economic development. That is a perspective I can offer, given my familiarity with both academic and corporate arenas.

Charles M. Schwab

I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in upbuilding their country - the men who have contributed to the efficiency and happiness of their fellow men.

Wendy Kramer

I felt it was my job as his mother, ... I brought him into the world with this set of circumstances and I felt like it was my responsibility then to aid him however he wanted to be aided in his curiosities.

Ray Walston

I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.

Tom Hockenjos

He was just nibbling on the outside corner with the curve and it was just really tough for them to handle. He pitched ahead in the count most of the day, which aided him greatly.

Akitsugu Bando

JGB prices got off a firmer start today aided by the bullish tone on the US Treasury market overnight, but then they fell back after the sharp gains in stock prices here.

Ross Walker

Overall, consumer demand looked pretty robust in Q4 -- aided by ongoing price discounting -- but significant doubts persist in terms of the extent to which demand will hold up in 2006.

Jay Feaster

What has happened in the past is truly ancient history. Now the objective is to come in here and have a solid training camp. ... We can't afford to get caught up in the hype. It's about having to do it again. You can't rely on what you did 18 months ago.

Harvey Pitt

Unless there's a reason to re-open ancient history, we should move on,

Alan Bishop

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

Chiang Kai-shek

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Charles Baudelaire

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

Charles Mackay

Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.

Michel Onfray

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

John Pearson

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Ray Arvidson

We're finding abundant evidence for alteration of rocks in a water environment. What we want to do is figure out which layers were on top of which other layers. To do that it has been helpful to keep climbing for good views of how the layers are tilted to varying degrees. Understanding the sequence of layers is equivalent to having a deep drill core from drilling beneath the plains.

Michael Specter

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

Maajid Nawaz

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.

Bryan Davis

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

Lucy McFadden

Would we want to do the same thing to a different type of comet? I don't want to answer that question until we have analyzed the results from this comet. It depends on what picture we piece together from observing beneath this comet's surface,

John Updike

America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.

Lynn Margulis

Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

Jason Carter

We've always had pretty much one guy at each spot who only came out if he was really tired or hurt. This year, we're going to play two or more guys at every spot because we just have that many talented players. Our depth is a lot better than it's been.

Yale Hirsch

We've always had periods when something came in vogue, ... This is different because of the Internet. It keeps on going and the riches just keep astounding everybody. All the traders that come up today naturally gravitate toward Internet stocks.

Chico Furtado

When we were running our sets and moving the ball, we did well. We got out of control and a little sloppy and they came back on us.

Theresa Adams

When we were letting the starters sit on the bench, to see what was going on on the floor ... that's just how the other part of the team feels when they're on the bench, wanting to get in. And after they saw all of that, they came alive to realize that they (would) rather be on the floor than on the bench.

Eli Juarez

When we were down by 19 I'm sure people left to go watch the other game. It came down to earning some respect. We decided to go out and leave everything on the floor. I think the kids earned that respect with their effort.

Randy Fletcher

When we went to the zone, we played well. I don't like to go to the zone, but we've been playing it and playing it fairly well. The one time we went to sleep and they came right up and hit a three. But, we sucked it up and caused some bad shots.

Cindy Anderson

When we went on that run in the third I thought we had it. But they sustained it and came right back out and we couldn't run our offense, and that's a tribute to their defense.

Mitchell Hurwitz

When I was on 'The Golden Girls,' we'd have eight scenes per show. And when 'Seinfeld' came along, they went to, like, 30 scenes a show, which was revolutionary. 'Arrested Development' has probably got 60 scenes per show. It just keeps emerging as this more and more complex thing. I always try to keep it very simple at its heart.

Sofia Boutella

When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!

Greg Abbott

working diligently to get something out by the end of September.

Jay Jacobs

We're going to diligently look at our options and make the best decision for Auburn. We're going to try not to rush anything. We'll be deliberate and keep things moving, but we're going to explore and make sure we know what's best for Auburn.

Maia Carroll

We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.

Menander

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

John Stokes

worked diligently and tirelessly and obtained over $750,000 in compensation for and on behalf of (Questa).

