Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Henry Bragg

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse.

Yani Tseng

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

Clay Shirky

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

John Remington

The pilots would argue they're free to strike, and the airline would argue they legally couldn't. It's unclear. But the pilots are satisfied they could legally strike. And if they can't, they may do it anyway.

Niki Lauda

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

Michael Kelley

The Pentagon team, led by General Jeffrey Kohler, along with representatives from the US Air Force, the US Navy, Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, will meet with top members of the ministry of defense.

John Moody

The Pennsylvania was the first American railroad to lay steel rails and the first to lay Bessemer rails; it was the first to put the steel fire-box under the locomotive boiler; it was the first to use the air brake and the block signal system; it was the first to use in its shops the overhead crane.

Bill Hader

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

Vivek Wadhwa

During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.

Abraham Lincoln

We have all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death, the like of which would never happen to Gen. Cass. Place stacks a thousand miles apart: he would stand stock still, midway between them, and eat them both at once; and the green grass along the line would be apt to suffer some, too, at the same time.

Chino Moreno

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

Chet Faker

I don't start my show at 200%. I like to go in slow, warm up the crowd, and bring them along with me. To hear everyone singing along is so great.

Chet Faker

I remember a concert for a visiting girls school, and that was the first time I ever sang - it was always about girls - that was the main thing. But somewhere along the line, it became a cathartic thing.

Ellen Key

Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

Elizabeth Warren

People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.

Elizabeth Warren

If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.

David A. Bednar

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

David Malpass

The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

Pauline Marois

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

Ben Mendelsohn

It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.

Drummond Rennie

When a paper comes in from South Korea, you have to make the assumption that they are telling a true account. It is not a system for policing. It's a system for detecting whether the science seems good. It cannot be a system for policing.

Kat Edmonson

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.

Jim Lind

We didn't document any breeding. A lot of folks had an assumption there would be a lot of nesting birds seen during the summer.

Manouchehr Mottaki

There is a very wrong assumption held by some that the West can do anything it wants through the Security Council.

Rodney Brooks

You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are. But with a person at the wheel who you can see, you behave accordingly. With the robotic car, how do you know what assumption to make?

Mahatma Gandhi

Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own

Emma Roberts

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

Paul Muite

The people behind Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing scandals or land grabbing would be free to confess publicly and return whatever property they stole from Kenyans.

Michael Reavis

The past two years, I've competed at the all-around without my team. Now that the team is going to be behind me and I'm going to be competing for my scores to count for the team and for the all-around, it definitely makes it easier to compete and it makes it a lot more special.

Bruce Weber

I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.

David R. Ellis

They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.

Christien Meindertsma

My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.

Christine Gregoire

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

Barack Obama

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Natalie du Toit

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

Caleb Cushing

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

Horacio Gutierrez

What we have submitted to the Commission responds to all the requirements they have made known to us.

Geoffrey Rudd

We are concerned about the fraud allegations. We are waiting to see what the elections commission comes out with. For the time being, we have not seen widespread fraud.

Dayle Stewart

We are continuing to work with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on these issues.

Philippe Reines

We're eager to work with them. The 9/11 Commission would not have happened without them.

Candy Olson

We can't just keep hoping the county commission will do right by these kids.

Laura Martin

We have the Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission which translates and publishes our press releases into Latino magazines.

Michael Copps

Today the Federal Communications Commission empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy depend,

Romano Prodi

We need to take a good look at the accounts, speak to the European Commission and to take a rapid decision.

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

Harold Johnson

The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.

Mohammed Ali

The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Brian Kernighan

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Fareed Zakaria

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Everett Dirksen

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Chris Squire

I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Rollie Massimino

We have a lot of friends. It's been a great run. . . . I've got about 15 or 16 of my former players tonight.

Remi Oyo

The prerogative of the return of former President Taylor remains that of the Liberian people and government.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Laith Kubba

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

Ivan Golde

There is a potential suspect, but it's not a former client.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Common

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Beeban Kidron

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

F. Sionil Jose

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Samuel Butler

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Eric Fellner

The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

Rachel Corrie

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Jay Blanton

Those funds will plug back into the operation of the hospital.

Diane Phillips

Those funds can be spent wherever there is a need.

William Murray

Under the Governor's plan all the funds raised by these initiatives would have to be used for transportation purposes. If they were used for other purposes they would immediately expire.

Bill Rocco

Those kinds of funds only work well for people who don't own a U.S. fund and who are keeping their portfolio simple.

Warren Huff

We're working with funds where individuals are putting money into deals.

Louis Navellier

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

Hugh Davies

We are proud to be in a position to offer these funds to the community. Personally, I'm honored to represent this group of vintners who lend a hand whether it be for Hurricane Katrina relief or to help a neighbor in need.

