Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale T. Mortensen

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

Peter Singer

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.

Wes Miller

We pride ourselves on defense and that's not acceptable for us.

Vivica A. Fox

I started in junior high doing the splits and flips and that kind of stuff. It was kind of the acceptable thing to do. But I had two older brothers, so I was a tomboy. I was the cute tomboy who could put on the skirt but then go tackle you or something. I was a little rough around the edges for a pretty woman!

Laurence Housman

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

Bible Bible

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

Sally Struthers

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

Brendan Gleeson

I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.

Andrew Lansley

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

Adam Rapp

I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.

Carl Stewart

We are kind of rough around the edges right now.

Martin Evans

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells.

Rick Kelly

We must move commuter parking to the edges of campus.

Brandon Orr

We have a lot of rough edges still. Practice will make us better.

Edward Jones

We are not seeing the big slowdown but we are seeing some weakness around the edges showing the medicine is starting to take effect, ... And I don't think it's just psychological.

Pam Imes

Women were a little rough around the edges back then. They had to fend for themselves. They had to hunt and grow their own food. The men weren't always around.

Bill Cowher

I thought Joey's (forced) fumble was huge. Joey's just an inspirational leader for us back there. He did a great job of setting the edges (Sunday).

Steve Kleynhans

Microsoft will smooth over the rough edges there with lots of little offers like this.

Howard Bloom

New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.

Kirby Behre

You squeeze that person and hope he flips as you work your way up to the top.

Lindsey Harding

I took gymnastics for years. I told everyone if we win, I'll do back flips up and down the court.

Rob Parish

Erika had a breakthrough race. October is the month when she flips on the switch. Molly is getting back into the form we know she can run.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Clea Duvall

I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.

Clint Eastwood

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

Phil Klay

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

Alex Rodriguez

When you think about the Space Needle, you also think about Junior rounding third.

Bob Seger

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

Caitlyn Jenner

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

James Norman

You know, sometimes the fans, they always think you're playing your son. But I didn't let that worry me. His junior year we should have played him more than we did, but we didn't just because he was my son.

Ron Peduzzi

The juniors are going to step up and make some things happen.

Karalyn Dehn

My junior year was the first year in like 10 or 12 years that we had a record over .500. Then my senior year was the best, but now they're back down.

Chad Logan

We really have a lot of experience. Our juniors saw considerable time last year and look to start as seniors.

Ryan Holmes

For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Taurean Green

We have to play a year older than what we really are.

Neil Gaiman

How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?

Jessica Raine

You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.

Richard Sloan

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Jane Fonda

When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Casey Self

My partner is 11 years older than me, and I'd like for him to be able to retire.

Armistead Maupin

I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside.

Catherynne M. Valente

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

Heather Mills

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

Luisa Kroll

Somehow, they have been able to skirt that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Killer skirt, deadly legs.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

Honore de Balzac

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Reem Acra

Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.

Alveda King

A woman knows a skirt-chaser.

Tiger Woods

I know he had the skirt on, but I don't know if he had a thong on underneath there,

Denise Levertov

Images split the truth in fractions.

Deepika Padukone

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

Edwin Land

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

David Allen

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

Boy George

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Charles Bukowski

it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tied to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.

Jacques Barzun

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

J. K. Rowling

Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven.

Chris Martin

Music is split up now into little pockets.

Ed Brucker

We were fundamentally sound, we tackled better and we had some big plays.

Todd France

I was trying to tackle Dante Hall, and that wasn't going to happen.

Michelle Monaghan

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.

Ryan Clark

I look at him like, hmmm, I just tackled him.

Ciara

I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

Cassie Scerbo

I'm a tomboy at heart, and I've got the battle wounds to prove it!