Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Mays

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

William Scott

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

William Scott

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

William Scott

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

William Scott

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

William Scott

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Whitey Herzog

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Whitey Herzog

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

Chuck Zito

One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.

Bonnie Bassler

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

Eric Betzig

There are many cells you could look at forever in 3D.

Tom Allen

Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.

Feng Zhang

Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

Anthony Shaffer

We discovered two of the three cells which conducted 9/11. If that's not significant, I don't know what is,

Hwang Suk

When the use of these stem cells is limited to a particular country, it takes much too long to create technologies usable for the whole humanity. By creating a global network, we plan to share stem cells created in each country and share information on those stem cells.

Mike Mills

I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.

Virginia Postrel

I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life.

Lyall Watson

Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.

Charles Givens

We got to looking around and there were extension cords running all over the business. The main electrical panel was open, didn't have a cover on it in the back room. Water was running down the wall into that electrical box. It was illegal wiring and very unsafe.

Gary Michiels

We've got our own power plant going. A house down the street has a generator, and we use a long extension cord to keep the refrigerators and fans going in 15 houses.

Mekhi Phifer

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

Atharva Veda

Maintaining cordial relationship with friends help us in improving upon our own capabilities.

Silvio Berlusconi

I will try to have greater cordial relations with the United States...because it is thanks to that nation and the young lives it sacrificed that we were liberated from Nazi-Fascism.

Sanjay Gupta

While it sounds pretty small, in terms of overall improvements, there usually is very little recovery that occurs after the first 18 months after a spinal cord injury,

Blair Underwood

You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.

Beeban Kidron

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

Chris Crutcher

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

C. J. Mahaney

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

Nick Saban

I don't know that there's any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we've ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?

Lewis Thomas

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.

Hans Blix

What we have said we need all the time is the presentation of more evidence -- that they have not been taking the questions seriously which were posed in the report with which they are familiar, and we would like to have responses to those questions,

John Gorman

We had no evidence to support the use of drugs.

Bjarke Ingels

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

Barry Scheck

There are other people in prison in the state of Texas...convicted of arson with the same kind of evidence in play.

Gordon Eakin

We played a lot of players that we usually don't play because of injuries in the second game, but I'm disappointed that we couldn't pull of the second win.

Abiodun Orebiyi

Three people died, two male and one female. They had serious injuries from machete cuts. There were also gunshot wounds.

Rich Rodriguez

You know injuries are going to happen. Somebody else has to step up and take that role over.

Brevin Knight

We had injuries to everyone. We still have got people who are playing that probably could sit down, but that's the NBA.

Mike Ruddock

We have a lot of injuries but I still think we play some pretty sexy rugby.

Mats Sundin

We've had injuries before, but we have to play through them.

Jeff Bower

We have too many injuries to work on anything but PATs.

Craig Fugate

We haven't had any serious injuries or loss of life, and we'd like to keep it that way,

Kathy Harper

We are seeing anything from soft tissue injuries to major injuries that can involve paralysis from the lap belt, to thoracic injuries from the shoulder belt.

Matthew McGrory

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Cassandra Clare

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

Nina Blackwood

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

Alice Cooper

There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

Jennifer Grey

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

Henry Rollins

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Kathleen Blanco

We're dumping things into the hole, just to stem the tide.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Scott Andreassi

She was treated no differently than any other individual.

Cass Sunstein

Rehnquist really was treated unfairly, ... A person is a career, not a moment.

Gwendoline Christie

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

Phil Fontaine

We can't be treated as secondary. We can't be an after-thought,

Michael Dukakis

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me.

John Timoney

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

Marc Bulger

We treated this like a regular-season game. Whether they did or not, who knows?

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Lester Bowie

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Neil Tennant

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

Elisabetta Canalis

I love variety in my life.