Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.

Miriam Nelson

Our research shows that a program of strength training not only improves bone density but reduces falls, improves arthritis symptoms, and increases flexibility and strength.

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Henry Rollins

Our record is all finished, ... It's mastered, and now I have to come up with artwork and a kiss-ass video for MTV. They never play our stuff anyway, so it's just a gesture. We'll pantomime through some ridiculous situation on film and the record will come out at the end of the year. It's going to be a release that no one will hear.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Stephen Phillips

Part of the problem with the previous art festivals was the weather,

Bob Taft

Passion Works is a studio where persons with mental retardation or other disabilities can create beautiful works of art and products and provide those to the community,

Kent Thompson

part vision, part coaching, part recruitment and fundraising and part conversation and collaboration. My job is to articulate the vision of the theater and to make it happen, and I know the only way I can do that is to have a lot of people joining into that vision. I view it as a serve-and-lead kind of job. The hard part is figuring out when you need to do which.

Herbie Hancock

Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing.

Patricia Sun

Patriotism is a beautiful thing - to love your country, your land, and your people and have a deep emotional affinity. But it can be so easily corrupted to polarized thinking, to harming others and ourselves if we don't realize what it is that is beautiful. It is beautiful because it is love.

Peter Malkin

Particularly, I enjoy strolling in the streets, watching passersby, gazing at the beautiful variety of the dresses and perceiving their joy; their sadness. At home, during the small hours of the night, I'll paint from memory what I have seen in the streets until I am under the impression of being with them again.

Alice Hogan

Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place.

Mark Twain

Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.

Tom DeLay

Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation. But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It's a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what's happening.

Jim Murren

Our core competence is making beautiful and creative space that makes people feel special. So they took that care and put it in a medical setting. Everybody was motivated by a personal experience. We tried our best to put ourselves in the shoes of the patients and families and how they might feel.

Jim Willis

Robbie is probably the fastest kid on the team, and has a beautiful touch. He has played everywhere off the bench for us, and has fit in wherever he has played.

Ronnie Cates

Right there on the lake with the sun going down, (the amphitheater) is a beautiful structure. It's just a great way to enjoy an evening.

Lydia Lunch

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

Stephen Collins

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

Russ Diamond

Part of the beauty of freedom is that freedom is chaotic.

Kat Imhoff

People in Virginia and elsewhere come because they want to see the beauty of the house, or they're interested in architecture. But we have other people come because they're interested in how to compose a declaration of independence, or how to set up a government.

Zwelinzima Vavi

States are now being forced to join an international beauty contest to compete for foreign investment.

Tim Nelson

Our state's beauty and talent pool won't be enough in the future, ... Utah will be left behind unless we unite in a call of support.

Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Sara Tervo

Our Victoria's Secret retail stores sell lingerie and beauty products only.

Rich Brion

Outside of the Olympics, swimming seems to disappear from public view and there's a drop-off in participation. Young kids are drawn to what will get their name in the paper. But those who stay realize the beauty of the sport.

George Bennett

Succinate is a high-priority chemical that the U.S. Department of Energy has targeted for biosynthesis.

David Sherman

Some of these children have eaten batteries, clothes, blankets, mattresses, wood, carpets, chemicals and anything they could obtain, which is why the kitchen cupboards are locked,

Charles Davis

I think (this crime) was a direct result of his chemical dependency.

Ato Essandoh

I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.

David Gregory

I think she is doing a fantastic job at trying to drag the chemical industry into the 21st century, yet retaining a pragmatism which her role demands.

Greg Shaw

If in fact today in Washington, D.C., someone hopped on the radio and said there's been a chemical release, someone will tell you to stay, others will tell you to leave. Who are you going to believe?

Jane Lauder

From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.

David Rosenberg

Katrina's effects are being felt nationally-on the nation's transportation arteries, supply chains, chemical plants, airlines, leisure/hotels, gasoline prices everywhere and retailing. The commercial impact is widespread.

