Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

David Kay

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

Fatou Bensouda

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

John Hopkins

What we have shown here is the vast majority of those cases are preventable,

Mike Birbiglia

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.

Linda Boyd

We did the march in 1995 and it was wonderful, but we see that our people are still in the same position we were in 10 years ago - and in some cases worse off. So while a march is important, we'd like to see a movement.

Hashemi Rafsanjani

We don't have a mandate to discuss the nuclear issue with the Americans ... but if the talks on Iraq go in the right direction, there might be a possibility for that issue. There have been many cases where big and wide-ranging decisions had small beginnings.

Bob Beamon

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

Nancy Grace

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

Steve Kniley

We presume if someone comes in with the winning ticket they've signed, we presumed they've won, and unless we get a court order to the contrary, we don't get involved.

Virginia Henley

I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm series are real historical characters, everything had to be authentic. I researched Woburn Abbey, where my heroine lived, and everything about Barons Court in Ireland, which was the ancestral home of Abercorn.

Lemuel K. Washburn

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Praveen Khandelwal

We had a positive interaction with Joshi for around 45 minutes and he said that any formula to stop sealing has to be within the court directive.

Elizabeth Gillies

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

Suzi Babos

We didn't play the way we wanted. We had the momentum going on Friday so it was really frustrating. And it seemed to be the same problem on the other courts that lost.

Chris Heagarty

The only big races that all North Carolinians will have to judge will be our court races. And they should be interesting.

John Jones

We set a good foundation early with conditioning and weights, and we're still on it. Every drill I don't tell them it's conditioning, but all our drills are geared toward running up and down that court as fast as you can.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Marc DeForest

We pride ourselves on being truly independent and basing many of our decisions on how our fans will benefit.

Edmund Daukoru

We know we are taking a risk. But it is not a world free of risks. We've taken a decision full of risks.

Chris Liddell

We have made a strategic decision with respect to next year that, given the set of opportunities and the revenue growth potential we see, we're willing to make that trade-off.

Michael Niggli

We have made a strategic decision to invest heavily in natural gas.

Jim Pogue

We have made an administrative decision to waive the requirement that a prescription drug be purchased in the United States or one of its territories.

Julie Salz

We'd like that decision to be left up to medical guidelines.

Paul Browne

We are not lessening our protection of the system because of (the Homeland Security Department's) decision to return to level yellow.

Paul Browne

We are not lessening our protection of the system because of the Department of Homeland Security's decision to return to level yellow,

William E. Conway, Jr.

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

Chino Moreno

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

Rick Lynch

The policy doesn't need to change. The policy that's in effect is the one that will stay in effect.

Tito Mboweni

The overall effect of the international oil price increases on inflation and output has been far more muted than expected.

David Hanson

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.

Denis Napthine

We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us.

Nash Grier

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Tim Conway

If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.

Wendy Kopp

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

David Byrne

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

Brooke Burke

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Chris Crutcher

When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.

Natasha Trethewey

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Ninette de Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Buddy Rich

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

Sevyn Streeter

I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Carly Fiorina

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

Pat Conroy

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Andrew Jackson

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Bob Wheeler

There is indeed such a bottleneck, and if their software does what they claim, it should get wide support.

Lance Hedquist

In terms of the stance of the payment of the bill, the owner does have to pay the bill, and that's indeed what it'll take to get the water back on.

Charles J. Shields

On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.

Joyce Banda

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Sherry Cooper

June's swoon is indeed proving to be temporary.

Bayard Taylor

I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!

Michael Jackson

Clearly, it was an incumbent-protection act, ... Redistricting was indeed a pretty ugly power play.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Najib Mikati

In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

Jerry Bell

We'll maybe find out something there later this week.

Shanna Carpenter

We are planning to reschedule the movie night later this week, while Welcome Week is still going on.

Tim Purpura

We haven't even thought about it or talked about it, ... After the 18-inning game, he might have said, 'See you later guys.'

Dave Wood

We?ll find out about Pat later this week and Mike?s hamstring has not responded to rehab the way we would have hoped.

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Jon Stewart

Wow. I can't wait till later when we see Oscar's salute to montages.

Etel Adnan

I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Cilla Black

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Goldie Hawn

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

P. G. Wodehouse

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'

Catherine Hicks

People always want you to look pretty. I would like to live in the Midwest in a small town and never put makeup on. But they won't let you do that. Once I went through a period when I did do that, wore no makeup, wore my hair any which way, and people looked at me like I was a bum.

Persis Khambatta

Besides, a bald cap would have never looked real.

Martin Garcia

When I got it, it looked pretty bad. It had a motor, but it wasn't running.

Rich McKay

When I got here, I looked at him and said that my previous opinion of him was not fair,

Steven Cohen

We have looked at time-temperature indicators ... doneness indicators and things like that.

Ken Cooper

The police officer starts to look more and more like a monster.

Henry Bunsow

The Patent Office has said these patents are invalid. The patents at this point, if there was the new lawsuit, would not be enforceable.

Carl Rusnok

We don't have an office there. That's part of the problem, but we're not saying that we wouldn't respond.

David A. Adler

In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.

Patricia Schroeder

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

Scott Bauer

We'll operate in Raleigh through the loan-production office for now.

Laura Bush

You know, they probably are altered, and they probably are forgeries, and I think that's terrible, really. That's actually one of the risks you take when you run for public office or when you're in the public eye.

Ludwig von Mises

Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

Nikola Tesla

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.

Gus Sauter

We have a patent on our Vipers ETF structure that we invented,

Lamar S. Smith

I think patent trolls are abusing the system.

Elon Musk

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents

Craig McHugh

We're pleased about the patent and the protection it provides us. We're evaluating all the alternatives.

Thorstein Veblen

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

Ronald Riley

Even if the patent is bad, it still has value if you can get someone to pay you to go away.

Nathan Myhrvold

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Nathan Myhrvold

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

Robert Lowe

The E.U. has a long tradition of supporting the Palestinians.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Marcel Dionne

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Nell Newman

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

Steve Gillis

They say they're supporting the troops, but they're not.

Robert Maillet

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.