Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wiater

When they get moving on the construction, there will be 75-80 construction workers, and when the plant is all geared up, the workforce will (more than) double. All hiring is done under the West Virginia Jobs Act, which means 75 percent of them have to be local workers.

Steve Chavis

We're pretty geared up for the conference. We try to produce the state-of-the-art men's ministry weekend.

Kerri Strug

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

Tom Massey

NonStop is big iron and more geared to larger operators. Linux and Unix platforms scale down much better, and operators often prefer them because they are not knowledgeable about NonStop.

Mike Machowsky

She always had talent, but mentally ... she would get geared up and wound up.

Vonda Shepard

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

Jennifer Long

I thought they did a nice job on defense. We struggled to get our offense going. The girls were really geared up for this game. I have a lot of respect for Sofia and her capabilities. She involves her teammates, and that's very commendable.

Carole Winkleblack

We have materials in a number of languages. But most of those language materials are really geared toward learning another language.

Jerry Stackhouse

We would like to think that everything we're doing now is geared toward the playoffs. We know we're better than how we've been playing lately. It's been good to talk about the race with San Antonio, but we have to worry about getting back on track.

Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods.

David Aaron

It is a question of putting into the text the language of our accord.

Wanda Peterson

Last summer I took a sign language class. There was a project where I was in a group. I was treated just like the other students (in the group).

Bertrand Russell

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Joe Torre

I think that's personality more than anything. (Hideki) Matsui is so different and he's got the language barrier, too.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Bill Cosby

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

Carl Sagan

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

Bertrand Russell

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Bertrand Russell

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.

Reggie Evans

That was all (garbage) because all them young guys, they play (center). I play (power forward). Do the math on that. That was just more (garbage).

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Scott Strasemeier

I think people would feel differently if he didn't feel like he made a mistake. He apologized right away. He offered his resignation.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Dennis Lillee

Just the other day he told me Dougie Walters had phoned. I thought, 'that's good' and he said, 'yeah, he offered me his liver. I said no thanks, I'll take my chances.

William Brownfield

For more than 20 years, the United States has offered replacement parts for the F-16 planes,

Wayne Wilson

He was offered scholarships by Colgate and Niagara, but he wants to be an engineer, so he picked us.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Tracy Austin

I think there are more questions in the first week than we've seen in a long time.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Mark Norell

There are still a lot of big questions about what they would have eaten.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Sonny Jackson

He was in there long enough to raise questions.

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

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

Jim Haslett

I don't know that his teammates would actually want him back for what he did.

Mike Eaves

He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.

Curt Shaw

When Jared got hot, his teammates got him the ball.

Jerome Bettis

My teammates put me on their back and wouldn't let me down.

David Castillo

We want to let him know we're here for him as teammates and family.

Amanda Padilla

I just have to know I can make the shots. My teammates were there to get me the ball.

Vince Young

I'm not too much getting into the Heisman right now. It's all about my teammates right now. Whatever they want to say, let them talk, man.

Jevon Kearse

It's not me at all, ... But we're winning and my teammates are getting sacks. That's really all I can say.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Bill Guerin

(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it.

William Massey

We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.