Famous Quotes & Sayings

How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak

Michael Anderson

It's interesting sculpturally. It has horns like a bull, a beak like a bird and nostrils like a rhinoceros. It's just wacky.

Chris Grinde

It was a nice win. As I told the kids it's not the biggest game of the year. It's too early to consider any game a make or beak game right now.

Caroll Spinney

Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.

Taylor Dent

After the first set he started making a lot of first serves and I didn't play solid enough from the back to have a chance to beak him. On top of that he was playing very well and hitting great passing shots and I wasn't able to overcome that.

Rick Riordan

Come on," I said. "I've got some questions for Thoth. And then I'm going to punch him in the beak.

Robert Belshe

Recently, some strains of bird flu viruses have infected people in Asia. There is concern these new strains could cause a pandemic, but they are not infecting people in the United States at this time. Rather than wait for that possibility to occur, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is testing avian influenza vaccines.

Mardan Mamat

Patience and putting, I think my putting is working very well today. To birdie the 3 par 3s out of 4 par 3s, I think it was a bonus for me. As you know, par 3 here is tough to play, especially with the wind.

Mike Cooke

Our main danger is either going to be birds brought in inadvertently on a plane or something like that or perhaps people even smuggling birds in.

Pernessa Seele

People have gone to sleep on HIV. We know more about mad cow disease in England or the bird flu.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown

Ken Torkelson

Some of the birds holding pretty close to their nests, so that's and indication they probably are.

Maggie Jones

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

Charlie Johnson

Our friend Robbie Taylor called the bird in for him on our farm, and he nailed it. Not bad.

Louis MacNeice

Our freedom as free lancesadvances toward its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon my friend We shall have no time for dances.

Joshua Foer

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.

Richard Matheson

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood.

Rosa DeLauro

Last week, the president suggested his tax cut will solve energy crisis. That is a bizarre and disconnected idea.

Ken Hitchcock

That was a hard, bizarre game. It was really hard and it was really, really bizarre.

Zara Phillips

It has always been a massive dream to win gold like this. It is so bizarre to think I have one more than my mother.

Garry Houston

I was thinking about leading when we were in the middle of the fairway, ... It was quite a dramatic finish, bizarre really. I suppose he finished with two pars.

Elizabeth Dunn

I was totally terrified and there was nothing I could do. It was my worst fear and it's so bizarre to have your worst fear suddenly come true.

Melissa Rivers

It feels bizarre to be completely done up and it's still sunny out.

Matt Damon

I think people call him crazy because he's really passionate and energetic and uncompromising, ... and those are qualities you don't really see a lot in Hollywood. It doesn't feel like this bizarre puzzle that only he has the keys to.

Mark Nardone

Sure it's frustrating. I'm not so sure that Big Red doesn't have something to do with that. It's not like we had all these breakdowns. I'd have to go back to the film to see exactly what we were doing. But sure it's frustrating.

Mickey Blatnik

Our pressure was effective, and that's exactly what we wanted to do. We wanted to make them play our game because we knew we couldn't let them settle into the half-court set.

James Mansinger

Our pitching was really good today. Zane has pitched well all season long, and It's always been there for Clayton. We've just been waiting for him to figure it out, and in his last two starts he's done exactly what he did today. Derek Ward also threw a strong inning for us, and Justin Wells did just what we needed him to do.

Kiki Vandeweghe

Overall, I think that the past incidents, sometimes it's not exactly what it's perceived to be.

Brian Smiley

Overall, there's nearly 2,000 inspection stations in the province of Manitoba, they know exactly what is loose and what isn't loose. They know the guidelines in the inspection handbook, so they follow it.

Shane Black

Robert would come in and read just for the fun of it, and I'd be like, 'Hey, that's exactly what I had in mind,'

Bruce Raynor

Roger is exactly right, and it's an issue worth fighting for.

Spike Jonze

I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.

Kevin Quinn

Mekenzie's running strong. I think Mekenzie's strength today was in the hills and knowing exactly where the hills were on the course.

Mark Turgeon

Paul is very intelligent. He's very skilled, has great hands and can do a turnaround jumper from 6 feet to 18 feet on the block.

David Patton

People need to have a respect just for the sheer mass of trains, ... Most trains are 6,000 feet long and 5,000 tons or more. When you think about it, that's a lot of weight to stop.

Mary Adams

Right now you want to get your feet wet and have a nice diversified portfolio of stocks that is going to be around for a while.

Jan King

We need about 5,000 square feet to keep this project going. We can get the furniture, and we can give it away. We just need a place to store it in the process.

Billy Corgan

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

David Hensley

Japan is back on its feet and growing again.

Bob Tomlinson

That was at least 40 or 50 feet over.

Michael White

I was ready. My feet were lined up, and that's a shot I've grown pretty comfortable with.

Martin Manley

I was in a parking lot, probably 75-80 feet away.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

David Allen

Our primary role is to identify intellectual property that is disclosed to us by (researchers), patent protect and commercialize it,

Tom Shaheen

Our staff has been working very late trying to identify any possible situation.

Patrick Thompson

Researchers identify turtles by the different patterns on the turtle's shell. It is like a fingerprint - different on every one.

Janet Reno

It is important that we identify who is responsible for them having guns, what the parents knew or should have known, and take appropriate steps, ... Meet the Press.

Uri Dan

I wore the tie to identify with the pain of the uprooted,

George Herbert Mead

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

Aaron Stern

Kids live vicariously through the lyrics. They identify with them, feel like these are their stories. They listen to what you have to say and know if you're lying.

