Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Mazer

The pattern raises the alarm, however, that these species face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

Susan Mazer

The pattern raises the alarm, however, that species in species-rich regions face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

Michael Crawford

I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what.

Leila Aboulela

When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.

Matthew Underwood

I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.

Al Gore

Today's report is both an alarm clock and a road map. It sounds an urgent wake-up call about the risks of our couch-potato culture,

Henry Cisneros

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.

Zadie Smith

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

Tom Ridge

The quality of this intelligence, based on multiple reporting streams in multiple locations, is rarely seen and is alarming in both the amount and specificity of the information,

Emma Watson

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Vitruvius

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

Livy

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

Sebastian Horsley

The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.

Richard Jaffe

may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.

Gerald Schatten

Neither (the) results, nor we, support pet cloning.

Quentin Kidd

Right now, neither of the two sides seems to be willing to give in.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Mortimer Adler

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Edmund Spenser

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason

Damien Rice

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Vonda Shepard

My stint with 'Ally McBeal' is something I never planned nor expected.

Nicole Appleton

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

Howard Schnellenberger

What you want to do is run the carpetbaggers up north empty-handed.

Benmont Tench

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

Tom Bennett

I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.

Nancy Marchand

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

Bob Bartlett

The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in,

Charles Sturcken

We don't give this out to the public, but we're not overly concerned.

Tomika Ferguson

I was overly excited. I did not know how to act, and I could not stop smiling until I got to Arkansas.

Pat Riley

He wants to play, he wants to be out there. We're not being overly cautious, he's got a problem and we just want to treat it. We want to get it right.

Wayne Andrews

We're not overly concerned. I wouldn't have even done my own house.

Jon Alterman

People were overly optimistic. And now people are overly pessimistic.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

Margaret D. Nadauld

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

Billy Porter

For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Jennifer Dunn

We've tried to make it very visual and interesting.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.