Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Billy Hunter

We remain convinced that the NBA does not have the right to unilaterally create new ways to punish teams that want to improve by spending on player salaries. The effect of this decision is to continue to undermine player confidence in the NBA's administration of our collective bargaining agreement.

Gerry Murphy

We remain convinced that our home-improvement markets are fundamentally attractive and that the actions we are taking will position Kingfisher well for the future.

Kenneth Fisher

Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking fluids, which supposedly can leach into groundwater sources. I'm convinced they're dead wrong. Ultimately, good technology with a cost advantage will win out over paranoia.

Richard Donner

Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Louise Fletcher

Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.

Steven Starr

Web sites that attract users by flagrant copyright infringement we don't see as a business.

Susan Wojcicki

We believe what we're doing is fully consistent with copyright law.

Peter Jaszi

What's really important here is that documentary commitment to telling the truth is being compromised by the need to accommodate perceived intellectual and copyright constraints.

John Hurt

We're not approaching it to make a carbon copy of what we did last time but we've tended to come back to the way we were thinking then. More to the point, I'm creeping up toward being old enough for it now.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Charles Mingus

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Jason Schultz

The point of copyright law is not to give people absolute control over everything they write. It's to compensate artists and authors for the works that they create.

Ellen Potter

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

Lois Chiles

Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.

Bill Cowher

We're going to have a lot of flexibility with some of the things we're doing, and the players have been very receptive. It's more definitive than things we've done in the past. The onus is being put back on the players to execute, and I think they like that.

Scotty George

What we're seeing today and what we have been seeing for the last week is a drying up of sentiment as investors wait for some definitive resolution of world events and some new corporate catalysts.

Dan Andrews

We're going to learn a lot from this. It's going to give us a real definitive understanding of what we have up there.

Peter Chandler

We're in what I call the dog days of August. It's quiet, it's slow. Most market participants are sitting on the sidelines, waiting for some definitive sign from the economic numbers.

John Faulkner

Until we've we get a definitive statement we'll continue to do things the way we've done it.

Peter Gregory

With this kind of injury you have to be patient and wait, ... What we weren't able to do was give him a good rest because of his fitness test before the final Test. We will have a better idea at the end of next week. There is no definitive on whether to operate or not, it is not as simple as that. It is a pain thing and some people can get through better than others.

Peter Gregory

With this kind of injury you have to be patient and wait, ... There is no definitive on whether to operate or not, it is not as simple as that, it is a pain thing and some people can get through better than others.

Tim Ruskell

We're still in the checking-it-out stage. We want to get through a scrimmage, maybe a game or two and then assess it. ... It's too early. You can't make any definitive judgments.

Brenda Becker

We're still in such preliminary stages that you couldn't fix any definitive costs.

Tony Haynes

We've averaged 20-plus wins a year for the last five years, five straight NCAA tournaments. Kids graduate. Hey, that's a successful program.

DeLoss Dodds

We've always wanted to keep him in the top five in the country, where he belongs.

John Carr

We've always said controllers are like runways -- it takes three to five years to make a good one,

Stephen Wright

When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.

Jason Peters

When I was little I'd design these dresses and show them to my family. There'd always be three or four or five (designs) on the fridge.

Roland Martin

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

Deb Vercauteren

When I was in high school, we had track for five weeks my senior year. That was all for women's sports. So, we've come a long way from having almost nothing.

Rodney Lewis

When it comes to a big game, a national championship game, either a five hundred or thousand dollar board.

Mary Roach

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

Julianne Balmain

Work life has taken over normal life, yet it's been stripped of humor, joy and pleasure.

Bart Tucker

We're talking about a lady having all her earthly possessions stripped from her house. She's destitute, put out on the street, and she's smiling.

Myles Rademan

We've used up the water in the basin, pretty much. We've used ground water and mine water for 120 years and we've stripped that.

Ernst Toller

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

Dick Cheney

I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.

Kieran Suckling

Pombo played a cynical game of bait-and-switch. He brought people in with false promises, announced the support of environmental groups to the nation, and then systematically stripped every protection clause from his bill.

Kelly Carlson

'Nip/Tuck' did make me very comfortable in my own skin, no pun intended. I had to be stripped down a lot, and you're kind of in front of the whole world, and it teaches you to accept yourself and be comfortable with yourself real quickly.

Tim Michaud

Whatever Frances didn't destroy, Jeanne took apart. We stripped the hotel down to the concrete structure.

Rick Parker

We've found phenomenal things that, if they'd been stripped off, would be lost and gone.

Michigan State

When we were driving over here before the game, it seemed like the Big Ten opened like the Red Sea,'' he said.

Mario J. Molina

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

Rocky Carroll

When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.

Malorie Blackman

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

Ron Polk

Tomorrow, we'll practice, but it won't be a long practice. Then, we'll get ready for a fine Tennessee team this weekend.

Tony Vis

We're mentally tough and we were not going to go away. We got down 10 and could have easily folded the tent on the big stage. The kids just kept fighting and plugging away and got us back into that thing. They put us in a great position at halftime.

Kent Beck

I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.

David Henderson

What they will do is capture all kinds of other people in their net and reduce our privacy in the process, ... This is government we are talking about and government tends to use whatever it has.

Ron Rivera

When we came into this draft, we talked about the needs that we had on the defensive side. We've improved our speed, we've improved our tenacity and we've improved with some of the depth we're going to have.