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.

Dennis Gartman

We remain fundamentally bullish on gold . . . for the very simple reason that there is growing disdain for currencies generally.

Patrick Stump

We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

Sir Scott

Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow

Gerhard Schroeder

Politics of demagoguery, of disdain for our shared values and a turning away from Europe is not a model for the future,

Thomas Hooker

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?

Trent Lott

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

Chas Freeman

He had a disdain for ceremony. He didn't have much of a light touch.

Z. Sheppard

His reserve of disdain appears endless. He could no sooner shut it off than a vampire could forgo his nightcap.

Kathy Harrison

I believe the city is not guilty. ... It is with great disdain that I vote yes to get this over with.

Bob Romeo

We've averaging 61 points per game, but the thing that makes me the proudest about this team is its defense. We've held teams to an average of 31 points per game. A lot of players get to play (as a result of big leads), and that means the kids on the bench are doing a good job defensively as well.

Elliot Diringer

We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.

Mike Turner

We've always tried to play all of the good teams. If we're going to be one of the good teams we've got to play the good teams.

Gene Johnson

We've always tried to have a good mix of stuff on our albums -- something that's fun, something that's very radio friendly, something that's going to touch someone's heart, maybe even something that's pop influenced. More than ever, on the 'Completely' album, we wanted to show more than one musical side of Diamond Rio.

John Mackey

We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

John Carr

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

Joe Hudak

We've always played well here. We're a good club, and I think we're trying to show we can play with other good clubs. We're certainly not intimidated.

Adam Ereli

We've always made clear that truces are good only insofar as they go, and that's really not very far.

Will Holman

We've asked management that question (when a new contract would be imposed) and they haven't given us an answer. It could be immediately or they could use it for additional leverage at the bargaining table.

Richard Foreman

We've always respected Israel's right to defend itself, including going after armed groups and armed men in some of these areas. But we've always said they need to do that in a manner which has the utmost care to avoid harm to civilians, particularly when they're conducting operations in heavily populated areas. And we've said that often results in tragedies and numerous deaths. And that appears to be what's happened again.

Dan Beck

We've always had an aggressive e-commerce strategy. Since our first Web site in 1994, we realized a Web site was more than just a corporate brochure. It had to be an advanced business tool providing everything companies need to design, print and manage their documents online.

When we were growing up, old man jenkins would never fail to come out every morning to nail tadpoles to a wheel, spin it around and around, like a wheel of fortune, and then say, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is the winner!" We all thought he was crazy, but then, we had some growing up to do.

Stacy Adams

When I was manning these gates with the military, we had between 20 to 25 officers. But the normal operation for this management is 10 to 14.

Gerard Houllier

When I was manager (of Liverpool) in England the national team coach was much more understanding.

George Burley

When I was manager at Ipswich and Derby, if we took 3500 to away matches that was good. To take over 6000 is unbelievable. The fans appreciate the effort the players are putting in.

Steve-O

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

Elvis Presley

When I was a child, ladies and gentleman, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bed -- without a song." So I keep singing my song.

Chris Rupkey

Unfortunately, I think they tried to fight the inflation dragon a little too long, and rejected the counsel of the markets which urged them to cut rates as early as November that year.

Tasnim Aslam

We reject it. We have rejected their demarche.

Ethan Ucker

The point of an election is to evaluate someone's performance my performance as appointments chair, for example, to which the database that I developed is substantially connected. My performance as appointments chair was rejected by the student body.

Caroline B. Cooney

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Barbara Corcoran

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

Elaine Sciolino

When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.

Jay Zygmunt

We did make an offer. It's a joke. I think it's sort of funny. ... He certainly isn't the first player that rejected one of our offers, and I know that he won't be the last. That's his prerogative. That's part of the business. That's free agency. We wish him the best.

Jane Austen

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

Bill Ackman

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

Bertrand Russell

We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.

Phillip Noyce

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.

Geri Halliwell

I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Mason Cooley

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

Oscar Wilde

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Jeff Lemire

When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.

Joe Johnston

We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers. He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's not a flag-waver. We're reinterpreting, sort of, what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.

Kent Beck

Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

Chris Capossela

When we asked people what would you like us to do in the next version of Office, nine times out of 10 people have named something that is already in the product. In Office 12, we are making a much more innovative UI to help you get better results faster.

Dave Barry

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Brett Myroff

With the introduction of the new Intel-based products it's important for companies to use the same version of Sophos Anti-Virus regardless of the type of Macs being used. Through its latest software for Mac OS X, Sophos continues to offer the highest level of virus protection to all Mac users.

Scott Long

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

Mark Ruffalo

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

William Giles

We're still comfortable with the performance and expect Montecito to offer a 2X performance improvement over earlier versions of Itanium.