Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Ross

We?re looking at several options to help curb the traffic that will be caused by the Wal-Mart. The traffic is going to be increasing in the coming years. Right now, we?re looking at a short-term solution.

Isabella Rossellini

I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!

Hasidic Proverb

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men

Jane Brown

Lots of us expected the ice would go out today. While it hasn't been very warm, all the movement caused by the wind and the water rushing in from brooks, continued to melt and shift the ice until it finally moved enough for the clock to stop.

Bill Saunders

Last year's fuel price run-up and Middle East crises may have not only hurt American drivers' pocketbooks but also caused them to feel guilty about operating large, gas-only vehicles. Ethanol power not only allows owners to enjoy large vehicles, but it can also let them feel good about the domestic agricultural economy, American energy independence and the environment.

Caroline Allen

We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the repairs are made, we will turn them back on. This is extremely unusual, and we are really looking into what exactly caused that ignition, but we just won't know for some time.

Tom Coughlin

This was not an easy decision. I regret the embarrassment this matter has caused my family and friends and I thank them for their support, love and friendship.

Eugene Fama

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

Edward P. Jones

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

Pierre McGuire

Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux created a whole new genre of players.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.

Toni Varacchi

We had a very poor shooting percentage. We created a lot of scoring opportunities but couldn't put many of them on the board.

Tyra Banks

I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'

Rob Manuel

'Minecraft' opens up a world of limitless possibilities, driven by the player and created by the fans who love it.

Robert Teeter

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

Herb Perone

Life insurance was created to be an instant estate in the event of the premature death of the breadwinner.

Bill Bixby

Luck has created much of what I have today, but at the same time, I haven't sat still.

Jeff Greene

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Belinda Stronach

When I made the decision to leave I could have potentially been in an election just two to three days after. Mr. Emerson campaigned as a Liberal and just a few days after the election made the decision to leave.

Terry J. Lundgren

I'm on the road two or three days a week normally.

Nancy Brown

We're looking at sheltering and feeding people for three months, ... Consequently, we will need volunteers for not only a few days or weeks, but long term. We have hundreds of deaths and thousands homeless. It's just an overwhelming situation.

Sally Hawkins

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

Jay Leno

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

Alice Wonderland

Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.

Thomas Powell

Life accumulates. The difference of accumulating days that we are proud of versus days for which we are regretful is in controlling our thoughts in each moment.

Phil Davis

Last year we had restaurants out of food two days after the event. This year we've even heard of a group that is planning a White Squirrel wedding.

S. Hughes

Leave on time at least two days a week. If you never have any free evenings you'll grow resentful.

Kathryn Stockett

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.

Peter Bart

When I was at MGM some years ago, I remember that there was a serious discussion of trying to remake some of the (Spencer) Tracy and (Katharine) Hepburn pictures. And that's a great idea except that they were successful because of Tracy and Hepburn.

Sean Rooney

We had been speaking about a 51 percent to 49 percent split, but we're open to discussing any percentage,

Emyr Parry

We had a very good meeting. We discussed the elements that France and the UK put down. These are now being referred to capitals and I expect we will have an early meeting later this week to see what the reactions are with a view to making progress on the text.

Ariel Sharon

We had a very constructive and frank discussion of strategic issues in the interests of the United States and Israel,

Richard Flanagan

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Bud Selig

We're not discussing contraction at the major league level.

John Thompson

Levy limits were discussed this year, but not enforced. Some of that's just every-year political stuff, but you don't know until the Legislature adjourns for the year what they really will do to us.

Leon Trotsky

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

David Ricardo

Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil

David Icke

The Earth needs rebels!

Bear Grylls

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Barry Commoner

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

Barry Commoner

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Diana Gabaldon

We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.

Dennis Lehane

Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.

Al Capone

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Al Gore

And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.

Kevin Mitnick

I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree.

Isabella Rossellini

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

Lynn Wargo

She just naturally evolved into our chairperson position.

Luke Mitchell

Considering the 'Tomorrow People' are supposed to be the next step in human evolution, I think it's a fascinating idea that they can't kill. They've evolved in all these other ways, and they have these special abilities, but they can't kill. It's a very interesting concept. I really like it. I like the idea of it.

Erik Gordon

Gift-giving has evolved from something wonderful to ... anxiety. It's as if we're stuck with the ritual without the meaning and joy.

Ann Nocenti

I have a fascination for extra-judicial societies and underground cultures, and in situations where justice can only be found outside the law, and how these societies have evolved over the centuries.

Allison Tolman

I guess my interest in performance has evolved and changed many times over the years.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.

Keith Henson

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

Russ Borman

We had a very good day. It was a fantastic way to start the season.

Ron Jaworski

The city of Wildwood has been fantastic in helping us and supporting this event. This is a small way of the Soul saying thanks to our fans.

Henry Ian Cusick

'Lost' fans were fantastic fans. I've said this before, but they were rabid, and they questioned everything - they were merciless, but I loved them for that.

Giancarlo Fisichella

Last year, the first race of the season, a fantastic memory. This year it was totally different.

Karen Stewart

Leah (Jacks) did a fantastic job tonight. She really stepped up for us tonight.

Cameron Russell

We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.

David Mackay

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Ekkehard Rathgeber

We're looking forward to what should be a fantastic spectacle.

Gary Maurer

We're having some fantastic meals. They sure know how to cook.

David Hume

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

David Hume

When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither increases nordiminishes. But as it is certain there is a great difference betwixt the simple conception of the existence of an object, and the belief of it, and as this difference lies not in the parts or composition of the idea which we conceive; it follows, that it must lie in the manner in which we conceive it.

David Hume

There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto just order and proportion. Let speculative reasoners dispute, how far this beneficent being extends his care, and whether he prolongs our existence beyond the grave, in order to bestow on virtue its just reward, and render it fully triumphant.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastlingly.

Dennis Kucinich

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Dennis Miller

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

Dennis Miller

How do we know for sure that no two snowflakes are the same - we haven't got anybody watching.

Dennis Miller

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

Alain de Botton

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

David Viscott

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

David Viscott

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Walliams

Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.

David Horowitz

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

David Icke

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

David Hockney

I love California; everything is so artificial.

David Hockney

Faces are the most interesting things we see

David Hume

But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.

David Duchovny

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

Phil Esposito

When you're an athlete, you meet a lot of people.

Evan Bayh

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Mia Masten

We did look at the site. It doesn't meet our criteria.

John Key

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Ridley Scott

When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Chris Smith

We have a safety meeting before any event. There's also people watching at all times.

Jack Straw

We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have six weeks to go, ... With your help, we can make it happen.

Tori Kelly

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

Carla Ponte

My disappointment - my big disappointment - is because six fugitives are still at large, most probably in Serbia, and that includes, of course, Mladic,

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Bryan Clay

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Anthony Trollope

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Bam Margera

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

David Viscott

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David House

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Brainerd

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

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.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.