Andy Watson

It could be a chemical spill, a train derailment,

Charlie Crisafulli

Spirit Lake is a complex world, like an underwater forest, ... It teems with life. It's fascinating. It's very complex.

Sue Hutchinson

Our task might be as simple as publishing a set of guidelines about using an existing air-interface protocol, or as complex as creating a new air-interface protocol. We're not going to know until technology demonstrations are done.

Bud Tribble

Our target is to do it promptly. How quickly that can be done depends on a lot of variables, in terms of how much information we get and how complex the things are to address.

Phil Klay

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.

Nico Rosberg

I was about 10 years old when I first understood how complex and difficult the whole father-son thing is for us.

Rohan Walsh

It is a very complex situation and it's really to do with industry structure, and he's within his right to test that. He's taking on a fairly big target in terms of the ACCC.

Dr. Bartzokis

It is a very complex problem. For kids with mild ADHD that are sent to school, it may be quite traumatic to try to function in the increasingly structured environment as they move up in grades. It is difficult to find optimal solutions, and the highest levels of expertise and resources are needed.

Shannon Cross

Kodak remains a very complex restructuring story and it is difficult for investors to track the operational performance of the company.

Steve Roddy

Larger and more complex processors are just inefficient.

Djibril Cisse

Our relationship is a professional one. We have no problems. If he works hard for the team he can play more games, but it depends also on his team mates.

Marek Belka

Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.

Steve Hunter

Some fungicides don't hurt the bees. It just depends what kind the farmer uses.

Glenn Tasker

Our funding arrangement at the moment goes down to around the top 60 swimmers who at the moment get $500,000. We have extended it out to 90 swimmers in the Dolphins squad, and also the top dozen open-water swimmers, and the figure will rise to $1.1 million in the first year, and then increase in the years following. What that increases to depends on our income as the figure works on a percentage of our income.

Frank Hayes

Planning teams need to establish the priorities of the project. It depends on how well a school's internal groups are set up.

Arthur Lewis

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

Achim Steiner

We now know that 15 of the world's 17 largest fisheries -- where the world depends on its fish -- are either at full exploitation level or in fact, declining.

Greg Gilchrist

I think there's all kinds of possibilities. It probably depends on how some of the other races play out. Two or three spots he could land in, and it's possible he could wind up with nothing. If we win, we'll put it on everybody else. I don't have a vote; I've got enough on my hands.

Greg Gilchrist

I think there's all kinds of possibilities, ... It depends on the way some of the races turn out.

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

John Lackey

Our mitigation strategy was the realignment of the road. We need to back up and start all over with a new strategy. Otherwise, I don't feel any level of comfort.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Mike Brady

(Our girls) weren't going to settle for a tie and they picked up the level of play as they will have to do in our conference.

Jerry Cohen

Over 45 percent of Oregonians will qualify for some level of subsidy,

Kate Taylor

On the surface level they've got rid of a lot of the street element, but there's still the same old people in charge.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Harry Smith

Really, what it comes down to is: What's your level of paranoia?

Javad Vaeidi

We need some time to reach that level with all centrifuges because of the two-and-a-half-year suspension. However, the preliminary phases have been launched.

Dan Aykroyd

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.

Arthur Holly Compton

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.

Padraic Fallon

Ultimately we can find out what molecules in the worm induce this protective response. Ideally, we will use those therapeutically,

Dorothy Hodgkin

Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?

Dorothy Hodgkin

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

Francis Crick

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Darwinan evolution is limited to the biological aspect but before that happened the molecules themselves had to evolve to enable this further (biological) evolution.

George Wald

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

Linus Pauling

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

Rousas John Rushdoony

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Barry Lopez

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Berthe Morisot

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Ed Wade

I think public perception is a big part when you talk about selling,

Tim Allen

It bolsters the perception that this administration relies too much on spin.

Charles Olson

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

Deepak Chopra

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Brian Greene

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Eddie Trunk

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Anthony D'Angelo

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.

Martin Parr

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Andy Fisher

Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.