Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Evo Morales

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

Ellen Key

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

George Williams

The outlook revision reflects the strengthening of the financial profile as pricing initiatives in the performance chemicals business and continued focus on cost reduction allowed OMNOVA to offset higher raw-material costs.

Corazon Aquino

When you restore democracy, you cannot say that only those who worked for the restoration of democracy will be allowed to use the privileges of a democracy.

Ben Elliot

I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can't force it. This terrible word - 'networking' - I really hate.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

Warren Bennis

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

William Cavendish

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

Vivienne Westwood

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

Vincent Cassel

I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

Abraham Lincoln

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Abraham Lincoln

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vikram Seth

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Zubin Mehta

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Ellen Key

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

Peter Riegert

It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.

Amber Moon

In that district, she is particularly vulnerable given her record. Voters have demanded an investment in education coupled with property tax relief. (Lawmakers) are going to have to face that in November ...

Kofi Annan

In my judgment, we've given all the explanation and clarifications that have been demanded by the Libyan authorities, ... We are waiting for the decision.

Frank Brown

This house demanded skills that are hard to find these days. The good news is that all these people are here, in Pittsburgh.

Kasan Mulyono

Residents only demanded a larger quota of local workers, and we have met that.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Jim Zorn

He could have lashed out or just gone in the tank or been so frustrated and demanded a trade. That's not how Matt reacted.

Malcolm Gladwell

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

Steve Holloway

She is a playmaker. At halftime, she told her teammates to follow her and she would lead us back. We have demanded a lot of her as far as being a leader, and she has taken this team on her back.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

Nicole Scherzinger

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'

Tony Kaye

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

Liam Neeson

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

Karl Pilkington

I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

Sally Kirkland

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

Vernon Duke

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

Brian Greene

There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.

Alan W. Livingston

I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,

Scott Baldwin

This is only the second time Tommy has been here in Texas for something like this. Normally, musicians of his reputation work with college-level students; we're very fortunate.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Donald Harrison

The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a better place because of this.

Z. Sheppard

The sad thing is so many of the musicians have died.

Bill Dixon

If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be quite elusive.

Robert Brown

The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

Robert Moog

I'm an engineer, ... I see myself as a toolmaker, and the musicians are my customers. They use the tools.

Ivern Ball

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Samuel Butler

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Terry McGowan

We preached all week don't look past these guys. Once we got behind, we started pressing. We weren't relaxed.

Stacey Phillips

We did what it took to win. Everyone is a little worn out from the past weekend, but we still pulled through for the win.

Alan Cohen

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

Alan Cohen

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Alan Cohen

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

Pearl Jam

Where have they been the past 10 years?

Dick Cheney

I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.