Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hilbert

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

August Strindberg

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

Tom Sykora

We always had this kind of concept in mind for the past 10 years, but the opportunity wasn't becoming available.

Al Gore

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

Al Gore

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

Tucker Max

Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable.

Todd Rundgren

I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of growing up, becoming a musician, so it's like first-love stuff; I'm always going to go back to it.

Kevin Mitnick

I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.

Marty Dickens

We're continuing to seek a resolution without this becoming a big, big mess.

Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.

Manny Acta

We had a window up until yesterday and it's just been shut. We support his decision, stand behind him - family comes first. And we're going to have to move on with what we have.

Bob Hill

When the minutes behind him aren't what they need to be, I don't have much choice.

Kylie Minogue

The point of my job is to entertain and make it look easy, so I guess it's the parts you don't often see which make me feel proud. All the behind the scenes work, the fears and insecurities I have to face and overcome to improve myself as a person and performer, all of the people who believe in me and encourage me.

Thomas Dolby

Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.

Thomas Dolby

The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.

Tina Brown

The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.

Brad Kullman

We're glad to have it behind us. I hate going through the hearings. We're glad we got it done with Felipe.

Ron Wilson

We actually got right down to the wire on both kills. I think maybe we let our guard down a little bit.

Jack Berry

We always hate to see employees move out, but we're always seeing movements, both in and out.

Atharva Veda

Wealth comes naturally to a person, who is endowed with both these qualities.

Plato

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Kourtney Kardashian

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

Kevin Rose

Since news breaks on digg very quickly, we face the same issues as newspapers which print a retraction for a story that was misreported. The difference with digg is that equal play can be given to both sides of a story, whereas with a newspaper, a retraction or correction is usually buried.

Kevin Kline

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

Kathleen Battle

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.

Kathleen Sebelius

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

David Walliams

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

David Walliams

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

David Walliams

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

David Walliams

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

David Walliams

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

David Rockefeller

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

David Riesman

One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

David Riesman

The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

David Henry Hwang

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

Darek Farmer

Most people don't know what a deficient diet looks like, but you can tell from their poop. This is like having a vet in your yard.

Jack Crawford

She was made a scapegoat for a deficient child-placement system. Now she can get on with her life.

Seth Berkley

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.

George Tullier

There was a lot of wind and their playing surface was quite hard and deficient of grass. I was glad for the girls to get a game under them and do some things to get a win. We'll move on from here.

Dave Fisher

We were disappointed not to have taken all three points, but we were severely depleted in attack.

Tom Allen

Traditionally, our offensive line is depleted every year. Seniors usually dominate it so this is unusual for us. We normally have a starter or two back in the skill positions, but we have the opposite of that this year.

Chris Carter

Humpback and fin whales are severely depleted whales species and New Zealand is very worried about the impact of further hunting on their numbers,

Craig Fugate

The previous hurricanes had depleted the national supply.

Eddie Jordan

We knew it wasn't going to be easy. They are a very competitive team and always have been. I think it took Miami a 16-0 run in the second half to win the game last night. They are so depleted with injuries and my heart goes out to Bernie.

E. B. White

We think the measured use of such bonuses would help stabilize our shrinking acquisition workforce until recruitment efforts can fill the depleted ranks of these sorely needed professionals.

Randy Jepson

They were great. We have been depleted all year, we didn't have all of our guys, but we didn't quit and it showed.

Mike Chung

If you find a vehicle that you really like, now's a great time to get it. But one of the issues with employee pricing is the inventory was depleted very quickly for the most-desirable vehicles.

Wayne Allard

In 1935, when the Social Security system was created, the Government did not need to prepare for the possibility of a depleted system.

Elizabeth Holmes

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

Thomas Pogge

The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it.

Donna Mills

Somebody like me doesn't get arthritis, doesn't get all the other diseases that come along. Well, it happened to me.

David Reuben

Now there are more venereal diseases than there are signs of the zodiac.

Sean Morrison

I can't sit here and tell you today what diseases we're going to treat as a result of this research. All I can tell you is that we're never going to get to that point unless we can do the research.

Bill Maris

There are environmental threats to health; there are internal threats to health - genetic conditions, viral threats, diseases like cancer and Parkinson's. And then there are societal and global ones, like poverty and lack of nutrition. And unknown viral threats - everything from a new kind of influenza to hemorrhagic fever.

David Kass

This stimulation is similar to the way the nervous system normally increases heart function when triggered by emotional or exercise stress, or in diseases such as heart failure,

Tom Clancy

When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical.

Steve Gibson

I think that some people looked for a scapegoat because we lost to Sunderland, and thats one of the diseases in football,

H. Hunt

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating

Thomas Sadoski

I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

Carol Alt

Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw.

Ciara

When I'm on a strict eating regimen, at some point I have to have French fries, a cheeseburger and some pizza. And Oreos and vanilla ice cream!

Tristan MacManus

I get Twitter, and think it's a great way to keep it in touch, but I don't do it a lot. I hate reading when people tweet about what you're eating or who they are out with, but it's a nice way to keep in touch with people.

Rhonda Cornum

One young man I spoke to said he was sitting eating lunch, and then found that he was somewhere else,

Nick Taylor

Mom said we should go and see where we stand. We wanted to get a baseline of where we stood and where we wanted to go with our eating habits.

Ryan Lopez

She's playing nonstop now. Her energy is great; she's eating and sleeping well. She's back to her normal self.

Leslie Fink

Some are eating foods because they're happy, some are eating foods to feel better.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

Joel Fuhrman

Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.

Kim Allen

There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often.

David Chang

Yes, natural is good and healthy, and whole foods are important. However, experimentation is important, too.

Sara Schmitz

We substitute foods that are on the menu with a doctor's excuse. With 20,000 kids, it's impossible to be short-order cooks.

John Mackey

Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Parker Young

In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.

Joel Fuhrman

Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.

Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

Richard Seymour

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

Jon Anderson

When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,

Rod McKuen

I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

Michael Slater

Let's just say that there was a settlement but, like many other creditors, I've been left out of pocket,

Logan Mankins

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

Jeremy Luke

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

Janis Joplin

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

John Bean

There's no question we are seeing more and more obese children, ... I don't think we (Arizona's kids) are any better or any worse. We are pretty much like the rest of the country.

M. Wolfe

As soon as we can get processed through, we're going to show up out there,

Javier Solana

They are now being processed for transfer to The Hague,

Michael Brown

They will be processed as rapidly as possible.

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.