Greg Puhalski

This was as good as we've competed in awhile. It was a good bounce-back game from Wednesday. It was a good effort. It was a matter of playing better hockey. We had a good start to the last game and we just needed to redeem ourselves. We have to be a hard-working team and extremely diligent in our efforts. I thought we did a lot of the little things tonight pretty well.

Mike Keen

Through his diligent teaching, we will reap what he sowed for many years to come.

Bud Selig

I wish to thank the Department of State and the Department of Treasury for their assistance in securing the approvals necessary for Cuba to participate in the inaugural World Baseball Classic in March. The federal government thoughtfully and diligently helped us bring the application process to a successful conclusion. Now, with Cuba?s entry in the tournament approved, the World Baseball Classic promises to be an historic event and will guarantee our fans the greatest possible competition among the best players in the world.

James Gallagher

We made a fairly diligent search of our records. We could find no reference to any commitment to provide an observation deck.

Sam Claflin

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.

Tony Shalhoub

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are--I'm not that familiar with their work--I just want to say, there's always next year--except, you know, for Ray Romano ,

Tony Shalhoub

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .

Chen Xiaodi

What they really want (by forming joint ventures) is to get familiar with the local market, but not for money-making at present.

Randy Huth

We write what we know about. It's easy to write songs about things you're familiar with. We're all collective writers.

Kirk Maltby

We faced a lot of great goaltending in Nashville, so we're familiar with it,

Brandon Curtis

We experienced a deconstruction of our personal lives. Coming home to a familiar setting and being alien to it created a sense of isolation from the people we're close to. There were all these invisible barriers that were tough to reach through. So we ended up with songs like 'Alone, Jealous, and Stoned,' about how our emotions propel us toward these conflicts and away from the people we love.

Mark Cook

We're familiar with the two teams, and it's a comfortable environment to have the two teams that we know really well. Neither one is going to fold under pressure and we are going to have to step up and take our best shot.

Paul Provenza

We're familiar with the notion of musicians reinterpreting the same song over and over, but we don't ever hear that with comedians,

Ashwin Sanghi

I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique.

Brendan Gill

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

C. S. Lewis

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

C. S. Lewis

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

Angela Carter

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods

Ram Dass

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

Isabel Lucas

I love Athena. I love all the goddesses and the archetypes and what they represent because I think they're always going to be relevant not just to women but to humanity. They're living energy. There's a lot we can still learn from them.

Carol P. Christ

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.

Caroline Leavitt

I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.

Sergey Brin

We gradually came to the realization that we were hurting not just ourselves but the Chinese people.

Li Zhi

With the indexes edging up, retail investors will gradually return to trading. Institutions such as insurers, pensions and overseas banks will restore interest in the markets, partly thanks to low pricing and the country's economic boom.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

Pamela Atkinson

The poverty here is real, there's absolutely no doubt about it. If you can help them gradually take those steps out of poverty, you're going to fix many things.

Lorenzo Codogno

We believe that the long-awaited shift from soft to hard data is evidence of a recovery in euro zone private consumption has started, and will likely proceed gradually and modestly over the coming months, in line with the expected improvement in household real disposable income.

Jarrod Kerr

We still think commodity prices are at their peak and will gradually come off, but we've just pushed out the timing a little bit.

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Jane Goodall

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

Katharine Graham

It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.

Tamsin Greig

When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

Justine Bateman

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.

John Travolta

When I was a kid in the 60s, believe it or not, most of you are younger and don't know that, but it was a blast to fly! You dressed up, you got in your Sunday best, women wore white gloves, you had room to stretch your legs out, you had a very nice meal, the stewardess paid particular attention to you. It was an event. It's so different today.

Margaret Johnston

To my delight, instead of the usual unkempt, gum-chewing, tobacco-scented, tired and bored woman in a bad part of town, I was greeted by a lovely, clean, organized and educated lady with a deep and true love of children.

Bryan Hilferty

We're going to operate simultaneously throughout the entire eastern and southern part of the country so we get inside the decision cycle; so we hit them before they can hit innocent men, women and children,

Kenneth Jay Lane

Men always like to please women. Women like to please men, too - some women. Some are very good at it.

Kavita Ramdas

I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.

Kavita Ramdas

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

Katie Lowes

If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the best. I have a group of girlfriends that I would lay in front of a bus for. They've picked me up through really, really bad times and I can definitely say I've done the same for them.