Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rich Sommer

Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of moments where you get to interact on a completely different level. You all agree to these abstract rules, but there's nobody holding a gun to your head.

Richard Shelton

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Samuel Coleridge

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.

Chris Peterson

Restoring the canyon is no longer an abstract notion now that people can actually experience its beauty.

C. S. Lewis

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm the computational method for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm -- the computational method -- for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Steve Morgan

I thought it was upturned tables. But when I got closer I realized it was definitely art because it's bolted to the ground. And on further inspection it looks like somebody's car, an abstract version of somebody's car.

Grant Smith

If I painted him I would probably just paint like his eye -- completely just beet red because it had some many drugs in it or something. Or maybe just a zoom in on a forearm or something ... just where it looks like an abstract painting but it's just veins.

Dan DeCarlo

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

Ted Rall

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

Jhonen Vasquez

Johnny was the very first book I did.

Mike Peters

I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.

Mike Peters

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

Dan DeCarlo

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

Lynda Barry

If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say 'No! I don't want it right now,' that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

Alison Bechdel

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

Mike Peters

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean de la Bruyere

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Ernest Renan

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

Paul Ricoeur

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

Charles de Montesquieu

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Abu Bakar Bashir

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

Charles de Secondat

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Bill Harris

Our Quicken product had the most profitable season in its 15-year history,

John Shanahan

I think there's a lot of product swapping going on now.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Chris Bosh

That's what I'm trying to see, we're trying to wait for the smoke to clear, and see the product from all of this.

Henry Scott

I think this could be a $1 billion-a-year-drug and is the kind of product Pfizer needs.

Al Rauch

I think most of the biotech products are going to be safe for the rest of the decade.

Rebecca Lindland

It doesn't seem to me that now is the time to play around with product names.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Myles Munroe

Trust is a product of test over time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

Jim Tutwiler

I have a Rembrandt etching. I have a Renoir etching, and we've already sold two Renoir etchings at this show.

Terry Davis

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

Syed Ahmed

He not only sold us a building, he sold us the town.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Blaise Pascal

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

Benito Mussolini

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Calvin Coolidge

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

Carl von Clausewitz

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Cate Blanchett

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

Joey Lina

The expulsion, my friends, is utterly without any basis.