Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dannel Malloy

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

Jean Marais

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Wu Bangguo

Work safety incidents, which always involve sacrifice of human lives, attracted wide public attention.

Wu Bangguo

Work safety incidents, which always involve losses of human lives, attracted wide public attention. Therefore, in 2005, the NPC Standing Committee examined the work safety law implementation from various aspects.

Jeremy Jacobs

We're fully committed to our sales process, which the board believes is the best way to deliver full and fair value to all stockholders. We've already attracted interest from potential financial and strategic acquirers and believe that Red Zone's proposed action could concern potential buyers and disrupt the sales process.

Lisa Cholodenko

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

Mark Harmon

I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. I have to be almost frightened by the possibility of taking it on. Over the years, I realise I must enjoy walking that edge; I keep doing it.

Mark Harmon

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

Nnedi Okorafor

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

Barton Gellman

U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.

Michael Mueller

We're gearing up for Planning (Commission) now, ... We're doing a traffic study, a noise study and a biological study.

Jeff Koons

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!

Martin Seligman

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

Bill Lockyer

There is no question in our minds that the unidentified female is Laci Peterson and the unidentified fetus is the biological child of Laci and Scott Peterson,

George William Russell

We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.

Eric Kandel

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.

Jim Fowler

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

Lynn Margulis

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

Miriam Toews

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

Jeff Campbell

The positive news is we're making progress on the cost front, led by painful concessions by our employees and suppliers, ... The tougher news is while the revenue environment has improved, it's still depressed by historical standards.

C. K. Williams

If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.

Akhil Sharma

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

Alice Domar

Women who came into the program were very depressed and very anxious, and very angry and their marriages were in trouble - and all sorts of turmoil. Within 10 weeks, they were feeling better, a lot better.

Kay Redfield Jamison

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

Al Goldman

On one side, we've got pretty good economic fundamentals. On the either side, we have all the problems that are keeping everybody depressed -- Iraq, Iran, the price of oil.

Michael Gorman

There are times when I've been so depressed I can't see straight. At my age I should have been 80 percent in bonds. I could have had a comfortable income sitting on my duff. Instead, I had to go back to work.

Bhagavad Gita

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Alan Bennett

I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

Eric Fischl

I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.

Elizabeth Thornton

The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.

Bill Gates

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

Bill Gates

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

C. Wright Mills

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Steve Matlock

We've assembled a team of dedicated, energetic people whose experience and enthusiasm for this industry is unparalleled. With these talented leaders in place, La-Z-Boy is in for an exciting ride.

Susan Dunn

We've asked the congregation a lot of different things during this period, getting opinions, because we want the whole body to be working toward the same goals. And we believe that the church should get outside its walls and reach out into the community and meet needs of people that live around the church and in the same town, as well as other places beyond our boundaries.

Bob Collins

We've asked all our section pros to put their program up on the Web site and I'm really, really excited the way they're starting to get involved. We're trying to create some awareness in the area and to get people to play. People always want to know, where do I go for a class? Where do I go if my kids want to learn? You can find it in there.

Paul Stamm

We've approached the other trusts and have gotten a verbal commitment, but they would like to be able to be the monies that put us over the top in the project. This has a great chance of being a reality and we really need $10 and $25 donations from people in the community.

Joe Hudak

We've always wanted to try to figure out ways to improve our attendance. There's no doubt it's a great advantage if you can have a lot of people in the stands cheering for you and cheering against your opponents.

Randy Honebrink

We've always tried to reduce the number of people getting bit by sharks through education and awareness. We try to get our safety tips out through our Web site and in publications.

Charlie Sands

We've always tried to have the thing that people want.

Tim Coghlin

We've always thought they were a very skilled team but they're even more skilled than people know. They skate really well, they swarm the puck, the protect they puck well. They all have exceptional puck skills, stick skills, and they compete.

Terry Lickona

We've always known there was a reason to keep all these original masters. We've never erased a single tape from any show we've ever done. We've just about run out of space to store these tapes, but they've turned out be gems. We're proud of these old shows and we think they deserve to be seen by new generations of fans and people that have been fans all along.

Steven Galson

There are dangers to consumers who purchase diet pills that contain drugs of unknown origin and quality. These products are not approved by the FDA and if people experience side effects, it is difficult to trace problems and for physicians to treat them.

John Winn

When you trace back so many incidences of weapons and violence, they do relate to bullying.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Jimmy Duval

Yahoo is very concerned about conversion right now. We do everything we can to trace conversion for our merchant. That means experimenting with things like one-page check-out or multi-page check out. The flexibility for customers to make that choice can change conversion. The design world is waking up to conversion.

Tom Kennedy

Police are saying that it may in fact be a year or two before they trace all of the money that was taken in this robbery.

Larry Brumley

My understanding is it was a decision made by Baylor dining services staff, and I've not yet been able to trace it back to any Baylor administrators telling them point-blank to pull the cup.

Christopher Lee

On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.

Susanna Kearsley

One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.

Phil Hamilton

We've always defeated those types of things in full committee. At least when his bills die, he doesn't rant and rave.

F. Stone

What we're saying is, there are certain types of sexually explicit material that we don't think are appropriate.

Jimmy Wales

What we're hopeful to see is that by slowing that down to 1,500 a day from several thousand, the people who are monitoring this will have more ability to improve the quality. In many cases the types of things we see going on are impulse vandalism.

John Bish

When we hear about these types of events anywhere, it's sort of a heart-stopper for us. This incident was especially heart-stopping because of how close he was to our area.

Morris Dees

When we got into this case, ranchers all along the border were allowing these types to come on their property, ... Now, they're very leery of it, especially when they see someone loosing their ranch because of it.

Richard Harris

What's interesting here is that you can see how the cost of operations continues to rise and debt obligations continue to rise, while capital improvements have gone down. Money has just not been available for those types of services.

Peggy Robbins

Years ago, we insisted on a 40-hour week, working 8 to 5. We've become much more flexible in terms of number of hours as well as when employees work. We want to keep people in the work force and adjust to their needs. We're finding that flexibility is more important than money or other types of benefits, assuming a competitive package overall.

Weston Sedgwick

With the infrastructure that we have already set up in the state as far as universities, that provides a great infrastructure for these types of companies to draw talent from. That is very valuable.

William Daley

We're hopeful that there will be progress. The fact of the matter is that the banana dispute is about defending the rules-based system of the WTO, ... We've gone through two panels. We've been successful. There must be a conclusion to these types of cases. They cannot go on forever. The losing party can't keep looking for further relief if they lose the panel.