Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Squyres

Spirit has given us a wonderful window into the very ancient past of Mars. It was a violent place, a place where meteorite impacts, volcanic explosions happened frequently, where hot stuff was raining from the sky.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out a slowly dying cause,/ And ancient forms of party strife;/ Ring in the nobler modes of life,/ With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Matthew Binns

We now have the tools in terms of genetic markers and genetic maps, ... Now there are collections of bones of many of these ancient thoroughbreds that will enable us to get handles on some of these key animals.

Margaret O'Brien

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Kevin Martin

It is an ancient practice that many of us don't think has a place in the modern world.

Adlai E. Stevenson

It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting ""go right"" and ""go left"" at the same time.

Samuel Coleridge

It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.

John Ortberg

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

Katherine Anderton

The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there is relatively little old growth left.

William Jenkins

Regionalism presented some obstacles in the past, ... But the boundaries are beginning to disappear and we have this wonderful, intellectual synergism.

Bill Daly

Our partnership with NASN represents a significant step by the league to re-establish its relationship with its existing European-based fans, as well as begin the process of developing new ones.

Brendan Gilfillan

Our park system is a vital system that needs to be preserved but to be sure in the long run that we have the resources to preserve it ... we have to exert fiscal restraint and begin fixing our chronic budget shortfalls.

Walter Pater

Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.

Jerry York

Patrick had a very productive career here at BC and we wish him all the best as he begins his professional career.

Nicholas Burns

Part of the purpose of my visit to Delhi this week is to work with the Indian government on a plan that would separate the civil and military nuclear states of India over the coming years, ... Once that plan has been clearly enunciated and once it has been committed to by the Indian government and we begin to see its implementation, it will be a short time before the U.S. Congress enacts the necessary legislative changes to bring this into being, and that will be a welcome moment, indeed.

Fran Foley

Part of the plan from the beginning was to take pressure off the draft. The plan is coming together.

Jay Grymes

Parts of the state have been suffering for quite some time. In the southern third of Louisiana, the dry spell goes back to the beginnings of 2005, and even sections of northern Louisiana have been dealing with dry weather over the past 12 to 15 months.

Pauline Flynn

Peace is possible. It begins with a vision or dream and comes through persistence, hard work and belief in ourselves.

Peter Kosann

Regarding the remainder of the year ... business continues to break very late. That being said, our diversification of clients using our platform is very strong. We have a lot of irons in the fire.

J. J. Johnson

Reasonable accommodations could be as simple as a (uniquely shaped) pencil, an extra 15-minute break or a special computer screen, and employers don't know that.

Vlade Divac

Relief. Shaq is such a big player. He?s hard to stop. It was a real break for us.

Higinio Velez

Our players, when they play, don't think, I'm going to break my hand. Because the player that has money sometimes thinks, What happens if I break my hand?

Brian Giles

Patterson had a good breaking ball. He was either tough or we weren't very good. He was all right.

Karen Mall

Partner disclosure is where we really have the opportunity to break the chain of HIV infection.

Corin Tucker

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

Michael Palmer

Party trips to spring break destinations have been flat or declining since 2000.

Larry Stahl

Our offense, with Coach (Terry) Anderson, has improved every game. He has worked hard with them and the kids have worked hard. We have four kids who can break loose on any play. We're pretty hard to defend.

Paul Light

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Viktor Khristenko

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

Kevin Kwan

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Chelsea Levine

I have always wanted to experience living in another country. I want to learn their customs and the way they do things.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Lynn Flewelling

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Michael Osterholm

To be able to move smallpox simply means to have a device within a writing ink pen that could very easily pass any customs officer, could easily pass through a metal detector, and you could have enough smallpox in there to start the world's worst epidemic.

Leila Janah

We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.

Pam Collins

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Wayne Martin

People know that we're doing that. It's a lot of the same people, and they can watch it an hour earlier. But we take pride in providing that service.

Jon Harmon

Steady progress is being made on the issues, but there is still some left to go through. We're looking at several hours left, certainly, if not longer.

Georgia Johnson

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Peter Goldman

Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

Nancy Floreen

We need more options, not fewer. We need them to increase trains and hours to get people out of their cars.

Ken Matthews

We never taught him to sit. We spend hours teaching them to stand (for show).

Stephanie Davis

I went to the doctor, and about an hour later, I was in the trauma center.

Rudy Rucker

Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Christine Varney

Laws are two-by-fours, ... They are very broad. . . . They retard innovation.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Doug Tobin

Price and Evans lived in the same place. They were described as friends. At this point, we don't know why he shot his roommate.

Celine Buckens

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.

Al Pacino

I'd like to be remembered as the only man who lived to be 250 years old!

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Kadiatou Diallo

I don't know what went wrong that night. I just know that he (Amadou) was in the right place because he lived here, ... He was going in the place where he lived.

Orhan Pamuk

I am a Turk. I've lived in Turkey for 43 years, and for that reason my political observations are about Turkey, because that's what I know.

Ben Bernanke

He lived with us for 24 years, ... He studied with us.

Steve Nash

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Stella McCartney

For years, the six of us lived in a two-bedroom house.

Roger Germann

Rod is worried about votes 20 years ago, but we are about to lose $13 million for traffic safety.

Ed Farmer

Maybe it made him realize he had to lose weight to get his swing back and to take pressure off his foot.

E. O. Wilson

Man, I think we just got to the point where if we were going to lose, we were going to lose fighting. If you don't like the way it's going, you have to do something about it. We did something about it, we got after them in the second half.

Martin Rees

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Tuukka Rask

The Americans are such a skilled team and I just tried to not lose my focus.

Mirko Slomka

That was a real setback. We are the losers of this round.

Freddy Keiaho

That's the luck of the game. That's something you can't prepare for. In the end, we lose as a team.

Lillian Carter

Regarding Men: When they stop lookin', They ain't worth havin'.

Jesse L. Martin

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Jennifer Taylor

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Saeb Erekat

start thinking in the mentality of a partner.

Raoul Walsh

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.

Steve Erickson

Overall I think I'm playing a lot better. I've worked a lot more this year and I'm more confident. I'm mentally stronger.

Kevin Simpson

Over 20 women have called wanting to be a mentor to a young lady.

Nicole Vaidisova

Physically I was well, mentally I was well. I just never got into my rhythm.

Shane Montgomery

Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.

Bethenny Frankel

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

Princess Diana

keep the spirit of the princess very much alive.

Miley Cyrus

I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.'

Elizabeth Bowen

Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.

Bible Bible

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

John Donne

She is all States, and all Princes, I, / Nothing else is. / Princes do but play us.

Britney Spears

Marry Prince William? I'd love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess?

Brandon Sanderson

Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them." -Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Dan Jiron

State wild and scenic designation was not considered.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Mary Parker

Our secretaries really know practically everyone who would need to be buzzed in, and if they didn't know them, they could communicate with them through this system, ... It's really state of the art.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Brian Clodi

I want to win the state championship. That's the ultimate goal.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Clint Burgess

I think we can get another state championship. I think that's reachable. That's our goal. The are a lot of obstacles, but I think we can do it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.