Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russ Hellickson

We are proud to be able to honor Ray. We are looking forward to sharing this ceremony with all of his family. He certainly earned it.

Deborah Benaim

We have a special ceremony to give out the medals, complete with the Olympic fanfare music. At the end of the 11 weeks, the person who has lost the most weight out of the two teams wins a trip to Italy.

Jim Rutherford

No ceremony could fully pay tribute to what Ron Francis meant to the Hurricanes organization and the National Hockey League.

Ron Walker

I am sure Queen Elizabeth II will be seated in comfort for the Opening Ceremony at the MCG.

William Shakespeare

Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.

Waisale Serevi

I have made up my mind for us not to be part of the opening ceremony since it will finish late. All of Team Fiji are there but we need to focus on the purpose of us being here.

Shaukat Aziz

Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.

Jamie Sale

Today's ceremony was all I could have imagined and more. I sure love my husband.

Doris Meissner

Today's ceremony has been characterized by some as a 'victory party',

David Hume

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Blaise Pascal

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

History is more interesting than most people think.

Tom Rachman

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

Todd Rundgren

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Shia LaBeouf

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Mike Leavitt

It is a triumph for collaborative science, ... This is a landmark achievement.

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Minya Oh

It was a landmark for the hip-hop generation.

Kerry Killinger

This is a landmark day for Washington Mutual and for our industry,

Sylvia Hatchell

You look at the whole picture and there are just a lot of question marks that I think a lot of people have.

H. L. Mencken

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

Bill Polick

There are no skid marks on the runway.

James Li

I see him making at least provisional qualifying marks for the NCAA champions.

Louis Cataldie

We'll look for things like identifying marks such as tattoos and personal effects. We'll get DNA. We'll do X-rays if they have prostheses and we'll do fingerprints if we can.

Peter Kalikow

today marks a turning point in the relationship of the MTA and its unions.

Maxim Marinin

We just thought about skating, not a medal. We just thought to skate well and we did it, and the marks were OK.

Steve Moore

You see it on merchandise that has NFL or championship marks on it.

Scott Brooker

This is a place to start. That's the way we look at those meets. We'll take the marks that we set today and start whittling away at those.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Jane Jacobs

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Carl Crawford

Nuclear power is not as volatile as gas.

Joey Skaggs

Celebrations of anniversaries of disasters, such as nuclear power plant meltdowns or political assassinations, provide opportunities, as do holidays.

Denis Waitley

A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.

Denis Waitley

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Denis Waitley

You become that to which you are most exposed.

Al Yankovic

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

Al Yankovic

I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

Alain de Botton

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Charles James Fox

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

Blair Underwood

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

Wang Jianlin

I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.

David Hockney

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

David Hockney

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

David Hockney

I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

David Dixon

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

David Bromstad

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

David Brooks

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

Ben Whishaw

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

Benazir Bhutto

The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

Beau Garrett

I'm as far away from technology as possible. But I like to be as present as possible.