Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rich Sommer

Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of moments where you get to interact on a completely different level. You all agree to these abstract rules, but there's nobody holding a gun to your head.

Richard Shelton

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Samuel Coleridge

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.

Chris Peterson

Restoring the canyon is no longer an abstract notion now that people can actually experience its beauty.

C. S. Lewis

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm the computational method for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm -- the computational method -- for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Steve Morgan

I thought it was upturned tables. But when I got closer I realized it was definitely art because it's bolted to the ground. And on further inspection it looks like somebody's car, an abstract version of somebody's car.

Grant Smith

If I painted him I would probably just paint like his eye -- completely just beet red because it had some many drugs in it or something. Or maybe just a zoom in on a forearm or something ... just where it looks like an abstract painting but it's just veins.

S. Walker

Regardless of people's skepticism, I am pursuing what is (and has been) my dream for my own purposes. I appreciate the importance that so many others have placed on this effort, but I would still do it if I was alone and no one was watching.

Andrew Bacevich

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

St. Teresa

Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God sufficeth.

John Schneider

People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

Annie Dillard

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Richard Doherty

Stern alone can make Sirius bigger than XM within a year.

Jamelle McMillan

Starting off I think there were doubts. Nobody outside of our school, maybe even our gym, thought we were going to be here, let alone in state, period.

Rachel Platten

'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

Chris Heaney

Our goal is always to win state, so those goals will stay the same. Bringing him in here with 500 wins, that alone will help us greatly.

Jacques Chirac

reflection, which I shall devote to explaining to my fellow citizens what my feelings are on this crisis and the means to remedy it.

Bob Taft

Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizens are demanding, if not complete answers, at least some rational justification for this dramatic price increase.

Randall Terry

Our policies are immoral. This has nothing to do with helping the citizens of China. This has to do with fattening the wallets of American big business.

Wayne Gray

Our quality of life of our citizens is impacted by the tourism economy that we have,

Jim Turner

Ordinary citizens have to look at their income as opposed to their expenses and determine where they're going to make cutbacks, ... They just decided they needed more money and raised taxes.

Charles Albert Gobat

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Sam Veda

Peace and prosperity prevails when citizens are law abiding.

Robert Stewart

Our only intent was the safety of the survivors and the citizens of this state.

Bertie Ahern

Such a proposal would show citizens the EU was working in their interests.

Bob Good

Some of the fellows say they don't remember that, but I remember a lot of it.

Chad Campbell

I thought it was an honor that fellow players looked at me that way. I don't think I really put too much more pressure on myself. I just took it as a compliment.

Aaron Blake

I don't feel comfortable with my fellow students being out there until 3 in the morning, ... We are students, we need to study. We are students, we are liable to be attacked. ... leave that job to the police.

Sophie Hannah

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

Daniel Woodrell

I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.

Chris Fisher

I find hope for the future because there are 100 of your fellow students 'dead' on the Rock today, in the rain, so that you will notice, so that you will listen, and so that you will care.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built.

Robert Jackson

(Grove City's) got a big fellow down low and their guards aren't too bad. (The loss to Marion-Franklin) was a setback, but it was probably a good thing for us.

James Browning

just liked it. I think we should do one of Fellowship of the Rings.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Wesley Moultrie

Our requirement would be that the tobacco firms in the U.S. maintain a high level of liquidity.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Greg Aiello

Passions run high this time of year. The main thing is, Pittsburgh won the game. It could've been worse.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

Jim Keller

Our low power, high performance technology is very well suited to that.

Tom Phillips

People I know in the administration have a very high regard for Nathan,

Kathleen Murray

People have to reschedule their weddings for many reasons. You don't want to be left high and dry.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Gay Talese

He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit.

Michael Palin

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

Natalia Makarova

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

Loren Eiseley

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Sathya Baba

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Franz Humer

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Buzz Hargrove

Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Irish Proverbs

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

E.R. Rock

Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Win Bates

Our morale has been pretty good. Everyone's been supportive throughout our many practices.

Tony Blair

I think there is a proper sense of moral outrage at what Milosevic has done that we should not shy away from but should be proud of feeling.

Chris Johns

Just for morale and confidence, this was a big game. I'd still like to see us score some more goals, but this is a start.

Harry McDonald

I think that you will see the morale lifted,

Daniel O'Connell

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Sela Ward

From a morality point of view, I wouldn't even go near, ... But in terms of making an interesting show, I'm sure they'll have to struggle with it.

Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Al Gore

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

Scott Hand

Our North American operations remain a vital base,

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red --at least not on the outside.

Kevin Bianco

I think this is a win for everyone in North Bergen.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Jamie Bell

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Darrell Jackson

I don't think people really give the Northwest a lot of respect.

John Williamson

Hopefully, this will be used by all of the county. It's more than just North High.

Tracey Emin

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Henry A. Kissinger

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Carl Rogers

I prize the privilege of being alone.

William Wilberforce

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

Charles Phillips

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Elizabeth Bowen

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Brandon Sanderson

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Eleanor Catton

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

Edward Abbey

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Alberto Giacometti

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

Bill Dana

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

Tanya Vanasse

I think the stone idea is very interesting and that at some point, we'd like to have it.

Bill Clinton

I am here because the Stones aren't term-limited and they're just as old as I am.

Tom Stoppard

I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.

Elinor Wylie

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

Arthur C. Nielsen

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

Dante Alighieri

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

Brian Wilson

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.