Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Lamb

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Barry Goldwater

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

David Dinkins

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Benjamin Disraeli

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Claude Bernard

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Claude Bernard

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Ernest Hemingway

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

Dmitry Oleynikov

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Jim Caviezel

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Bob Walsh

I thought they turned up the pressure defensively in the second half, and we were too passive with the ball. But that's what you get when you are as young as we are.

Brian Posehn

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

Brad Adgate

Television viewing has been, for the most part, a passive activity.

Sean Darks

It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever. It's the same thing as a keycard.

Sarah Vaughan

It puts us in a passive place sometimes, but it can also put (women) in a powerful place.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

John Pilger

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

Jon Daniels

We have no active trade discussions going. Danny didn't play last year; we need to see what kind of shape he is in. There's nothing wrong with competition.

Brad Kullman

We have no active talks going on involving Austin Kearns, and we have no plans to trade him.

Rob Butcher

We have no active talks between the Reds and the Indians involving Austin Kearns. Our baseball people met for the last few days and decided that unless we are overwhelmed with an offer, we want to see Kearns play here.

Peter Dawson

We have nine venues that are active for us and the way it seems to work is that the Open comes to St Andrews about every five years and to each of the others about every 10.

Kekoa Paulsen

We have some active reservoirs, so we keep a close eye.

Matt Kiefer

Whenever you have the type of shooters (Ohio State has) and the inside play in (Terence) Dials, its tough to defend them. They do a lot of good things as far as being active and getting their hands on loose balls on rebounds and things of that sort.

Terry Christensen

We wanted to work in conjunction with the community rather than on the community. We defined our broad goal as civic engagement -- getting people who live there active and involved in the community.

Trevor Rabin

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.

John Richard

We were a rag-tag bunch. The 7th Battalion was short on men and had called in all the reserves they could. I hadn't been on active duty since the end of WWII. I left Salem by train on a Friday night and the next Friday, I was headed for Korea.