Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Kunal Kapoor

PBHG is a momentum shop. Here (at Merrill) he's got the chance to build his own team. It sounds good, but it's a bit of a challenge. You have to adapt to a new culture.

Kunal Kapoor

PBHG is a momentum shop, ... Here (at Merrill) he's got the chance to build his own team. It sounds good, but it's a bit of a challenge. You have to adapt to a new culture.

Bill Shepherd

Survival training is one of the biggest ways that we did that. I think four years of that before we flew made us really ready for life on station and we adapted well.

David Bradley

Sure they've had to adapt to playing outdoors. It's been tough on them. But we've got players who are really doing what it takes and the main thing is, they're having fun.

Henry Spencer

Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020.

Frank Hadden

Steve and I have discussed a formula so that the 'A' team will adapt the same shape of game as the Scotland side so, if someone is required to fly from Canada to South Africa, then they will be up to speed with what's going on.

Stan Gregory

Steelhead and other native fish have had thousands of years to adapt to flooding. Not only can they survive, floods usually improve the habitat by scouring out river bottoms, creating new pools and cleaning out the silt.

Hu Jintao

Our goal is to keep the exchange rate basically stable at adaptive and equilibrium levels.

Hugh Panero

Our next goal is to be number one in Canada ... and we can't think of a better content provider to join us than the NHL,

Stephen Harper

Our mission is clear. We will restore faith and trust in our public institutions as we keep Canada strong and united.

Bruce Rosard

Some of the other, smaller resorts in Canada are definitely a great deal.

Reid Farrill

Some in the market felt that Canada had declined enough versus the U.S. and it was time to take some profits. The Canadian dollar is starting to look cheap.

John Furlong

Our vision has been for a long time that we are Canada's Games. We want to include every Canadian in these Games, so that when the world comes to Canada in 2010 that it is a source of great pride for everyone.

Ralph Klein

Others have said we're on the slippery slope, on the verge of violating the Canada Health Act, ... I don't know if we are or not.

Michael Coleman

We need a partnership with the Government of Canada and we need long-term planning. The proposed sector tables are a practical, realistic mechanism for making this happen.

Lascelles Brown

I want to thank Canada for embracing me and making me a Canadian citizen. I want to thank Pierre for all his skill in driving.

Victoria Khan

I will go back to Pakistan if I have to, or go to Canada. If we can't be together in the United States, we will go to another country.

Brian Kennedy

Sure, it was discussed in meetings. But it was never really taken seriously.

Jim Burns

Some of the numbers being discussed don?t sound sufficient. The Senate is talking in the neighborhood of $100 million for all of the states. That gets divided up really fast.

Bob Pratt

Last Thursday when we received notification, I sat down with my wife and discussed what it meant - whether it was feasible, then whether it was prudent, ... My family was completely supportive.

Yuri Thamrin

It is not a permanent recall, but it is important because there are issues that need to be discussed over this incident.

Michael Winter

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.

Joe Wurzelbacher

I was glad that I could be used as a focal point to possibly bandy around some ideas, and maybe people would open their eyes to Obama's socialist ideology. However, there were so many important issues to be discussed other than the 'Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber.'

Martha Stewart

I thought I was replacing The Donald. It was even discussed that I would be firing The Donald on the first show.

Keith Self

I don't have the foggiest idea what Rick is referring to. There was one incident with an overzealous supporter that I discussed with Rick.

Rick Ott

I discussed the possibility. It is always a tool in the tool box.

Scott Ostler

Play it straight, come out with the simple truth: He was abducted by space aliens, taken aboard their flying saucer and subjected to various probes.

Kyle Williams

We need something normal. Helicopters flying over the stadium is not normal.

Samantha Perez

I was able to fly in a plane for the first time and see a snow flurry.

Robbie Grinestaff

I was just trying to hit it hard somewhere. I know they wanted a fly ball, but once I got two strikes on me I just wanted to put it in play.

Ken Hamlin

I was just pumped up. Guys were making plays. You could tell guys were flying around and really trying to get it done.

Scott Brison

I think there's too much testosterone flying around that caucus,

Kenji Johjima

That was the one situation we didn't want to see. I went to the mound because Jarrod was flying open and his pitches were sailing.

Wayne Gandy

Like I tell everybody, ... if you have to get on a plane and fly anywhere, you're not at home.

David Howell

It doesn't worry me that I fly under the radar over here,

Michael Vaughan

Spin's going to play a big part, but we've come up with a formula to tackle India's slow wickets.

