Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Pareene

For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

Eric Tolbert

What you're seeing is revealing weaknesses in the state, local and federal levels. All three levels have been weakened. They've been weakened by diversion into terrorism.

Maryann Gregory

Some of this is a diversion to keep your mind off what is really going to get you.

Ted Harrison

My perception is that we are headed toward a future where the surface water from the Rio Grande diversion is likely to be the dominant source of water for most communities around the Santa Fe area.

Scott Faber

We can use diversion structures to redirect sediment (coming down the river) that is now going off the continental shelf.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We have not seen diversion of nuclear material for weapons purposes, but the picture is still hazy and not very clear.

Martha Stewart

Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.

Cynthia Covell

Diversion does not only mean taking water from the river.

Dan Stessel

Normally there is a diversion of 2 to 3 percent. Instead we saw an increase. We bucked the trend and swung to get 5 percent.

Larry Fitzgerald

I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.

Eric Kandel

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.

Pankaj Mishra

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

John Varvatos

Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

Scott Edgar

My goal now is to do what I did at Murray State, to be a great mid-major program. We can be regionally dominant and nationally competitive. It's a great fit for me.

Marc Walters

She has been our most dominant player. She's made herself into a marquee performer.

Jake Herlihy

She was everything as advertised. She's a dominant player, very strong and physical.

Will Sheridan

When you think about it, it's natural to double our guards because they are amazing. They are the dominant force of our offense. But when I have the open shot I take it.

Matt Brown

We felt like Barrett Moore was a dominant blocker and we have a lot of respect for him,

Audre Lorde

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Charles Kettering

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

Blaise Pascal

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

Octavio Paz

Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.

Takeshi Uchiyamada

Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.

Tony Dungy

Like '94 with Warren Moon and Joe Montana, you'll see two future Hall-of-Famers in Saturday's game.

Alexandra Robbins

...make sure you are still living in the present, rather than for an uncertain future.

Jam Master Jay

Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!

Bernard Kouchner

Let's talk about the future, not about the past. Next time I will be sure that they will not tell me that there is a Serb side and an Albanian side. Here's a hospital that will reach through this bridge.

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.

Terry Trippler

If a Northwest plane headed to Minot has to return to Minneapolis-St. Paul and an American plane has to return to Dallas, which one will hit the (local) news? That's the reality Northwest has to handle.

Jim Ledford

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

Steve Hofstetter

I don't know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing. Maybe it's because when you're headed somewhere, you don't have to be where you've already been.

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.

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.

Anthony Chan

I think we're headed in the right direction.

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.

Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Kris Carr

When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.

Erin Morgenstern

I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series.

John Hurt

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Henry Blodget

Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved.

Courtney Campbell

With this type of leukemia, he most likely will need a bone-marrow transplant.

William Gerstenmaier

We're going to have to make some modifications to the tank, so that probably puts the September (launch) window into a not very likely possibility.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Cody Acree

Revenues are likely to be down but that's just normal seasonality,

David Icke

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

David Hume

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

David Dreman

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

Denis Leary

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

Deepika Padukone

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

Brian Greene

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Byron Katie

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

Peter Andersen

The perception is that they take too long and are too expensive.

Alain Badiou

We have the riots we deserve.

John McCarthy

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

Christophe Barbier

He has profited from the riots and the protests.

Tony Martinez

It was crazy. It was like the L.A. riots all over again.

Rudyard Kipling

And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Enrique Garcia

We're like their Santa Claus. It's kind of special and we make them feel normal.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Ludwig von Mises

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

Michelle Malkin

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

Maureen Johnson

I feel warm and reassured," I whispered. "He's like Santa.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Arthur Baer

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Elaine Post

Until you know where the source is, how do you know you're treating the right one?

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

Sean Badding

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

William Williams

My surface is myself.Under whichto witness, youth isburied. Roots?Everybody has roots.

Hal Joseph

We are just scratching the surface right now.

Ivan Pavlov

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Nikki Sixx

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

Bill Cowher

It may have been more that we're working out on a different surface than what we usually work on in Pittsburgh.

Tom Kleckner

There's three types of mines, and what we have in Texas is surface mining.

Jonathan Lethem

You can't be deep without a surface

Gavin Bryars

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

George Borjas

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

David Viscott

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

David Hockney

Water colours are wet colours in water.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details

Deb Caletti

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

Alan Coren

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

Richard C. Armitage

I am just not a water baby. I can swim, but I just don't.

Jane Austen

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Jared Diamond

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

Jared Diamond

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.