Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Wolf

Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

Ryan Priest

The rate increase is necessary to protect our customers from losses arising from future storm seasons, similar to 2004 and 2005.

James Hillman

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.

James Adamson

Kmart's significant losses and sales decline in the first quarter reflect the many challenges the company faced in the period following our voluntary Chapter 11 filing, ... These challenges included reduced inventory levels as vendors withheld shipments in the early days of the reorganization and reduced store traffic arising from the bankruptcy filing.

Anthony Chan

We may want to wait for another month or so to be sure that such gains were truly reflective of a upward trend and not just a possible distortion arising from the temporary 'hurricane-related' loss of many lower-paying service sector jobs,

Taylor Twellman

It comes with just being a little bit more comfortable. I've been a little snake-bit with injuries when opportunities are arising with the national team. I told Bruce (Arena, U.S. coach) earlier this month, 'I just like being here whether it is being a practice player or being center forward.' I just want to help this team win.

Jonathan Ravelas

It is a calibrated and preemptive response to rising inflation. They are more concerned with containing inflation pressures arising from higher value-added tax and crude oil prices.

Richard Li

It is a direct result of the extremely difficult economic situation in Hong Kong and globally, and of intense competition within our industry arising since the implementation of the current regulatory framework.

Alexis Truchan

State law generally requires the city to indemnify and defend city employees in litigation arising out of the performance of their duties. We evaluate each case based on their individual facts and circumstances to determine whether any exceptions to this general rule apply.

David Ricardo

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Arnold Palmer

When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.

Frederic Bastiat

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Frederic Bastiat

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

Mark Robison

We had a very good two days of competition this weekend.

Damarius Bilbo

When I got to the sidelines, Calvin said, 'Man, I've got some competition for highlights now,' ... He was just joking, you know. There's not another Calvin Johnson. I mean, he's like Michael Jordan. One only comes around every 10, 20 years.

Dora Russell

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

Takeru Kobayashi

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

Vince Testa

We're looking at a pretty tough schedule. New competition is going to be a test.

Kevin Yoder

In the current law we're seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we're saying is if we're going to reduce taxes we just want to make sure that there are things within the law that pay for it.

Adrian Lund

When the institute first tested midsize SUVs in 1996, none was rated good. Now, there are 16 current midsize SUV designs rated good.

Sue Kanoho

We're just giving them the facts and what the current situation is. And for those that are on-island, let them know what they can do when the weather is like this.

Blake Ress

Many of the people in the legislature send their kids to private schools and I think they would defend them, defend the current system. I don't know that we've done enough research where we can defend this before the legislature or in court. If we're going to go this way we better have some facts to back our decision.

Akhil Gupta

We are hopeful that with economies of scale, we will be able to hold margins at current levels.

Castor Pang

The profit-taking is quite obvious this morning. The current factors and the fundamentals can't support the index to go up further. At this level, the upside is limited.

Max Mosley

We very much hope that all the current participants will ... submit their entries in due time.

Roy Lind

The facility is just too old, and it doesn't meet all the current standards.

Andrew Fisher

We shall look for more detail on the group's cost-cutting programme and on recent acquisitions. Overall, we expect the outlook statement and current trading to be the main share price drivers.

Alain de Botton

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

Bill Hybels

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

Katie McGrath

I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

Michael Hirst

When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very difficult position for a screenwriter who's put so much passion into that, into the writing.

S. Hughes

We had been raising the issue privately, ... and as part of raising difficult issues that we need to discuss, I felt it was appropriate.

Jean Killy

We had a very, very difficult seven years. The end result we would have been happy with. It went very well. I was relieved after the first four or five days.

Marc Faber

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.

Ali Naimi

make it more difficult to overcome these bottlenecks in the system.

