Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Whitelaw

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

Will Shetterly

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.

William John Wills

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

Ernest Walton

Particles were coming out of the lithium, hitting the screen, and producing scintillations. They looked like stars suddenly appearing and disappearing.

Elijah Cummings

The picture was being painted that things were not as bad as they appeared to be

Chris Janowski

The picture that is emerging is very grim. There appears to be a policy of expulsions of ethnic Albanians.

David Wenham

My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

Christo

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

Mark McKinnon

A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.

Paul Thompson

We had a major electrical fault last night which meant we couldn't produce the paper as we usually do.

Martin Chalfie

We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.

Paul Steidler

Vermont Yankee supplies one-third of the state's electrical energy, and we want that supply to remain available,

Jerry Yang

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

David Mica

You don't invest money in electrical wiring and not do anything with the wiring.

Lauren Fix

You have to start thinking 'do I want this car?' knowing that at any time an electrical problem could come up that's water-related. Talk to the technician and say what if the tail light goes out or the headlights go out while I'm driving?

John Trudell

What I view life like is about energy. Everything is about energy - everything. We physically are little units of electrical energy, and we vibrate and project electromagnetic thought.

David Collins

We instill work habits, teach students to be a team member and be proud of their quality of work. These kids do all the electrical wiring around the school and sometimes at home.

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Conrad Burns

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

Theo James

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

Stephen Covey

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

Vonda Shepard

My nature is to worry about everything too much.

John Sculley

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

James Garner

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

Mahavira

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

Nalini Nadkarni

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

Anna Paquin

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

Ian Mckellen

I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

Greg Norman

Would there possibly be another woman? Absolutely. Time will tell who that will be.

Michael Brown

We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.

Ed DeChellis

You can only do so much in one practice. You have an hour-and-a-half practice to put as much as you possibly can in.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Bernard Boudreaux

LSU did everything it possibly could to accommodate the state of Louisiana, the Saints and the NFL.

Kristin Davis

Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that.

Pat Camden

We did everything we possibly could to protect her.