Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Eric Sanders

Reese Morgan (a Hawkeye assistant coach) came and talked to me and Chris Aldrich and asked us to walk on there,

Ken Jefferson

Recognizing that, in light of this incident as well as some previous incidents with persons impersonating officers, we're subject to be asked for that and we have the patience that we need to calm that person down.

Nigel Hamilton

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.

Jacques Chirac

President Bush asked me if I was going to the session, and I said it was possible, and President Bush said 'I'd be happy to meet you on that occasion,' and I said 'naturally',

Lamar Alexander

President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.

Joe Thomas

Our question marks are the other three spots in the line. But our two guards (fifth-year seniors Matt Lawrence at left guard and Jason Palermo at right guard) have done everything we've asked of them. I feel very confident they'll be excellent at their positions.

John Wade

Or if one of them is asked to do eight double teams in a row, then he does it.

Roy Schmidt

Oregon was really the only high-major that stayed with him through thick and thin. I think it's a good choice for him. They will use all of his skills, and he won't be asked to do more than he is capable of.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Pat was a different person. She asked about the children in the hospital, the food, their medical care, education. I liked her very much. She was always what I expected a president's wife to be. She was really down to earth, good to everyone in the Embassy, all the staff.

Michael Vick

Regardless of whether or not it's a tough game, division games will be tough. We might as well get used to them.

Kelly Anthony

Paul and Cody are the only players from the Midwest going to Ohio State next year, so that's pretty great. Robby Dodd will be going to a great Division III program, but other than that we're a young group.

Ron Ryan

Our NHL security division has a meeting with every team every year, and they go over a lot of these issues like gambling and undesirable places and things like that. I'm not in it. So, I can't tell you exactly what they tell them.

Marcus Camby

Our goal is more than a division championship. Our goal is more than a division championship. But this is a nice steppingstone.

Thomas Milne

Our goal is to make it to the North Division finals.

Corey Chavous

Right now, nobody thinks we have character, so who cares? It's my responsibility and other guys' responsibility on the team to help guys understand where we're at right now. You're not in a division with an undefeated team. You're in a division where the leader is 2-3.

Phil Garner

Roger is fine. He's fine. He's ready and able to go. . . . You saw him in the last game in the Division Series and he had his spikes on somewhere in the fifth inning. And if it had taken 10 innings or 20, he would have pitched 10 or 20. That wouldn't surprise me at all.

Jerry Carrillo

I'm hoping to turn the television on next March and watch him play in the NCAA tournament. Unless something happens he'll be in a division one uniform playing somewhere next year.

B. R. Ambedkar

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

John Conte

Our system of justice is not and should not be a system of frontier justice,

David Hernandez

Frontier is trying to work with us and they have been very responsive to our situation.

Charles Kettering

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Albert Camus

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only frontier left is the world of intangibles. Everything else is sewn up too tight.

Bob Olson

The new frontier is back-office processing done offshore.

Jeff Hill

It's a new frontier for us, and it's good for us to know. Everything's connected. We need to protect what was given to us by our creator.

Paul Koretz

the last frontier of bigotry and discrimination, and it's time we put an end to it.

Dan Shechtman

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

Sean Georges

Our last three losses, if we would have executed, we would have won. There's nothing that they're doing wrong. It's just gonna take some time for this team to jell. I just hope we don't lose our playoff opportunity before we get it together.

Charlie Adams

People keep waiting for the big blow-up. That's not gonna happen.

Adam LaRoche

Statistically there was no way they could keep doing what they had been doing the first week and a half of the season. It was gonna turn. It was just a matter of time.

Ani Difranco

Maybe I'll live my whole life just getting by. Maybe I'll be discovered; maybe I'll be colonized. You could try to train me like a pet, you could try to teach me to behave, I'll tell you that I haven't learned it yet, I ain't gonna sit, I ain't gonna

Daniel Jones

I want you to know that once I get over this problem, I know it will never be the same. She can know that this is not something that's -- not something that's gonna happen again.

Phillip Hilliard

I was just looking for anything to get the run in. I was relaxed because it was tied. Even if I don't get a hit, it's not like I was gonna lose the game.

Brentson Buckner

That's the hog farmer, man, the hog farmer's gonna show up and play. For him to show the way he did - that's a blessing. I'm proud to say I'm his teammate.

Joe Paterno

I think we're gonna be ready to play.

Buck Owens

I was in a zombie -like mode and I went through the motions up until January 1, 1980. And I knew I couldn't go through that anymore, so I called the guys together. I told 'em, "I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.

Adriano Galliani

Real Madrid are interested in him but I don't know if there have been any contacts.

Phil Brown

Paulo would be one we are interested in but not at the moment.

R. Robinson

Our weakness is inexperience. We have no seniors and we've never been here before. I'll be interested to see how we come out and play.

Bill Shaw

We've told all judges we're not interested in their money, we don't want it. We want the poles removed.

Dan Hicks

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

Steve Ford

Jason is someone we like and someone we were interested in during the summer before he did his shoulder.

Bill Gleason

Little old ladies were terrified. At least those not interested in baseball.

Mayor Klanderud

I think one of the things we're interested in looking at is, we've talked about some of the contractors providing shuttle service for their workers.

Colin Wood

I thought he was very much interested in talking about his problems rather than the problems of the industry.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

Scott Turow

Just because it's a mystery, it doesn't have to be mindless.

Dave Taylor

He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.

Beth Schwier

I would say mystery is probably the favorite.

Nancy Karl

I think the mystery is the most interesting and tantalizing part about it,

Cam Gigandet

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Jane Leavy

The only mystery is why we find it surprising that someone opted out, ... It makes him different.

Walt Whitman

I and this mystery, here we stand.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Joe Torre

That was back when just getting to the World Series was enough.

Mike Fisher

I think it's tough (to take a 2-0 lead). The series is still tied and we know we can be much better.

Max Mosley

It is not too different from the Nissan World Series or the GP2 championship.

Max Mosley

It is not too different from the Nissan World Series and GP2 championship.

George Karl

I think he'll be able to play sometime in this series if we need him.

Thomas Perry

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Dylan Minnette

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.