Jim Ritterbusch

What we're seeing now is that some funds had moved to the side making sure there wasn't a bearish surprise and now they are rotating back into the long side,

William Sullivan

We are also in the grips of liquidations by hedge funds and a lot of dealers don't want to see big exposures,

Tony Crescenzi

Treasury yields look headed to 5 percent by the May 10 (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting and possibly 5.25 percent by the June 29th.

Mark Kulda

We were kind of in the middle of the road. We're in the top 20 and probably headed to the top 15.

Kyle Cooper

Mother Nature is going to be huge in the next several weeks. Long term I think we're headed to $30 to $35, but I don't think we're doing that yet. We have a lot of winter left.

Jim Ledford

Yes it's true. He's headed to Oklahoma State.

Hugh Johnson

That was a signal that we were headed toward distress.

Geoff Petrie

That's the kind of story that's yet to be written. All we can say is what we've done to this point. And Ron has helped us reclaim a season that was headed for oblivion.

Stephen Chick

We think Home Depot is headed for a stall.

Paul Reilly

I think there's an over-obsession with monthly numbers. We've now had two years in a row with over 2 million jobs added, and it looks like we're headed for a third year.

Mike Costello

I think we're playing pretty well overall. Now that Joe's back and Jeff's healthy, that should help us. I think it's headed in the right direction.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Brian Koslow

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

Eric Fellner

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

Edward Fitzgerald

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less

Sigourney Weaver

I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.

Emma Watson

Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.

Elizabeth Warren

Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.

David Bailey

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

Janet Callison

The outpouring of support we've received in Grandview has just been overwhelming. So many people offered to give their money and their time to help.

Brian Harvey

We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.

David Steinberg

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

David H. Murdock

I'm used to doing big undertakings with my own money.

Dennis Christopher

I've never chosen or rejected a role because of money.

Lawrence Tierney

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.

Anatoly Karpov

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

George Bald

We need to understand how freight moves and what is involved.

Phil Garner

We'll make the moves we always make. We'll pinch-hit, we'll double-switch, we'll defensively make moves.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Tina Brown

The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written.

Brian Kilrea

A lot of moves are made and you wonder who did it,

Vernon Davis

You've got a tight end who can make moves like a wide receiver. When there's a linebacker on you, that's kind of a mismatch. That pretty much speaks for itself.

Mitsuhiro Osawa

There are moves to turn around from that path towards something like Matsushita.

Jim Lovell

I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

Mike Griffin

NASA has been favored by the administration, but it's still a very tough environment.

Christopher Russell

NASA did not react well to that news.

Bart Gordon

should not be done by cannibalizing other NASA missions.

Robert Zubrin

the first rational plan in any sense that I've seen from Nasa in decades.

Sally Ride

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

Sally Ride

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Charles Dance

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

Valerie June

My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.

John Connolly

We had a number of half-chances and we put ourselves in a position to do things, but the forwards were very disappointing,

Steny Hoyer

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

Mathieu Schneider

We didn't play like the number one seed. We put ourselves in a position where it could all be over early.

Aerin Lauder

I don't use a stylist. I know what I like, so I do it myself. I rip things out from fashion magazines. It's easy to order when the phone number is right on the page.

Jean Kerr

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Jeffrey Smith

There are a surprising number of tapestries that survived from the 16th to 18th century. You can find a 17th-century tapestry for $3,000 to $4,000, and then there are half-million-dollar tapestries.

Ving Rhames

I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.

William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.

William Shakespeare

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

Alan Kay

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

Charlotte Bronte

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

Charles Dickens

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

Charles Dickens

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

Bill Bradley

I think the Saints will go over real well in San Antonio, but I'm partial to San Antonio because I think it's a wonderful place and has a lot of things to offer.

Steve Buchanan

I'm partial to her. She's such a steady player. When she doesn't score, she does so many other things. People don't recognize her because she is so even-keeled and steady on the floor.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Chris Zimmerman

We're working on what the specific policy would be.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

David Cross

[If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don't know. I'll probably end up working in the cafeteria.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Leon Panetta

You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.

Bill Richardson

My view is that the secretary should step aside.

Hillary Clinton

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

Hillary Clinton

I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."

Hillary Clinton

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.

Hillary Clinton

I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.

Michael Bloomberg

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Rory Robertson

I am skeptical that this time will be different.

John Malkovich

I'm not a very skeptical person.

Joe Wilcox

I'm kind of skeptical about its ultimate usefulness.

Joel Edgerton

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.

Alan Cohen

The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.

Derek Hall

We don't have a lot of study space that you would find on other campuses. You find a lot of students studying in our concourses.

Rusty Schweickart

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

E. F. Schumacher

...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.

Alan Turing

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

Alan Shepard

We need a continuing presence in space.

Alan Shepard

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

Charles Simonyi

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Charles Stross

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

Ofer Lefler

The transfer of semen will not be allowed.

Peter Takirambudde

Any transfer to the UN could take months.

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Alan Shepard

We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again.