Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth L. Pike

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Daniel Bell

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Talcott Parsons

Knowledge is held to be an entirely quantitative affair. The one important thing is to have observed what had not been observed before.

Kelly Miller

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

Kelly Miller

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

Talcott Parsons

Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question.

Talcott Parsons

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

Talcott Parsons

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Kari Williams

Starting out, they had puffy eyes. I didn't know if they could see the basket.

Dan Gorbett

Over 25 years I've never gotten over seeing the tears and heartbreak in kids' eyes when you lose. Unless you win a state championship, you will have kids that have been crushed. You never get over it.

John Donne

Pictures in our eyes to get / Was all our propagation.

Christina Rossetti

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.

Jillian Robbins

I was just watching their eyes, and they were looking at who they were about to pass to. So I said, 'I've got to get this. I've got to leave it all on the floor.' My teammates had my back, so I went for it, and it worked out.

Kirk Hoza

I think the time away let him see the big picture. The technical part which way do the hips face, where do your eyes go that's where there is a little rust. But the spring is where you can shake the rust off.

Joe DiMaggio

It is an interesting coincidence. I guess I am following in his footsteps, ... 'Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you?' I'll tell people my name and they don't get it.

Matt Stout

Jay and Joe are my eyes out on the course. They help me see everything.

Chris Duffy

That's what he should do -- open some eyes and show that he can play. We're real good friends and competitive, too, at the same time.

Hani Durzy

Some of our competitors have twisted our metrics in the local marketplace. We don't give those numbers out any more for competitive reasons.

Gerald Prolman

Our preference is local. But I can't find any local organic rose farms.

David Passey

Our typical role is to work with the state in support of local and state agencies.

Sarah Waters

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

Ratu Tavanavanua

I think there's enough local talent out there for us to make an assessment.

Xtine Hanson

(It gives) a look at how many Starbucks there are versus how many local stores there are.

Pat Kelly

It has been a problem at local institutions already,

Doug Peterson

It is important for us to support local organic growers and vendors.

Rand Paul

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Bill Burr

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

Lynn Williams

I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.

Robert Patterson

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Jon Voight

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

Cynthia Ozick

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

Conan O'Brien

The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.

Gerald Vizenor

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

Gloria Steinem

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

Bill Burr

D.C.'s always had a great scene.

Casey Wilson

The alternative comedy scene is actually pretty small, I guess.

Rutina Wesley

I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine.

Michael Chertoff

going to be about as ugly a scene a you can imagine.

Mark Spragg

When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut,

Carice van Houten

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

Justin Baldoni

My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.

Vernon Keenan

No one has ever encountered a scene like this,