Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Stofan

I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.

Kim Gandy

Most studies submitted to the FDA have been conducted by the manufacturers of implants who obviously have a vested interested and whose findings are frequently biased and misleading. We must reform this heavy reliance on industry, which interferes with sound scientific decision-making by the FDA.

Mark Geragos

She will talk at the appropriate time in a public forum when there isn't a biased prosecutor like there is right now.

Wayne Evans

The perception of a growing number of our citizens is that the all-white commission is biased and doesn't care.

Troy Aikman

I wouldn't want to get into why he didn't make it in. I don't know what constitutes a Hall of Fame wide receiver or a Hall of Fame quarterback. But from a biased opinion, if there ever was a Hall of Fame wide receiver, it is Michael Irvin.

Sheldon Brown

I felt it was a biased panel. If they couldn't get people to represent the other side of this, then they shouldn't have held it. I might have learned something if there were two sides represented. It wasn't an open forum.

Lewis B. Smedes

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

Kim Rupert

The fact that he didn't suggest any time frame for a pause is going to leave rates biased slightly higher. People still think a yield near 4.7% on the long end is a pretty good deal.

James Comey

Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans.

David Douglass

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Audrey Hepburn

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Alain Badiou

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

Al Gore

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

Ajay Naidu

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

Larry Martin

Last year we expanded. But to do it in the time frame we have got and do it right? This seems to be the right amount.

Maurice Allais

The reality is that the institutional framework in which Wall Street operates is fundamentally inappropriate, and it inevitably generates violent fluctuations of the market.

Lamar Butler

One I'm going to keep in my pocket wherever I go. One I frame and keep it on my wall.

Kozo Yamamoto

So long as there is a solid framework in place, it's up to the BOJ.

Stevie Jackson

Waking up every morning in the sunshine puts you in a happy frame of mind.

Ray Krauss

The other two are protection of biodiversity and preservation of the local ranching economy. We have a guiding framework that's helping managers plan for their individual parcels with all those goals in mind.

Anthony Mix

I have a big frame but I'm leaner now. I'm faster.

Mark McNulty

I feel like I've been playing well, and being back at Oak Hills should put me in a good frame of mind.

Loretta Napoleoni

Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Bear Grylls

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Audrina Patridge

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

August Strindberg

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

Arthur Rubinstein

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Gene Meyers

We actually had a little sunshine. It turned out to be a pretty good day. We had a lot of p.r.'s.

Darren Benitez

Lesson for me: no leave things in the car, trust nobody.

William Stafford

Leave sound in an emptyhouse in its own room there. . . .

Deion Branch

Leave it up to him, and he comes through perfect every time.

Dan Harel

We are here to evacuate, and we will not leave until it is empty.

Lynsey Addario

Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me.

Ayn Rand

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Tom Tancredo

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

Elias Koteas

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

Granth Sahib

one does not even know how long you will stay here; you have no hint of when you shall leave

Todd Rundgren

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

Kate Micucci

Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.

Nick Barnett

We've still got a lot of work to do. We're nowhere near where we need to be.

George Hecht

We have a number of people we just dispatched all day long to go to the nearest place where the water is problematic.

Mike Irwin

Sheldon Park is a little too popular with the geese. KES isn't near water so we don't have the same problem and it seems to work out better for everyone.

Bill Gates

Software is redefining how people do things, ... We're nowhere near what we can do.

Jane Stewart

She was working at McDonald's near Fowler and Nebraska and said I should come to work there. I was about 20.

James Williams

Yes, he was standing near the trash can.

Bob Stull

We are pleased with our progress, but we are nowhere near where we want to be yet.

Shane Carruth

'The Master,' it was really important to me to go see that in the theater, but that's a very rare occurrence for me. I typically enjoy things on my laptop. I'm in bed; I can be able to pause them.

David McDonald

Replay allows administrators to go back in time and see the application performance of their servers in detail. When they are monitoring a server and see something out of the ordinary, they can pause the server, back it up and repeat.

William Shakespeare

Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.

Michael Darda

Essentially, he's saying that they may pause around 5 percent after the May meeting.

Mark Olson

As a result, I voted to pause in the removal of policy accommodation until more was known.

Michel de Montaigne

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

Boris Yeltsin

A pause is good, but it's not enough,

David Mamet

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

Sarah Dessen

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Fred Taylor

There are theories that suggest that. But we need a much better understanding before we can know about things.

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.

Joseph Powers

Irrigation is being done on the (town hall) mall, so I would suggest French's Common,

Mary Wesley

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Abheek Barua

There is nothing to suggest that would be the trend.

Steve Brown

It was a suggestion and time will go on.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

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.

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Barney Frank

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Jane Austen

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Castaneda

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

Agnes Repplier

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Barbara Hepworth

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

Barbara Hepworth

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.