Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Crick

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.

Kent Cooper

Because we can't see a lot of their activities, people wonder how big they are and how active. There is a hazy line between indirect and direct involvement in elections.

J. I. Packer

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

Drew Carey

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

Anais Nin

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

Sadakichi Robbins

The real surprise is that none of the usual indirect bidders turned up. Maybe they were scared away by the jump in direct bidding (Wednesday).

William Lashner

In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.

Tom Verica

Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but 'L.A. Law,' which had all these megastars in it.

John Muller

We are not going to jump on everyone overnight.

Ron Wilson

We had an opportunity to jump on a loose puck in our end and we didn't. Then we got a little tired in the end and didn't know what was going on around us.

Lupe Fiasco

I have so many miles and I've been flying for so long that every time I fly, it's first class. It's one of those things that, if I needed to jump on a plane, and fly to Spain tomorrow, I know I could get it done. Just like that.

Roy Miller

We're kind of right in the middle of winter. Talking about springtime weather is kind of jumping the gun.

Dick Jauron

We are just trying to see if we can jump start and get a win somehow.

Eric Schmidt

We just didn't really have that jump in our step tonight, we were very passive.

Joann Erenhouse

We have to jump on this as soon as possible.

Whitey Ford

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Van Morrison

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yayoi Kusama

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Cheryl Cole

I don't think I'm a style icon, not at all. Sometimes I just want to rock out in me scruffs and me Uggs. You know, a really comfy old tracksuit with maybe a dollop of ketchup down the front.

Paul Merton

Maybe there's a perception of me as grumpy old bugger who suffers from depression. It's a total misconception. I don't think of myself as any grumpier than the next person. I'm not even grumpy first thing in the morning.

Even Pellerud

We played another solid game. Maybe more solid than spectacular.

Terry Gilliam

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

Corbin Bernsen

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

Ron Heck

We produce a lot of soy, but none of us are on the scale of the Brazilian growers.

Julien Pain

We sent letters, we tried to phone them. And none of them ever replied to us.

Anna Paquin

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

Peter O'Toole

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

Warren Sapp

You know what, none of what he's done has been all that bad,

Charles Kent

You know the Mayor's always talking about quality of life, but there is none around here,

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

Deepika Padukone

I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship.

Ed Sheeran

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

Dean Koontz

...,we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy,

Chauncey Billups

It's all about guts. I've had so many ups and downs, I'm not scared of being down.

Sarah Garuti

When he got angry, he would have a tone of voice that really scared me.

Laura Marling

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

Libba Bray

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

Cilla Black

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

Tristan Bernard

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Mike White

What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.

Gemma Arterton

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, / Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Cathleen Schine

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Deb Caletti

It's shocking the things we call love.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Ryan Robertson

We pounded it inside. That isn't something we do real well, but we did it better than usual tonight.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Martin Luther

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

Henry Ford

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

Marjane Satrapi

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

Blaise Pascal

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Jamie Oliver

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.