Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Franti

Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica, the studio doors are wide open, and there's music blasting out in the street. You can see the reaction of people immediately.

Howard Gordon

Part of what gives the show its energy is we paint ourselves into corners and blast our way out.

Thomas Pickering

Someone either waved or threw hand grenades at (a guard). He refused to open the gate. When the hand grenades came, of course, he ran away to save himself. The blast went off, knocked him down, and he survived.

John Doe

Restraint can be tough. I've made a point to learn how to make a slow song have as much impact as a fast song. That's a challenge I've given myself, because it's easy to just get out there and blast through a bunch of things and feel as though you're exciting the audience. If you can do that with a slow song, then you really have some variety and some range.

Jimmie Johnson

I was little surprised that he just continually drove in and kept trying to blast me in the center. The time that he got by me, he really had my wheels off the ground and I couldn't get to the gas.

Brian Dunn

It is a pretty outrageous case. They gained entry by literally blasting down the outside doors with shotguns while people were sleeping.

Dan Harris

It is likely the force of the blast disabled both cameras. You cannot hear or see anything else on either tape.

Jimmie Johnson

I was fading so I don't really have any complaints with the way that he raced me. I passed him two or three times earlier in the day and found another line and worked my way around the outside of him. I was a little surprised that he continually drove it in and kept trying to blast me in the center. I think he probably hit me for four or five laps and the time that he got by me, he really had my wheels off the ground and I couldn't get in the gas and he got inside of me and from there drove on and drove away from me. This is short track racing.

Jason Schwartzman

I thought it would be good for me to do something bigger, more bombastic, more physical. I had a blast making the film.

Jimmy Rollins

Records are meant to be broken and it's good to have an opportunity to chase them. But I'm more focused on how we do as a team.

Dick Anderson

Records are made to be broken and one of these days someone will do it, ... I hope it never happens in my lifetime, but it is certainly possible.

Todd Coffin

Records are made to be broke and I think Jason can do it. With all due respect to Jamie, I think if Jason has a big day he should be able to get it done.

Dan Jones

Real Madrid's top spot represents a remarkable transformation in the club's revenue generating capacity. It has broken the mold.

Jay Buhner

Our record is pretty much toast, ... That's OK. Something tells me it will probably get broke again.

Brent Bower

Parker broke us down badly. We tried to contain (her) penetration, which got us out of position.

Stanley Hauerwas

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence.

Jenny Wieland

People know that they can call us no matter what. Whether you've been robbed or had your car broken into, people are victimized by that.

Richard Davies

Some of these post-bubble things make sense. The real question as a buyer is whether there is so much broken glass there it's not worth the effort.

Publius Tacitus

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns

Georg Trakl

Frost and smoke. A white shirt of stars burns your worn-out shoulders, and God's vultures tear at your metallic heart.

Elizabeth Lowery

GM is pursuing gasoline-savings solutions on many fronts on the way to our ultimate vision of hydrogen fuel cell-powered transportation. E85 ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline and is a renewable, domestic fuel that can enhance the nation's economy and energy security.

Jim Leljedal

If they'd reported these burns immediately, he would have been taken to a burn center and treated. It's a question for the medical examiner whether he could have been saved. We've certainly seen people survive burns before with proper treatment.

Granth Sahib

He may be called a chief, an emperor, a king, a governor or a lord; he may present himself as a leader or a chief, but this just burns him in the fire of egotistical pride.

Kevin Love

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.

Malcolm Midgley

One person sustained facial burns and 30 were displaced by the fire.

Steve Packer

She burns a cord and a half a year.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love, like a lamp, needs to be fed out of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Michael Osterholm

Recent clinical, epidemiological and laboratory evidence suggests that the impact of a pandemic caused by the current H5N1 strain would be similar to that of the 1918-19 pandemic,

Phil Dow

Rebuilding in the Gulf Coast will be a major focus following the destruction caused by hurricanes in the region. This is yet another demonstration of how resilient the economy has been since Sept. 11, 2001.

Pankaj Mishra

Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

Larry Craig

Our letter has caused movement, but I'm not sure where that movement will lead.

Doug McCrary

Our pressure got to them. Our press caused them some trouble." ()

Dean Rahas

Our pressure forced them to make some mistakes. We were able to jump to a 10-0 start with our pressure. We also caused them to take a lot of contested shots.

David Trimble

Our view is that the review should be tightly focused on something -- that is, focused on the key issues that have caused the difficulties, primarily on decommissioning and also on the question of devolution,

Alan Williamson

rise in inflationary pressures caused by higher energy prices.