Bruce Condon

Our formula is simple. We don't have additives.

Paul Stoddart

That was the happiest day of my life, not just in Formula One. Full stop. Proudest day of my life,

Danica Patrick

I think it's very flattering. I feel very lucky to have people talking about Formula One and to potentially have that as an opportunity.

Nick Heidfeld

I won't be able to start the next Formula One race.

Ron Rubin

It doesn't do any good to formulate rules if nobody can live with them. If we had our druthers, we'd like the old rules that we didn't have to watch at all.

Todd Hollandsworth

I don't have a formula for it. You just prepare every day and try to be ready. We had lost three in a row, and I wanted to help out. I'm just glad the day went well for us.

Ben Braun

I feel good about our chances. I also feel good that in our league, 17 wins has been a formula (for the NCAA tournament).

Janne Darata

I was devastated. I had time to formulate a plan on how to make something positive out of this tragedy.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Steve Yzerman

Regardless of how the game is played, there will be low-scoring games, and good teams have to win 1-0 or 2-1 (in the playoffs).

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Mike Rucker

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

Rick Stansbury

Reggie needs to not always look for the 3-pointer. He's got to play off that dribble, take it to the hole, which he's done more lately. A mid-range game opens up the 3-point shot. It makes him a more versatile player. And he needs to be a screener, because screeners get open. But it's getting better.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Asia Argento

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Beck

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Bruce Douglas

We are required to do it. We have to do it.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

William Amelio

In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency.

Winston Churchill

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required

Alan Cumming

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

David Bowie

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

Alex Ferguson

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

Alex Salmond

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Annie Lennox

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

Douglas Alexander

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Ciaran Hinds

I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the 70s and 80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been.

Anne Boyd

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Ambrose Bierce

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

Charles James

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

Marilyn Monroe

The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).

Ben Kingsley

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

Alexis Arguello

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

Thongchai Jaidee

Let's see how things take shape but I will try to do my best.

Whitey Ford

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.

Mike Hall

We've too many sides so have to go to three and make the other a development team.

Bill Shankly

The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)

Bill Delahunt

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

Bill Vaughan

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Bill Bruford

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

Lindsay Davenport

I think it took away a lot of it, especially on the women's side . . . on the men's side, you have some upsets once in a while.

Thomas Schelling

I think I know whose side I'm on, and I'm sorry for him.

Lindsay Davenport

I struggled a lot on one side of the court,

Edmund Hillary

I am hell-bent for the South Pole-God willing and crevasses permitting.

Dominique McElligott

I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.

Jose Ibarra

I think it's great. We need something on the south side.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Audra McDonald

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Timothy Tyson

Nonviolent, yes. Passive, no. He was nonviolent, but he marched through the South like Sherman through Georgia.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Pat Listach

He just did what he does. He mixes his speeds up.

John Donnelly

He's a different kind of guy. He's a slasher. (Dave) was more of a speed guy. But we'll take another Fischer.

Rich Miano

He's got to be one of the strongest safeties in the nation. He's got the strength and the speed and the quickness.

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach,

Brad Dancer

He doesn't talk about it. He's a tough guy. You can see it in his speed and some of his movement.

Carol Alt

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Owen Schmitt

We have just as much speed as they do.

Allen Iverson

Steve set the tone for them and everyone else just followed.

Matt Birk

Steve Hutchinson, in my opinion, is worth that money.

Rafael Benitez

It is only a possibility that Steven can play.

Digger Phelps

If this happens, this is time for Steve to make that move.

Tom Muller

One job, one wife, one house. That's Steve Flores.

Xavier Niel

I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

David Steinberg

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

Bus Cook

We have to get some things resolved. I'm sure the Titans want to keep Steve, and I'm sure they will. Steve wants to stay, and we want to keep him in Tennessee.

Eugene Christiansen

Horseracing is still waiting for its Steve Lipscomb,

Luke Zeller

Rebounding has been one of the big things we have worked on all season. It has been a total team effort.

Mark Ellis

Sure, we had a lot of injuries. But a lot of teams have injuries. We can't use it as an excuse.

James Allen

Some of the teams have been pretty tough.

Ray Collins

Our team is one of the most competitive teams in the nation.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Jon Heacock

I think this team as a whole, have an understanding. They have had to play in this conference, and they know what's happening.

Bill Simmons

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

Bill Shankly

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

Bill Shankly

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.