Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Roach

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Rick Jones

Perhaps we could tap them for their thoughts and their expertise in the (environmental) area.

Carl Jacoby

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

Meg Symington

Because the U.S. conservation groups are participating, we are able to provide technical expertise regarding how these funds should be used and ... the most important places where they should be spent.

Brad Hintz

Trading expertise is something that you can purchase on the marketplace.

Tom White

He has the expertise and he was interested in doing it.

Matthew Stewart

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

Michael Nichols

It doesn't take technical expertise to shoot the Grand Canyon. It takes patience to get the right atmospherics and light.

Jim Lee

Tom's financial expertise was extremely important in our business. He got us through some tough times and I selfishly wanted him to come back to us.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Martin Klein

People want to come to a local landmark, ... They want to be comfortable.

Adam Schiff

People want someone whose top priority is local concerns, not national, partisan, ideological crusades,

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Michael Holland

When the market refused to acquiesce (to Cisco's news), that was uncharacteristically resilient of this market, ... People are now looking for reasons why the market isn't doing more.

Bob Tipton

We're going back and looking at some of these older intersections and seeing if they're warranted or not.

Paul Mott

We're looking at what makes the most sense.

Rick Laws

We're looking at what a market has to do to seek and find equilibrium. Those sales had to slow; otherwise sellers wouldn't get the message.

Daniel Perry

We're looking at video now from different stores, and his pictures come up several times. So it's possible he's been doing this for a while and just now getting caught.

Hector Garcia

We're looking at this as an opportunity to start over.

Chris Henson

We're looking at the things we can do to improve.

Trina Patterson

We're looking at the long run, and the long run is that this team is going to be better in the future.

Silvio Berlusconi

We're looking at the accounts, ... There are situations where we will probably need to intervene.

David Ricardo

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

David Hockney

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle. They are eager to roll up their sleeves and go to work, whatever that work might be.

Diana Gabaldon

While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.

Charles Darwin

It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it

Bill Hicks

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

Alex Alben

I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal outcome.

Andrew Natsios

even in a best-case scenario, under optimal conditions, we could see as many as 320,000 people die.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

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.

Lori Murray

We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.

Wendy Gibson

We've been purchasing trees and planting throughout the park.

Dan Hill

This is a place to start. It's the first planting of something to grow.

Matt Diersen

Sometimes you have to roll with the price increases. There's not too much you can do in terms of foregoing planting or harvesting a crop.

Alan Bailey

There will be no planting for safety's sake, but we will accommodate (supervisors) regarding the stenciled concrete.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Charlie Roberts

The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

Brian Behlendorf

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

David Hilbert

Geometry is the most complete science.

David Hilbert

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

David Hume

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.

Astro Teller

Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.

Charles Kettering

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Charles Kettering

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Charles Kettering

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

Charles Kettering

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Ben Jonson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Pete Carroll

He's been to the mountaintop, so to speak,

Source Unknown

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

Horace

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Heath Ledger

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

David Doniger

Look for the U.S. to use a variety of strategies to try to veto consensus.