Alain Resnais

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Arthur Scargill

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

Denzel Washington

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

John Eldredge

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

Michael Posner

When I was at the Toronto Film Festival this week, I saw this wonderful Brazilian film called House of Sand. Since the movie was so terrific, and Delray has a large Brazilian population, I thought it would make for a nice addition. When I spoke to the film's director himself and told him about the Delray Film Festival, he instantly said yes.

Terry Jones

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.

Tullian Tchividjian

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

Twyla Tharp

Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

S. Hughes

We can no longer take our economic and technological well-being for granted.

Timothy Noah

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Jason Schenker

We're looking at some positive expansion, solid growth in jobs and in general economic growth, and that's something we see continuing.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Alexei Kudrin

Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and we have the means to lower inflation to this level.

John Banks

Losing one day in July is an economic disaster.

Jeff Schappe

Leading economic indicators in general have indicated a slowing for some time.

Callie Khouri

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

Rick Herdes

When I had to take guys out of the game and went to the bench, it seemed like we lost momentum. (Quincy) played extremely well.

Dan Curtis

Life is extremely valuable, and you don't always get a second chance. What a way to be able to say thank you to someone.

Nell Fortner

LSU is a well-oiled machine. They are extremely talented, but we feel we are playing them at a good time.

Shane Valdez

Luke is extremely hard to score on. He's got good solid takedowns, he's solid on top and he's very hard to take down.

Ganiyat Adeduntan

Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we didn't play our game. We're going to try to get to the Sweet 16 - that's our goal.

Sharon Versyp

We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun. This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one.

Kaki King

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

Denny Plyler

We did extremely well. If this had been a team thing we would have won easily.

Bill Stenger

The PTO has been extremely supportive. They have been very helpful. I couldn't be happier to have a group like them contributing so much to the school.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

Mark Cooper

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was a record year for the whole industry and for Airbus in particular.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.

Kirsten Dunst

There are a lot of charismatic people in this industry ... and I can understand why people on location get together.

Sarah Snook

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Tony Pierce

The product of intense technical work over the last nine months, the UEFI 2.0 specification represents outstanding industry teamwork from our member companies.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Michael Callahan

No one industry can tackle this (dictates of a country's government) on its own.

Denis Leary

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

Vicky Groat

We had a very intense match on Monday (in the Hanover-Horton Invitational) so it was kind of nice not to have that tonight.

Evangeline Lilly

I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, when I first met you...' People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

Elijah Wood

Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

David Maroney

Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything.

Wendy Ward

She and her caddy take it to a very intense level. It's in her character. As much as I'd like to play the way she's playing right now, that's just not the way I'm wired.

Mike Kundick

She is probably as intense in the room as you want. She practices right with them.

Alan Mak

I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

Jaime King

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

Victor Koo

At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.

Charles Schumer

While the Port of Hong Kong is screening everything, we are screening next to nothing.

Hariadi Wibisono

The result of test from the Hong Kong laboratory was positive.

Alan Greenspan

For Hong Kong and Singapore, in fact, they have been able to realize the size of economy.

Jason Baker

In three years of protesting in Hong Kong I have never seen anything like this,

Ming Pao

Hong Kong needs a harmonious society and so does the movie industry.

Howard Gorges

The Hong Kong market takes the lead from Wall Street and, to a lesser extent, other overseas markets such as Tokyo.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Kirstie Alley

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

Timothy Noah

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

John Baumann

We're just getting our first results back. So far, so good.

Alexandra Adornetto

Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied. 'The end result is always you.X always equals Beth.

Milwaukee Brewers

much more well-rounded as a result of the trade.

Bruce Sterling

Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

Bill Gates

I am results-oriented.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Kris Kristofferson

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

Augusten Burroughs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Peter Murray

More is going on now than at any time since the Victorians.

Gerard Way

Since we're in an arena, ... We'll do it arena-rock style!

Janice Johnson

Since Wal-Mart and H-E-B is all out of water we had to come to Bastrop to get the things that we need. We need water, flashlights and snacks and stuff.

Jack Fultz

Since this is our first year of doing this, we're kind of winging it as we go.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.