Famous Quotes & Sayings

Takumi Tsunoda

The output figure was below expectations, but it doesn't change our view that the underlying expansionary trend continues.

Brian Kernighan

Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.

Dennis Christopher

I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

Candice Olson

There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

Paul Ashworth

We previously feared growth could dip below 2 percent.

Tommy Caldwell

I tend to pick objectives that I feel are safe because I know that, in the moment, I always go for it. I have some rules for myself, though: Look for the rock faces without a lot of loose rock. Always rope up on glaciers where there is even a slight chance of falling into a crevasse. No pure free soloing. Never climb below hanging glaciers.

Christian McKay

I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd thought I'd work up through the ranks and go from spear carrier - or in my case, the eunuch, which was several rungs below the spear carrier - to King Lear.

Nancy Gibbs

New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.

Nina Easton

One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Jeffrey Archer

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

David Bailey

I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

Johnny Damon

The past two days we've had a chance to take them out early. As an offense, we have to find a way to keep it going.

Common

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

Brad Goreski

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.

Christine Keeler

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

Chris Carter

In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.

Natalie du Toit

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

Ranbir Kapoor

My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

Eric Ripert

When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.

Tommy Caldwell

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.

Tommy Caldwell

I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have.

Vivek Wadhwa

Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.

Kate Christensen

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

Shaukat Hussain

When the tsunami came, they had climbed on to a hill. They kept walking, they got lost, and were wandering in the forest, resting, then walking again, ... They traveled from the western side of the island to the eastern side until we saved them.

Vladimir Potanin

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Dallas Roberts

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

Milla Jovovich

Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them.

Lindsey McKeon

I am one of those faces that it's sometimes, 'Oh my God, you look so familiar, but I can't pinpoint it.'

Stan Glowiak

We still have a ways to go. We've got new faces and kids up from junior varsity. We need to improve in all areas, but we've got a pretty versatile group.

Willie Robertson

Sometimes in the heart of the summer, I look at people with their faces shaved and think it'd be nice, but once you get used to it, it's not as hot. Most guys say it gets itchy, but once you grow it out into a big man beard, the itching is gone.

Walker Percy

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

Peter Orszag

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

Gary Mills

To look at the guys' faces after the game, yeah, it meant a lot to them.

Scott Reed

The Pelosi-Durbin announcement was like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody heard it.

Cate Blanchett

When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.

Kim Orr

We had another rough third quarter. That has been our killer all year. Our shots weren't falling but they were playing good defense, too.

Nick Love

Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.

Otto Preminger

When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!

Barbara Hershey

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I love snowboarding. It's probably my favorite sport. I love sitting on top of the mountain and the snow falling and that silence, that snow silence. That's, like, a very peaceful, happy place for me.

Raquel Welch

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

Jean McDonald

Trees are falling on the house! Where's the eye? Where's the eye?

Kerry Smith

I talked to them about the glaciers before and they weren't so fussed about it because they said they could just work around them and they are retreating anyhow.

Bob Mann

Glaciers are slow-moving, melting and receding. As they move ... remains often times will melt out and become exposed.

John D. MacDonald

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

David Cross

In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around.

Nikki Sixx

One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists.

Bob Beamon

I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't know what the Olympics was all about. I was just hanging out on the street. I was not humble. I was not a nice person, doing things that were socially unacceptable.

Jen Lancaster

Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.

Roy Williams

We have a lot to prove and we're not going to come out here hanging our heads down because we had a 6-10 season. This is a new year.

Reggie Miller

To know that No. 31 will be hanging from the rafters ... it'll be a special night.

Heather Graham

The ultimate fun is doing nothing. I like doing nothing with people I like - maybe just eating, hanging out and talking.

Alex Phillips

We were just hanging out together like we used to do.

Iggy Azalea

People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

Bud Ogden

We did what we had to do to win. We got rebounds when we had to and got to loose balls. Players stepped up.

Deborah Pryce

We are just tying up the loose ends.

Nathan Peavy

We were just loose today. We went out to play and to have fun.

Robert Prestwood

We had to remove a little more of the end section than we had planned because we ran into some loose brick.

David Attenborough

You were never quite sure which were pickpockets or loose ladies.

Derrick Johnson

Loosen up people. Take the suit and tie off and loosen up.

Dave Trembley

I thought he had a nice, loose arm. He pitched down in the strike zone with his fastball. Like I've said, he's something to work with.

Jim Calhoun

We can really give you nightmares inside, and they really can you nightmares on the perimeter. Plus they rebound much better, get every loose ball.

Mike Lopez

That was the big one right there. The one to become an all-American, that is the hardest. Now all the nervousness is gone. I just have to go out, wrestle loose and see what happens.

James E. Faust

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life's objective is life itself.

Rudolf Steiner

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Ben Barnes

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

Paul Anka

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

Sevyn Streeter

I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been able to be a songwriter first.

David Chang

Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though.

Nicky Hilton

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

Garrett Jones

When the winds picked up, they'd go right through you.

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Christy Romano

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

Mary Tyler Moore

I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy.

Mark Rylance

In terms of pure acting, it's a gift.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.

Velimir Ilic

Our victory is as pure as a diamond,

Travis Smith

For some people, seeing it for the first time, it still works on just a purely visual level.

Niall Ferguson

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

John Keble

Be every mourner's sleep tonight / Like infant's slumbers, pure and light.

Ovid

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

English Proverbs

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

Mark DiCamillo

Voters are saying we need someone there who's not going to rock the boat.

Henry Spencer

Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command.

Dan Epstein

We're not talking about rocket science here. It's simple food, but it will be fast, fresh, and good.

Kevin Millar

You are a rock star when you play in that city.

Amanda Hoffman

We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.

Alan Thicke

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

Alan Light

A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Aimee Bender

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

Ayn Rand

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

Miley Cyrus

Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.

Isaac Asimov

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

Karl Marx

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

Linda Lingle

They really put up with a lot and I think they're just at the end of their rope right now,

Tim Finn

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

Maggie Stiefvater

It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.

Ban Ki-moon

A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Larry Craig

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

When we're all done, it's going to be a safer expressway.

English Proverbs

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

Adam Foote

Yeah, you don?t want to do that. You want to play safe and get it out. But those things happen.

Fred Espenak

Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are completely safe to watch,

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Guth

It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Stephen Potter

Yes, but not in the South', with slight adjustments, will do for any arguments about any place, if not about any person.

Ciaran Hinds

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Anna Kendrick

I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.

Andy Serkis

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Jason Bateman

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Naoto Kan

I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.