Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Mosley

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

Emile Galle

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.

E. B. White

We're adapting a lot of material, but we're also doing a lot of very specific material to the various cultures we're targeting.

Brad Boyes

So far I'm adapting pretty well. The biggest thing is that the guys on the team make it a lot easier, especially the older guys.

Frank Williams

So after 27 years of Williams adapting to change and competitive challenges, I am actually very optimistic about next year.

Steve Peterson

That seems to be where they did a pretty good job of adapting the highway technology and producing a barrier that has potential to be better than we have currently.

Hugh Johnson

That's a growth stock that is trading at an unusually high price-earnings ratio compared to growth, ... It's being priced as a rather racy e-commerce company. They've done a really good job (of adapting to the Internet) -- that company thinks great, they have a great culture.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

In Latin America, the pace is slower, it is more technical. In Europe, it is faster, but I haven't had any problems adapting to it.

Desperate times breed desperate measures

Nate Corddry

Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

Bob Geldof

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

Steve Coppell

We were desperate for a left side, and the videos landed in our lap.

Alberta Stima

We're getting desperate for help because some of our substitutes are not always available.

Kevin Lygo

We're fortunate in having Lost, Desperate Housewives and My Name Is Earl but it is fiercely more competitive out there than ever before. This May you'll see a feeding frenzy.

Jonathan Sacks

(Yahoo) is now so desperate over the fact that they are losing several experienced software engineers with years of experience in the mobile industry, that they are now taking the exact opposite legal position.

Kathleen Blanco

When folks who are desperate are trying to get home, it just makes it more difficult for us to get to folks whose lives are in danger.

Joe Volpe

We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration,

Helen Sharman

On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.

Von Hatley

What made the difference? I think at the end of the day it was the personal and professional relationships we developed with this company.

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

Gunter Thielen

We are prepared for an IPO. Bertelsmann has developed strongly in the last years and increased its profits considerably.

Gene Meyers

We're sticking with technology that has been developed and used.

Aleksey Igudesman

We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.

We developed it to give 20 times faster throughout on IDS/IPS and AV.

Patric Verrone

We developed a new piece of stationary that never existed before.

Nancy Parrott

The popularity has really developed on word of mouth, and it lives up to it. It also has that universal appeal.

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Jacques Santer

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Howie Nielsen

We're sleeping in a hammock with tubes of mosquito netting. It's too hot, too wet and too full of crawly things to sleep on the ground.

Justin Wilson

When we are in full production, the trucks are rolling in and out of the plant all of the time. That's not happening now. They don't have enough people for full production.

Brett Graham

We would rather lose tonight than next week. I think we learned that we have to play the full 32 minutes. We can't just play 16.

I'm a huge video gamer, sometimes a little too much. I'll shut myself in my room just so I can play video games all day and I end up neglecting my friends.

The outcome of the game is something that, as a starting pitcher, is very hard to control. Just worry about making pitches. And leave it at that.

Sherry Jeffe

The permutations and combinations are endless. It's like a game of three-dimensional chess.

Roderick Wilmont

We are pretty much in a situation where we need every game now. We need to play as hard as we can to get a victory.

Bob Donovan

We are preparing for every game to play our game. We have to be skating for three periods to be successful and when don't skate we are not a good team.

Pam Crawford

We are pleased where we are right now, but we still have to come and out and play our game the rest of the way.

Roy McFarland

We are pleased to welcome Jamie for whatever period we are able to have him and he will be involved in the squad for this weekend's game at Doncaster.

Stanley Cohen

We've all been trying to come up with our own type of game plan until there's better evidence-based medicine to guide us,

Mark Krause

We started to get to him late in the game but we couldn't push runs across.

Aaron Tveit

I can clap with one hand.

Brandon Lincoln

We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.

Alan K. Simpson

It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens.

Alan Keyes

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.

Charlotte Bronte

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

Charlotte Bronte

... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

Charlotte Bronte

I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.' 'Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.' 'Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.' 'Just let me look at the cash.' 'No, sir; you are not to be trusted.

Charles de Lint

I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.

Charles Dickens

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Sean Smith

We started picking up the pace and that's the type of team we are.

Christopher Hill

We are going to have to pick up the pace if we are going to get there,

James Young

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Arthur Golden

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

James Devlin

We have to play our pace and not the other team's.

Miguel Jimenez

Yesterday I struggled with the pace and today was a little better on the pace. I just tried to make a solid putt there.

Jerry Hollendorfer

We don't think there was enough pace to set the race up for us.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

We are at the brink. Time is short.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

What is past is prologue.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Demi Lovato

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

Daniel Handler

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Bobby Frasor

Just watching him out there tonight was something special.

Buck Showalter

Kam made a lot of friends tonight with his teammates, getting them on and off the field. That's always good, especially after a late-night arrival.

Mike Davis

I didn't want us to take any 3s tonight because of their size.