Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael McCulloch

We actually don't know what the dogs are smelling. But we do know that cancers have breakdown products - cocktails of compounds - and these smell different to a dog than normal cells." ()

Robert Carlyle

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

Chan Gailey

We've already got a lot of the film breakdown done,

Maj. Crisp

Usually it is someone driving in the breakdown lane.

Marc Johnson

Obviously there's been a breakdown in the whole city of Kenner,

Robert Thompson

Only in the new millennium, in the waning days of ironic cultural breakdown could something like this have happened. He is now a brilliant actor.

Wesley Clark

Just looking at the environment, the breakdown in Iraqi defense system, and the fact that we're in there in that urban area, we're not a good target for the use of chemical weapons even if Saddam could throw them at us, and I think the guess would be he can't at this point,

Charlie Rangel

What you have just witnessed is the official breakdown of bipartisanship,

Tomas Vokoun

Jason was all by himself. A breakdown like that decides the game.

David Brooks

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

Ludwig von Mises

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

E. Hicks

We're seeing very strong institutional buying and it's for all commodities. Funds are seeing that there are very low inventories for copper and zinc and that's just an indicator of how tight the market is and how strong the worldwide economy is.

J. Horton

We're not buying some report that's going to go on the shelf and never be seen again. This is a research and marketing tool we can start using immediately once we get it.

Jill Nelson

We're not buying outright like Plato's. We're doing a 60/40 split.

Scott Holmes

Making habitat restoration part of public works projects is cheaper than eliminating the species and buying mitigation habitat at another location. With the San Pedro Project, for example, habitat restoration cost $3 million, but it would have cost $5-6 million (twice as much) to destroy the habitat and try to recreate it elsewhere.

Susan Ferguson

Latch doesn't always make it a simple click-in operation to install a restraint. Before buying one, parents should be sure to try fitting it in the vehicle they plan to use it in, because not every restraint is going to fit in every vehicle.

Emma Holly

I have two much-beloved stovetop espresso pots at home, plus a couple French presses I couldn't resist buying because they were so pretty. If I had to imbibe at Starbucks, I'd want a mocha with an extra shot.

Eric Schlosser

Studies have found that preparing your own food is usually healthier and less expensive than buying fast food. But most people just don't have the time.

Terri Blackstock

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Jim Yong Kim

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

John Prendergast

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

Spencer Wells

Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.

Sidney Blumenthal

Like oil crises in the past, it strikes at American feelings of independence, mobility, freedom and exceptionalism.

Ron Oden

Who knows what crises situations there might be when people are placed in that position and they're not developed? ... I'm not saying that I won't run again, but I'd have to feel something really, really special in order to stay.

Chuck Palahniuk

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Alan Greenspan

While the adjustments may be difficult for a time, these crises will pass. Stronger individual economies and a more robust and efficient international economic and financial system will surely emerge in their wake,

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.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk (Bonds), even before Mo was here. The only thing is, the guy wants to hit a few home runs.

Kid Nichols

We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy - not for the money, but for the glory of winning.

Grant Hill

We had been to the Final Four a few times. But we weren't thought of at the time like we are now.

Bobby Jones

When I have started him, he hasn't played as well. I guess he just needs to watch for a few minutes before he goes in. That seems to work. We are still finding out what works, but this team is giving me great effort.

Patricia Wysocki

When I look back, it was like putting a Band-Aid over it. It cheered him up for a few minutes.

Maria Semple

When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.

Laurynas Mikalauskas

We needed a few stops; that's what we were thinking. I wasn't really actually worried that we were going to lose because I knew that my teammates were going to pull it out. I knew we could play better.

Jack Garrison

We needed a few more pins, they pinned us more than we pinned them and that hurt us. But I'm proud of the kids. Every week they look a little better.

Adriano Galliani

We needed a few additions to an already impressive roster.

Isabella Rossellini

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

David Cole

Low risk is something we generally recommend that users can ignore. Medium risk is something we quarantine, and high risk is something we automatically remove.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

John Noble

'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

John Eaton

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Bill Zollars

Many of the local programs funded by United Way will play an important role in helping hurricane victims who fled the Gulf Coast, and have at least temporarily relocated here.

Bill Maher

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

Richard LaBounty

We bounced back after a tough loss to Gulf Breeze. I'm very proud of our approach.

John Herrlin

Unless the winter is polar, Gulf of Mexico natural-gas output will be back.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Diana Nyad

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

Norman Schwarzkopf

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

Bill Parsons

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

Benjamin Netanyahu

lead to a real peace, a lasting peace, not a minute-long peace.

Elijah Cummings

Since 1987, the month of March has been designated to give special prominence to the women who have made lasting contributions to our society.

Jane Goodall

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

Latin Proverb

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule

Joschka Fischer

For me this is the end of a period of my life lasting 20 years, and a new beginning.

Ed Rollins

I do not think it is a lasting issue. I think it is just a series of things that this administration has done that makes it look like they are not always forthcoming.

Dale Carnegie

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

Deepak Chopra

The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

Dan Gelber

I think it will be a lasting legacy, in a sense, because he has so many picks.

Michael Holland

When the market refused to acquiesce (to Cisco's news), that was uncharacteristically resilient of this market, ... People are now looking for reasons why the market isn't doing more.

Bob Tipton

We're going back and looking at some of these older intersections and seeing if they're warranted or not.

Paul Mott

We're looking at what makes the most sense.

Rick Laws

We're looking at what a market has to do to seek and find equilibrium. Those sales had to slow; otherwise sellers wouldn't get the message.

Daniel Perry

We're looking at video now from different stores, and his pictures come up several times. So it's possible he's been doing this for a while and just now getting caught.

Hector Garcia

We're looking at this as an opportunity to start over.

Chris Henson

We're looking at the things we can do to improve.

Trina Patterson

We're looking at the long run, and the long run is that this team is going to be better in the future.

Silvio Berlusconi

We're looking at the accounts, ... There are situations where we will probably need to intervene.

Charlene Li

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Robin Li

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Deborah White

We're just going from U.S. market report to U.S. market report.

Ben E. King

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

Larry Goldstein

The one thing the market doesn't have is time and the administration reacted expeditiously this time. This was good.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

David Douglass

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

David Dinkins

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.

Audrey Hepburn

To be happy - that's all that matters.

Arnold Bennett

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Diana Gabaldon

......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.

Alain de Botton

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Channing Tatum

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

Diego Boneta

Before every performance I feel nervous.

Hannah Kearney

My first run was bad. Training between runs was bad. Waiting (for other competitors to finish) was the most nervous I've ever been in my life. I skied a slow, conservative run, but it was solid. It was really clean, and I think that's what won it for me.

Lisa Presley

She has big plans- she is making me a nervous wreck. She wants to make her own money, which I totally respect but she is still my baby.

Jim King

Several of us are nervous about turning (a fund) over to another group.

Daryl Hall

Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.

David Sedaris

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.

Beyonce Knowles

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Beyonce Knowles

I get nervous when I don't get nervous.

David Walliams

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

David Remnick

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

David Hume

A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.

David Brinkley

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

David Brin

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Benazir Bhutto

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

Beatrice Webb

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Asne Seierstad

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

Frederic Bastiat

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

David Brooks

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

Al Franken

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Al Franken

I want a president who can handle a cream soda.

Al Gore

I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.

Al Gore

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Jan Brewer

President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist.

Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Vladimir Kozhin

The public can and should speak up, but the president will make a decision, because this is a unique compound.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.