George Miller

Republican leaders are shamelessly exploiting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the disruption it caused to our energy supplies to promote their long-sought radical energy policy ... (and) devastate vast amounts of America's most prized environmental possessions,

Eric Taylor

Previously we've had just the two cells down there and for a population of this size those two cells are going to be inadequate.

Roe Hye

Stem cells with DNA matching with patient tissues regarding the 2005 paper were not found. And it is the panel's judgment that Professor Hwang 's team does not have the scientific data to prove that they (patient-specific stem cells) were made.

Tobias Brambrink

Stem cells hold great promise for human therapy. In an optimal world, we would make stem cells genetically matched to a patient.

Hwang Suk

Our research team made patient-specific embryonic stem cells and we have the technology to produce them.

Carl Sagan

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

Bill Bryson

Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.

Don Anderson

It happens every year about this time. I'm sure the cells are there now.

Thomas R. Insel

Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain function. Glial cells in the human brain are markedly different from glial cells in other brains, suggesting that they may be important in the evolution of brain function.

Evan Thomas

I think in our lifetime there is a probability that one of these weapons is going to go off in New York or Washington or some big city like that. The CIA needs to be doing everything it possibly can to penetrate terrorist cells and outlaw states.

Peter Post

We can have discussion without letting it degenerate into personal attacks,

Craig Venter

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

Joseph Druce

It wasn't about planning. I had to stop him and that was that. He was a sick, degenerate pedophile that victimized hundreds of kids.

Henry David Thoreau

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

Francis Atterbury

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Horace Walpole

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

Hunter S. Thompson

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

Neil Young

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Peter Drucker

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Margaret Ng

Our system works only if the public can have implicit faith in her. What she has done has destroyed that faith.

Karl Turner

I will never get over this. This has just about destroyed me.

Johnny Vegas

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.

Darlene McIntosh

He didn't hit her, but he destroyed everything she had. I don't know if she even realized it was abuse, because it wasn't physical. It was mental. People don't think of that as being abused.

Douglas Coupland

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

Brandon Darby

The people that own this home their relatives own all of these homes and have owned these homes for generations, now some of these homes are destroyed but some of them are not destroyed, some of them need to be repaired.

Allison Dobson

What we are talking about is 400,000 embryos that are going to be destroyed as medical waste.

Igor Smirnov

Moldova destroyed this plan with its own hands by imposing an economic blockade.

Charles Wald

should have destroyed the remainder of the aircraft, munitions and supplies that were in that tunnel.

Carmen Balber

Patients aren't doctors. Patients don't have medical knowledge. It's (the doctor's) job to find out what's wrong with you. It's their responsibility, not the patient's.

John Schaeffer

Some of these doctors have been in practice 20 to 30 years, ... And then there's even some questions, if it's a new technology, can they even learn it comfortably?

Bill Engvall

I told my wife I'm afraid to go back to the doctor because I'm afraid they're going to look at you and say: 'ma'am, just sell him for parts. It's like that old car that as soon as you fix one thing, something else goes out on it.

Bill Cosby

I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

Carrie Fisher

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Juan Garcia

I think they should have known and explained more to the doctors and everyone.

Bill Vaughan

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Bertrand Russell

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Kyle Wright

It got pretty sore. The doctors said it should be fine.

William Scranton

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Cynthia Nixon

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

Farrah Fawcett

It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Nancy Reagan

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

Walther Bothe

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

Rachel Carson

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

Pablo Picasso

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

Isaac Newton

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

Barry Sanders

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

J. G. Ballard

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.

Isaac Newton

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

Kirk Hammett

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

Jeff Bridges

Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

Margaret Atwood

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

Narada Michael Walden

Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times!

Jill Markowitz

I was a little intimidated at first. But once we started playing, I realized I could play with them, so I just tried to do my best.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Stephen Hill

Later, we realized if we don't get some supplies, we're going to starve,

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Hugh Godsey

I think they realized if they didn't do that they we were going to the house.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Luciano Spalletti

Francesco also realized it, and immediately said 'I'm broken.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Robert Holsworth

I actually think in retrospect our decision-making turned out very well,

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Andy Richter

My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect.

Alan Greenspan

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

Cheryl Strayed

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

Guillermo del Toro

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Michael Lewis

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

Michael McFaul

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

Mignon McLaughlin

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Bob Bennett

She has no case, she has suffered no damages, she was never harassed,

Luiz Scolari

We suffered a lot, and when it was over, it was over,

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.