Scott Eden

Basically, our mission is to identify the problem, do outreach, and collaborate with people on solutions, then do testing to see if it made a difference.

George Naccara

Because of this physical manifestation of stress and nervousness, we did identify them.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Aaron Nida

She's only about 41/2 inches from the automatic.

John Gresiak

We're going with about three to six inches for the area, maybe more on the lower end of that range.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Mark Ewens

We had 5.1 inches of snow here, with 0.53 inch of precipitation.

Harry Stockman

Traveling will be very slippery and treacherous. We could have 3 to 6 inches of snow by the end of Friday.

Hal Stratton

We have a guideline that requires this rung to be at least 9 1/2 inches wide,

Bill Renner

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

Eric Dubin

Regardless of what she did for a living, Bonny loved her kids and her kids loved her,

Tony Arntson

Really what we are focussed on is getting better each week. The kids keep competing.

Joan Chen

Relatively speaking, I was a lot more naive than kids today.

Craig Pippen

Our players have stayed positive even though we haven't come up with some wins. There's been some negativity surrounding our program, and the kids haven't listened to it.

Mark Douglass

Our rebounding killed us. In all of our losses rebounding has been an issue. We must become a better rebounding team. We need kids to step up.

Kendy Hinkel

Parents will see differences in the way kids are talking about what they learn.

Jim Wiscombe

Part of it was fatigue. We didn't sub a lot and kids got tired. We didn't make plays we normally make.

Billy Donovan

Part of it is youthfulness, but the one thing about the kids is that they're in every game.

Bob Williams

Part of this river is the Native Americans and the people we took it from. These kids never had that as part of their experience, so why not throw that in?

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.

Nina Daniels

People just have to have an open mind and a better understanding of the sport. People don't really understand it, and how it works.

Gitte Lindgaard

People make up their mind very, very quickly about how much they like what they see.

Jon Gruden

Some of those runs you will never forget. And you may never see them again. Those are the one where you say 'Oh, my God! Oh, my God!' They are runs etched in your mind forever.

Chris Martin

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing... and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Allan Ray

That comes with experience. We've been through this. We know we can come back if we put our mind to it.

B. R. Ambedkar

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence

B. R. Ambedkar

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

B. F. Skinner

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Paul Carvel

Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.

James Cornish

People look at it in a negative way. It shows things were worse than we thought they were.

Nick Kinsella

People who say 'I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist' are actually just negative people who think they are always right.

Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Ed White

I think the signs, so far, are not negative any longer.

Grace Fey

I think the worry is they are going to say something negative about the third quarter.

Jim Bryson

That story should be negative for the rand.

Hemant Shah

That's a very big negative overhang on the drug sector.

Patrick Newport

It isn't very much but it's the first negative in 10 years. That's the big difference.

Rob Leavitt

Our regional is not one of the strongest around, but it's always nice to win and get through that again.

George Clooney

O'Reilly actually said some nice things about the movie,

John Cusack

Partial Insomniac. Nice Person. Sometimes Brooding. ... Partially inspired. Nice Idea. Sometimes Boring.

Joel Cormier

Paul really played nice in net. He made some big saves.

Michael Haynes

Payne is an outstanding shot blocker, ... She has a nice touch around the basket.

Charles Anderson

Sure would be nice to have some school officials here.

Brian Lempola

Staples-Motley has a number of outstanding athletes. We also had a nice meet. I'm very pleased with our season so far.

Bradley Starks

Some of the drills were kind of crazy. They were new to me, but when I got used to them they were alright. The people down there were very nice and helpful.

Jacqueline Salame

Someone called from New Hampshire, and he wasn't nice in his rhetoric.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Cecelia Ahern

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Bernard Arnault

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

Shari Arison

People see things in the opposite way that I do. There are places that spirit, soul and emotion reach.

Emma Thompson

Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Charles Darwin

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Blake Mycoskie

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Jessica Simpson

... I can't say I won't ever want an Oscar role, but I don't really take myself serious right now.

John Bloom

I don't think it's transformed animation. The Oscar is the tail and the work is the body.

Greg Vanney

If we can win something at the end of the year that is something Oscar can take with him forever. That is ultimately the most important thing.

Brett Ratner

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Brett Ratner

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

Dick Van Dyke

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

Conan O'Brien

The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.

Oscar Campos

(We will do) whatever we have to do. One thing is what Oscar (Arias) thinks today and another thing is what he's going to have to think tomorrow.

Jan Yager

Part of a rut is a routine, and a routine is not a negative; it can be positive and be comforting.

Ryan Shupe

Our songs are a celebration of life, ... A lot of our songs are hopeful, overall. There are some sad songs, but you come away from them seeing the positive side. That's the spirit of the RubberBand.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Beck

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Stuart Hoffman

I think the report was quite strong and will ultimately be positive for stocks.

Bill Bradley

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Charles R. Swindoll

I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

Pat Riley

That was a positive note. You could tell he was comfortable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...

B. R. Ambedkar

Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

B. R. Ambedkar

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

C. S. Lewis

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

C. S. Lewis

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

C. S. Lewis

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

Catullus

Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.

Carl Sagan

Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.

Bill Vaughan

The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

Barry Lopez

The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.

B. F. Skinner

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.

Big Sean

Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

Antoni Tapies

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Bill Vaughan

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Bill Vaughan

In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

Bertrand Russell

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Mike Knesevitch

It allows you to take a view on probabilities.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.