Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Seymour

Recreational opportunities are our biggest draw. We have river activities and an aquatic park. The birding trails are in the same category, ... We need to use our natural resources. We need to play the cards we have.

Steve Thompson

Recreational fishing is a long-standing, valid activity in the park, and we recognize that. But the park has a dual mission, to protect resources and provide for their enjoyment. If you don't protect the resources, it'll prevent the enjoyment.

Caroline Fredrickson

Regardless of what happens with this agreement, Congress can, and must fix the Patriot Act to better protect the privacy and freedom of ordinary Americans. At the same time, until the Bush administration stops the illegal NSA program to spy on Americans and stops ignoring the rule of law, any reforms to the Patriot Act could be ignored under the extreme philosophy of power embraced by this president. No matter the result of the Patriot Act, we hope all senators involved in these negotiations will resist pressure from the administration. Congress must restore the rule of law and insist that innocent Americans' rights be protected against the overreaching of the White House. We can, and must, be both safe and free.

Steve Pearce

Regardless of the true source of these incursions, the Mexican government must not evade its responsibility to help us stop illegal activity on the border. I hope that this letter will lead to a more productive partnership toward that goal.

Jason Schenker

Regardless of how large the draws are expected to be, especially in gasoline, seeing the actual numbers will be a shock.

Wayne Harris

Regardless how little it grows, state government does act as a stabilizer. Tallahassee will be less affected than other markets.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Reflex inhibition acting against a reflex titanic contraction may diminish the contraction in one or other or all of several different ways.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Antoine Halff

Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and deferred maintenance. There was a huge surge in imports after last year's storms but that has ended. At the same time refinery activity has not recovered.

Barry Gibb

Success like we have now was just a very distant dream in 1971.

Gregory Benford

'Star Trek''s insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places.

Hilary Clinton

place him on the distant shores of American jurisprudence.

John Fitzgerald

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Tim Bell

I have been growing daylilies since 1982. I received my first plants from a distant relative, and the following spring, I was hooked,

Eric Mason

had a distant and past friendship, but that was more than a year ago.

David Newman

I encountered a lot of people who were very distant and uncommunicative and misleading and self-contradictory. On the other hand, I did find doctors who were extraordinary and remarkable.

Craig Curry

If that national championship happens, I'm pretty positive that I'll just be a distant memory. God knows I pray for it all the time.

Emily Stoecker

Mr. Cullen, you look distant and aloof. But I know my words are entering you're disturbed mind.

Bethenny Frankel

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

David Wright

I won't say it's World Series or bust. We haven't been to the playoffs since 2000. We have to take those small steps before we take that giant leap.

David Arquette

I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky.

Barry Bonds

I feel great. I'm just doing what the Giants tell me right now. I don't want to make any predictions about the future, but I feel like I'm getting closer. The swelling is pretty stable.

Wellington Mara

Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table.

H. Hunt

Giant slalom is one of our strongest disciplines on the men's side and we had expectations to be on the podium today.

Honore de

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Jane Curtin

He's happy with the form. He's sort of the 'big giant narcissist,' and he's also a big giant drunk.

Joe Clark

He was a giant of a man, had an extraordinary impact on the country.

Irwin Cotler

Judges look at the gravity of the offence and the responsibility of the offender in determining sentences,

Lee Smolin

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.

Albert Einstein

Gravity is a response to geometry.

Benny Johnson

Well, when do we talk about it? They don't seem to understand the gravity of this.

Robin Bell

Over the lakes, the pull of gravity is much weaker, so we know there must be a big hole down there.

Arthur C. Clarke

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Douglas William Jerrold

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Lawrence Krauss

In science there often aren't two sides. You know, gravity works.

Mickey Levy

Regardless of who is president, it looks like they will not have a mandate.

David Buckner

Some of New Orleans looks beautiful--and the other half--there's a lot of work ahead. If theres a time estimate, I'd say probably about 2 to 5 years before everything is back to normal,

E. Hicks

Overall it was a pretty bearish report. It looks like the refineries are starting to come back.

E. Hicks

Overall it was a pretty bearish report, ... It looks like the refineries are starting to come back.

Danny Sullivan

Overall it looks interesting but I don't know if they have anything that the other people couldn't match if they are lacking,

Michael Wuertz

Right now, the catcher's glove looks about as small as it's going to get. I don't think it can get any smaller.

Jack Lengyel

Red, he looks just like you. He stands like you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I couldn't look at you and breath at the same time.

Barry Manilow

I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.

Ken Hitchcock

Patrick is a natural center, not a wing, and we have too many centers. That's all this is about. We had too many centers.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed, ... It will just naturally be replaced by something else.

Bebe Neuwirth

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

David Attenborough

I think there will be radical changes. But I don't actually think that within the next 100 years the natural world will be reduced to rats and cockroaches, nor do I think that the plant world will be reduced to some kind of desert.

Miguel

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Jeff Sessions

has the very natural qualities to make a superior judge.

Sathya Baba

Start the Day with Love;Spend the Day with Love;Fill the Day with Love;End the Day with Love;This is the way to God.

Steve Wilson

Some of the things offensively are starting to come together,

Jermaine Wiggins

Man, that ain't even a thought for me, ... I can't get into that world. I've been around too long to start something like that up.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

David Willetts

Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

Alan Watts

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Alan Watts

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

J. D. Salinger

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

Garik Israelian

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

John Wagner

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

Joseph Campbell

It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.